Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-14
GLOBELETS.

rope aud Russia the second.
LIE Due says he has 100, 900 tea plants growing.
Make him a Cabinet officer, quick.
Gas of l6-candle power is offered to Indian
apolis at .1.60 per l, 200 cubicfeet.
shingle packers at Green Bay, Wis. have
struck for &c per LOCO. They have been re-
ceiving &c.
Hlndoo lectured in Chicago Monday eve
ming on ''Hindoo Castles and superstitions, and
the Women of Southern India
The Austrian bark Cereve cleared from New
Orleans on the 9th for Queenstown, Ireland
with 80 438 bushels of wheat in bulk.
Weldon, n. c., is the Gretna Green of Vir
ginia Ten couples from Rchmond's best So
ciety have been married there this season.
Twenty men were employed steadily two hours
to carry in the floral decorations for Mrs.
Astor's house on the occasion of a ball recently
given by that lady.
DR.. Seymour will accept the bishopric of
Springfield, ILL.,, if his election, now approved
by majority of the diocese, is confirmed BY
the House of Bishops.
Would it be unjust to the inspectors at
Philadelphia, who pronounced the rotten
steamer Metropolitan to be seaworthy, to SEN
tcnce them to be hung:
Specimens of Minnesota sugar from the
amber cane, have been exhibited on change at
st. Louis and attracted much attention, as the
tlrst evidence there of undoubtedly successful
granulaton of sorghum.
The Louisville Couyiey-Jougud imagincs the
pleasing spectacle of the American convict.
H.
for the penal colony of Alaska, where he would
have ice-water all summer
The exports of corn from New Orleans thus
far this year amount to 1855, 079 bushels
against 9l2. 262 bushels for the same time last
year. The natural outlet of the Mississippi
Valley is fast becoming its actual outlet.
Lord and Lady Dufferin were enthusiastically
received at Montreal Monday evening, and Mr..
Webb G.. Hayes, theson of his father and Mon.
Bierstadt, the artist. guests of the Governor
General. came in for fair share of attention,
An Englishman by the name of Witherford,
who has been in the business himself, but has
| repented has undertaken to expose to the
Presbyterian pastors of Chicago, the tricks and
receptions of professional spirtualstic medi-
| ums.
| Tuesday of next week a convention is to be
held in Washington. in aid of more perfect
understanding upon the subject of an export
trade to Brazil. A large attendance of Eastern
| Western and Southern merchants and shippers
is expected.
1t is considered certain that the Senate COM
mlttee on military affairs will report favorably
on the proposed new article of war forbidding
gambling or the frequenting of gambling re-
| sorts by officers and soldiers of the army Gen
| Sherman thinks the article is not needed
By the treaty lately concluded with Samoa,
the United States secures for naval depot and
coaling station, the harbor of Pago-Paso which
Commodore Wilkes says is the best harbor in
the South Pacific ocean. The treaty also cx-
empts United States goods from Samoan duties
That wcaried part of the public which is con
nected with the newspaper press is beginning
to wonder what induces Senators who have
nothing to say to keep on talking about the
silver bill. The question has been thoroughly
discussed. Pass the bill and change the sub
ject.
The steamboat Sam Roberts, with fou
barges, arrived from Evansville, at New Or
leans, on the 9th inst. with 6D,117 bushels OF
corn in bulk, 9,471 sacks of corn and $3.50
sacks of oats. Yet they used to say bulk ship
ments of grain wouldn't be handled at New
Orleans.
That missing 81 800 which Treasurer New &C
cumulatcd by illegal assessments upon ex
changes of currency, has not been found bu
the search for it has disclosed IRREGULARITIES
In MIR. News settlement of which Mr. Wyman
the present assistant treasurer must have beer
cognizant.
Since Judge Whitaker, of New Orleans, trie,
Returning Board Anderson, Hayes's secretary
Sherman, proposes to prosecute Whitaker for
defalcation when he, Whitaker, was sub-treas
urer at New Orleans in 1867. MIR. Sherman
does not explain why Whitaker has not befor
now been prosecuted.
A remarkable illustration of the pluck an,
nerve of the thoroughbred racchorse occurred a
Charleston, 5. c., last Monday. A horse in tb
four-mlle dash broke his right hind leg shor
OIL at the pastern when little more than hal
the distance had been traversed, but the ANNA
refused to give up until the four miles were fin
, ished.
The New York Country tells of a Washington
/ waiter under instructions to address a title,
foreigner as my lord was so surprised by hi
lordship's declining terrapin, having never be
fore seen man who could refuse the Washing
ton luxury, that he exclaimed, as he aga
pushed the dclieacy under his lordships nose
My Cd! them's terrapinr'
, Among the heirs of Kirby the eccentric mil
e llonare. whose alleged will has been judicial
set aside in their favor, are the wives of Don
Platt and Congressman Banning. The heir
have succeeded in proving that the old ma
: was victimized by three designing women wit
whom he had illicit relations and thereb
f saved to themselves abont one-sixth of the es
: tate.
Not including the unframed militia of tn
provinces or the contingents furnished by nativ
East Indian states, Great Britain might ca
into the field at short notice $4,000 regulars
lof whom $4,000 now serving in India
346, QUO of the reserve and auxiliary forces, IL
India Colonial troops, and 81 clonial militia
: volunteer, etc, in all effective force o
: 743, 600.
There recently died in England, Capt. Charlie
> Boyce, of the Indian navy, who when ieuter
ant, commanded the Nautilus when June Sti
1915, that vessel was captured by the Unite
l States corvette Peacock, Capt. Warrington. /
consideration of the fact th,t peace had at tina
time been concluded. and that Lieut. Boyc
y sent boat to notify Capt. Warrington of tn
fact, the United States paid pension to Cap,
J. Boyce.
On the engine of a late train coming int
i Boston, the other nj ght, was found blood spot:
pieces of flesh and heart By the latter
skillful physician was enabled to pronounc