Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-06
GLOBELETS.

EuWln Adams widow Will give his costumes
to his professional friends.
1t Is estimated that about SOC, 900 letters were
mailed from Winnipeg Manitoba, last year
Silver bullion sells at Salt Lake City, for
shipment East and West. at 81. Is per ounce.
On March Is, Vermont will celebrate the Tooth
anniversary q the first meeting of the State
Legislature at Windsor
smallpox Is epidemic in Oelwein, Fayett
county, Iowa, small town about fifteen miles
north of Independence.
The antagonism between Maine and Massa-
chusetts in the Senate is inherited Fessende,
and Sumner cordially hated each other.
jefferson Davis has been invited to deliver
an address during commencement week. next
June, at the Texas State University
And now they say there is great loss on sill
yer coinage by abrasion. Just give us all
chance to abrade them. That's what we want
Speaker Sheppard, of the South Carolina As
sembly wears robe of black silk, trimmed
with purple velvet, which cost the State $500.
Some of the gold maniacs who have learned
that 1t useless to fight the dollar of the
fathers are having their revenge out of the
trade dollar.
Josie Fowler, of New Haven, snuffs candles
and cores apples with revolver. The young
men are exceedingly respectful in their atten-
tions to her
The New York college, part of the free school
system run at a cost of It's, 900 year, is likely
to be abolished by bill pending before the
New York Legislature.
Miss }. NJ. kimball of Concord, n H., has
been appointed clerk of the recently organized
tax commission. She has been acting as AS
slstant State treasurer.
During the week ending January 25th, the
ot. LOUIS elevators delivered Tor river shipments
to New Orleans SAT l57 bushels of corn. 30. 564
bushels of wheat, 23,03s bushels of oats and
a7.377 bushels of rye.
The success OF Eads jetties at the mouth of the
Mississippi has put out of service large num-
Der OF double screw propellers. formerly used
to tow ocean steamers and coastng vessels over
the bar at the mouth of the river
The Winnipeg F,se Press explains that snow
| Is water concealed into white or transparent
crystals and was formerly extensively used in
Manitoba as an assistance to locomotion but
great granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson.
Esther Alice Meikleham. is clerk in the Inte-
nor Department. Her father was son of
Professor Meikleham, of the University of
Glasgow, and Alice Scott, cousin of Sir Walter
Scott.
The English export of silver to India and
China last year amounted in round numbers to
SSl, 0O0, 000 and the exports to the same quarter
from San Francisco, Nlarseilles and other points
| raised the aggregate above 800, 000, 900. Sill
yer never comes back from Asia
Old Thomas Lord. of New York astonisl,ed
his friends and Disguised his sons Sunday morn
ing by taking long drive alone up Fifth
| avenue. The sons say Mrs. Lord nee Hicks. is
putting the old man up to all sorts of tricks to
show that he is not broken down either in mind
or body.
1t is suggested that if Ex-Governor Wash
/ burn will consent that the place he proposes to
give Wisconsin for girls reformatory, may be
used instead for an asylum for used up Repub-
lican politicians, the Legislature may be in
duced to accept it. But they will not concetle
that it is worth United States Senatorship.
| Evarts and Hayes are said to be opposed to
the recognition of Diaz until commercial
treaty and a treaty fully protecting the rights
of American citizens in Mexico is effected The
| latter clause is for the benefit of Evart.
clients, the mine owners. But how can a COM
mercial treaty be negotiated with an unrecog-
nized government?
banking house at Columbus o.. has begun
suits against certain gamblers to recover Sl35-
| l<,f 4
gambling by the teller. 1t is now suggested
| that the depositors should prosecute the gamb-
! ling teller's employers for so neglecting their
business to allow $780, 900 to be stolen be,
fore they discovered the many thefts which,
amount to that sum.
The recovery alive last Sunday of Thomas
Alsop, buried miner Of Dubuque, is one of the
most remarkable cases on record He was coy
cred for tiftysix hours with sixty feet Of Garth
impossible to move an inch, lying with his head
lower than his feet, with neither air nor food
and the decaying corpse of his almost
against his face. When rescued his impression
was that he was there only few hours
Mr.. Montgomery Blair is credited with tell
ing this story: Ivan Buren, said to me in St
Louis, when | told him his son. Smith Van
Buren,, had been married: I thought he had
given that girl up. Well, he's ruined. She is
very rich. Now he'll give up his profession OF
the law, where he had great ability and become
really rich mantle least useful of human
things. Poor Smith"
A Fifcshire man took his child to the minis
ter to be baptized, who asked him, Are you
prepared for SD solemn and important an occa-
sion:" ''Prepared!' he echoed with some in
| dignation; Il hac a frlot o bannook baking
two hams, an a gallon o the best Highland
whisky, and | wad like to ken what bette
preparations We expeck frae mar in my cor
diton o life?'
Judge Darling of Clinton, Iowa, is accused Of
writing the foul Islander that the Hon. Stephen
A. Douglas died with de1irium trcmens. The
fact Is that Douglas was worn out by his hercu-
lean labors in the canvass of 1860, and through
the perilous months that followed and that as
soon as the strain upon his nervous energy was
relieved, he broke down and died-just as Hor
ace Greeley did twelve years later.
Another sixty days-or so,
And where the snow bird pranks
dozen SONS of Italy
Will kerosene their cranks.
And stirring up their innards
OF that hurdy-gurdy thing,
| Insult the air of heaven
With the lie of gentle spring.
J At Harlem Mo-. on the North Missouri rail
road, the people are excited about ghostly
appearance on their streets A lady who an.
swered an evening knock at her door, was con
fronted by a tall figure, robed in gray, like d
monk. As it raised its head to uncover its face
the lady tainted. Wednesday night of las,