Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-21
GLOBELETS.

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was on the 18th inst.
The draining of the Zuyder Zee, about to
commence, is estimated to cost S67 ,000,G00
Masses have been celebrated in the principal
cities of the United States for Victor Eman-
uel.
All the paper used by the government for
currency is manufactured at Glenn Mills. West
Chester, Pa.
The Russians viii be in Constaat;nople ba-
fore England comes to a conclusion. How
times are changed.
The amount required to pay the soldiers and
expenses to quell the labor riots in Pennsyl
vania is estimated at 100000.
William Lloyd Garrison thinks the Presi-
dents chief faults are vanity, obstinacy and
ignorance, and that furthermore he is not
great man.
very rich gold mining district has just
been discovered on the northern frontier of
Paraguay, and a number of valuable strikes
are reported.
The chain-gang at Kansas City turned out
Tor work, the other day, all wearing blue rib
bons, in token that they had signed the tenn
perance pledge.
For the use OF the lig hthouses of the United
States, contracts were awarded few DAYS ago
for 81 600 gallons of winter-strained lard oil, ut
66,6S to "a cents gallon
The total product from ores of the precious
metals in the United States last wear is esti-
mated at s95, $50 00O-gold s45, s0o, GOO; silver
s46, OTIS, 600; lead s2,000,000 copper s1,s75,-
600.
Yankton rejoices Coulson securing the
contract for army transportation on the Mis-
souri,. The Dakotian says: The success OF the
Coulson line is of vastly more importance to
Yankton than anything else which could
| occur
| A Waterbury, Conn, baby having six grand
mothers, is only eighteen months old, but has
LA pairs of stockings and is estimated to have
eaten an even ton of candy How it came to
have Six grandmothers is not explained but
granting that the rest of the story is not improb-
able.
The Merchants Exchange of st. Louis has
decided, 767 to sc, that the first ten days stor-
age OF grain IN that city must be paid by the
! buyer instead of the seller. Charges on stor-
age are also reduced, and an increase of The
grain business of the city is confidently antici-
pated.
Great distress exists amoag the people of
South Wales on account of lack of en- ploy-
ment. Hundreds in every locality are near
starving, and relief measures adopted by tho
wealthy partial failure, because the poor
people, many of them, would rather suffer than
accept charity.
To the question, How far are we from re-
sumption, with gold in New York at l0l7 4 and
greenbacks interchangeable with gold in ordi-
nary business transactions in California; A
dlsheartened Michigan editor responds, About
as far from universal bankruptcy,
and that's not far
1t is stated thar Bret Harte came from Cali
fornia under contract to write for the dt!e;;.,
, | tic for $40, 900 year. 1t was not stipulated
how much he was to contribute and he fur
nished just one article. The publishers of the
Atlustic did rot invite him to their recent din4
ner in honor of Whittier.
{ The Springfield Republican finds an explana-
ton for the T,iJune's hostility to Mr. Schurz in
the fact that the Secretary Of the Interior
is in favor of compelling the Pacific railroads
. to pay up their interest, and that Jay Gould is
the principal owner of the Union Pacific Rail-
road and of the New York tribune.
John Irving is the name on the Justices
books, of man around whom, the Milwaukee
reporters say, the court has thrown legal en-
vironment, for assaulting restaurant keeper
who sharply dunned him for pay for his board ;
: but John is said to be assumed name and
he is claimed to be English Lord.
OF the TOT, 742 boxes, bags and hogsheads of
, sugar exported from Cuba in 1877, SIS, 245
came to the United States. Yet $3.50 is ex-
acted by the Spanish government on every bar
rel of flour carried from America into the
ports of Havana or Matanzas, this enormous
duty being levied to compel the Cubans to buy
their -four from Spain.
The latest news from the new gold fields
in British Columbia is more exciting than ever.
The big bonanza lode has been traced for many
miles New strikes are made daily, and the
rock from each side is uniform in its char
$ acter, assaying from 526 to $50 per ton. A
5 great stampede" is expected In the carly
spring to the mines.
| The Elkader iowa Register tells of a singu-
: lar case of loss of memory. A young Norwe-
glan girl of that vicinity, well educated in her
J native language, and who used English flu
entity upon recovering from attack of in
Y sanity which lasted three months, is, strangely
t enough, unable to understand or speak Nor
wegan, though retaining all her command of
English.
The 'Liberian Exodus Association, has col
: lected $50 each from great mauy negroes of
. South Carolina, for which it has promised
. them passages to Liberia. Three hundred of
Y the duped gathered from the country intd
Charleston recently with their personal effects,
they having heard their vessel was about to
sail, and were coolly told by the agent of the
association that it impossible to say when
r it would sarl.
One of the New York city papers proposes
that if the State will relieve the city of the an
nual school tax. 50 of which goes to the State
] for every dollar apportioned to the city, the
city will bear all the cost of maintaining the
State canals, free of toll. For six years past
e the city has paid taxes annually for the support
of schools in the other parts of the State frenl
: 1914, 600 to 100000.
The field works for the defense Of Constants
nople which have been built along ravine ex-
e tending seventeen leagues from the Black Sea
to the Sea of Marmora, (Which fayine is sup
! posed to have been water channel in ancient
+ tines, have been constructed in double lines
2 consisting of redoubts and connecting trenches.
a military attache of the British legation.
; The New Orleans Democrat attributes the
dwindling of the trade between New Orleans
and Cuba to Insignificant proportions, to the
fact that the Belcher sugar refinery of ST. Louis,