Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-21

GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETS.
Victoria Woodruff has married a wealth,
merchant.
The government pays in Chicago an ANNA,
rental of S74,663.
Bishop McCoskrey should engage Mr. Beech
er to explain those letters.
The quinine market fever is just now as high
as other fevers which the chemical is often given
to cure.
Three thousand car loads of guano are nov
IN Savannah, Ga, awaiting shipment to in
terror points.
Over 250, OO0 American stoves are now die
trlbuted over Great Britain and Ireland. They
are considered excellent in every respect.
The Baltimore papers say that Miss Fam il
Davenport celebrated her birthday IN that city
on Wednesday, but they don't say which birth
day.
1t is asserted that the sparrows about Lonis.
vile have been making love to the yellow
birds, and that new variety of birds is the
result.
Last week one hundred thousand salmon
trout were put into Lake Ontario at Charlotte
from the New York State hatching-house At
Caledonia.
Silver, both bullion and coin have advanced
IN gold value in the San francisco market tho
latter to higher figures than for two wears in
that city.
Lands in Mexican county, Pennsylvan;a
which few years ago sold for s5 per acre, are
now commanding ready sale at 1925 per acre.
Oil has done this.
Dlack bass are said to be driving shad from
tne delaware, and the young fish of the latter
class are said to be mere shadows of what
they formerly were.
Two hundred pigeon trappers are now at
work near Petoskey, Mich, and scores of gun
ners: The daily shipments average about
eighteen hundred dead birds.
The yield of gold in the Black Hills country
according to evidence before the Committee on
Aerritor1es OF the House of Representatives.
averages 100000 per month.
Burglars entered a savings bank in the inte-
rlor OF New York, one evening this week, blew
open the safe and got 500. The directors had
probably been there before them.
The Bonanza men, Flood and O'Brien. are
proposing to erect 81 100000 hotel in San
francisco for women, after the plan of the
Stewart establishment in New York.
Lloyd Mltiin, who died at his residence il,
Germantown, Sunday, the 10th, at the age of
nlnety-three. was probably the last surviving
clerk of the bank of the United States
At New Orleans the fruit dealers and the
BOARD Oh health are at loggerheads over the
question of the fumigation of ships traoinp
between New Orleans and the West Indies.
The base ball season in Cambria comfy
pennsylvania, has been opened, and bat slim
ping from the hands of a player at Portage.
struck and killed a little daughter of Herman
Klinemeir.
The work of laying steel rails on the old line
of the Chicago and Northwestern RAILWAYS will
be commenced in few days. The STARTING
point is GAINESVILLE, and the rail will be laid to
Fond du Lac
The contract for erecting the Columbus con-
fede'ate monument has been awarded for
$4,000. 1t is to be of Italian marble, thirty
two feet high and to be complete on the 26tb
of April, 1879.
There was received at the mint in Philade,-
phia last Tuesday morning, thirty tons of sill
yer from Nevada, making total of 100 tons of
bullion stored in that institution at present, It
is valued at about So, 800, OO0
Iron is quoted at its lowest figure in the
American market. Since January '73 the de-
cline in prices has been as follows, On pig
iron 50 per cent; refined bar So per cent:
on Bessemer steel rails 60 per cent; on best
iron rails 56 per cent.
During one year, from LIST june 1876, to LIST
June, 1877, the gold taken from surface wash
ings in the immediate vicinity of the town of
Dahlonega, Lumpkin county, Ga, by the
country people, and sold to merchants of that
town, amounted to $40,716
An extraordinary financial event, in a small
way, is the appreciation of the greenback in
San Francisco above gold, for small payments.
But Tor fear OF paper expansion, greenbacks
would soon pass into circulation in California,
where they have never yet circulated.
The popularity of the river route was exem-
plifed few days ago by the purchase of 10 900
bushels of wheat in Iowa for shipment to Liv-
erpool3Fia New Orleans. The rate obtained
from Davenport to Liverpool via the ietties
was about the same from Davenport to New
York.
1t is satisfaction to know that the House
naval committee are unanimously ia favor of
The proposition to rebuild the United States
navy, the only disagreement being in the man
ner of accomplishing it. It is high time we
either abandoned our navy altogether or So
cured one worthy of the name
Princess Mary, of Teck, is SO periodically
warlike that she is called the Queen of jim
goes" The other day the English premier was
dining with her royal highness. ''You have,''
she said, ''the'Queen with you, parliament, and
The country; what more do you WANT" Lord
Beaconsheld glanced at his plate, and solemnly
replied, Potatoes, ma am
The management of the Clear Lake. Iowa,
are already making preparations
For the coming season. The national camp
meeting will assemble on the 10th of July; the
musical convention on the 18th of the same
month, and the Sunday-school assembly begins
it's labors the 18th of August. A grand
temperance convention will meet at the lake
about the 4th Of July.
The prices of ice in New York city this sea-
son are: To hotels, taking thousand
pounds daily So per ton; to butchers, res
taurants and the cash trade generally, IS cents