Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-13
GLOBELETS.

Saturday last.
The imports of France during 1877 amounted
to ,27s 600, and the exports 1896. s64 600
Three men on skates sailed with the wind
trom Neenah to Oshkosh. on Friday last. in just
minutes.
James W. Gregory, of Whitehall, H., a
prominent citizen, dropped dead on Sunday. of
d broken heart, caused by the death of his wife.
ot. Petersburg newspaper estimates the
to'al wheat exportahle from the Black Sea and
the Sea OF Azof at not less than 40. 900 600
bushels.
Francis Murphy the temperance advocate
mas been III Washington for two weeks attract
ing large audiences and procuring many sigma
lures to the pledge,
Silver coin is worth CSC: on the dollar in
New York, and the gold bugs are disguised.
The market doesn't agree with their talk about
a ninety cent dollar:
The Omro, Wis, debating society has decided
that foreign immigration is injurious to the
United States, and that capital punishment
should be abolished That settles it.
very large foreign mail was sent from the
New York post Office on the 9th-65, Gil letters
and lo5 bags of papers, the largest Saturdays
outgoing mail ever sent from that city.
In Hampstead, Texas, the grand jury indicted
the gamblers, and they in turn filed informa-
lions before the county attorney against
majority of the grand jury. also the county at
turney himself.
Yarmouth, of Louisiana, is utterly dagusted
with Hayes. He says Hayes is a bigger liar
than Kellogg. Louisianians think it's hard on
the United States to say it contains greater
liar than their man Kellogg.
New York merchants offer to furnish Gov.
Robinson proof that the commerce of that city
is paralyzed by reason Of the unjust and OPP
pressive determinations against it on the part
of the trunk lines centering in that city
A British army officer who visiting friends
In Virginia. on the Sth inst, received telegram
from the commander of his regiment saying all
leaves of absence We're rescinded, and all officers
ordered to their regiment Johnny Bull is at
least preparing for fight.
The Harvard Freshmen having declined to
row the Cornell Freshmen race in likes. g
the latter at once accepted the challenge f6f
race in Fights, and named Saratoga Lake as
the scene of the race, which, if it takes place
at all, will come off about the middle of July.
At the marriage of the young King Alphonso
the Duke de Montpensier, after the ceremonial.
refused to allow his daughter to kiss his hand
the queen OF Spain being supposed to be ee-
! waited beyond all natural reverences. and that
elevation being expressed in the visible cere-
monial of refusal
| As illustration of how effective the pro
hibtory liquor law is in Iowa, it is stated that
| in the town of Arcadia, which has the reputa-
ton of being temperance village, seven hun
dred and seventy-six kegs of beer and thirty
two barrels of whisky and wine were used last
year for medicinal purposes.
The returns of Grant Parish Louisiana
which Wells swore before two Congressional
committees received, have been
found with receips and dates showing that they
We're delivered to the returning board in proper
time. They were secretly taken from the
returning boards room. while Packards gar
rison occupied tha State House. Thus nine
hundred votes for Tilden were suppressed.
A New York observer points to the fact that
during 1877 the total arrivals in this country
from China and Japan were 1906 and the de-
partures We're 1852, leaving 2,054 Americans,
japanese, Cinnamon, Englishmen, and French
men of the aforesaid arrivals III this country.
AS more than 2054 Cinnamon died in the Uni
ted States last year, there is very good evidence
that Mongolian immigration can not be very
extensive.
young lady named Sophia Major who died
i'll Washington recently, from the effects OF
malpractice, is said to have been married
for year. 1t has been ascertained that :
license issued and her alleged betrayer savs
{ the ceremony was performed. Her friends
add that she feared her condition would betra,
the marriage which, for some unexpressed rea
son, she wished kept secret, and therefore APP
| piled to the professional NAL practitioner VIII,
killed her.
Jennie Post, the little girl taken from "a poor
house. who at Spring Valley, N. Y. and else
where put arsenic in the food of people she dis
: liked but fortunately without killing any one
: at the recent trial told the whole story in al
J artless manner. She learned the effects o
arsenic from seeing it used to kill mice, ant
besides having fed the poison to several whom
she disliked, had others in contemplation whel
arrested In consideration of her youth and o
her being half-witted, she was sent to a hous
of correction instead of prison.