Daily globe., 1878-02-24
SUNDAY GLOBELETS.

shlpped last month to Europe over 81. 300. 900
worth of provisions
including all articles. the trade of Memphis
In 1877, summed up SOS 2s9 $50 in 1877. against
| s74, 997 ,97s in 1876.
Ihe fruit growers of St Joseph Mich have
agreed that this season their boxes for small
1rult shall each hold full quart. and that their
baskets for large fruit shall each contain a sixth
of bushel.
The Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway conpanv
i"s purchased the right to use on its roads
the railway safety gate manufactured at Paw
'ucAe'' n. L. Tor use at crossings Of frequented
thoroughfares.
Inc sugar crop of Cuba will fall short one
! third. The tobacco crop of good quality i
two-thirds housed. Commercial failures are
frequent at Havana, and there is a panickv feel
! ing among business men.
The church of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgo llgogertv-
siliogogogoch, in Wales. is vacant and it is sux
/ gested that the Rev. Mr.. Observation-Disclosures
anse now located in New leland would be a
good man to fill the vacancy
New Haven is busy erecting an immense tenn
! porary building for the use OF Moody and
Sankey, whose services are to begin there on
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which will cost $4,000. viii seat 5000 persons.
1t seems that the Baptists' who are doing
missionary work in foreign lands are more sue
cessful than their brethren at home. Here the
average of baptis!ns by each minister is eight q
year. The foreign missionaries average forty
one each.
Gen. Bob Toonbs says tea trees have beer
/ in for last
trees are within few miles of Atlanta and are
| thirty feet high. High enough to make Chi
naman laugh at the idea of their being from
the Chinese tee plant.
/ The new Elm Street Methodist Church
! Toronto, has recently been opened for service
1t seats nearly 1900 persons. OF the s63 900
which it cost, only about 4250O0 has been paid
kimball or somebody will be wanted before
! long to fix up the shorts.
The records of the United States courts for
| Louisiana show that no suit is pending against
Judge Whitaker. who tried Anderson. Yet
| Secretary Sherman says he has been tefaulter
to the government for years. and the question
| arises why Secretary Sherman has not tried to
| recover the loss.
The Oakland Congregational Church in
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beyond the reach of Brother Kimball's elo-
| quence. The poor is now disbanded
and over its remains may be written. Gone
| but not forgotten" for the creditors will re-
member it if nobody else does.
Judge J. w. Spencer, aged II years. died in
Rock Island Wednesday night. He settled in
that vicinity in 1928, performed the first mar
riage ceremony in that part of Illinois served
with distinction in the Blackhawk war and
died, as he had lived, consistent member of
the Methodist Episcopal church.
| Revival in Little Rock Ark. But it lags ana
| fingers account of the great amount of
| drunkenness in the place. A correspondent
! from there urgently asks for Murphy or some
other temperance apostle, relnarking that
whisky is considered in Little Rock as much Of
a daily necessity as bread and butter.
/ Ben Wade. daily growing weaker. being asked
if he could send any word to his friends of en-
| couragement as to his recovering, said the other
| day: Il fear not. | am an old man, and am
well on my way through the last suffering. II
/ were to get well it would be but for a little
| while and would have it all to 90 through
again.
Sadie Corse Williams, of Burlington. Iowa
1 is a lady, daughter of a wealthy citizen. who
became enamored less than wear ago of 4
| travelling charlatan, Il magnetic healer and
married him. He has beat her frequently
knocked out some Of her teeth. attempted to
stab her, and finally tried to shoot her. and ti.
disenchanted young woman sues for divorce
1t is believed an effort is being made bv New,
York parties to corner the market for February
wheat in Milwaukee and Chicago. There being
but third much wheat in store at thes,.
| lake ports at this time last year. while re-
| ceipts from the country limited. the con-
ditions favorable to "a perfect corner A
large number of the Milwaukee dealers have
already been frightened from operating either
| way.
At Denver Col. Maggie A. Randall sued EG-
ward Shaper for breach of promise of mar
riage. The defendant went to the witness
stand and swore that the lady. who has borne q
good character, had waived the marriage cere-
mony III his favor. The Judge accordingly
charged the jury that they might take account
| of the defendants effort to sander the plaint-
| 1T in assessing damages, and the jury gave
| plaintiff a verdict for 10000 in addition 10
money and presents previously received
amounting to several hundred dollars.
| The Congregational brethren are having q
spirited time discussing whether or not they
| constitute denomination. Some of their
leading hold that they do, while others,
! just eminent. maintain that they do not
One of the principal associations has recently
| been discussing the conundrum, = What consti-
tutes a Congregational minister % No salts
factory answer has as yet been given to this,
and as things now stand. the outlook indicates
that the brethren will have to give it mp. Both
of these discussions have arisen out of the
| somewhat anamolous condition of sundry Con-
gregationa churches in Brooklyn The dues-
ton as to the ministry grows especially out OF
the application of young clergyman, who is
entirely without ecclesiastical standing to he
recognized as Congregational minister III tn.
| city of churches.
| Some OF the more eminent and high-priced
ministers are just now preaching hell in Z.
manner so reprehensible as to deserve outspo-
ken and immediate rebuke. They pompously
announce to their congregations that they are
now about to preach subject which has
| been much discussed of late and unskillfuIlv
| handled by persons of comparatively little ed