Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-22
GLOBELETS.
Gov. Williams of Indiana has sunk his ndi-
vlduslity in a broadcloth suit.

GOV Williams of Indiana has sunk his indi
vlduslity in broadcloth suit.
The New Orleans Picayane explains that by
cremation Mr.. Benn. Pittman intended TO give
his wife a short-handburial''
he receiver of the State Savings Institution
Oh chicago thinks the concern will eventually
Pay 20 per cent of its indebtedness.
The Philadelphia managers of .hes ties have
reduced prices and are taking in at least fifty
per cent. more money than before the reduction.
Inc Eastern States viii not secede on account
OF the silver bull, but look out for something
ihe secession when revenue tariff is enacted,
Nine thousand persons in Fort Wayne. Ind.
nave signed the pledge since the temperance re-
form movement was started there ahont sir
months ago.
The southern St1tcS. Z newspaper of Okolons
Miss remarks: It's thought that little sil
yer bill will settle Bonnie Hill and likewise
Lucius A. c. KILL
There is a mountain in Carbon county. Pa.
which, for nearly qnarter of a mile, is not
over five feet wide at the top, and in some
places not over two or three inches
Standing" says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
on one plank alone--the repeal of the resump-
ton act-the Democracy sweep the country
from the Hudson to the Rio Grande''
man in Los Angeles, Cal, has trained a
tomato vine twenty-five feet high, against the
sunny side of his house, and gathers ripe
tomatoes from it at the top of twenty-feet
| ladder.
Ii the English practice ruled in this country
the enactment of the silver bill would be the
signal for Secretary Sherman and Director of
the Mints Ilinderman retiring from the Offices
| they hold.
Thomas B. Browning of Dundas. Canada
has sued the town for $4,000 damages because
his name was accidentally omitted from the
assessment rolls. He pleads that his credit was
injured thereby.
One thing which tends to make cremation
popular and at the same time inclnes people to
hope that there is place of red-hot punish
ment, is the abominably high prices the under
| takers charge for collins.
A bill has passed one branch of the Lesisla-
ture of Wisconsin for taxing fire insurance
companies Tor the support of fire depart ments.
In effect such 4 bill would tax insured persons
only for the benefit of the whole community.
Cleveland, Ohio has sent a delegation to
Washington in the interest of a protective tariff
on iron and steel, to oppose the pending tariff
bill. The delegation includes ex-Congrcssman
Payne. and all its members are largely inter
ested in iron and steel
| A delegation of preferred stockholders of the
Northern Pacific railroad company is said to be
lobbying this week at Washington in favor of
| building the road from Oregon east instead of
from both directions is proposed by the
managing officers of the company.
The Westminster aquarium London. is said
to possess the largest plate glass tank in the
world one having been lately erected $50 feet
long ~ feet wide, and proportionately high
1t Will permit the display of fish of the largest
size procurable in British waters
Rev. Mr.. Goodell, journalist and reformer a
man of note among the early anti-slayery ari-
tators and also among the temperance agitators
OF late years, died at GAINESVILLE Wis. aged 50
years. He began his as a journalist with
the P,on0,tce Or. ~ Gatzetie in 1920.
The iron interests of Pennsylvania have a
large lobby i'll Washington instructed to pro-
cure modification of Woods tariff bill in ia
vor of smelters and rolling mill proprietors or
else to defeat the bill. No lobbyist represent
ing consumers has yet put in an appearance
correspondent of the Cincinnati ED1ui,e.
Is writing up the horrors of the Ohio peniten-
tiary. He tells of punishment by the silent
system-overwork, starvation. exposure and
cruel tcrtnres, and as being gagged, tied up by
the thumbs. put into sweat box plunged
naked and manacled into an ice-cold bath or
chained all night in standing position.
Old ST. accounts for poverty among the
whites in the South by explaining that before
the war the white folks rose in the morning
when they heard the ROSTERS crow tut nov
with so many loose negroes in the land roost-
ers are scarce, and the white man resting under
the delus1on that the day doesn't break till
something crows is liable to lose the ten o'clock
train every day.
Ii Prince Gortschakoff did suggest that the
United States, great maratime power
: should be invited to participate in the Euro
pcan conference the Eastern question Eng
, land might well respond with suggestion that
Greece should also be invited. Thanks to Re-
publican legislation and protective tariffs, the
United States is about as much a maratime
power is Greece.
Ex-SheriH Jimmy o Bren of New York in
one recent sitting lost s24 900 at poker The
; winners were two Republican politicians of the
| Philadelphia ring, ex-city treasurer and an
e ex-recordcr OF wills. who in the halcyon DAYS
OF Republican stealing in Philadelphia made
those Offices each worth, to them, ;530000 to
$40 year: and compared with whom at the
: American game. Poker Schenck is as a child
{ 1t has been the custom to ask Representa- ives
and Senators to nominate postmasters for the
small Offices, but Mr.. Key, with the approval of
: Mr.. Hayes, has concluded that when vacancies
OF this kind are TO be filled, the postmaster of
the largest neighboring city shall be required
] 10 recommend the persons to fill them the de-
partment passing upon such recommendation
e and holding the larger postmasters responsible,
where their selections are confirmed bv the
Postmaster General.
Seven hundred deputy United States mar
shais were appointed in the third congresson-
al district OF Missouri during the campaign of
f last year at a cost to the government of over
10000 and yet Mctcalf, the Republican claim
ant of the congressional seat can claim only
! twenty majority. although these seven hundred
: were authorized and instructed to arrest Dem
ocrats to keep them from voting and number
S OF them. claiming TO be Democrats, were com
missioned on condition of voting for Metcalf.
Gen. Frost, the Democratic candidate will
doubtless be seated
, Virginia Legislation as to Taxation and
the State Debt.
: RICHMOND, Va, Feb. 20.-The Senate. hv
vote OF ) to 16, passed the Barbour bill
from the House, with an amendment which
, provides that Is cents of the 80 assessed