Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-19
GLOBELETs.

Newport, Il. 1.
Candidates for Governor are numerous in
Pennsylvania.
Maggie Mitchell is playing in st. Louis and
Lolita in Philadelphia.
Benoit, Canada women has given birth to
hv1ng twins joined as Chang and Eng were.
New York city pays yearly into it's churches
about 900, and into its drinking saloons
yearly about 10000, 900.
Chicago has fifty more fire alarm telegraph
boxes than New York, and twice as MANY as any
other city in the country.
The failures for January foot up total liabil-
tiles of over s7,0O0,OOO, the heaviest of any
month since the crash of 1873.
Hugh Mccullough. Simon Cameron, ex-Gov.
Dennison and Montgomery Blair are the sur
wing members of Lincon's cabinet.
The who advocate gold are mainly those
who can pay their debts.-1Ne,o York Herald
Too often with other mems money.
The latest Winnipeg wheat item: Thirty
| bushels to the acre; sixty-two pounds to the
bushel; sold for sixty-five cents a bushel.
Small pox is epidemic at Bremond. Texas.
Nlne-tenths of the inhabitants have left the
place and all the business houses are closed.
member of the cabinet begging a con-
victed forger not TO peach. is the Philadelphia
Times translation of Sherman's dispatch to
Anderson.
No masquerade ball has been given in Boston
for six years because of State law providing
for the Imprisonment of persons taking part il,
such entertainments.
Charles Napier, an English scientist, asserts
that the REIMBURSEMENT of meat for six or
seven months willdestroy the desire for alcohol
in the most aggravated cases.
bill pending in the California Legislature
proposes to allow absolute divorce only for in
fidelity, with separation from bed and board
for intemperance and extreme cruelty.
/ 1t is thought the Congressional committees
on patents will report in favor of shortening
the terms for which patents may be granted on
agricultural and mechanical instruments.
}. Judgments for about IS, OOO, 900 and nearly
S3.0OO,0OO interest We're obtained for the city
of New York against VIM Nj. Tweed on the
18th. The value of the judgments is not Wis
ible.
; The cabinet has concluded it is said, not tu
risk the loss of all it's few remaining friends BIZ
undertaking to interfere in behalf of Anderson,
Wells and Cassanave of the Louisiana return
. ing board.
The old tariff of England was levied upon
200 articles of import, and produced a reve-
) nue. of about 10000, 900 year. Its present
tariff, levied upon only 40 articles, produces
: revenue of over S400, 600, 600 year.
An Indiana paper reports an instance of fast
: life in recounting the late experiences of a
young man of Logansport, who was married on
Monday; welcomed his first born on TUESDAY
and mourned or rejoiced over the elopement of
| his wife on Wednesday,
The bitter opposition to the confirmation of
billiard minister to Brazil, brought out
among other statements derogatory to his char
acter, an apparently authentic report that his
second marriage was secretly performed within
two months after the death of his first wife.
team of liz wagons and $50 oxen, CARRYING
supplies for the Red Cloud agency which left
Cheyenne about Dec. 18th: has been laid up for
some time on account of the rascality of bosses
l and transfers, and what's left of it, will not
r reach the Red Cloud camp until the middle of
June.
Louis Riel, the noted leader of the half
t breeds of Manitoba; who has been confined in
ity, has sufficiently recovered to be permitted to
go at large, is said to be in one of the Western
=" States, where he will engage in agricultural
pursuits.
And now the admirers Of Lincoln and his as
Il sociates are praying that fire may destroy
u enough of the national capital building to in
# clude that great daub by Carpenter, called
It Signing the Emancipation Proclamation
n which was a few days ago accepted by Congress
; as gift to the nation.
$ Spencer. of the State savings institution OF
Chicago, is reported to be willing to return and
. surrender himself, provided liberal reward
: will be paid to his wife. Unfortunately 70,
Mrs Spencer, it is not believed he could be con
It victed of any legal crime, though his thievine
d deserves severest punishment.
+ legislative committee in Utah. reporting
q upon recommendation of the Governors mes
y sage-that laws be enacted against polygamy-
claims that pol ygamy is sanctioned by the bible
II II and is divine ordinance, and that the Legisla
g ture should not legislate against it, because i,
8 is a religious belief and practice.
Y About this time it is well to remember that
when the France of Louis Napoleon and Eng
u land, represented by Earl RUSSELL were ready tc
IS interfere iii war for the Union Russia, rep
8 resented by Gortschakoff, spoiled Napoleon
> scheme by refusing to do anything which would
wound public feeling in the United States
- MIR. Samuel B. Evans, of Ottumwa Iowa il
inclined to the opinion that the mounds of th,
II Northwest indicate that the unknown race which
. built them practiced cremation and after tn.
;, rites were performed, the remains were covered
n with earth, each succeeding funeral pyre adding
y to the height of the mound. That theory vii
d not acc cunt for the mounds in northwest Wis
t consin and Minnesota.
8 The movement in England for reform of til,
E English language, through adopting phonetic
: alphabet and changing the grammar, is gaining
q many adherents. and at the same time causing
d good deal of amusement from phonetic spei
II ling bees at social parties. Attempts to spell
k words by sounds, either by pronouncing th
d names of letters of the alphabet or by pronoun
/ cling the vowel and consonant sounds produc,
= many funny combinations.
- Eastern papers are publishing records of the
income tax of 1870, which show that "a, 755 per
sons that year paid income taxes amounting t.
N 1882, 511.36 of which amount New Yorl
i paid Sc per cent, Pennsylvania and Massachu
sets Is per cent, Ohio per cent. New Jerse,
(, per cent, Illinois 4 per cent. Maryland an,
e California each per cent, and Kentucky
= Michigan, Connecticut and Rhode Island eacl
Is per cent, leaving only 8 per cent for tn
t. other &c States and Territories to have paid.
e Miss Susan Dickie whose sanity was discov
cred by her brothers and sisters being com
y PEELED to bring her from the ASYLUM in order +