Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-26
GLOBELETS.

why LOU VIII IeCOTuS OF Z:5U and under.
The city debt of Philadelphia is upwards of
S'o'oo0,OO0, and bears six per cent, interest.
Ihere are fifteen State Legislatures now in
session. at an aggregate cost of $4,000 day.
Stanley asks the geographical world to call
the great African river Congo the Livingstone
river.
Utica, N T., Judge has charged a grand
jury that church lotteries are as unlawful as
any others,
One OF Flora Temples colts is Young horse
driven by David Bonner of New York. which
gives good promise.
AS Consul to Manchester, Mr. Alexander C.
Bodkin, late of the Milwaukee Sentinel. will re-
ceive $4,000 per year.
Apostle Snow promises that the Utah divorce
law shall be amended. SO as to be of use only
| to bona tide residents of the Territory.
Trinity Church, New York, of late years has
granted no leases that did not contain stipu-
| lation that liquor is not to be sold on the prem
ises
New York's death roll for 1877 foots up
26, 1914 persons. Of these, 1881 were Roman
Catholics fact suggestive of the very large
| membership of that church.
Brigham Young's business affairs are to be
overhauled by the Mormon Church. many MEM
bers believing that he appropriated church
money to his own account:
Silver was first coined by Phidon, King of
Argos. about $50 B. c. the epoch of the build
ing of Carthage, and about 40 years after the
construction of Solomon's Temple.
The Senators and Representatives in Congress
of the Southern States, have signed circular
recomm ending the Lee monumental associa-
ton of Virg mia to the support of the Southern
people.
! From 1906 to 1851 each included the coin
age of half dollars, silver, of full weight and
frmness, amounted to $40, 736s4O50. The
| largest amount coined in one year
50, 500, $40, in 1887.
Mrs. Elizabeth Denny, the distinguished old
settler who died in Pittsburgh, Pa. last week,
is shown by her will to have divided her
immense property, valued at Sl0,000,000,
equally among her eight children.
i Owen Geoghegan. who probably killed James
Morton alias Rose in the formers notorious
New York saloon, in a recent fracas, had friends
on hand to swear strong at his recent examina-
tions and was discharged from arrest.
The Louisville Coarier-J Journal sets all Ken
| lucky on grin, by copying paragraph from
the Pioneer Press, of st. Paul, in which United
States Senator McCreery is ludicrously con-
founded with Gov McCreery, both of Kentucky.
The Houston Telegraph says of the Texas COM
missioners sent to investigate the Ell Paso riot:
1t will be a work of patriotsm-that is, they
will have to pay their own bill and take a short
rid fa4l oSt thare hacl
with large portion of the way actively cult
waited by scalp-raisers.
The Cincinnati EnpaJe,'s correspondent
opens his account of Blaines attack Massa-
chusetts the other day and the rcjoinders by
Dawes and Hoar. with the remark: THE
pitiable weakness of Massachusetts in the Sen
ate Chamber was never more lanentably dis
played than it was to-day
The river man of the Louisville Courier
Journal tells, that when small steamer, ply
, ing on the Ohio, landed at Evansville, the
) captain saw Captain Tom Boluss, presumably
I an Indiana heavy weight, coming down the hill
and shouted Pull in the plank, and back out
quick don't want this boat sunk
The Georgia farmer who has carried off the
palm this year is Mr.. James H. Brooker. He
bushels of corn, five hundred of potatoes, n
thousand of oats and wheat, and twenty -hve
hogs. The newspapers chronicle this as the
I greatest harvest by any one man since the war.
General John S. Williams, (who is called
e ''Cerro Gordo" Williams, in memory of dash
ing cavalry charge he led at Cerro Gordo, dur
/ ing our war with Mexico1 who recently
1t elected United States Senator from Kentucky
is six feet four inches tall, and 81 years of age
d He was q general in the Confederate army.
The General is one of the most scholarly men
: in Kentucky.
Great suffering among the poor of Davenport
q Iowa. (besides 125 families supported by the
Il city, has been discovered. Many families have
|. been without food or fire for days. others were
G living ON the offal of slaughter houses; and
e numerous sick persons were without either
food or medicine All the able-bodied mer
Q among the poor to be employed il
L building winter harbor for steamboats,.
l. The volcano at Ionic, Neb., near Ponca. is
; still as it was first observed years ago, {
q reservoir of fire. near the surface and extending
q below the level of the Missouri, which flows
Il near by. Prof. Vance of Michigan who recently
1t visited it says it is true volcano, connected
# scientific men advance the theory that it is
simply manifestation of local chemical actor
T. evolving heat and flames.
y This is the way they cook rice in Japan
a Only just enough cold water is poured on t,
prevent the rice from burning to the bottom OF
# the pot which has close-ftting cover and il
J. set on moderate fire. The rice is steamed
rather than boiled, until it is nearly done; ther
the cover of the pot is taken off, the surplus
steam and moisture allowed to escape, ant
the rice tnrns out mass of snow white ker
n nels each separate from the other.
, A leading member of the New York Legsla
70 ture is said to have in charge bill respecting
s. the charter of the Columbian Order, unde
j. which the Tammany Society of New York i
W organized. The intention is to make it Re
publican party measure and crowd it through
, with the help of the anti-Tammany Democrat
: of the Assembly. The movers in the matte
. profess to believe that Governor Robinson vii
Is be glad to approve the bill should it reaci
er him.
st DR.. Richard Alexander Robertson. Of Titus
r. vile, Pa, was twice lured to Scotland il
s search of fortune represented to have beer
. left him by Scotch relative. The first tim
ar he paid f600 to the pretended solicitors. Tn
+, second time he went to draw the proceeds o
d. the fortune from the National Bank of Scot
N land, where he was informed his solicitors hat
al deposited them to his credit. He had with hin
7 considerable sum OF money and persona
II jewelry. That was some months ago sine
a. which nothing is known of his fate. His wifi
- is in Scotland, searching for trace of him
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