Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-22
GLoBELErs.

Congress onse voted Ger. Shields sword for
his heroism but he was afterwards obliged to
pawn it for bread.
Mr.. r. A. Arnold estimates. in an article in
the Nineteenth Century, that were the Church
of England disestablished, it would retain
surplus of s12O 000. 900, after all claims had
been met.
A. ]. Coshow, while gathering pecans in
Gonzales county, Texas. recently, saw from his
place on the limb of q tree something glitter
on the ground below. 1t was Mexican dol
lar. He dug at the root of the tree and I'M
earthed $4,000 worth of the coin.
Comanche the horse ridden by Capt Keosh
when he died with Custer, and the only living
representative of that tragedy is to be carefully
kept and not used. Whenever the regiment comes
out on ceremonial occasions, the horse, saddleds
bridled and draped in mourning, and led by a
mounted trooper, is TO be paraded with the
regiment.
In Sweden one million FIVE hundred thousand
| people-about one-half the population-con-
sumo one hundred and forty to one hundred and
| seventy pints of spirits each. By their indul-
| gence in strong drinks the Swedes have deteri-
GRATED in stature and physicaLstrength; new
diseases have appeared, and old ones have in-
| creased fearfully.
| The Rev. Edward Eggleston. who is pastor OF
| the Church of Christian Endeavor, Brooklyn,
| gives cnromo for each new scholar brought to
his Sunday school. AS thousands of chromos
are given away, and still the school does not
increase its numbers very materially, it is sup.
posed that there is good deal of repeating
and of attendance from interested motives.
DR.. Mary Walker is lying dangerously i'll, Of
pneumonia, in the Providence hospital at
Washington, to which she has been admitted ms
a free patient under order from the surgeon
general. She lays all her illness to tobacco the
tobacco smoke she has been forced to inhale
till, she says, her lungs have become filled
with tubercules, tobacco planted and tobacco
poisoned
DR.. Engel, the noted German statistician
states that there in Russia 1923, 591 facto-
ries and industrial establishments working
with five and less men, and 43,5lS employing
from FIVE to fifty hands. In these 1,677, l04
establishments together there are employed
S,625, sls men and 375,959 women, at wages
ranging from ESQ to 5000 marks year.
How wonderful i, the enterprise Of Ameri-
cans in the matter Of promoting railroad COM
munication between the different sections of
the country. st. Louis man can now take
his departure for the Black Hills on Monday,
arrive at Deadwood city on Thursday, there
t engage in dispute with representative citizen
: and have his body returned to his frien dis in
r st. Louis within eighty hours.
Sunday the 14th. Brooklyn, which is a city of
t clerical sensations, scandalized by the APP
r pea rance of Presbyterian clergyman in q
l. high church Episcopal pulpit. AS to whether
= | it was the Presbyterians that were scandalized
t. or the Episcopalians the telegram is silent and
l. ambiguous. The Presbyterian clergyman was
t the Rev. John Hall, and the Episcopal pulpit
= was that of Christ church, of which Rev. Mr.
;. Brewer is rector.
Il The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald uses official
L data show that in six of our largest cities,
from 1860 to 1875. the local taxation was quad
,e rupled-from Sl5, 0OO, 900 to $G5 600, GOO, and
1t the debts nearly quadrupled-from ss5, O00, 900
" to $305, 600 900. In fourteen of our cities the
~ population has increased 70 per cent. the tax
IT able value l56 per cent, but the debt 270 PEI
es cent, and the actual taxation for State, city
e. and county purposes increased 35S per cent.
.. The President of the Paris Commune of 1871
a. Citizen Charles Beslay, died at Geneva few
t. days ago. in self-imposed exile, for the prosecu
1t ton against him had been dropped in consid
u Grafton of his services to the Bank of France
g. whose funds he protected. Beslay was promi
g. nent in the revolution of I84S, and was exilet
le after the coup detat. When the Franco rns
u sian war broke out, though he then an ole
20 man of 76, he enlisted and served in the arm,
NJ of Metz.
Sc New Orleans has sufficient reason to plum
a" herself upon the great and remarkable increas
or in her grain receipts during the present
On OF bulk wheat we have received up to this time
is 454 l24 bushels more than last year; Of ~
ar 313 636 bushels, and of corn 2,4O1, PIG bushel
~ in excess of the receipts during the came pero
e. of 1877. In this connection note the arriva
hit there last Monday of the steamboat Warner
IL with barges, from st. Louis, with 40, 800 bust
-, -, els bulk wheat, S. 159 bushels corn, and %
ns 299 bushels rye. This one cargo would load a
least 355 freight