Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-09
GLoBELETs.

GLOBELETs.
A larger area is being planted in Georgia
than ever before.
The Texas wool clip this season IL estimated
at 8, 0O0, 900 pounds.
Boston fruit dealers are shipping apples from
Kansas for the first time.
Horse-thieves are operating extensively in
the neighborhood of Sioux City.
Gov. Vance is frequently mentioned for SEN
ator by the North Carolina press.
There are only sixteen candidates for Gov
ernor in the present Legislature of Kentucky.
Speaker Randall is the only Pennsylvania
who supports the Wood tariff
bill.
The gubernatorial race in Texas seems mar
rowed down to two candidates, Gov. Hubbard
and ex-Gov. Throckmorton.
Lord Derby is the worst dressed man in Eng
land He thinks, however, in case of war, that
Disraeli will be worse dressed than he is.
NJ. Victorien Sardou is said to be furious
Anglophobe, hating everything English-even
Americans because they speak the English
language.
The losses by fire in the United States during |
the month of January amounted to s5. 639, 100,
of which So, 400 was paid by insurance
companies.
Thus far fifty thousand of the new silver |
dollars have been received in Boston, and |
about twelve thousand of them have passed |
into circulation.
The Chicago Times: .sIt wasn't properly or
dered. Hayes should havesbeen commissioner !
of agriculture, Lie Due president. Still it !
doesn't make much difference"
For the first time in the history of the terri
tory of New Mexico, the records of the legisla-
tive body are this winter being kept in English,
instead of, heretofore, in Spanish.
The largest elevator in the world is to be
built at st. Louis, to be operated in connec-
ton with the floating elevator at New Orleans,
for direct grain shipments to Europe.
South Carolina supplies nearly half the rice
produced in the country. Georgia is next, or
Z, 100000 pounds ahead of Louisiana. Nearly
all the rice comes from these three States.
Our most intelligent and observing consuls
abroad continue to report to the state depart
ment that the most serious obstacle in the way
of increased foreign commerce is the protective
tariff.
The steamship Oberon cleared from New Or
leans last Monday for Liverpool with 2412
bushels of in bulk, and the steamship
Cambria for Rouen, carried away Al ,2l3 bush
els of corn in bulk.
The consumption Of tobacco is largely on the
increase in Britain. In 1841 the average con-
sumption was less than IA ounces per head of
the population; in 1876 it was one pound seven
and half ounces per head.
Historian Bancroft is said to visit his rose
garden every day with two servants, one Of
whom in hot weather holds an umbrella over
his employers head while the latter digs about
the roots of the rose bushes.
Prince Rudolph, heir to the throne Of Aus
tria, who is about to visit the United States
and Brazil, is said to be the most arrogant and
insolent prince in Europe. His recent visit to
Great Britain left very unfavorable impress
| sion.
| The Moffet register is losing its grip in Vir-
ginia. The receipts have in some quarters
fallen off so per cent The auditor of public
accounts has issued a circular requesting the
cooperation of all officers Of the law in it's
faithful execution.
First Assistant Postmaster General Tyner is
in Peru, Ind, where he will spend few days
prior to his departure for Paris, to attend the
session of the international postal congress-
The object of this catering is to establish a
universal rate of postage.
Wild chickens, numbered by thousands, are
hunted as wild game in Comanche county,
Texas. few years ago large number Of
domestic chickens were deserted for some rea-
son by their owner, when they took to the
brush, and the woods are now full of wild
chickens.
It is estimated that the Texas cattle drive for
1877 to Nebraska and points on the Union Pa
cifc, will reach 100000 to 260,00 head. Be-
sides this there are en- route from Oregon $1,000
head. The Montana and Idaho drive will num-
Der at least 25, 900 head, making total of from
1886, 900 to $50, 900 head.
I The Bethany (Mo.) Republican thinks Gen.
Grant is the greatest Of living men, and hopes
to see him President from March 4, 1881, for
the next twenty years thereafter. The country
needs the next twenty years to recuperate after
his eight years of universal stealing. It
wouldn't pay the Grant crowd to renew opera
items 1881.
Roman gossips speak about the approaching
marriage of King Humbert's brother, Amad-
eus Duke Of Aosta, and the Princess Colonna,
daughter of that famous and fabulously
wealthy house. The Duke has not long been a
widower, and SO great was his grief for the loss
of his beautiful and loving wife that the
Roman gossips had settled it that he was to en-
ter the church, be made a cardinal, succeed Pic
Mono as Pope, and thus harmonic the rela-
lions between the Vatican and the Quirinal.
Fashionable circles of Pittsburgh are excited
over scandal at prominent female college in
that city. A beautiful young girl from Wheel
ing, daughter Of respectable parents, attending
the college, on too intimate terms with the
male music teacher, and he, it is alleged, &C
complished her ruin. Her father appeared and
took her away from college. Twelve of the
girls have left. The music teacher, who for
merly taught in a female college in adjoin-
ing county, has been dismissed, and legal pro
ceedings are to be instituted against him.
4 Says the New Orleans Times: "Texas beef
always inferior to the last degree, is just now
worse than ever because the cattle have been
starving through the latter part of the winter
on dead grass. While the country is rapidly
settling up and the ranges CORRESPONDENCE
decreasing, the number of cattle to subsist up.
on them is rapidly increasing. The habit has
been never to feed the stock any corn or hay
!; whatever, to help them through the winter be-