Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-20
GLOBELErs.

stone-cutters have begun work at tho iowa
State capital.
Gen. Ben Lafever is candidate for CONGRESS-
in the fifth Ohio district
Hon. ]. ]. Russell is talked of for CONGRESS
in the ninth district of Iowa.
The cotton mills at Piedmont, g. c., spia
twenty-five bales of cotton day.
Tom Eichelberger, of the Keokuk flown,
Constitution, is candidate for Congress.
Gen. c. W. Blair, of Fort Scott, is spoken of
as Democratic candidate for governor of Ran.
sas.
Black River Falls. Wis, will have an elegant
hotel built this summer on the site of the on,
lately burned.
The Democrats of Ohio say they have tn,
State all to themselves; the Republicans bav;n,
been appointed to office.
The nail mills in the Western Nall assoc;at;o,
(twenty-seven) will suspend operations two
weeks the present month.
1t has been predicted that in few year,
western Iowa will be as great fruit-erovinr
country as western Michigan.
Commodore Vanderbilt's widow, it is said
ID soon to marry Southern gentleman, who.
1t IS inferred, is not 76 years DID,
Mckee Rankin is said to have purchased one
OF the Thousand Islands in the st. Lawrence
river with the proceeds of THE Danites."
"A Leading physician of Brooklyn says he has
successfully treated diphtheria with alcohol.
which Is poison antagonstic to diphtheria.
The hrst'Oxford and Cambridge boat race
took place in 1929. The Oxford crew produced
two bishops. two deans, and prebendarv.
Massachusetts has Temperance societies
whose members are pledged not to totally alb
stain from strong drink, and never to ret
drunk.
Joseph Jefferson begins an engagement at the
boston theatre on the 22d. Extensive prepar-
atoms are IN progress to give Rip handsome
setting.
England ID seriously threatened with an in
| vaslon OF Uncle Toms Cabin" The passage
for several hundred negroes is said to bav,
been already engaged.
There Is revival of velocipedc riding in
Boston, and the sport is becoming fashionable.
1wenty-three riders recently made the trip to
Squantum and back together.
Edith Morgan was one Of a crew that went
out IN small row boat in recent terrible
storm on Lake Michigan, at the peril of their
lives and rescued drowning sailor from n
! wreck.
Congressman Sampson, of the sixth Iowa
| district, is a candidate for denomination, and
his place is being looked for by Mr. Cults
Gov. Stone, Gen. Drake, Mr.. Stiles, Mr.. Elbsr
and AIr. Caldwell.
The Duke of Sutherland, who owns round
million of acr es in Scotland, has petitioned for
and obtained leave, his heir consenting. to dis
entail the est ates, which have been in the fam
lily for some 600years.
MIR. E. P. Boehm, one Of Seth Green's assist
ants, says that no fish should e eaten without
first being skinned and that satisfactory
Gro has been made between the brook trout
ard the California salmon.
The Jewish papers have looked into the mat
ter OF the birth of the Moseses, of South Caro-
Una, ana md that the family abandoned J, d.
Ism three generations back. in time to save it
from the disgrace attaching to their name.
Ladies are likely to benefit by the great East
ern conflict. Dealers in human hair have been
travelling within the last three or four months
through Bulgaria and Roumelia and buyino mn
all the tresses the unfortunate wives and
daughters of the refugees are willing to sell.
The Judgments against VIM. NJ Tweed
amount to $50, 1885, SCOTT. Adding to this the
amount OF interest which has accrued since the
entries were made, grand total of over s22
Oc0,Oo0 is had. This ID believed to be The
greatest amount of Judgments ever on RECORD
against any one man.
The electric light was used for the first tin
by authority, recently, at the Lizard signal sta
ton, England. 1t is described as exceedinpl,
brilliant, lighting up the surrounding land
rocks and the sea for some miles SO that yes
sells are plainly visible. 1t will be very usefu
in thick and foggy weather.
) Scarcity of work since last February in tn,
western portions of the Schuylkill mimi;
region, ID causing much distress among work
ing people there. Dispatches from Donaldso,
ana fremont, state That q large meeting O
miners and iaborers was held in the woods, a
which they dema nled bread or work.
The Smithsonian institution has lust receive,
salmon weighing 2S199 pounds, caught in III
Delaware river, at Trenton. This is believe,
to have been derived from a stock of saline,
, 1873 to the United States fish commission, O
which about 5000 We're successfully hatche,
out and placed IN the Delaware river.
petition, aligned by all the Protestan
clergymen of Montreal, has been addressed t.
: the various Orange lodges requesting them t.
, abandon their proposed procession on the 12tl
of July. The petition is largely signed b
many influential laymen, ana the Orangemt,
, have called meeting to consider the matte,
Should they persist in walking, much bloc.
will no doubt be shed.
, wealthy Siberian merchant named Seteria
| koff arrived III London lately for the purpcs
2 of arranging with Shipping firms for the estat
3 llshment of r line of vessels to run betwee
} England and the north of Siberia. The sac
cessful run last summer of several steamers ioe
tween st. Petersburg and the Ii ma and Yenese
rivers has fully proved the feasibility of estah
fishing communications with Siberia by gea
, A Savannah man pnrsued bis clipping daught
| er, and found her in hotel with her new bus
band. She was of age, and theaefore he conl
not force her to return home; but he was tn
lawful owner of her clothing, and he com elle
! her to so to her room and take off every shire,
of it. Then he went back to Savannah with
large bundle under his arm, and the women il
the hotel contributed something for the brid
to wear.
Gen. Sheridan has directed the officers i
charge of the Nez Perces. now held as prisone,
In the Indian territory, to permit one Of thei
number TO go up to the Canadian frontier fo
conference with the fugitive members of til
7 band, and to promise them immunity frox