Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-04
GLoBELErs.
Ben. Butler ia 81.

Walter at Black Hills hop excused him
self at II 80. because he had couple of stage.
to rob.
Ex-senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, sold Sub
sidy, says Grant is the most popular RepubI
can in the country.
Ex-Gov. E. D. Morgan of New York CITY,
hopes to succeed Roscoe Conklins in the
United States Senate.
The New Orleans Times thinks J. Madison
Wells would like TO take the chances of an
election to Congress next fall.
Suppose so, 900 Americans 60 to Eurone an.
nually, and spend $1,000 each--that takes fifty
millions from industries each wear.
The N. Y. Sun says it begins to look as though
II Gen. Butler Is not the Republican candidate
for the Presidency in 1880, Gen. Grant will he.
Tell me not in mournful numbers
Life Is only winks and blnks,
All the men are like Ben Butler,
All the women like Mrs. jerks.
The Boston Post observes that pal, of
white breeches, worn by Commodore Perry in q
naval engagement. are preserved in glass
case.
Fernando Wood takes the failure of his tariff
bill too hard. He needn't say solitary word.
Duties were the very Last thing Coneressmsp
called for.
Congressman Ewing, an Ohio Democratic
Congressman, thinks MIR. Tilden's chances for
denomination in 1880, SO far as the West ia
concerned, are thin.
Gen. Grant thinks Don Cameron persuasive
power, and that Jones, of Nevada, haa much
force OF character-so writes the Paris CORES
pondent of the New York Tribune.
Don't eat any more ham. If you value YOUR
life, don't do it. Prof Richard Heschsl of
Vienna, has discovered that American hama
are badly infected with trichinosis
Washington Post: The jerks has tie gen.
uine Limerick French accent, modified by the
Edinburgh circumtiex. 1t makes a Partisan
dance on his ear with envious wrath.
Detectives have found 81 dead bodies in pickle
| in the medical school at Ann Arbor, and the
professors and many of the attendants are get.
ting into sad pickle by the disclosures.
| Gen. Howard seems to be pursuing the In
dams with great yigor, but a marked feature OF
the chase is he never catches them He is ant
to appear on the scene soon after the couclu-
sion of battle or slirmish
The Springfield Republican (Ind.) is of the
opinion that the Republicans of Massachusetts,
Will gain one member of Congress this year.
and that the next delegation will stand ten Re-
publicans to one Democrat
Senator Patterson, of South Carolina. is
afraid to appear in that State. Congress hav-
ing adjourned Gov. Hampton will take meas
ureE to secure his presence, to answer criminal
charges pending against him.
The tremendous Washington Acklin-Rosscr
social scandal that has convulsed the nation
and the world now having been disposed Of.
the seething cauldron of inner corruption
should now be permitted to cease bubblino
Next.
| den James Watson Webb, many years nso
a leading and one of the most prominent Jour
nallsts in the country, and who was conspicu
ously connected with the fatal Graves-Cilley
duel, ls lying dangerously i'll at his residence
in New York city. He is in the 77th wear of
his age
Reports received from secret service agents in
all parts OF the country indicate that the bust
ness or counterfeltlng silver coins is large and
| rapidly increasing The counterfeits include
the new silver dollar, the trade dollar. halves
and quarters. Those of the larger deuom;na-
tions are the most numerous
The Oldest of the white elephants which was
born in ITO, died at Bangkok last November.
Each white elephant possesses its palace and
vessel of gold, and harness Respondent with
jewels. The King of Siam is the only person
age before whom it bows its knee, and a similar
salutation is rendered by the monarch.
| An editor is described as a man who is IiahIa
to errors III grammar, toothache, typogra phical
errors and lapses of memory and has several
thousand people watching to catch him trip
plng--a man Of sorrow and acquainted with
grief, poorly clad, poorly estimated, yet envied
| by somc of the great men he has made.
| The examination and recrimination going on
between Henry Watterson and Abranl S Hewitt.
| tends TO neither personal, political or public
| advantage. The controversy degenerates into
| simple personal scandal, tending to the dam
| age, rather than the benefit, of the contestants
neither helpful nor hurtful to Mr.. Tilden, how
ever weakening such an element OF discord may
be to the party itself
| Chicago females visit condemned murderars
in prison and actually kiss them. This is taxi
ing very unfair advantage of man He haa
no chance to escape and is therefore compelled
to submit. We now understand why those two
men who were hanged in Chicago a few days
ago, expressed desire u month previously, to
have the execution take place 'as soon as poa-
sible.'
| 1t is alleged that there is lively competition
just now for the possession of old Ben Butler,
whose political situation is regarded az
somewhat anomalous. The Nationals are
crying for him,-while in Washington. since
his severe cross-examination of Republican
witnesses before the Potter committee, the
Democrats are putting in sealed proposal.-but
Republicans, incenscd by what they regard as
the crookedness and uncertainty of "the great
criminal lawyer refuse to bid.
| 1t is not generally urged with very great
vehemence thai all epitaphs tell the exact
truth, as epitaphs ought to. Perhaps the fol-
lowing, copied from marble slab in an old
Virginia cemetary may not be at very wide
varience with the truth
Here lies Robin, but not Robin Hood,
Here lies Robin, who never did good;
Here lies Robin, whom God has forsaken,
Here lies Robin whom the devil hath
| taken"
The poet Bryant never entertained any admi-
ration for Henry Ward Beecher. He thought
him to be vain vascillating, selfish man, and
believed him guilty in the Tilton matter
Reecher was aware of tie
unfavorable opinion of the poet
and no love SCENE to have been lost be-
tween them. Beecher, to get even with
Bryant, denounced the much admired, be-
praised and often quoted ''Thonatopsis'' as "a
heather poem" Wherefor is not easily seen
This Characterization of the poets finest, and
really great effort, is product of splenetio
Wit peration, rather than of just, candid criti
| cism.