Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-29
GLoBELETs,

The debt of New York city on the frstb f last
January, aggregated 51I7, TAI ,05o
The cabinet is considering the aue>tion Of
abolishing the brevet rank in the army.
The New York Ecra,d remarks that somebody
ought to send David Davis to tie planning mill.
| There is an area of 40 acres in North Carolina,
that has yielded over S1,O0O,OOo in gold since
the war.
Mr.. Kelly, having been remonetized, is pre-
pairing to go ahead again with his motor. and
make another failure.
The Cincinnati Enquirer. gives it as its de-
iberate opinion that Montgomery Blair and
Mr.. Howe should unite their forces
| Gould. the st. Louis directory man, has fred
off his spring census gun. loaded With charge
of oO5,6so as the population of the city.
| 1t is surmised that Samuel Us income tai
| suit has gone to jury, that it will be seven
to eight affair surely, or in tina. proportion.
| Some men are born great, some have great
ness thrust upon them, and some are natives Of
Ohio SO says the Louisville CourtsrJourpa'.
The proudest day in the life of a baby, Is
when his mother takes him home from the
show and whips him for not receiving the first
prize.
The New York Herald had serenty-two col
umns of advertising Sunday. and James Cor
don Bennett won $4,000 last week betting on
O'Leary
One of the mlsfortunes of the early sprins
weather we are having is, that the base ball
nuisance IS about month earlier than in or
binary years.
Mrs. Flynn of San Francisco had tripiet.,
and her proud husband as a guide to the many
visitors chalked over his door This is where
the triplets is"
An Iowa clergyman is said to have given e75
and -four formal, earnest prayers for horse
The prayers were for tn e welfare of the man
from whom the horse was bought
The weather is hourly growing warmer, tho
willows are paling, hyacinths burden the air
with their odors; poached eggs are becoming
delicious, and country sauGages are flrins
north.
Augusta, the home of Senator Blaine, went
Democratic the other day for the first time in
ten years. The inhabitants of that city e7i-
IDENTIFY don't believe in a platform built of
stolen timber.
The Rev. John Jasper, colorcd preacher Of
Richmond, Va, is reviving that old scandal
about the sun moving around ths earth, in.tead
Of the earth around tho sum- and is making ru-
mcrous converts.
The Iowa Legislature adjourned without
passing the revenue bill, and now the rural
members are engaged in figuring up the profits
from the mileage end per diem incident to Il
special session.
Boston is in agony. That Insignificant little
western town, Cincinnati, has dared to throw
her big organ into the background By the con-
struction Of larger and better instrument
One by one the roses fade
1he work of contraction goes steadily on.
The oldest business houses go down before il
J yet no relief is promised the people. Times
grow harder every day. The repeal of ths re-
sumption act would stop the ruin.
The Philadelphia North a1srieu, says that
the extreme dizziness of business is reflected by
the bank totals, the clearinss for the last week
in Philadelphia being twenty millions below
the aggregate for o season of full activity and
enterprise.
A Troy man had his boy in the woodshed and
was taking his measure with an infant sap
ling. As he threw away the CAD. he sarcas-
tically remarked. Now what do you call
shat3' Father" said the boy, lit ives very
like whale7''
Peter Cooper is about to make trip South
this week for the purpose Of purchasing about
eight hundred acres of land and several Iars o
buildings near Spartansburg, S. c., where he
| intends to establish an Institute of Science"
for young women Of the South.
In the campaign of 1876 the New York Tine 3
| was the leading Republican journal of the
United States. In 1878, the Times says: mot
| for years has there been an administration SO
destitute Of popularity. 1t awakens no SYM
pathy. wins no favor, commands no respect"
! Mr.. G lenin W. Schofeld, of PENNSYLVANIA,
appointed to fill the vacant Office Of register Of
the treasury, is one of those patriots laid on the
| shelf by their constituents for dabbling in the
Credit Mobilier business and the Chicago,
s9 tines thinks the President should t,y to feel
ashamed of himself for insulting The country
with such an appointment.
The best criticism yet made of Tim Howe's
recent speech is by the Chicago Iinsss. It is:
| when scarcely Representative in the Con-
gress of the United States cares to nay ANYTHING
Tor the administration, it is hardly the part Of
craftsmanship for any one therein to say aught
| against it." But, then nobody ever accused
| Tim of being statesman.
In connection with the fact that we have sent
O'Leary to England to serve as model for the
| Britishers in one branch of gymnastics, 1t nav
not be out Of place to state that there is pros
| pect of the departure of Rev. TaImuse, also, to
| the favored nation. Discussions in the Brook
lyn Tabernacle, connected with the high-prioed
organist, may result in sending this divine to A.
charge in London.
The recent snow storm in Wyoming Territory
was attended with considerable loss of human
life, number of bodies having already been
found, while others arc supposed to have per-
| lshed. On the 10th the bodies of two hunters,
George z. Burrill and Sylvester Rees, were
found IS miles north of Cheyenne. They were
| lying side by SIDE their pack mules feeding
| close by. with their pa cks still upon their
| backs.
Peter Dohson, who died at Vernon, Connect
| cut on the 18th, aged ninety. four years, wa.
nifty years ago the most distinguished geolocist
| in this country, and in 1912, in an address be-
fore the British Geological society, Sir Roderick
Murchison declared him ''the original author Of
! the best glacial theory For thirty wears no
| has been forgotten, but now the Connecticut
| papers are priu ting whole columns of obitu-
| aries about him.
80 sooner does man acquire fame than he
| is the target for all kinds of assaults from an.
vlous mortals. Thus the Philadelphia Times i.
constrained to say of one of Minnesota's fore
most statesmen. "Agricu1turaJ Comnoia,;onar