Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-11
GLOBELETs.
Too bad! too bad! Bessie Turner has recovered
from her illness.

from her illness.
Ben Butler seems to yearn for the proud po-
sition of leader in the National party.
The steamship Hammonia sailed from Ham
burg last week similar mission to that IF
the Cimbria.
Rev. DR.. Dekoven, of Racine college, has
concluded not to accept the call as assistant
pastor of Trinity church, New York.
Pork is lower in Iowa than it has been for
eighteen years.-E1eAange. The market is
overstocked with Republican politicians.
Pittsbnrg Presbyterian minister lectures
on Obscene literature" and people ask how he
obtained his great familiarity with the sub
ject.
book agent hung himself at his home in
Parceeville, Wis. few days ago. This is the
first recorded instance of book agent With
conscience.
A cavalry expedition under Gen. Merrill IS
being arranged, TO scour the country north and
northwest Of the Black Hills to the Yellowstone
river and Big Horn mountains.
Mrs. Allingham, of Grand Rapids, Mich,
dropped dead from heart disease on Wednesday,
1t is reported that her death was caused by
witnessing fight between her two sons.
Russian agents have been among the New
York pilots familiar with the coast, and IL
there is war good many of them will be par-
manently engaged by the Russian cruisers
1t will cost the tribes in the Indian Territory
S23, OOO this year to keep delegation in Wash
ington to that their rights are not taken
away from them through the intrigues of uu-
scrupulous spectators.
John Fl. Wright, sailor 20 years OF acc has
confessed that he murdered Barney Ferron,
whose body was found in the Eric basin
Brooklyn, with heavy weight attached. The
murder occurred during fight on a schooner.
Republican papers become frenzied when a
Southern paper occasionally speaks of ''Presi-
dent Davis JEFF, at least, was not President
of the Confederacy by virtue of fraud. His
claim to the title is better than that of Hayes
Anaccurate count of the noses, shows that
this State is actually ifty-seven short of the
number of otficeholders to which she is proper
ly entitled.-Cincinnati Gazette. From this we
judge that there must be tifty-seven less Offices
than male Chioans.
Gold quarter-eagles which are Just appear
| ing in circulation in New York, are frequently
received and paid ont for new cents.-Ne,7
York paper. Too thin! too thin. The course
of the star OF empire cannot be diverted by
| such transparent devices.
Sanders Mccullough and his wife, living in
Oxford Penn, went hunting for burglars in
| the dark the other night. Sanders mistock
| his wife for a burglar and put bullet in her
| shoulder. Moral: When you so on burglar
hunt leave your wife in bed.
i sweetly accommodating disposition was
| shown by couple in Toledo who went to a jus-
tice to be married, and, finding him raperin;
his house, postponed the joyful ceremony. Ii
they continue in this way after marriage they
ought To get along tremendously.
| Senator Kellogg says that Packard wa. offered
the choice of four positions, namely, the mis-
sion to Mexico, the Governorship of Utah, the
Consul-Generalsiip to Paris, and the Liverpool
Consulate. 1t is not known whether he will
accept the appointment to Liverpool or not.
| When the Kearsage-Alabama battle occurred
off Cherbourg, thousands of people went down
from Paris to view the spectacle, and English
yachts gathered in numbers in the harbor
Perhaps Americans will yet have chance OF
tiocking to witness fight between q Russian
cruiser and a British nlan-of-yar
| Sir Henry Crockenden, who died in England
in 1876, left instructions that his body should
| be cremated. Only few weeks ago the Eng
| lish home minister gave permission to exhume
the body and dispose of it according to tho
testator's instructions. The remains were
taken to Milan, Italy, about the middle of
April, and reduced to ashes in the Gorini fur
mace.
| A story is told Of Lincoln that he once agreed
with neighbor to swap horses ''unsght aud
unseen" The neighbor was first to arrive at
| the rendezvous with his candidate for the bone
yard. In few minutes Lincoln was seen COM
ing around the corner with rickety saw-hcrse
on his shoulder; but before he could reach the
trystng-place the other jockey had disappeared
| down the alley.
The Louisiana lottery concern has test case
before the de facto postmaster general as to the
use of the mail by lotteries. Charley Howard,
the head of the Louisiana lottery, recently
called on Mr.. Hayes. Howard is said to have
spent $40, COO to help carry out Hayes schemes
| in Louisiana. He has retained as counsel, C,
| W. Moulton, Of Cincinnati a brother-in- law of
Secretary Sherman and great friend of Mr.
Hayes.
Shiskin, the Russian minister at Washington.
has asked his government to recall him. When
he first came to this country he followed some
Russian fashions that were ridiculed by WASH
| ington and other papers. The minister was
deeply offended, and has held somewhat aloof
| from American society. Hence he has not at
| tanned the popularity Of others among the for
| eign representatives, and is disconnected
thereat.
| The amateur coachman of New York drove to
| Philadelphia last week. The Press of the last
| named city says: IF crowd and cheers are
any evidence of popularity, the swell coachmen
of New York are more popular than the Prcs
| dent of the United States All Broad street
| for miles was lined with equipages which stood
| some of them, for an hour or more, to await
and welcome the entrance of the Tally-ho."
| 1t doesn't take much to be more popular than
the Fraud.
party was recently given in London at
which every lady was draped in ancient Gre
| clan costume. The Highly proper British
female, however, could not 90 the
Greek garb mall its simplicity.
| and so clothing was worn under the
classic attire, and the graceful effect OF the
latter utterly destroyed. But these same ladies',
! we doubt not, would wear without hesitation
the much more irlmodest and far less artistic
| low-ne cked, 'eel-skin'' gowns prescribed bv
modern fashion.
Butler, Pennsylvania, has case something
| akin to the famous Tichborne affair, the pres
ent claimant, however, being a woman Thirty
years ago Emily Ward left her home, and was
| lost to memory. Two years ago a person call