Daily globe., 1879-04-07

Charlotte Ihompson, the actress, owns one
Of the finest plantations in the South-S, 900
acres, near Montgomery, Alabama.
There are 24O acres of strawberries in and
around Charleston, s. @. The yield. it is esti-
mated, will be over 100000 quarts.
The Canadian lumbermen say the past winter
has been one of the most favorable on record
For getting out lumber and saw logs.
Stephen A. Douglas, son Of the deceased
has left North Carolina for Chicago,
where he will remain and practice law.
An Illinois dog surgeon advertises under the
name of "Mahomet." We suppose that il the
dogs don't 60 to him, he will 60 to the dogs.
The colored men in Wisconsin are to hold q |
convention in Milwaukee, in May, to discuss
plans for colonizing themselves in the far
West.
Baron Ferdinand do Rothschild is Free Nj.
son, and he recently ran for grand treasurer,
but was beaten by Lieut.. Col. Creighton, IN
Englishman.
Gen. Horace Porter, who was Gen. Grants
aid-de-camp during the war and his private
secretary during his first Presidential term, is
sojourning in Washington.
Mr.. Thomas Hughes, (Tom BROWN since his
visit to America, has shown great partiality for
the company of Americans, and it is said to
appear half American himself.
Out of a State prison population of 29,197
throughout the United States, but IS, 1856 are
employed in mechanical Industries, earning an
average of forty cents per day.
A pile of brush in the vicinity of the Mon
itor Plow works burned yesterday noon and
caused the report to be circulated that the
plow works had burned down.
man named Eustis, who lives Just out
side of the southern line of the city, had his
horse and buggy stolen on Saturday night.
The rig was hitched in front of the university
when taken.
A we'll dressed man with load of bad
whisky aboard was arrested by Officer Wes-
colt yesterday afternoon for creating dis
turbance at the house of E. j. Nottingham
on Fourth street
Farmers in the eastern part of Pennsylvania
find it very profitable to raise their own trout,
and have large quantities to spare for market.
The trout pond on q farm is becoming a. COM
mon as an orchard.
1uo arc uOt enough CDuVACtb Au tuo OOuets
ILL.,. prison to meet the contracts made for
labor by the State, and unless there is an in
crease of crime the State will have to pay $l60
day to cover this want.
Robert Browning has accepted the presi-
dency of the new Shakespeare society, which
was left vacant at the time the society was
founded, and was not to be filled ''till one of
the greatest living poets sees that it is his duty
to take it.
Asubscriber to history of Saratoga county
refused to take the book on the ground that it
contained eulogies paid for by the parties in
ter ested. The agent has sued, and an inside
view of the subscription book business is likely
to be afforded in court.
The Frankturter Zeitung mentions the iron
wedding" or seventieth anniversary, of the
marriage of an e1-rabbi at Vietz, near Berlin,
named Silberstein, who is in his 93d year. He
has l45 descendants, sixty-nine of whom at
tended the celebration.
Lord Carlisle was much amused by saying
of George Canning to Frere, whom he had re-
proved for some tardiness in Spain. Frere
the city authorities. In fact, could not get
asked Canning.
A clerical wag thus epitomizes the pecu
liarities of the canons of st. Pauls, London, ir
the matter of sermons: Canon Gregory car
read his sermons, but can't write them; Canor
Lightfoot can write his sermons, but can't reao
them; Canon Liddon can do both, and Bishop
Claugnton can do neither.
Rubinstein has been greatly aggrieved at hi.
treatment by the manage, of the Royal Theatre
of Berlin. At a rehearsal of his new opera tn,
prima donna suddenly refused to sing, lest he
voice might be affected by the dust raised b,
the dancers. Rubinstein became so enrageG
that he threw down the music and abruptly
went out of the house.
As man was passing house in Portland,
Me-, the other day, q two-year-old girl, who
was playing in second story room, jumped
out of the window and struck fairly on hi
head. The child fell to the pavement and wa
badly bruised, though not seriously hurt, ant
the man, except being half scared to death
was not much injured.
Mr.. William Morris, poet and upholsterer, ii
now busy in practicing the art of weaving
Not only is he endeavoring to carry out prac
tically some of his own designs, but in orde
to secure the tints he desires, and to be certain
that the colors he obtains are permanent, b.
has set to work to dye his own fabrics, and t
study exhaustively the nature of dyes.
A female book agent caused the publication
in the Sacramento Bee of the death of Geo. "
Bruff. Now, Bruff was not dead, and appeale
to the Bee to restore him to life. The B.
found the woman, who explained that Bru
owed her and had fixed day when he woul
, pay her if he was alive; as he did not pay sh
concluded he was dead, and 30 published hil
, in tho Bee. Bzuf and tho Bee people are angry
everybody else laughs.