Daily globe., 1879-04-09
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'.Bust head" is the popular name for whisky
in Western Virginia.
OF the q, 100000 Inhabitants of Italy, H.
O0O. 600 can neither read nor write.
Ruth Ann Cope, late of Philadelphia, be-
queathed $55, 900 for benevolent purposes.
The empress of Austria cut short her hunting
bout in Ireland on account of the disaster at
Szegedin.
Gov. Proctor has appointed Good Friday,
April IL, as day of fasting and prayer in
Vermont.
Queen Victoria wore at her sons wedding the
great Koh-i-noor blazing in q brooch on her
black dress.
It is proposed to give Victor Hugo's name to
street which opens opposite the house In
which he was born.
A one-armed street singer was lately .ssassi-
mated in Paris, and his body was followed to
the grave by 300 beggars.
Lists are published of 80 California papers
which oppose the new constitution for that
State, and of A which favor it.
Ben. Buffers annual income from money in
vested in stocks and bonds at Lowell, Mass, il
rated on the tax list at $75, 900.
Mr.. Jonathan Brown, cashier of the Market
National bank, of Boston, is about to retire
after service of forty-f7e years.
General Joseph r. Davis, nephew of Jeffer-
son Davis, was married in Mississippi City the
other day to Miss Margaret Green.
The last descendant of John Bunyan died
lately in England. She was an ancient dame of
.84, and her name was Ann Webster.
b. young man at Wandsworth, England, re-
Gently accidentally shot and killed his mother,
while showing her a loaded revolver.
/, The only member of the present Senate who
has not taken his seat is Wade Hampton, of
South Carolina and he will be there next week.
An English missionary named Penrose is sur-
posed to have been murdered, with his entire
| party, by the natives in the region of Victoria
| .Nyanza.
Guilford, VT, man recently refused to tap
some maple trees in cemetery, because he
thought the SAP might taste too strong of
/ Spirits
| General Shields probably will be appointed
| by the Missouri legislature to prosecute the
claims of that State against the general gov
eminent.
| The electric light has been found valuable
accessory for surgical operations in >dull
weather and after dark, but it is also an ex-
pensive one.
A young woman at Williams Ia, in return
ing her beau's ring sent it to him through the
mail with tag tied to it, saying on its reverse
II hate to, but mustr'
The latest sensation in Paris is Cora. "the
lions BRIDE" She claims to be an American
and lives in den with hyenas, bears, lions
and other ferocious beasts.
i Young Wing, the Chinese secretary of lega-
tion at Washington, has given to the Chinese
library 400 Chinese books, in addition to
like gift some two years ago.
II William Broadhead who died recently at
Sheffield, obtained an unsavory notoriety some
years ago as the instigator of trades union out
RACES of the most hagrant kind.
Berlin dispatch says: Surgeons have sue
ceeded in painlessly extracting grain Of pow
der which remained in Emperor Williams head
since Noblings attempt on his life.
Two clerks of the London and Westminster
bank, the most important of the joint stock
banks of London, have been held for trial for
/
Kissing by telegraph, says the New Haven
Regitse7, is new way Of sparkling. 1t is per-
fectly harmless, paroxysmally innocent and
free from any danger of diphtherial contagion.
J, There is said to be much dissatisfaction
: among the cardinals resident at Rome on ac-
count of the number of foreign cardinals pro-
posed to be made at the consistory on the Goth
r of May.
The ex-Empress Carlotta is hereafter to live at
the chateau of Bonchout, which dates from the
twelfth century. It was once occupied by Ey-
erard de Ia Mark, brother of the Wild Boar of
' Ardennes.
Virginia has six of her Sons in the present
8 United States Senate, and ought to be satisfied
especially as every one of them is Democrat
. and an ex-rebel, submissively complacent
:, under rebel rule.
The area of the New England States is about
q the came that of England and Wales, but
the population Of the last named is %, 900, ,0O0
q or between six and seven times the population
9 of New England.
When Jefferson Davis was in the United
States Senate he gave the publisher of the Con
, gressional Globe great deal of trouble, more
It than any other Congressman except his col
league, Senator Foote.
" The Rochester Erpress speaks of the butcher
le bird, cruel member of the feathered family
d 1t pulls the heads off birds and sticks them c,
Ia thorns, just as men used to put the heads O
criminals over city gates.
Archbishop Purcell is in very bad health. o
late he has been subject to fainting spells. on
"a of which attacked him on Monday, and, b
some, serious results are feared. His advance
700 years make the financial troubles harder t
bear.
he There are in Spain S,12O artists connectc
he with the stage. OF these 200 sing in zurzu1l
of or light pieces, interspersed with music, an
~ 300 in OPERA 400 are actresses, $50 actors, 25
of female and 100 male dancers, and 23O chori.
10 ters, male and female.
IN There sre well-authenticated instances O
on somnambulists expressing themselves CO
he ractly in languages with which they are i'm
eI- perfectly acquainted. Somnamubalism is on
er Ier of those inexplicable phenomena which hav
of puzzled the wisest heads.
ng Gen. Beauregard laughs at the story that b
~ offered George D. Prentice $500000 or an