Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-03
GLOBELETS,

GLOBELETs.
Dennis Kearney has announced that he will
not leave Oalifornia this year
80 FAR this year 1853 miles of new railroad
have been built in this country.
The Russian Grand Duke Nicholas has been
for some time at Paris unrecogni xed.
All OF Trenton's rubber mills, with earnings
OF Sl,OO,OOO year, are now running.
Reaconsfeld has become regular old woman
and spends his time mendinc Afghans.
It is said that Colonel Mosby has made up
bus mind to resign the Hong Kong consulate.
'There never was such demand for nine
raj surveyors as now says the Colorado
Miner.
There was Benner. bale of cotton last year;
now the South is rallying round "a good bail
of Sheeting''
Field Marshall Baron Won Manteuffel In. ar
rived at strasburg to assume the governorship
of Alsace-Lorraine.i
The exports of -four from the four principal
Atlantic ports for the year have been .247, ass
barrels more than last year.
Nashville, Tenn, Wholesale merchants sssert
shat more business has been and 10 being done
there than for ten years past.
The man who saw Grants vessel frat and
was first to propose three cheers has already
hled his claim for a postofice
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff and Miss Tennie O.,
Clanln are, 1t is reported, about to marry in
London, each scion of nobility.
Ten million paper bags were made by a fac
tory in Ballston Spa, N. Y, in ono month
recently, and yet the demand exceeds the sup-
ply.
Mr.. Robert &. Blaine, brother of senator
Blaine was on Saturday removed from his DO
sltlon as messenger in the Senate document
room. sr.
There is report in San Francisco that
Ulysses s. Grant, Jr., is affisnced to q DAUGHTER
OF Colonel James @. Flood, the bonanza mill
lionaire.
All the axes and bucksaws found in the ruins
OF Pompeii are of light make, as if constructed
Tor women's use. Those old ancients knew
their little business.
The largest cargo of rosin ever exported from
this country has just been shipped from Saw
.VN
and comprised $3.50 barrels.
man in Yonkers aimed gun at his little
| son "a beautiful creature with golden hair to
his waist) and playfully threatened to shoot
him. The gun turned out to be unlcaded.
Madame Malliuger, the distinguished Ger
man prima donna, is married to noblemau
with very long name-Baron Schimmelpfen-
mig He is said to be ''as poor as a church
mousse
senator Edmunds while abroad at tho
springs where he is repairing his digestion
tries to speak the foreign languages which he
has studied here. With French he sucseed,
wonderfully we'll.
John Bright is kindly soul. He lately
went with two of his children to visit the
Rochdale workhouse, taking in his carriage lis
interesting books, which he presented for the
use of the inmates.
Ihe Improvement in business is illustrating
the adaptability of the national banking sys-
tenn to the needs of the commercial commit
nifty. Thus far this month the circulation baa
increased over So, SOC, 900.
Several of the factories at Meriden, Conn,
are unusually busy for this time of the wear,
The Merlden flint glass works are not able to
fill their orders and will not shut down this
year at the usual time on that account.
1t is estimated that the amount of new rail.
road track which has been laid in the Western
States alone since the first of January has been
more than thousand miles, and the aggregate
for the remainder Of the year will be far great.
er. ~
Atthe formal opening of the Dominion exhi-
bition at Ottawa, Wednesday, by his excellency
the governal general and the Princess Louise;
the governors of Maine, Ohio and Vermont.
with their respective stats, were among those
present.
A farmer attempted to cut into premium
pumpkin at q fair at Council Grove, Kansas,
to get few of the seeds, but found it made of
wood. 1t had taken many prizes at fairs for
its weight, $50 pounds, and its circumference
feet.
On starting for the seashore from Lancaster
Pa, man was asked by friend to send back
some fish. In few days box weighing 400
pounds came by express, with charges amount
ing to 1926, and containing shark nearly
nine feet long.
The deposits in the postal savings banks of
Great Britain from their establishment, about
fifteen years ago, to the present date, foot up
over 1856, O0O, 600. The sums drawn ou
amount to over $403, 0OO, 600, leaving balanc.
on hand OF $3.50, 100000.
Gen. Grant is not the t1rst American hero to
whom the San Francisco people have given .
rous'ng reception. When Gen. Winfield Scott
stopped there on his way to San Juan island,
twenty years ago. he was received with the ut
most enthusiasm of parade and other pomp.
Mr.. Arthur Sullivan, it is said, intends to
appear first in concert in this country, desiring
to give four orchestral performances of his own
music in Boston soon after his arrival. He SAYS
that he has thought of making the journey for
the past three years, and had on one occasion
engaged passage.
Marwood the English executioner, writes to
deprecate criticisms on bungling executions, 80
far a. he is concerned. Somebody recently
forwarded me, he says, "a handsome piece of
china with my name and the town reside in
inscribed in gold letters thereon in approval of
my skill and humanity"
Mrs. Sprague has gone back to Providence,
B. l.. from Washington, but, although her
children started with her, they are not in Prov
idence. 1t is supposed that before entering
Rhode Island she took them to some place
where she could feel sure they would not be
found by her husband or any of his friends.
4 The island of New Guinea, which has been
frequently visited by French navigators but
never formally annexed to France, has been
chosen for an exclusively Catholic colony. TIE
devout emigrants have chartered , vessel, run