Daily globe., 1879-06-03
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They are painting Cleopatra's needle in Lon
lon with stuff said to be indestructible.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron is personally su-
Lancaster county tobacco farm.
Ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, has gone
INTO the grocery buriness at Elmira, New York.
Anew cotton mill, to run so 900 spindles and
employ 1850 operatives, is to be built At Con-
cord, N. Il.
The salmon canning business on the Colum-
bia river has increased from 20, 700 cans in 1869
to 449, 400 in 1873.
Twelve thousand collars is the largest sum
ever found in single letter in tho dead letter
Office at Washington.
Mississippi planter will be one of thou
sand to give $50 year to send Southern ne
groes to Massachusetts.
Sir Edward Thornton and his wife celebrat.
cd their Queens birthday by an excursion
party to Mount Vernon.
Miss Kellogg contemplates, it is said, win
ter concert tour on the continent under the di-
rection of Mr.. Strakosch.
One hundred and fifty cotton operatives
have left Stockport, England, to work in the
cotton mills at Dundae, Ont.
The forage for the cavalry horses in Zululand
is sent from England, as colonial food doesn't
at first suit the English horses.
John Lanham, who shot and killed Georgia
Drake an actress in the San Antonio theatre,
has been sentenced to be hung.
The discovery of gold and silver mine on
Edwin A. Perley's farm at Lebanon, N. H.,
causes considerable excitement.
Silver Springs, Fla, il one hundred feet
Deep covers an acre, and sends stream sixty
to 100 feet wide eight miles to the Ocklawaha
river.
The last accusation against the nihilists in
Russia is that they have taken to the issue of
counterfeit bills of the bank and to the coin
age of false mouey.
Mr.. F. d. Millet's Royal academy picture of
q lovely woman asleep in garden hammock
has bit of actual romance about it; it is a
portrait of his young bride.
An advertisement for Eve hundred cats ap-
pearcd in Jacksonville (Fla) paper. They
| were needed to feed the largest alligator that
had been caught since 1860.
George Bancroft will soon leave Washington
for Newport, where he will be citizen. having
in years past been a citizen of Massachusetts,,
of New York, and of the District of Columbia.
Legal proceedings have been commenced by
the nephews of Plus TX. against the executors
of their uncle, Cardinals Sacconi, Mertel, and
Manoca La valetta, to have the will declared
invalid.
Gen. r. B. Marcy habitually visits the Rocky
mountains every summer. He is now inspect
ing the only military prison in the country.
that at Leavenworth. where 400 prisoners are
confined.
Alshough Canada has no quinine-producing
industry the foolish trainers of the new tariff
there have put duty of 20 per cent ad valo-s
rem on the drug. the same as that which our
wn tariff fixes.
Mr.. Sullivan, of "Pinafore" fame, now init
mates in private letter, it is said, that he will
be kept busy in London until winter, and so
must forego his contemplated trip to this
country this fall.
"Perley" writes from Washington that many
friends there of General Grant are doing their
best to discourage the proposed excursion to
San francisco, boing confident that such a
demonstration will be distasteful to him.
MIR. Charles Edward Stowe, the only son of
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Monday afternoon to Miss Susan M. Monroe, of
Cambridge, Mass. Many literary people were
guests at the wedding, which was a very pretty
one.
number of prominent merchants and
planters in Louisiana have organized tho
Mississippi Valley immigration company"
which is designed to be an agency to promote
immigration from Europe and from the North
ern States, and to supply white labor to the
/. planters.
At the Ottawa Ladies' College recently,
Mrs. Mackenzie, an elderly lady, asked to be
. presented to Her Royal Highness the Princess
9 Louise. The request was granted, and in the
i course of brief conversation Mrs. Mackenzie
e stated that the Princess grandmother, the
Duchess of Kent, had taught her the alphabet.
The city of Berlin does not mean to submit
without a protest OF an effort to the protective
8 legislation of Bismarck. It called meeting
. for the 18th of May of representatives of all
the cities of the empire, to unite in declsra-
3 ton against the prop sed tariff. Augsburg
8 was the only city that declined the invitation.
The earliest record of the settlement at Scitu-
ate, Mass, is decd Of land in 1928 by Henry
J. Merritt to Nathanial Tilden. They were called
"Men of Kent" and came together from the
parish of Tenterden, in that English county
Ex-Governor Tilden and Collector Merritt arr
: lineal descendants of these men in the eighth
- generation.
er About year ago Marion Hovey, trustee fol
g her father, George o. Hovey, proposed to give
A SIC, 600 to the Harvard Medical school, IF it,
D. advantages could be offered to women on cqua
terms with men, The officers recently voted
that it is inexpedient to recommend to th'
& president and the fellows of the university tha
ID the proposal be accepted.
lp Tee decoration conferred ly the sultan upol
J; Baroness Burdett-C Coutis, in recognition of he
es efforts to relieve the sick and wounded is tha
:. OF the grand Gordon of the 'Chafakat," o
Turkish Order of Mercy, female order o
kn,ghthood. Lady Layard is the only othe
Englishwoman who has received this handsom
e tribute of Turkish gratitude.
yourg man hung around the home of
~ damsel in Wheeler, Gratiot county, Mich, fo
about six months, giving all hands TO under
stand he meant to marry the girl. He went o.
and found new love, and was thereupon COZ
"a fronted with bill for six months board, wit
q. the choice of paying it or being sued for breac