Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-07
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETs.
Last year 81 ,592 Ohioans were married, and
1917 divorces were granted
Gen. Joseph r. Hawley is to deliver the adj
iress on Memorial Day at Frederick, Md.
An Iowa farmer, who lost his suit at court,
shot and mortally wounded the opposing law
yer.
There are &c, 961 children of school age in
Baltimore, and of this number 46,77S attend
school.
A st. Louis man drank pint and q half of
merry whisky bet, and died in conse-
quence.
The Texas legislature has passed law Civ
ing six hundred and forty acres to every vete-
ran pensioner.
The convicts of the New York State prison at
Auburn are refusing to work because thew do
not get enough to eat.
Boston family, consisting of father,
mother, and three children, are undergoing
treatment for cataract.
Allen G.. Thurman and Herschel v. johnson
is the ticket for 1880 which a Democratic paper
in Savannah, Ga, runs up.
Among the recent arrivals at the dead-letter
office are four Florida oranges, piece of we'd
ding cake and Bologna sausage.
A woman's suffrage convention is to be held
in Milford, Mass, on Tuesday and Wednesday
next Lucy Stone is to be present.
The hard times in England are reflected in
the register generals returns. In 1873 there
were 2O5, 6l5 marriages, in 1878 1879, 657.
Gen. Caleb Cushing's estate, which was
roughly estimated at three-quarters of mill
lion at his death, will not exceed 500, 900 in
value.
Gen. Sherman and his wife have decided to
reside in Washington and have leased house
on Fifteenth street lately occupied by Admiral
| Almy.
Grenada, Miss, is reported to be in a much
| better condition regards the appearance of
| the town and its prosperity, than it has been
for twenty years.
The Bangor, Maine Wing reports fight be-
| tween robin and two rats on lawn in that
city, and that the robin drove the rats back to
their hole.
than girls born in Ohio last year would in
dictate that they intend to keep up the supply
of Office holders.
mad dog in Chesterfield county, South Car
olina, recently bit Mr.. Tucker, who in turn bit
two of his children, and the lives of all three
| are despaired Of
Andy Tracy, recently sentenced to be hanged
at Southport, Pa, when the judge said: "And
may God have mercy on you," replied, II hope
so for I've had none here''
A wealthy Boston woman has started two
kitchen gardens in the city. where young girls
are to be taught Homework by means of NINA
ture furniture and utensils.
There are now only ten men under sentence
of death in Texas for murder, and it is pre-.
dicted that the plant State court of appeals
will rescue at least one-hslf of them.
Fall River spinners threaten to strike if
their wages are not advanced Is per cent The
mills say they cannot afford an increase, and a
general shut down would probably result from
. a strike.
The fossil remains of some huge animal hav
been discovered in a sand-hill on Plum island,
, near Newburyport, Mass, the skull being be-
tween two and three feet wide, while the other
bones are enormous.
, The ''act to render lawful marriage with a
deceased wifes sister, has been brought for
, ward once more in. the British parliment It
will probably be passed by the commons and
rejected by the lords, usual.
A Delaware woman, hard worker all her
8 life, being about to die last week. called her
l husband and children about her and told them
: where she had buried $4,000 of her earnings
= in the cellar They dug it up before the fu-
neral.
The Norwich Conn. Bulletin tells of dog
|. in that city which, when fire caught in the
+ stable in which he is kept, recently, rushed
8 into the stall, drew the burning blanket from
the horse and carried it into the street. burning
t himself quite severely.
Miss Mary Hall, sister of the late Ezra
q . Hall, has been appointed, by Judge Beardsley
~ a commissioner of the superior court of Con-
! necticut The New Haven Journal says that
% this is the first appointment of q woman to an
;a Office of this kind in the State.
The widow of General Alex.
rs der W. Randall still thrives raiser of cattle
= upon her lands in Nebraska. For several years
l. it is said her sales of stock have reached OO(
10 year, and the herd is large again as it wa.
Or when she assumed the management.
. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle Democratic,
~ spitefully says: ''Gov. Colquitt delivered tn
~ memorial address in Columbus last Saturday
or He will also take in the Spring fairs of South
as west Georgia. The Governor doesn't propos
s. to get left at the nominating convention if b
;h can avoid it."
" The latest old thing which every Fashionable
- London lady thinks she must have, if she is t.
=. remain body at all, is old watch. It i
not for the hands, or face, or works that thes,
= are priced, but for the case. These are take,
n off their hinges and converted into shoppers TO
~ the glass bottles on the dressing-table
he Mr.. Wendell Phillips says that Ralph Valid
OF Emerson's head is very difficult one to rende
1t in marble, but that Milmore's bust of him
lls serene full of force, with 'just that suspicio
W, " of a smile which always fingers round Eme,
- sons mouth and softens the vigorous whole Q
to a head fit to hold that marvellous genius. +"
to Chicago sent the yellow fever sufferers i,
b. New Orleans 800, 900 last summer. A day o
n two ago the New Orleans Times sneeringly sal
M that ''the generous people of Chicago sui
zee scribed the munifcent sum of $3.50 towar
ie relieving the starving negroes at Wyandott'
Western papers are printing telegram fro,
Des Moines, Iowa, to the effect that Gov. Gea
If will appoint ex- Congressman James Wilson
the vacanay caused by the death of Congress
man Rush Clark. OF course, Gov. Gear new,
700 thought to do such an absurd thing. The e.