Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-12
GLOBELETs.

b.
In his personal appearance.
The Rothsohilds have lately paid in England
1885, probate and $4,000 legacy duty.
The London Figaro says that Miss Lillian
Bailey is to marry her teacher, Herr Henschel.
New York burglar, finding things dull, has
killed himself to keep his hand in at the bust
ness.
Ruskin has, after many refusal., many
prayers and many entreaties, consented TO sit
for his bust.
Alexander Dumas has gone to the southof
France to devote his whole tine to his forth
coming work on Divorce"
Prince Leopold. it is said, will shortly be
made duke and, like his grandfather, take his
ducal title from the county of Kent.
Sir Julius Benedict. the musical celebrity.
though 78 years old, was to have been married
last week to a lady thirty years his junior.
The young gentlemen and ladies of the New
York Seventh regiment, have msde about
$1,000 by their three weeks fair; lotteries
included.
NJ. Philippart, The famous Belgian. French
fnancier, made his escape after the recent
crash with less than 81 ,0CO ready money in his
possession.
Jay Gould tells St. Louis reporter that he
has just ended a trip of 1900 miles on rail-
roads controlled by himself. The whole run
was made in eight days. .----
The engagement is announced of Mr. Hamil-
ton Fish, Jr., to Miss Mann, Jr., of Troy 8
sister of Mr.. Francis N. Mann, Jr., who repre-
scented that city last year in the assembly at
Albany.
Bas-reliefs and statues, one of them of colos~
sal size, have been found at Maranthen, near
the site of the temple of Nemesis. The inhah-
itants have forbidden their removal to the
Athens museum.
Mayor Powers, who now begins his second
term in the Office of mayor of Springfield, Mass
is a young man. He began to work his way in
the world as q newsboy on the railway trains
out of Springfield.
On the day that Senator Bayard was first
elected to the United States Senate his father.
James A. Bayard. was reelected to the same
body, the only instance of the kind in the his-
tory Of the country.
The king of saxony has offered prize, open
TO all nations, to consist of silver plate for the
rivers and lakes the refuse from factories and
sewage from towns.
Colonel Albert G. Shaw, United States consul
in Manchester, has been giving lecture on
American humor. in that city, before large
| audience, which was presided over by their
member of parliament.
A knight of the revolver and mask was kill
ho How -
| road on Saturday. Probably be often applied
| rude force to end victims life. His own was
| snatched from him by a locomotive.
Rudolf Falk, the explorer, has written from
San Francisco to German friends to inform
| them that monument in Bolivia, much more
| ancient than the times of the Incas, has given
him clue to the origin and development of
speech and writing.
Gen. Grant has declined reception in New
York. and says that be is to leave for Havana
| on or about the 9th of December. He knows
from experience that q reception in New York
after Philadelphia would be like a cold dinner
| the day after the wedding.
Miss Kate Field, who has Just returned to
Am erica. told a reporter that the things which
| most impressed her at first were the fact tina,
New York should tolerate pavements that are
an insult to man and beast, and ash-barrels
| that are an offense to eye and nostril."
They begin early in England. The MARQUIS
| Of Baths youngest son, Lord Alexander Thynn,
! who is years old, has made his debut in the
hunting field with the Willis hounds, and was
SO well to the fore that he was presented with
the brush, besides being duly FLOODED"
The Leavenworth Times recently obtained
the preferences of fifty newspapers published in
Kansas on the Presidential question. major
ity of the papers were outspoken for Grant for
President and Blaine for Vice President The
Democratic papers harped on Bayard and Sey-
| mour
As Erastus B. Bigelow, Inventor OF the carpet
| loom, stood in the Office of the Arlington mills
Fin Boston, on Saturday, he lifted his hand To
his face and said: Il think am becoming
paralyzed.' Ee became unconscious, and ply
sicians later in the day pronounced it hupc..ss
case of apoplexy. .
Colonel J. B. Keogh, of North Carolina, in q
Herald interview on the Presidency, says:
Grant would be the first choice of the Repub-
licans not alone in our State, but think in all
the Southern States. A good many Democrats
| in North Carolina would support him. They
did so in 1872"
General J. n. Rathboue has declined 10 be
adjutant general under Governor Cornell, bat
that Office has been accepted by General Fred
erick Townsend, who has served in that Ca
pacity under previous Republican Governors.
It is now filed by General Franklin Townsend.
of the same family. .'..s-...
It is given positively as fact in quarters
where facts are solid IS karat that General
Grant would have accepted the management of
the Manhattan Elevated railroad, in New York,
it the directors of the road had been willing.
Rut the directors thought that they couldn't
afford to pay the salary necessary.
The reason why express search has been or
dered to be made in Zululand for the prince
imperial's watch is that, attached to the chain
his highness wore that relic "a fragment of the
true cross) which belonged to Charlemagne.
Came into the hands OF the first Napoleon, and
was always worn by the late emperor, who re-
garded it as species of talisman.
According to an accurate calculation, there
are $50 candidates for the next general cleo
ton in England to contest Cos seats. In thirty
boroughs returning one member there are as
yet no Liberal candidates, and in fifty three
there are no Conservative. In forty-four couu-
ties the Liberals have as yet no candidates, and
in twenty-six the Conservatives none.
The spire of the Russian Admiralty in st.
Petersburg is, hard times notwithstanding, to
be regilt Ct a cost Of $4,000. The Admiralty
occupies vast square facing the News, and
one wing of it is confronted by the Imperia!