Daily globe., 1879-01-04
GLOBELETS.

cOrdWOOd.
Train-wreckers continue their nefarious work
in Connecticut.
Millionaire Fair reached San Francisco by way
of Panama Monday.
Wade Hampton received eleven wounds dur
ing theewar, one of them saber-thrust
Whehd Chicago paper recently spoke Of 'the
black halcyon of human ferocity,'' it meant
call is out for an Interstate convention of
growers of the Northwest in st.
Louis, Jan. g.
A negro man has been appointed on the Bos-
ton police force. He is to act as messenger for
the commissioners.
Colonel John D. Washburn' s illness is said to
be directly attributable to certain unjust cen
sure of the newspapers.
The Philadelphiaus have used during the
year 1887, ,077,569 gallons Of fresh water
mestly In washing pavements.
General Grants tittle-tattle corps hint that
he will hunt in the West next summer, after
visiting California and Oregon.
Mrs. Conners, the Fall River Mass, woman
who was bitten three weeks ago by mad cat,
has just died from hydrophobia
Forty young ladies lost their wardrobes in
the lire that destroyed Millersburg Female col
lege, at Paris, KY, on Saturday.
Nathan Ives, one of the crew of the Kear-
sarge when she sunk the rebel pirate Alabama.
died recently at Norwalk, Conn.
A negro lunatic in the Danyille (va.) jail
claims to be George Washington, to be 1000
years old, and to be worth So, 100000.
Minister Jehu Baker will return to Illinois
from Venezuela in February. Mrs. Bakers i'll
health makes this Northern trip necessary.
Judge Alphonso Taft celebrated the twenty
fifth anniversary of his second marriage. at
his home IN Cincinnati, on Tuesday evening
last.
Under the general law of Missouri, Jurors
must be able to read. In St. Louis this dis
qualified over 80 per cent. of the colored resi-
dents.
Ex-Governor Hendricks has not yet left In
dlanapolis for Washington. Hespends most of
his time in the court rooms now-a-days looking
up lucre.
GeneE2fpherman says that he has seen all
the royal ladies at the European courts, but
never one who could discharge her social duties
as gracefully as Mrs. Hayes.
Scientific Boston now sings it's hy,nns at
prayer meetings, not out of hymn books, but
from hymn screens, whereupon they are pro-
Jected by means of stereopticon.
Luclus b. Eager was Cleveland, Ohio, law
yer Ibis Eager thought to make money by
starting liquor saloon, and though he didn't
go near the saloon he has been disbarred
One OF those astonishing New York CORE
spondents OF country. papers has discovered and
announces that New Workers, as rule are sim
pie eaters, but the carriage and the theatre
lay up the salvage
The Little Rock Gazette saws that one rail-
way has spent over sl50,OOo within the past
three years to promote immigration into
Arkansas, and that it is just beginning to reap
the fruit of its labors.
The Archduke Rudolf crown prince of Aus
trla, accidentally shot himself few days ago
IN the left hand with saloon pistol The
charge passed through the Heshy part between
the thumb and first finger.
When Reuben Springer, a wealthy resident
OF Cincinnati, heard of the financial shoals
into which Ill winds had blown the honored
prelate OF the Catholic church in Cincinnati.
he proffered the Archbishop q check for $40
OUO.
Certain members of the Logan Society of
W1ilams College, Mass, are developing strong
affinity for fire and birthstone as this uues
tlon recently proposed shows: Resolved, that
The devil IS black man, with barb on his
tail painted red'
little girl in Groton, N. Y, put lot of
popcorn, which she had carried in her pocket,
IN some milk and ate a portion of it. She be-
came violently i'll soon after, and examination
showed small cake of paint among the corn
in the bottom of the bowl
writer in the Boston TranscyjDt comnares
Gen. Butler to Lord Beaconsfeld. s.Butler
would be snob in England says the writer.
just as Beaconsfeld would become demogooue
Ill America, Tor demogogism is the democratic
substitute for snobbishness.
robert Downing, wood chopper living near
Dallas, Texas, got Christmas present of SILL
43O. His grandfather, New York merchant.
had "llled that sum to Downing, and the attor-
ney happened to forward the money SO that it
reached Dallas on Christmas day.
ME- A. Il. Peatce, colored man, is a candi
date for the clerkship in Washington county,
Miss, vacancy having been caused by the
death of Albert Shadd, also a negro. He an
hounces himself as 'heartily in accord with
the Democratic party of the State and
county,
Owing to the total lack of boating interest
at Williams College, Mass, it is suggested that
the boats be sold, and the boat house be torn
down. The money appropriated by CYRUS ".
Field, Tor the improvement of the course. is
nelng expended on the village street, and the
$50 PAID Tor annual repairs on the lot where
the boat house is, is money thrown away.
The citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia are
termed Heligonians; why, no one seems +o
know. just at present the Heligonians are in
fierce wrath because correspondent of Tho
lohoon 1ames has said that the Halifax people
are chleny Africans and Micmacks; thai the
ladles are all splay footed, and that at fashion,
aole DINNERS the chief dish is pork and beans.
Attention is being directed to Prof. Sotheer,s
accounts OF the amount OF gold recently omar
rled and washed in Russia. According tn tb;s
German schoiar the average value of the gold
Louho 1n that country has risen to S23 25C OOo
year. lh1s being about half the sum re.
lulreo Tor payment of interest abroad, it must
III oine improve the financial position of the
country. Prof. Sotbeer is Justly regarded .,
, one Oh the most trustworthy authorities on
finance.
concession for Illuminating Teheran bv gas
las oeen given to a Frenchman, III, Fabins
.oi'a'' VINO mas lately gone into print in de-
tense OF the shah. Among other things he
'peaks OF the patriarchal life the shah leads
With his mother and his wives AsM ps;.e,