Daily globe., 1879-01-20
GLOBELETS.

for home.
Illinois has more horses than any other State,
the estimate says.
Michigan has three regiments without KNAPP
sacks or haversacks.
Street thieves in Montreal snatch fur caps
from the heads of ladies.
In Boston, fifty years ago. lottery tickets
were sometimes given as school prizes.
Alphonse Demers, survivor of the grand
army of Napoleon, still lives in Montreal.
a bill to make grave robbery felony has
been introduced in the Indiana legislature
Evangelists Pentecost and Stebbins have left
Providence for gospel-gunning in Chicago.
The Great South bay is frozen over, 80 that
persons can walk from Babylon, L. l., to Fire
island.
Prof. Nordenskjolds steamer volga, engaged
in Arctic exploration, is ice-bound on the Sibe-
rian coast.
Caleb Gushing was buried January 6, 1879,
just thirty years after his fathers burial, JAN
uary 6, 1849.
Wade Hampton was well enough to sit for
two hours on the porch of his Columbia man
sion on Friday.
Three receivers of a Connecticut bank have
collected $78,7OS, and out Of it paid them
selves S55, $50.
One of the students at the Chapel Hill IN.
o. college is of the Siamese twins-or
rather one of them.
On an average 686 bodies are annually taken
to the Paris morgue, and some 80 per cent. of
these are recognized by their families.
1t is stated that Joe X. Emmett has been COM
mltted to the inebriate asylum at Bingham
ton, N Y, at the instance of Mrs. Emmet.
It is alleged that Mrs. M. A. Calkins, of
Oshkosh, has in her possession the watch worn
by Major John Andre, at the time of his arrest
as spy.
In his journey toward Tashkend the ameer
is preceded by nine elephants and two thou
sand horses, carrying his women. treasure and
baggage.
The emperor Of Germany is kindly grand
father. He always himself arranges, with tbs
help of his wife, the Christmas gifts on the
family tree.
The death is announced on Christmas Eve.
at the advanced age of eighty. of Mrs. Lucy
Anderson, who was for many years pianist to
her majesty.
Mrs. Scott Siddons recently paid the owner
of the Whitehall N. Y. Opera house 1925 dam
ages for nonfulillment of an engagement
made nearly three years ago.
The Reformed Episcopalians have purchased
Protestant Episcopal church building at st.
Helena, S. Ca large building, but in vii
lage which was almost entirely broken up
during the war.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, is described
as having square, honest-looking face, with
coal black hair ''banged on his forehead and
braided behind. He wears garments displaying
all the colors of the rainbow.
Henry Ecks and Sigmund Friedman. two
German socialists who were obliged to leave
Berlin just after the attempted assassination
of the Emperor William have located in Bal
tlmore. Ecks has gone to making cigars.
When is 21 years old? This seems
exceedingly simple question, yet it took a
judge in Philadelphia time to decide it,
At last the opinion was given that in point Of
law man is II the day before the 2Ist birth
day.
MISS Epperson, a young lady who was shot
IN the knee in a ''family fight,'' in Hancock
county, Tenn, has just died. Her father and
mother were killed in the melee in question,
and her sister and two brothers were seriously
| wounded.
Bishop Chatard is annoyed by the rumor
| That he probably will succeed Archbishop Pur-
cell, OF Cincinnati. He tells the Indianapolis
Evening Ne,cs that in all likelihood Archbishop
Purcells tenure of Office will expire only with
| his life.
| The militrry laws of the Kingdom of Prussia
do not exempt the clergy from taking up arms
and from joining the military ranks. Recently
married pastor was compelled to take uni.
| form and join company of ''Jaegers'' az
private.
Mr. Gladstone has accepted the silver axe
presented by divers admirers, in letter saving
that Its qualities are Of themselves lesson;
for it is strong, solid, of intrinsic value, not
easy to be injured, and not intended to iniure
anything else.''
The Union League of Philadelphia is wrought
up to high pitch of excitement over the
question whether card playing shall be per-
mltted IN the club house. A vote is to be TAX
en- Feb 4, and each member will be REQUIRED
to vote personally.
Gen. Longstreet's salary as postmaster of
Gainesville, Ga, will be 81 ,1OOa YEAR, which
sum, the Petersburg (Va.) Inder-Appeal saws. is
more, allowing for the difference in currency.
than he received as lieutenant general of the
confederate States.
The majority of the judges in the English
court of queens bench, have decided that the
proprietor of a newspaper is not criminallv re-
sponsible for the publication of a libel unless
he Is shown to have had knowledge of the in
tended publication.
Heretofore the blue glass region has heeo
chiefly noted for its horses, but now a sKen-
tucky paper claims that a woman in Graves
county ofathat State has given birth to five
children IN thirteen months. The husband Is
as we'll as could be expected.'
The Charleston fire department consists of
fourteen steamers, five hand engines and three
hook and ladder companies. The companies
last year received from the city $500 for each
steamer, $500 for each hand engine and $500
for each hook and ladder company.
An Onondaga county jury gave woman
$o,O00 damages in a suit for breach of promise
OF marriage. whereas she had sued for only
$4,000. Her counsel came to the rescue. and
informed the court that his client would be
satisfied with the original amount asked. and
the verdict was so recorded
This is an encouraging fact for the pro-
prietors Of cheap journals: The will of the
late Mr. Johnstone, the owner of the Londen
Standard distributes property sworn under
@@'ooo.ooo, besides, 1T is presumed some real
property. He had no other source of income
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than the organ Of the British conservatives.
The Brussels correspondent of the Pail Mall