Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-02
GLOBELETE.

gin again.
Zach. Chandler will summer with Eugene
Hale in Maine.
Long Branch has an unusually large Hebrew
patronage this year.
There are 7S5 miles Of railroad in course Of
construction in Texas.
The Union Springs, Ala, freedmen, are pre-
pairing for general exodus.
Samuel j. Tilden was born in 1914, and
Thomas A. Hendricks in 1919.
Embroidered satin napkins were provided for
the guests at q Newport dinner.
The friends of Gen. Lees daughter deny
that she is engaged to be married.
Youngstown, o., mill laborers who get 81
day have struck for another dime.
The supreme court of North Carolina has
decided that dogs are not property.
Immense lodes of rich copper ole have been
discovered in Ashe county, North Carolina.
Not one Boston insurance company can show
. profit on the business of the first six months
of 1873.
All the jewelry manufacturing establish
ments at Attleboro are now starting up for
fall trade.
Eugene has received 1000 dispatches and
700 letters since tho death of her son was an
nounced.
SO far about 81, 900 has been subscribed for
the proposed steeplechase meeting at Newport
in September.
A man died recently in Liverpool from thu,
effects of bite on the finger inflicted by
drunken woman.
Boston abandons its experiments with gaso-
line lamps, and all those which have been on
trial are to be removed.
Passenger cars wear out in twenty wears.
locomotives in from ten to fifteen years and
freight cars in fifteen years.
considerable emigration movement has be-
gun among the farmers of Lancashire, their
destination being Manitoba.
The Rev. 10 Cook preached by invitation in
San francisco on Sunday evening, and on
Monday sent in bill for 800.
The loss ratio of the New York fire COM
panles Tor the six months ending June 80 was
~ per cent. OF their premium receipts.
Cincinnati is in trouble because its educa-
tional authorities want to force ..the Ob;c,oo
system of drawing upon the schools there.
The Worcester boot-bottomers have finally
decided that their employers must comply with
their demand for an increase of wages or thew
will not work.
Since asphalt has been adopted for the Lon
don streets many Of the Office messengers per-
form their duties very swiftly by means of
roller skates.
A woman committed suicide in New York.
last week. and her husband refused to bury
her, declaring she had disgraced herself and her
family by the act.
A recently enacted law in Galveston pro-
vides that any employer who shall force an
employe to labor on Sunday shall be liable to a
fine of fifty dollars.
In a police court in Virginia, last Tuesday.
the strange sight was witnessed of negro at
torney defending white man who was charged
with assault and battery.
James Gordon Bennett was made an uncle at
Paris in June. he made the little newcomer
present of one hundred United States bonds
worth one thousand dollars each.
The British markets are overcrowded with
American cheese. Should the supply continue
to be in excess of the demand the results will
be very serious to the Scotch dairymen.
Several new railroad enterprises are under
way in Oregon and Washington Territory, which
will greatly help to develop the natural re-
sources of that portion of the Pacific coast.
some of the great economists of England are
thinking seriously of building shed over the
entire kingdom in order to keep off the raw
rains which have of late years destroyed the
crops.
In Germany betrothed persons exchange
rings, and both the man and the girl go about
wearing their betrothal ring. This stamps
them as both out of the market, and prevents
mistakes.
woman was drinking milk from cup in
Paris on the 2Sth of June at 6 clock in the
morning. The lightning knocked the cup from
her hands but left her unhurt. The cup could
not be found.
Miss Minnie Cummings, the recent manager
of the Madison Square theatre, is at the head
OF movement to establish series of excur
sions from New York to Long Branch for poor
women and children
balloon, seven miles above the earth,
struck q cloud SO c,ld that icicles forthwith a,
tached themselves to the boards and NOUS
taches of the aerial voyagers. 1t was on the
10Th of June, over Rouen, France.
Two women Of Gwinnett county, Ga, find
ing nobody else to elope with. ran off with
couple of convicts. They have been heard from
in Gordon county, where an attempt was made
to arrest them, but the men escaped.
Robert Lancaster, Stone county, Arkansas,
murderer, after killing man in Arkansas,
another in Kansas, and shooting himself
through the leg SO badly that it had to be am
putated, is to be hung for his crimes.
The Rev. William A. Smith, the Baptist pas
tor at Hamilton, a suburb of Cincinnati,
preached q sermon on Sunday, in which he held
that the yellow fever epidemic is providential
judgment on Memphis for her sin in repudiat-
ing her debts.
The two young men who were drowned in
the Kalamazoo river near Allegan, Mich, re.
Gently. lost their lives through modesty. They
were bathing, when boat with lady in it was
seen approaching, and they were drowned while
seeking seclusion.
Bull. frogs in Jamaica like fire.flies Cruel
persons who like bullfrogs catch them by toss
ing toward them small red-hot pieces of char
coal. The silly bull-frogs mistake the pieces
for fre-fies, jump at them, eat them, and are
burned to death.
The following advertisement appears in
Dublin paper: Required two honest men, of
the Parnell and Biggar type, to represent the
city of Cork, in the house Of commons. AID.
dress secretary Advance Parliamentary league,
Paradise place, Cork
London bridge is 80 narrow, and the traffic