Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-05-28
GLOBELETs.

Marshal MacMahon, late President of the
French Republic, is about to visit Ireland.
Mr.. Albert Weber, the celebrated piano man
ufaoturer, is said to be dying with atumor.
Bijou Heron probably will return to this
country, with her father, in September, and
enter convent.
Ex-Gov Marshall Jewell of Connecticut has
called for Europe on business. He will be
gone several months.
Senator Don Cameron's Washington resi-
dence is said to be the best-arranged house, for
entertaining in the city. ~ =
District Attorney Mayer aud Gen L.. P.
Walker threw ipkstands and paper weights at
eachiother in court at Huntsville, Ala.
The Russian minister Shiskin and his wife
reside in New York, there being no Greek
church anywhere else on the Atlantic coast.
Judge Kelley, it is stated, will soon sail for
Europe, accompanied by his daughter, and
will probably be absent until October or No
yember.s aiteiUaed i3ffs fssadlr 'aa
During the year 1873 forty eight railroads
were sold under foreclosure, representing $751;
f6l67OO OF capital stock, and $l60,014,5OO of
bonds and debts. e.y ,ss!tTs3 Ga f.fsgfs5.i;Ea
I'd Rev. Moses D. Hoge, Of Richmond, has been
appointed delegate TO the Evangelical Alli- g
ance, which meets in Basic, Switzerland, on
the 3lstof August.
Vice President Wheeler is said. to 'sssuffer
from extreme nervousness, which disturbs his
srleep.." Wasn't that what allied Macbeth after
he had stolen the crown?,es7 is
The widow of Daniel p Stone, of Maiden,
Massachusetts,, has donated $25, 600 towards the
erection of a new building for the Young Mems
Christian Association in Boston. fi2
g Among the speskers at the next Yale COM
mencement will be, Chan Lung. a Chinese
member of the class of 1878, who will deliver
an Grafton on The Chinese in America
Fail River, Mass, is said to have received
number of emigrants from the English cotton
| manufacturing districts Of late, and the same
is reported of other New England States. -
The Irish skirmishing fund now amounts to
of late. The irish World acknowledges the
receipt Of only s21 during the past week.
George Washington Childs. A. NJ. is skill
| full pianist, and he and Tony Drexel play duets
together by the hour. At such times many
| heart rending elegiac stanza is doubtless
composed. ID
b Mr.. Henry, the inventor of the barrel and the
ammunition of the famous Martini Henry rife
is, after the lapse of ten years, vainly seeking
for the adequate remuneration from the British
| war office. aa5tih 20
Sir Edward Thornton and family will pass
the summer at Laurel HILL picturesque es-
tate on the banks of the Merrimack, just
above Newburyport, which they have occupied
in years past.
Is Edward Richardson. of jackson, Miss,
probably is the wealthlest man in the South.
He is reputed to be worth from three to Eve
millions of dollars. He owns nineteen planta-
tions and markets about forty-fye million
pounds Of cotton every year.
A San Francisco clothing dealer is said to
have, in good faith, offered Lawrence Barrett
500 night when playing Hamlet in that city
2 if he would, after uttering the words, ''cus-
tomary suits. Of solemn black add, 9Th.
kind they sell at for $24.''
Z Little Alice Mcdonald had the heayi est
: silkiest, yellowest hair in Portland, Oregon.
One day she was missing. A searching party
soon found her in the woods near the city, but
all her hair was gone. Two men had carried
her there and cut off her valuable locks.
The United States, says the Catholic Times
with their Catholic population estimated al
I from 100000 to 100000, have not more thar
thirty-ive Catholic publications worthy of th.
name, and the proportion of Catholics VIII,
subscribe for papers does not number one il
seventy.
, On the night after joining fire company in
Kansas City, MIR. Jameson was partly awakened
by an alarm. Still half asleep, but impressed
: with desire to get to the engine quickly, HI
leaped out of second-story window in his nigh
( clothes. He went to a hospital instead of 60
ing to the fire.
1t is stated that there will yet be trouble owe
; the death of ex-Congressman Beverly B. Doug
lass. The Washington correspondent of tn
Alexandria WAY Gazette says that detective
, were employed to investigate the cause of hi
death, and that they have made their. report
which is now before the grand jury.
The Thomas Paine Memorial hall in Bosto
|; was built by means of contributions. Jane
!. Lick, the California millionaire, gave $4,000
. and the whole amount raised was about $50,
600. The four trustees now quarrelin
! among themselves, and serious accusations o
mlsappropriating tho fund are made.
Miss Emma Vaders member of the Jan
:, Coombs company, who plays the part of til
;. 'Scotch Lassie," stepped into the elevator hol
: while passing in haste to the stage of the Loui
. vile Opera House on Tuesday night. She fe
= fifteen feet, striking the floor and breaking he
II 1an Thaa A.
The volumes of Napoleon autographs, por
= traits, ETC., which were sold in London a fev
) months ago for $2,257.50, have come it is sal
: into the possession of the Empress Eugunie
y who intends them for surprise present t.
. the Prince Imperial when he comes home frol
J the war in South Africa. The collection is b,
s ieved to be unrivaled. saus
Il Two bellies Of Toddtown, Iowa, went to
;. ball with a joint beau; but he was not impal
: tial in his attentions, and the fair ones wen
] out to fight. During the hair pulling whic
! ensued, says witness, "the contestants &c
= up against barbed wire fence which appeare
h to be hungry for calico. Their clothing woul
It now make good variegated pattern for a "a
I, carpet s-
Some effort is being made to clean New o.
: leans in order to prevent q return. of yello
= fever, but not great deal has thus far bee
!: accomplished. The city has no undergroun
: drainage, the sewers being used for carrying o
= the sewage, which is imperfectly pumped Owe
;. the levee into the river. A recurrence of tt
plague next summer is predicted by many ,
II the physicians.
n The money annually spent in maintainin
\ EE,r#.
q the Protestant churches of Boston is 81, 500
600, as calculated by the Boston Herald, lea