Daily globe., 1879-06-03

An advertisement for Eve hundred cats ap-
peared in Jacksonville (Fla.) paper. They
were needed to feed the largest alligator that
had been caught since 1860.
George Bancroft will soon leave Washington
for Newport, where he will be a citizen, having
in years past been citizen of Massachusetts,,
Legal proceedings have been commenced by
the nephews of Plus TX. against the executors
of their uncle, Cardinals sacconi Mertel and
Manoca La Valetta, to have the will declared
invalid.
Gen. r. B. Marcy habitually visits the Rocky
mountains every summer. He is now inspect
ing the only military PRISON in the country,
that at Leavcnworth, where 400 prisoners are
confined.
Alshough Canada has no quinine-producin
industry the foolish trainers of the new tariff
there have put duty of 20 per cent ad vale
rem on the drug, the same as that which our
wn tariff fixes.
Mr., Sullivan, of "Pinafore'' fame, now init
mates in private letter, it is said that be will
be kept busy in London until winter, and 80
must forego his contemplated trip to this
country this fall.
ssPerley" writes from Washington that many
friends there of General Grant are doing their
best to discourage the proposed excursion to
San francisco, being confident that such
demonstration will be distasteful to him.
Mr.. Charles Edward Stowe, the only son of
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, was married on
Monday afternoon to Miss Susan NJ. Monroe, of
Cambridge, Mass. Many literary people were
guests at the wedding, which was very pretty
one
number of prominent merchants and
planters in Louisiana have organized the
mississippi Valley Immigration company
which is designed to be an agency to promote
| immigration from Europe and from the North
ern States, and to supply white labor to the
planters.
At the Ottawa Ladies' College, recently.
| Mrs. Mackenzie, an elderly lady, asked to be
presented to Her Royal Highness the Princess
Louise The request was granted, and in the
course of a brief conversation Mrs. Mackenzie
stated that the Princess grandmother, the
Duchess of Kent, had taught her the alphabet.
| The city of Berlin does not mean to submit
| without protest or an effort to the protective
| legislation of Bismarck. It called meeting
for the 18th of May of representatives of all
the cities of the empire to unite in declara-
ton against the proposed tariff. Augsburg
was the only city that declined the invitation.
l The earliest record of the settlement at Scitu-
ate, Mass, is decd of land in 1928 by Henry
Merritt to Nathanial Tilden. They were called
"Men of KENT and came together from the
L ~ hot En-
i Ex-Governor Tilden and Collector Merritt are
lineal descendents of these men in the eighth
i generation.
l About year ago Marion Hovey, trustee for
her father, George o. Hovey, proposed to give
$40, 600 to the Harvard Medical school, eff its
advantages could be offered to women on equal
terms with men, The officers recently voted
that it is inexpedient to recommend to the
president and the fellows of the university that
the proposal be accepted.
The decoration conferred by the sultan upon
Baroness Burdett- Coutta, in recognition of her
efforts to relieve the sick and wounded, is that
of the grand Gordon of the sChafakat," OF
Turkish Order of Mercy, a female order OF
knighthood. Lady Layard is the only other
4 Englishwoman who has received this handsome
tribute of Turkish gratitude.
A yourg man hung around the home of g
damsel in Wheeler, Gratiot county, Mich, fol
about six months, giving all hands to under
stand he meant to marry the girl. He vent of
and found new love, and was thereupon con
fronted with bill for six months board, will
the choice of paying it or being sued for breacl
of promise. He paid the bill.
Colonel Charles W. Pickering, of Greenland
N. a., has in his possession fine oil paintin
, of Professor Morse, the discoverer of the art o
telegraphing. This valuable work is by Pro
fessor Morse himself, who at the time it wa
painted, was pupil in London of the cele
, brated artist, Benjamin West. Colonel Picker
ing is a nephew of Professor Morse.
, A lady in Madrid, No., who had On her per
son valuable gold watch, was in house las
summer when it was struck by lightning. TIL
watch stopped at the time, and, although jewel
ers have repeatedly examined it and pro
9 nounced it perfect in every particular, it can
7 not be made to move. It is so charged wit
Q electricity that watchmakers say no part of j
= could ever be made to do duty if taken on
and put into another set of works,
The st. Petersburg Gazette points ont th
curious fact that during the last fifty years al
the vacant thrones have been given to Germa
: princes. In 1881 prince of saxe-Cobnrg wa
elected king Of the Belgians. Afew years late
the Greeks-aegern petentes-chose Prince 9th
of Bavaria for the throne of Greece. Primo
: George of Landerburg- Glucksburg succeede
! the Bavarian prince. A member of the Hohe1
3 zollern family now reigns in Roumania. Ant
). finally, the Hessian prince of Battenberg
called to preside over the destinies of Bhlgari