Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-01-11
GLOBELETs.

S~AS~SAAAAS
Lick Skillet, Kan, will hereafter be known
by the nicer name of Lake View.
MIR. George Reed, of Hart county, Ga, mar
ried of seven of his children last year.
dambetta predicts republican majority of
twenty-five voters in tho Versailles senate.
Lima went into mourning for eight days for
Don Manuel Pardo, late president of Peru.
Negroes-also white men-carrying concealed
razors at Norfolk, Va, will hereafter be fined
$50
While the English infantry rife is sighted up
to 1900 yards, that of Germany is sighted up to
LOO and of France to 1870.
dry goods clerk of Shelbyville, ILL.,, has
swallowed a ~ cartridge, walks on tiptoe. and
is not in demand at balls as partner
An Indian brought twenty skunks into Web
ster City, Iowa, the other day, but not for sale.
The fine fat skunk is his dainty meat.
1t is inferred from the heroism with which
Spartan women used to encourage their hus-
bands to 60 forth to battle that they looked well
in black.
Returning from Congressman Douglas fu-
neral, the horses drawing the hearse Jumped
from the ferry-boat into the Pamunky and were
drowned
Lord O'Hagan, late lord chancellor of Ire
land. who has inherited through hi. wife the
largest Townley estate in Lancashire, was once
a reporter.
The telegraph operator at Holly, Mich.
stepped out to get bucket of coal the other
night, and while he was gone some one stepped
in and stole his stove.
The proprietor of the Cooper House. Hop
kinsville, KY, bought thirty-fve tickets for
dramatic entertainment the other night and
marched his boarders round in body.
Among the ladies who received at Washing
ton on New Years day were MRS. Second AS
sistant Secretary of State Hunter" and Mrs,
Commissioner of Internal Revenue Raum."
The Rev. DIR. Leonard Baker says that the
time seems to have come for a reconsider
alton of the differences between CONGREGATION
alism and Presbyterianism, with view to
union.
Bob Toombs, of Georgia, is regarded az the
most eloquent and able lawyer in the South.
and never touches a case under a fee Of S5. 900.
He often argues before the Supreme court at
Washington.
Charleston, s. c., has abolished the tax of
SIS day on drummers, having found that the
indirect loss to the community was greater
than the profit accruing from the impost to the
city treasury.
An lllinoisan has invented 'ssafety sand.
valve" to be attached to the legs of ones pan
falcons in ICY weather. BY touching spring
sand is scattered over the slippery places, max
ing locomotion safe.
In the late election in Texas the Democrats
polled 16O,474 for their candidate for COMP
troller, the Green hackers 49,O59, and the Re-
publicans 1928 The gubernatorial vote will
not be counted till the meeting of the Iegisla
ture.
On the 9th inst, the anniversary of the death
of Victor Emanuel, funeral service for the
repose of his soul is to be celebrated in all the
churches of Rome, except the four great BASIL
icas, by express authorization of Pope Leo
XIII.
Mr.. Moffet, the Virginia legislator who in
vented the "Moffet bell punch now used in
the saloons and bars of that State, is dissatis-
fed with the returns it yielded the treasury
last year, and contemplates an additional law
embracing severer penalties.
On the Sd of last month, as two wealthy
young men were sitting in a garden attached
to their house, in the environs of Palermo
four masked brigands climbed over the garden
wall and bore them off for the purpose of ex-
acting a heavy ransom.
Switzerland has been admonished by the
great powers not to allow itself to become p
refuge for communists; and the Berne au-
thorities have replied that they will Danish anv
refugee trying to conspire on Swiss soil against
neighboring countries and sovereigns.
The supreme court of Iowa having decided
that the owner of dog is liable for the bark
ing of his dog if thereby damage is DONE has
also established the rule of property in dog
by giving man S75 whose dog was maliciously
killed by neighbor. the animal being proven
a valuable one.
quarrelsome convict in the penitentiary at
Columbus, O., bullied a peaceful neighbor till
the guard became tired, and, interfering, gave
them ten minutes to fight it out in. ''At the
end of that time Powers the bully looked as
if he had tackled a healthy wildcat, and was
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A Venetian journal publishes the following
as specimen of the many letters sent to it by
internatienalist correspondents: .'For nv
part, swear that, if all the heads of the depu-
ties could fall at one blow, I would be willing
to act as executioner for one day, at the risk of
being confded in hell for billion of years."
John G. Clark left property worth about
three millions when he died. in Texas, thirteen
years ago. He made no will, and was not known
to have relative. The State took possession
of the vast estate, and until this year no
claimants appeared; but now several real
or pretended heirs have commenced legal pro-
ceedings.
The San Francisco Chronicle saws that the
Hoodlum fraternity in that city dates from
1862, and now comprises some 600 mem beers.
composed chiefly of half-grown boys All are
not criminals but the leaders are as rule.
They have regular system of passwords and
signals, and slang dialect which u.s. however.
sparingly used lest the police acquire its terms.
An Ohio peddler does business on an extern
slve scale. He carries FIVE wagon leads of a
great variety of goods, and is ACCOMPANIED nv
several statesmen. He puts up a large tent,
with counters and shelves, and show windows
IN front, like regular store. His stay in each
stopping place is regulated by the business.
and when the sales fall off he packs up and
moves on.
Canned ishballs are now being put up by
Massachusetts firm, which employs $50 men,
besides sixty tinsmiths. Extra fine Goldfish
the best of Nova Scotia potatoes and gilt-edped
New York butter are employed, and a rousinp
business is done constantly increasinn oraa-.