Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-24
GLOBELETS.

Florida bean, polished up carefully. makes
. nice locket.
Lookout Mountain is becoming crowded with
summer visitors
Ex-senator Chafee, of Colorado, is said to be
worth $6, O00, 900.
Dalis county, Ala, will make its champion
corn crop this season.
Thirteen granite mountains rumple the sur
face Of Mt. Desert island
There were 16, 600 emigrants from Liverpool
IN May against IL, 600 in May, 1878.
Fifty-nine velocipedes were entered in the
tournament at Augusta on the Fourth.
One million dollars worth of chickens are
shipped out of East Tennessee annually.
Penitentiary convicts will be employed to
construct the New kiver railroad in Virginia.
Providence boy missed the ball, and the
powerful stroke of the bat killed playfellow.
New Orleans has just had great exciting
tub regatta. The winner received leather
medal.
Lord Alfred Paget will be the guest of his
sons mother-in-law, Mrs. Paran Stevens, at
Newport.
TIE mountain grade on the Spartanbure and
Ashville railroad, South Carolina is 2S7 feet
to the mile.
New Orleans has established q sanitary and
benevolent society exclusively under the con-
troll of women.
General Bob Toombs has subscribed for ST.
QUO worth of the Southern Methodist PUBLISH
ing house bonds.
John Charles Adrion Hamilton, grandson of
Alexander Hamilton, died at MERGED Califer-
mia. on Wednesday.
A Madison, Ind, man who ate ice cream on
the Fourth, excessively, is dead. Boys, show
this to your sweethearrs.
Miss Mclaughlin, of Cincinnati, has made
three elegant vases in enameled falence for
Miss Annie Louise Cary.
The last liquor saloon in cambridge, Tenn,
has been closed. 1t has not been without a
saloon before in a century.
The other day mob of amazed people was
collected in Savannah by the spectacle Of
colored man purchasing a watermelon.
The only living blood relation of the ex-
Empress Eugene is her mother, the Spanish
Countess Montijo, now in her 80th year.
Mr.. joaquin Miller's eccentric spouse, Minnie
/ ~ AOAS3 - SASoS0u upOA al 1uVeQC1OQ WHICH,,
she is persuaded, will yield her fortune
The number Of deaths in Chicago last week
was 274, an increase of 81 over the preceding
week Chicago is delightful summer resort
Natchez requires $17O,0 600 to put her cotton
factory enterprise on foot. 1t is thought that
this amount will be raised in very short time.
General W. B. Hazen has left Cleveland to
rejoin his command on the Upper Missouri.
Stanley didn't catch him. but Sitting Bull
may.
man undertook to eat 100 mince turnovers
in 100 hours at Lewiston, Me-, but gave up at
the sixty-seventh, and nearly died of indiges-
| tion.
AyOung physician in Vienna found that his
salary Of $3.50 for attending the poor reduced
him to their level financially and committed
suicide.
Baltimore widow received 81, 500, 600 left
her by a dead relative, Notwithstanding the
matter got into the courts. Truth is stranger
than fiction.
Hanlan says Of Hawdon: HE was trained
to death. When I stopped in the race and
looked back at him I involuntarily thought.
What a rack of bonesp''
Gen. Phil. Sheridan is expected to lead
command in the sham battle that will be fought
by the brave boys Of the Northwest in the Au-
rora reunion on August %.
Blair, the pugilist, looks SO much like Don
Cameron that when doorkeeper sees them
approaching from opposite directions he
doesn't know which way to run.
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune
| h0o nat no1s
managing editor, is in Europe. This accounts
for the recent improvement in the paper.
Speaker Randall is described by the 81 Louis
ftepuot'can as very emphatic presiding officer,
and it adds that his desk has several times besa
smashed in by the pounding it received.
The number of recruits sworn in at Edin-
burgh last month is unprecedented in the re-
collection of the authorities. The men said
that lack of work comuelled them toenlist.
Mrs. Thompson, wife of the secretary, is SO
i'll that her husband has almost given up his
intention to remove her to their Indiana home.
He hopes to be able to take her to the noun
tains of Virginia.
| Major D. b. Brotherton, of the Fifth Infan
try, under General Miles command, arrived in
Baltimore Wednesday evening with his wife.
having made the trip from Fort Keoph. Mon
tana in nine days.
Mr.. Spurgeon, talking Of preaching the other
evening, said he didn't blame people for not
going to some churches, and that sooner than
| listen to some of his reverend brethren he
would have the govt.
This is pretty good from the Muskegon
mich Chronice: "a man living near Detroit
wrote to one of the mill owners here. and
wanted to buy some farming land. He said he
had no money, but had large family
Hon. William Herman, of OHIO, the Oldest ex-
| member of Congress in the United States, is in
the enjoyment of good health at the age of IS.
The paralysis of his tongue, making speech
| somewhat difficult, has led him to retire from
the legal profession.
After the service Deacon-"Good after
noon, Brother Smith. You neglected to PRAY for
rain; and our crops are all drying up." Min
ister-''So did. am sorry. But YOU know
the First Church have picnic tomorrow. and
that will doubtless do quite as well.''
curious question arose lately in Liverpool
police court. A seaman was charged with hav-
ing murdered another on the high seas. Both
were British subjects, but the crime was COM
mitted on an American vessel from San Fran
cisco, and the magistrate decided that he had
no jurisdiction.
The ducal authorities of Brunswick have APP
proved of grooveless tram rail- invented by
Mr.. Edge, of Birmingham, which is being laid
down by the City Of Brunswick Tramw ay COM
pany, whose first line Is to be opened by the