Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-13
GLOBELErs.


Orange culture is increasing around Mobile.
| Ala.
The lawyers Of Knoxville, Tenn, have or
ganized Bar association.
An exchange thinks that the fashion of
ladies' waistcoats originated in Galveston.
The temperance movement ia spreading like
wild fire among the negroes of Savannah Ga.
deer ON exhibition in Memphis committed
suicide by jumping from fourt history win
dow.
Somebody has counted 1O4 hanging. by
| sherlffs In this country in 1879, and 70 BY
| mobs.
] In Claiborne parish, La, there lives a col
ored woman 50 years old who is the mother Of
nineteen children.
The value of real estate il rapidly increas
ing in Shelby county, Tennessee, the county in
which Mem phis is situated.
In Savannah. Ga, an anti-profanity pledge
Is being circulated, and very generally signed.
The signers wear white ribbons.
At Konigsberg in Prussia, there are 300 maid
servants ont of situations having been dis
missed by their masters for the sake of econo-
my.
to Hudson, New York, through the loan Of $500
by brother, has eloped with that brothers.
| daughter.
Over 200 children were admitted to the pub.
lie schools at Atlanta, Ga. On Monday, whose
parents had removed to the city during ths
week before.
The German National Bank at Memphis has
declared dividend of ten per cent. on its CAPT.
tai stock. to be paid out of its net earnings for
| the past six months.
| The late Rev. Gordon Hall, D. D., of North
ampton, Mass. left comfortable property Of
| $4,000, much to the astonishmsnt of his
| riends and relatives.
Quinine can be bought for $3.50 against 1910
paid year ago. when consumers had 10 pay
theiAmericnn manufacturers tax of $1,000
or $500 900 on the article
Little Rock (Ark.) Democrat: The panther
killed q few weeks since a short distance from
the city, and now on exhibition here, measures
seven and one-half feet in length.
| An extensive cotton factory is abo g beto
organized at Charlotte, N. O.. the city author
tiles having promised the company exemption
from local taxation for ten years.
| Rome correspondent reports that dinner
was given at the English embassy New Years
day whic was attended by the United States
| Ministers and many other Americans.
| Senator Harris delivered lecture in Albany
On politics and Literature" and pronounced
| literature ''literatoor." The local papers and
some of their correspondents are discussing
| the point.
George w. Edge, one of the we'll known
manufacturers of fireworks, died recently in
jersey City. 1t is to be hoped that he has
gone to place where pyrote;hnical displays
are unknown.
Anew and improved machine for making ice
has been invented by New Orleans man. vi o
states that sit is admirably adapted to the pr
| duction of q low mperature in dwellings du;
| ing the SD miner months"
| Mrs. Scott Siddons now comes before the
| world with her matrimonial troubles. 1t seems
| she was mistaken in her choice of husband,
and she asks the world, through reporter to
| sympathize with her. The world will do it.
We learn with sincere regret that Harijo
Gondosiwoijol. the reigniug prince of Sura
Karta, in Java has for some time been suffer-
| Ing from pneumonia. Fatal results are feared
| in case the disease gets mixed up with his
name.
The revised Haytian Constitution provides
| that every able-bodied male between the ages
of eighteen and sixty must be q member either
| of the army or the national guard. Some CO.
pie in this country evidently admire the Hay
| tian plan.
A current paragraph states that Secretary
Evarts receives informally the Diplomatic
Corps everJ Saturday evening"" Although
nothing definite regarding the matter is known,
the general belief in Washington is that the
| ante is ten cents.
One hundred acres have been purchased for a
cemetery at Chattanooga, Tenn. 1t ia to he
| called the Forest Hill Cemetery, and will be
| controlled by stock company with perpetu-
| al charter. The cemetery will be opened for
| the sale of lots in April.
The discovery has recently been made in the
| library of the city of Treves, in Rheuish Prus-
| STA, of an old French poem in manuscript. the
authorship of which, according to the notes az
pended, is to be attributed to the minstrel king
Richard Coeur-de-Lion.
Charleston Is. o. Ne,ns: In tho Savannah
| river, about two miles above Bowman's ferry,
is regular floating bar-room, anchored in the
| middle of the river. 1t is kept by man from
the Georgia side, and ia only reached by the
owners batteau, which comes to either bark
| in answer to o shout.
Leadville boasts of aristocratic Iwaiters. At
the Grand hotel is an ex-member of the New
Jersey legislature, whose letters bear the prefix
of Hon. At the Clarendon the ,guests are
served at table by an ex-confederats general,
doctor of medicine, lawyer and an ex-judge
from Freeborn county, MINI.
man in Chicago tbeater cried ''Brava" at
RI. l.od;ru actres. and she liked IT, Init when