Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-08
GLOBELETS,

The last bar-room has been closed in Decatur.
Ga.
Governor Cornell dined on forty.oue.pouud
New Years turkey.
Tho ministers of Greensborough, N. O., are
preaching against daucing.
Bancroft's family consists of his wife
daughter and two grandchildren.
Sojourner Truth is still in Kansas, where she
has done much to assist negro immigration,
Nearly every tableware factory at Pittsburgh
is preparing new styles of ware for the spring
trade.
Claiborne's history of Mississippi, as Prov
ince, Territory and State, will be issued in the
spring.
Work has been commenced on the large
thread mills to be built at New England Vii
lage, Mass.
Sir Arthur Guinness, the rich Dublin brewer,
has sold his interest in the brewery business
for $5.OOO,OOO.
Twenty-Five shares of South Carolina rail-
road stock were sold at auction in Charleston,
for $3.50 Per share.
The cotton trade of Charleston, 8. O.,
amounts to 100000 a year, and the rice
trade to s2,OOOOOO.
1t is generally conceded in financial circles
that values are on sounder basis than they
have been since the war.
The city treasury of Nashville will be drawn
upon for about $3.50 to aid in the approach
ing centennial celebration there.
Emperor William thinks the climate of Var
Yin is not good for Prince Bismarck, and wishes
him, for Berlin, to leave the place.
An active movement has lately been devel-
oped in New York uptown real estate, and
some further heavy sales have been recorded.
One Of the conservative jobbing houses in
hosiery and gloves imported for the spring of
1880 silk hosiery at a cost of $l44 per dozen.
E. G. Stedman, the banker poet, Ightens his
cares at the beginning of the year by taking
his 81 n Frederick 8. Stedman, into partner
ship.
Vaccination is being practiced to great ex-
tent in Petersburg, Va, in view of the fact that
small pox is infesting some of the Northern
cities.
Louisiana estimates this years sugar crop at
about It's, coo bushels of finer quality than
usual. owing to the increased use of improved
machinery.
King Humbert has been able to take a
sleigh-ride ct home for the first time in nine
years, there having been no snow in Italy be-
fore siuce 1871.
The product of the precious metals west of
the Missouri for the year is estimated as fol-
lows: Gold, s32, $50, 800; silver, S3S625, sl2;
lead, s4,1S5.769.
Arkansas raised little cotton few years
ago that she was not reckoned as a cotton State,
but this year she ranks next to Texas and pro-
duces $4,000 bales.
OF the quantity of cotton-seed oil exported
from New Orleans to foreign countries during
the past year is said to be 100000 gallons to
Italy and 600,0 900 gallons to France.
Sir John Holker, England's attorney general,
has been almost universally blamed for grant
ing the writ of error reviving the Tichborne
case. The hearing is set down for an early
day.
Bustles having gone out of fashion, richly
dressed woman wearing one of great size at
traeted the attention of the customs officers at
Windsor, Canada 1t WAS found to contain
tea.
Senator Sharon sold a magnificent San
Francisco residence to his friend O'Briep,
after his wife died, some five years ago. The
furniture, which cost him $l25,000, has just
been appraised at $26, 600.
General Beale vowed he would never 20 to
church again, when his pastor prayed for the
success of the rebel cause twenty years ago.
He kept the resolution until General Grant
lately made him go with him.
Prof. Stephenson, of the Hayden surveying
party in New Mexico says that the Aztecs are
myth, and that the tribes of Indians known
as cliff-dwellers are to be credited with all the
romance attaching to the Aztec name.
The arrangements for taking the census this
year are probably as near perfection as any
thing of the kind can be. The entire work will
be done in a month. The tenth census will no
doubt be the fullest and best ever taken.
reverend gentleman in Burlington county,
N. j., advertises for sale il local paper
number of full blooded male fouls at 90 each,
guaranteeing them to be fine layers The nov
city of the breed should command q quick sale
for them.
Inc LeadVllle CHf0nlcteS annual trade report
of Leadville for the past year shows that the
bullion and product was Sl2, 032, sos. 81; the
mercantile trade of the city, $40, 900, OOO and
sales of mining property for sums over $500,
$35, $50, $40.
Madame Sin-Fu-Gen, the wife of the Chinese
minister at Berlin, is the object of great ad-
miration and wonderment to the Germans,
as she drives with her son about the city. She
is the first Chinese lady who has set foot in
Germany.
The elderly man who threw himself from
the new suspension bridge, on the Oath ult.,
was s. A. Sykes, of Kentucky, Chautaugua
county. and last year he was engaged in
bringing excursion parties to Prospect Park,
Niagara Falls. His body has not been recov-
cred.
Theodore Neusers love for St. Louis girl
was not returned. Wild with despair, he satu-
rated his clothing with kerosene oil, went to
her house, threw himself on his knees at her
feet struck match and swore that he would
set himself ablaze if she did not promise to
marry him. She assented, but only long enough
to secure his arrest.
The boys in the gallery of the New National
theatre Philadelphja begnn IN couob ,rd