Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-17
GLOBLETs.

Unmuzzled dogs on the streets of Memphis
are shot down without mercy.
Only one hotel at Jacksonville, Fla, will re-
main open during the summer.
Hoods Texas brigade will hold their annual
reunion at Seguin on the 18th of July.
Nearly 1000 workmen are employed upn
new buildings now going up in Atlanta.
Fisk University. at Nashville. has been pre-
sented with bell weighing 1900 pounds.
cotton compress, costing $4,000, will be
erected at BRENNAN, Texas, this summer.
T.H. McCray, of Tyrone. Ark. has secured
letters patent on an improved steam pillow.
1t is estimated that the present rice crop
in Louisiana will be double that of last year.
Last month the letter carriers of Galveston,
Texas, handled 1874, 722 pieces of mail matter.
New Orleans has shipped to France and Italy
within year 2, 400, 900 gallons Of cotton-seed
oil.
Johnnie Short, Sunday school scholar of 9
years, was drowned at picnic at Mckinney,
Texas.
Recent rains in McLennan county, Texas,
have caused a wonderful improvement in the
wheat crop.
The average yield of the oat crop in the
vicinity of Austin, Texas, this year is from so
to 100 bushels per acre.
Buffalo and wild horses on the plains ofWest-
srn Texas are being driven south in search of
water, such is the severity of the drouth.
Frank Webb, who shot and killed Charles
Foster in Galveston, Texas, in 1876, has been
sentenced to the penitentiary for five years.
A meeting of progressive citizens of Peters,
burg, Virginia, will be held on Thursday to or
| ganize an immigration society for that section.
The president of the Mississippi State Agri-
cultural college, at Starkville, receives an an
nual salary of $500 and the professors %, 900
| each.
The recent school-tax election in Fort Worth,
Texas, the validity Of which was doubted, has
| been declared valid by the State attorney
general.
In the territory of Arizona, with q popula-
ton of sixty thousand. there are only FIVE
| Protestant ministers and four Protestant
churches. .-t ,.vs .,a4
The New York & New England railroad has
| been allowed five cents a ton by the Pennsyl-
vania railroad on all western freight to Boston,
for terminal facilities.
The total number of schools in New Hamp-
shire is found by the assessors to be l 1885, an
increase of "A over last year. OF these l,O07
are in the Union district.
Philadelphia contains 10S distinct iron fac
tories, giving employment to nearly $4,000
hands. without including those employed at
the Baldwin locomotive works.
There is not single liquor saloon in any
town on the line of the East Tennessee &
Georgia railroad, between Chattanooga and
Knoxville, distance of 112 miles.
The people of Charleston, 4. c., have sub
scribed about $500 for the relief of the families
of the two negroes who died from foul air in
| cleaning out one of the fire wells in that city.
New Orleans has a cork mandatory employ
ing fifteen men and turning out $500 dozen
corks per day, which does not even supply the
local demand. The establishment is soon to
be enlarged.
A night school for news-boys has been estab-
lished in New Orleans, under the auspices of
the society of St. Vincent de Paul, and the
Sisters of Mercy. The average attendance is
sixty-nine boys. m
Barnum won glorious victory in Spring
| field. A clergyman, who had been q mission
airy in South Africa, tested the zulus by ad-
dressing them in their native tongue, and
found them genuine.
Jim Currie, the murderer of Porter, the
actor, at Marshall Texas, is to be tried next
| month. His scquittal is anticipated, as the
witnesses of the tragedy will not go to the
| trouble and cost of attendance. ~
Two years ago not more than 800 head of cat
tie were owned along the entire valley of the
Upper ella river. To-day there are at least
"a. 900 head grazing over the same ground, and
twenty-six good ranches being farmed.
Mrs. Rogers, and one of her daughters, OF
Buncomb, N. c., made by their own labor
during last season, from two and half acres
of land, 1854 worth of tobacco. This amount
was realized after paying a rent of one.third OF
the crop.
At the termination of Anton Rubinstein'
last concert, in Moscow, the patrician beauties
of that city carried the platform by storm, and
devoured the great pianist's hands with fervent
kisses, to his manifest embarrassment and cJn-
fusion.
W. Harry Bouscoe was sent to lput down a
carpet in Mr.. Houser's house, at Fort Wayne.
He was a stranger to Mary Houser when he be-
gan, but before he got through he was her ac-
eepted lover, and that night they eloped and
got married. @
The latest plan for crossing the English chan
mel is embodied in . model now before the
British admiralty for q monster floating rail-
| way station, which is to carry trains holding
1000 passengers across at the rate of fourteen
knots an hour.
Last year there were driven into Nevada from
eastern Oregon over 2O0, 900 head of beef cat
| tie. Over lac, 600 crossed in one place. From
the coast there went to Montana and the East
over 200, 900 head. This new deal commenced
only two years ago.
The annual convention of the American
| Medical association will be held in New York
ity commencing June 1. 1t is expected that
one thousand five hundred medical men, includ-
ing many of the most distinguished pbysi-
clans from home and abroad, will be present.
| Five little negro boys, ranging in age
from to Is years, were brought before the
Mayor of Oxford, Miss, under the charge of
taking another little boy, aged 10 years, from
his bed at night and beating him severely,
Upon conviction, two of the juvenile kuklux
were sent to Jail.
| The evangelists. Moody and Ssnkey, passed
through Indian Territory last week, and while
at Muskogee, in the Greek nation, Mr.. Moody
arranged to receive ten Indian girls from that
nation, for whom he will provide free educa-
ton at the young ladies' seminary established
| nv him at Northfield, Mass.