Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-04
GLOBELETS.

GLOBELETS.
MIR. Proctor is leoturing in Australia to large
audiences.
Walt Whitman is recovering from bis recent
severe illness.
The colored population of Charleston, s. G.,
has decreased since 1870.
Five old negroes in Atlanta claim to have
seen George Washington.
Princess Dora d'Istria is visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. j. T. Fields at Manchester. Mass.
There is a rumor that Princess Louise is
weary of Canada and will not return there.
Secretary Thompson is not expected to return
to Washington before the LIST of September
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll is passing tho
summer at the Bass Rock house, Gloucester,
Mass.
At an emancipation celebration in Elmrs,
to-day, Frederick Douglass will deliver
an address.
A temperance lecturer in Georgia estimites
that liquor costs the people of that State sl5,
600, 900 annually.
r. j. Conley, pastor of Trinity Methodist
church, in Savannah, broke his leg by fal
on last Saturday.
Mr.. w. 81. 81. Murray is reported to be en-
gagged in large and profitable commission
business in Liverpool.
Robert Toombs is poetically described as po.g
sessing rugged face, deep thunder-scarred,'
and set in grizzly locks.
colored girl, sixteen years old, lay down on
the railroad near Orangeburg, 8. c., fell asleep.
and was killed by q train.
John G. Nichols, of the first Georgia district
is candidate for reelection to Congress, and
will probably have no opposition.
The board to examine applicants for promo
ton in the army second lieutensnts will
convene in Washington in September.
postmaster in Campbell county, Va, sent
$50 confederate bill to the Republican COM
mittee at Washington in answer to an assess
ment.
The new park at Augusta, Ga, has been
fitted up with grotto. two fountains, and
miniature lake. 1t is also to be adorned with
statuary.
Senator Conkling has good fortune as fish
erman. He has just caught and sent to
friend in Utica New Brunswick salmon three
feet long.
Some young men at Lyncsburg are getting
up minstrel troupe for the purpose of giving
entertainments at the various watering places
in Virginia.
Kansas has three counties with over $4,000
inhabitants each. four with over 10000, nine
teen with over $4,000, and twenty-four with
over 10000.
The principal cotton ports in the South rank
as follows in the extent of receipts of the
staple: New Orleans, Norfolk, Savannah, Gal
weston and Mobile
The New Orleans schools have been closed
until there shall be money enough on hand to
pay expenses. Teachers salaries are already
$175 900 in arrears.
Mr. Edmund G. Stedmsn is staying at
Swamps,ott-not resting, however, for in
this interval of relief from Wall street work he
is busy with his pen.
Mrs. Hayes is soon going to Fremont, o., to
put her remodeled house in order. Her son,
Webb Hayes, will, it is said, become merchant
| in Toledo O., next spring.
The largest eotton-seed oil mill in the United
States is being erected in Little Rock. 1t will
have a capacity of using 800 tons of cotton seed
per day. The work will employ $50 men.
The Democratic and Republican candidates
for Governor of North Carolina have arranged
for Joint discussion of the political issues of
the campaign at various places in the State.
Charles Force Deems, D. D., of New York,
has added $500 to the Deems fund.- Of the
University of North Carolina, to be loaned
| to INDECENT students attending that institu-
| ton.
A barber at Knoxville, Tenn, was fined 81
for shaving a man on Sunday. No appeal was
taken, though the Nashville Banner says that
the action of the court could not be sustained
in the supreme court.
Princess Louise laid the coping stone of the
new Louise embaukment at Quebec, on the
| 3Oth. A battery furnished the guard of
of honor ON the quay, where a handsome pa
vilion, gayly decorated, had been erected.
Mark Twain thinks that every steamboat
should be compelled to carry in conspicuous
place the following notice. SIN case of dis
aster, do not waste precious time in meddiing
with the life-boats. They are out of order?'
Mrs. Harriet Lane johnson, the niece of
Pa. where her uncle used always to spend the
summers. Mrs. johnson preserves the charm
that made her famous in the White House;
che ia said to be still woman of magnificent
carriage.
Prof. Theodor Mommsen, the eminent
scholar, who has had SO great q misfortune In
the burning of his priceless brary. is a Schles
| wiger and the son of clergyman. He has
long, clean-shaven face, bright eyes hidden be-
hind spectacles, and bushy hair falling nearly
| to his shoulders.
| The Brazil electoral bill has passed the cham
Der of deputies with amendments Every
Brazilian citizen over 81 years of age, in pos
session of civil and political rights and having
an income of $500 per annum, is declared an
electo aud as such is entitled to vote directly
for deputies and and senators.
CHEAP FOR CASH.