Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-09
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

This is how, that lively paper, The
London World, views that lively move
ment, the Irish revolt: $50 the Cold
stream guards are to reappear in Dub
lin! Doubtless the fair dwellers on the
banks of the Lifey will rejoice more
than the officers themselves, but we
must hope to see them at the end OF
their campaign with hearts unscathed
by bullets or blue eyes. Lively and ten
der "reminiscences are still cherished OF
the great fancy ball given in the Exhi-
bition hall by this regiment upon their
departure from Ireland some seven years
ago."
The colossal crane at Woolwich,
England, which has been upward OF
four years in process of erection, and
is the most powerful in the world, has
now assumed a definite shape in the
operation of fixing the great girder.
The immensity of the work is illustrat-
ed by the weight of the iron employed
in its construction; which, in the ag.
gregate, exceeds eighteen hundred tons,
while the brass bearings alone amonnt
to more than three tons. When COM
pleted the crane will be capable Of lift
ing three or four one-hundred-ton guns
at once.
AMI. Briggs, of New York, has sub
mitted a novel plan for having the
terminal point for all foreign-bound
freight changed from New York and
New Jersey to Sandy Hook. 1t seems
there is place just outside OF Sandy
Hook where the location is favorable to
making shipping port. On straight
line from station on the Pennsylvania
railroad the distance is about forty miles
less than by the way of New York city
for freights that come from the west or
southwest and are consigned to Euro
pean and other foreign ports, and there
is ample water there for the largest
vessels. It is within the port OF New
York, so no extra port of entry need be
formed.
Sir John Lubbock has made discov-
cry which may turn out Of some import
ance to our Western farmers. In the
neighborhood of the site of ancient
Troy, Sir John has come across beetle
whose mission it seems to be to de-
stroy locusts by consuming their eggs.
Even before they arrive at the dignity
of full blown beetles, while in the grub
state of their development, they begin
their attack on the unmatched young
of the ''winged destroyer" The vo-
racity of the Lubbock beetle is said to
be extraordinary, and some of them
seem to be able to destroy the whole
crop of choppers" and have actually
done SO in certain parts Of Asia Minor
last season.
Bruce Demoss, a farmer living near
Lenoxburg, KY, shot, and it is thought
fatally wounded, Hance Yates, of that
place, recently. After the shooting De-
moss jumped into a wagon standing
near by and started at runaway gait
for the Ohio river. After chase of
several miles he was captured by the
constable of that place and an ugly pis-
tol taken from him. Demoss' mind for
the last year has been deranged, but
he has never before been regarded as
dangerous. No cause other than that
of insanity can be given, as the shoot
ing was entirely unprovoked. The
wound lies in the back part of the head,
being inflicted by large-sized ball,
fired from an old army pistol, and will
necessarily prove fatal Demoss was
lodged in the Brookville jail to await
an examination.
Among the communistic rebels of 1871
| in Paris was s'commissaire central
named Parmentier. This man, after
the collapse of the revolt, was supposed
to have fled, and he was condemnhd to
death by one of the court-martial. But
Parmentier had not left Paris. His
wife. who was workwoman in a match
factory, sheltered her husband in gar
ret, during period of nearly ten years,
and this garret the communist never left.
| The concierge and the neighbors were
| wholly ignorant that Nine. Parmentier
had anyone living with her. A few
| weeks ago both husband and wife were
| found dead in their apartment, having
| committed suicide by suffocation with
the fumes of charcoal. 1t is presumed
| they were driven to this step by the
wife's declining health and inability to
provide for their wants.
; River Improvements.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. S.-The government
| tow-boats, Pete Kuno and X. Wheeler
with some thirty barges and fiat boats
and large amount of machinery ant
material of various kinds, will leave herr
tomorrow morning for Plain Point, nea
Lake Providence, on the lower Mississippi
river, to commence the improvement o
the river at that place as decided upon b.
the Mississippi river improvement com
mission. The work will begin as soon a
the stage of water will permit.
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