Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-06


thro ugh his body, and OF course the man fell
dead ere a word had been exchanged. This
wiped out one murder by another. His
hands and feet were tied together and his
body was thrown over pole, and thus was
carried to their rowing boat and thrown in.
Bein g low water at Panama, they half carried
and half dragged the body over the reef, aad
it reached Panama a dreadful looking OBJ
ject, with the eyes starting out of the head.
The body was allowed to remain ia the rain
unit cart arrived, when it was thrown in,
grave, with no coffin. The police enjoyed
the sport hugely, to judge from their merri-
ment. 1t is not known and meyer will be
whe ther the dead man was or was not the ac-
tual muir derer.
TIE unpleasant relations known TO su5sist
between Edwin Booth and his wife have for
some weeks been subject of newspaper COM
ment. Most likely the truth is not all known
to the world at large, and just where the
greatest blame belongs is not positively
known. 1t appears, however, that one cause
of the trouble is the hero-worship which Mrs.
Booths distinguished husband, like all great
actors, receives from certain class of people.
A New York letter writer says that Mrs.
Booth, for some time an invalid, has been not
only The victim of physical suffering, but of
an unfortunate temperament, that has disposed
her to take morbid view Of life, and 10 dis
tort the kindliest action of those about her
into affronts. Throughout their married life
Mr.. Booth has been most devoted husband,
but his wife lost sight of that in the fact that
as handsome and talented man he received
the admiration and esteem of the public,
and was largely treated to the kind of hero
worship that silly young girls are apt to spend
on fine looking actor While this only an
noyed and amused the tragedian, it alarmed
and worried bis wife, who tortured herself
with groundess jealousies and made her hus-
bands life wretched by constant expressions
of it. The position of both was pitiable, and
in Mrs. Booths case especially so, as illness
OF The body is prone to act upon the mind,
and no one can judge how much she was
biased by suffering. After their return to this
country, with Mr.. and Mrs. McVicker, the whole
family, including Miss Edwina Booth, the
actor's only child, and his daughter by first
marriage, engaged apartments at the Windsor
hotel, where they have since resided. It is
said that Mrs. Booths prejudice extends
to their stepdaughter, and for number OF
weeks she has refused TO see any of the family,
except her parents. Though her health is i'm
proving, it has brought about 10 change in
hef determination. No legal steps for sepa-
ration have been taken, but it is tacitly agreed
that Mrs. Booth will make her home with her
father and mother at present, and that Miss
Booth, between whom and her father thereex-
lists very fond and beautiful attachment, will
travel with him.
IT is a popular error to suppose that
great literary persons are always born TO
greatness and find themselves famous on wax
ing from their first cradle nap. In none of
the ordinary avocations to which the human
family is devoted are there greater vcissitudes
than in literary life; in none is greater exer-
ton, harder work; essential to even moderate
degree o. success. The Boston Herald has
been examining the history of distinguished
writers, and finds that very few authors have
not experienced the pain that attends the re-
lection of manuscript. Even Thackeray and
turned with thanks" 'sThe Yellowplush
Papers, of the former were among the most
brilliant and popular essays in Fraser's Mage
zine; but, when Thackeray once sent an es-
say IN the style of 'The Yellowplush Papers,
to the Edinburgh Reuielc, it was SO cut and
mutilated by the editor that even the consola-
ton of respectable check was not enough
to sweeten the painful memory of that maya
zine. Prosper Merimee had all his
plays returned with thanks" by all
managers and publishers until he hit
upon the idea of passing them off for
translations from the Spanish of once famous
acGress, Clara Gazul, bait whichwas at once
swallowed by publisher interested in the TO-
mantle school of the day, just coming into
fashion,and this justification helped the work
to great success. Theophile Gauthier and
Octave Feuillet had their first novels rejected
by various journals, and the manuscripts were
probably never read; but when, at last, they
were published, they made great sensation.
Alphonse Daudet, whose various stories have
passed through fifty or sixty edi-
tons, saw the best and most attractive work
he ever wrote, and in which he had related q
part OF Inc STORY OF Ills own lie anu develop
ment, refused by several journals, although he
already enjoyed considerable reputation and an
Influential position as secretary to the Due de
Morny; but the novel received the greatest
recognition when, last, it appeared. Anthony
Trollope furnishes another example of late
successes after many disappointed expecta-
tons. His literary spurs were gained by work
in the few leisure hours left him by his posi-
ition in the post-otfice. Dickens was one who
had uncommon luck as an author,in happy con-
tr!lst to the almost tragic struggles Of Thack-
cray for recognition. From the time his first
magazine article was printed to the time when
he laid down his pen on an unfinished page of
s'Edwin Drood,'' his career was an uninter-
rupted series of triumphs. John Lothrop
Motley had to undergo the humiliation OF re-
ceving the manuscript of "The Rise of the
Dutch Republic back from the famous pub
Usher, John Murray, of London, with thanks
and con.pliments. Carlyle found great
difficulty in getting publisher for his His
tory of the French Revolutions" even after he
had rewritten the whole in consequence CT the
burning of the first manuscript by an igno-
rant servant girl. Everybody knows what a
terrible struggle Milton had, and how he sold