Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-16
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

q Postmaster General James will retire from
the cabinet January L.
Threats are being made of blowing up the
prison where Guiteau IS confined. ~.
Col j. Howard Willes has been indited for
attempting to blackmail Jay Gould.
!, Montgomery Blair in column letter nofni-
mates Samuel j. Tilden for president in 1884.
One American, name unknown, is said to
be among the victims of the Vienna opera
house disaster.
Three editors of Liberal newspapers in San
lander, Spain, have been expelled from the
catholic church for attackting the Catholic
clergy.
A collision occurred at Eastern Kentucky
Junction, on the Big Sandy railroad yesterday,
in which one brakeman was killed and another
injured.
John Ellis, wife and child, of San Francisco,
we're recently drowned while attempting to
cross Smith Crow Greek. Mr.. Ellis was .
prominent citizen.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, is urging i'm
mediate action on the tariff question. BE
fears some that investigation will show the
| absurdity of the present system.
Mr. Frelinghuysen, the new secretary Of
state, is strongly attached to Gen. GRANTS
third term stalwart, Is years of age, and a
man of not conspicuous abilities.
A special from Campbellsville, KY, says
that two stores were entered by burglars, the
safe doors blown off, and $4,000 distracted
from one and $500 from the other.
The friends of s. P. Rounds. of Chicago,
are importuning the president;to appoint him
public printer in place of Defrees. The latter
proposes to retain the position if he can.
| During the year ending June last 669, 431
emigrants arrived in the United States, num-
Der greater by from 10000 to $4,000 that the
whole population OF Maine and Connecticut.
The Lonnon Standard is authority for the
statement that a company is being organized
to establish Lelegrapic cable lines betwee n
England and America, and England and India.
The institute of Herdity, society for i'm
proving the human breed, after the method
so successfully pursued on stock farms, held
its second annual convention in New York city
recently.
The Masonic fraternity of the District Of
Columbia intend to establish an asylum and
industrial school for the orphan children of
Master Masons of the United States, to be
known as the Garfield Memorial institute.
1t is estimated that the emigration from
July 1, 1880, to July, 1882, will be nearly q
million and half. Nearly third of this
number came from Germany; between one
fourth aud one-fifth came from England and
ireland, and about one-ninth from Scandinavia.
The large loss of life in the Vienna Opera
House is said to be owing to the strange,
diotic stupidity of the police, who locked the
doors to prevent outsiders from entering be-
fore the people inside were half out. 1t is
pity those idiotic policemen did not lock them
selves inside
Gen. Grants potency in rearranging Presi-
dent Arthur's cabinet is openly acknowledged.
A Republican senator on good terms with the
administration says the president has not de-
cided upon any new cabinet officers beyond
Frelinghuysen; that the president intends to
Grant may designate, and that at present
Grant hesitates between Chaffee and Beale, but
the Indications are that Beale will be selected.