Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-22
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court to aid the insanity dodge set up by the
defense.
Fire bugs have recently been active in
Youngstown, Ohio. Three fires were started
in one night.
Mr.. Jesse Spalding, stalwart, is booked
for the collectorship of Chicago, in place of
William Henry Smith.
A dispatch from the Assineboine agency,
Montana, says that small pox is alarmingly
prevalent in western Montana.
1t is stated that the president offered the
secretaryship of the navy to Mr. Boutwell,, of
Massachusetts,, but it was by him declined.
Burr Robbins, the Wisconsin Snowman, has
sold out his show business and retired from the
field with well-flled purse. He goes to
Europe for his health.
the report that his daughter twill soon make
her debut on the stage" Nothing of the kind
was ever contemplated.
The health officers Of Allegheny, Pa, have
chartered the old steamboat Panther, and fitted
it up as floating pest house, in which to
bestow smallpox patients.
Governor and Mrs. Blackburn, of Kentucky,
entertained 1000 guests one evening last week
at an old-fashioned Quilting" After the
quilt was finished, quiet old reels and jigs
were danced to the music of ebon flddles.
The Emperor William, of Germany, has
been formally invested with the Turkish order
of the sNichohi-Nutiaz." whatever that may
be. He is the only foreign sovereign upon
whom this colossal honor has been conferred.
The assassin's ex-wife, in company with her
present husband visited the prisoner in the
Jail, and after brief interview, took fearful
leave of him, not expecting to see him again.
Goodbye, Charlie, I may never see you
again." said she, as she left the cell weeping.
Ex-senator Blaine being interviewed says
he shall remain in Washington to attend to pri-
vate business affairs, among others, that of a
railroad in which he has embarked considera-
BILE capital. BE will probably not be able to
visit the South, though cordially invited to
do so.
1t is stated that the reason why Guiteau
treated his ex-wife with civility when on the
stand, was, that her present husband stood
near by and caused 1t to be intimated to the
wretch that if he assailed or abused his wife,
he would shoot him. The infamous coward
quailed.
A most singular and certainly amazing re-
port is that the British government contem-
plates the establishment of prison, in which
to incarcerate the leading spirits of the
Ladies' Land League If there is really such
project conceived, it must be the product of
imbecility.
1t is said that the Greenbackers in congress
are determined to join any party or element
in the house that will oppose the restriction
of silver coinage. Representative Ladd
(Greenbacker) says if the Democrats take
sensible stand on this question they can carry
the next congress.
The Trinity Methodist church in Oil Centre,
Pa, an elegant brick structure, was complete
ly Quilted by fire on Sunday morning, Deem
Der 18th. The organ, furniture, etc.. were
nearly an entire loss. Had the fire broken out
half an hour later, the church would have
been full of people,
The stalwarts of Philadelphia are figuring
to start stalwart daily newspaper in Phila-
delphia as their organ. The stalwarts are
growing lively under the present stalwart ad-
mnIstration, and the present prospect seems
to be encouraging for vigorous fight of fac
lions in the Republican ranks.
Gen. Johnson's charge that jeff. Davis spir.
tied away from Richmond s2,5O0,OOO in specie,
when he fed from Richmond, in the face of
that city, is attracting much attention and
creating a great furry, especially at the
South. The ex-confederate chief will be
forced to take notice of so grave charge.
Some suspect that jeff. Davis buried his
cart loads of silver coin, which he took with
him when he fled from Richmond on the col
lapse of the confederacy; and that, like the
buried treasures of Capt. Kidd, "when he
sailed" future generations will dig for the
hidden coin of the Capt. Kidd of the Confed-
eracy,
A Boston paper says that the little expert
ence the people of that city have had of wo-
man suffrage "has not been SO encouraging as
could be wished" their exercise of the right
in choosing members of the school committee
having done very little to improve the mem
bership. Perhaps too much has been expect
ed of them.
A special from Washington says: "First
Assistant Postmaster General Hatton is
revolutionizing the postal service at the south,
by removing Democrats and women from the
postofices, and appointing the working Re-
publicans, by which he expects that the Re-
publican representation from the south will
be doubled
At Erie, Pa, during the past few years cur
rency and bills of large denomination have
been frequently missing from the cash-drawer
of French & Mcknight, wholesale grocers.
On Saturday workmen discovered large mice
nest back of the drawer made entirely OF the
missing notes, many undestroyed. That is
mode of retiring currency not laid down in the
statutes.
The stalwarts now feel their grip tighten
ing, and that their star is in the ascendant.
Flushed by the advantages gained by the
bloody work of the assassin, they now pro-
pose, in New York, to run Roscoe Conkling
for governor. He is out of business. His
law office in Nassau street is not crowded with
clients. Let this stalwart experiment be tried
by all means. Trot Lord Roscoe to the front.
There will he music by the full band all along