Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-02

GLOBELETs.
The Canada Pacific road has decided to To-
cate it's workshops in Montreal.
At McGregor. Iowa, silver ore has been dis.
covered. It contains 249 to the ton.
Iredell county, North Carolina, will soon
have three cotton factories in operation.
Near Bevington. Iowa, a lad Of Is, who was
sent out by Whltelaw Reid, killed younger
boy with revolver.
A Catholic priest Of Bellevue, Iowa, named
Portz, died Of smallpox, caught while visit
ing sick members of his flock.
An old soldier from Connecticut. who had q
foot frozen In the Virginia campaign, has
just received s. 100 back pension.
A farmer near Springfield, ILL.,. has taken
from his meadow the third crop of hay for the
season, averaging a ton to the acre.
Mr.. William D. Howells is reported to bs
quite ill of nervous malady at his home In
Belmont, Mass, the result of oyerwork.
negro man and white woman were con-
victed in Greenville, s. c., last week, and sen.
fenced to the penltentiary for intermarrying.
A Lincoln (Neb.) mother mutllated the
body of her child with strap for failing to
recite her prayers, and ran away to avoid the
wrath of the father.
A suit has been brought In the United
States court at Paducah, KY, to test the con.
stitutionality Of the cvlored and common
school law of the state.
Archbishop Purcell is reported to be sink
ing rapidly. It is stated that he is unconsci-
Gus. His coadjutor has been called to his bed
side at St. Martins convent.
The London Spectator says: "Genius pro.
tects ITSELF" The Spectator has probably
heard of the purchase we lately made of a
self.cocklng revolver.-Teras Sttings.
Two San Jose journals have been fined $50
each by a California judge for contempt Of
court in disappearing and commenting on
the late Allen Dixon libel suit while it was be-
ing tried.
Speaker Randall states that per cent. re-
funding bill will soon be introduced in the
house, Its chief feature being provision to
release $1O0, 000, 900 Of the resumption fund In
the treasury.
Selma (Ala.) Times: The confederate bond
boom has at last collapsed. Parties here who
are holding few OF the really worthless
agreements to pay have been unable to get any
offer whatever.
A swarm of rats attacked lad Of 9years
who was accidentally locked in school-room
at Erie, Pa. He fought desperately, and when
found was lying senseless, with the animals
tearing his flesh.
The Lykens (Pa.) Register says diphtherla
has been doing Its fatal work in Uniontown
for some time past Not less than fifteen
children have met their deaths in the little
borough from this terrible disease.
On unloading car of lumber at Spring
field, o., few days since, smooth-face boy
was found under the lumber. 1t Is supposed
that he was stealing ride, and the lumber
fell over upon him, crushing him to death. =
At conference of the readjuster leaders and
legislators of Virginia. ii was resolved that
the Riddleberger bill shall be passed. A eau
Gus of members of the legislature will b held
December 8, to select candidate for senator.
Two friends meet after long absence and
exchange greetings. "Why, Bell" exclaims
one, "you are looking and feeling 100 per
cent. better than you were when Isaw you
last" 81 dare say" returned the other cheer
fully, "Mrs. Bell has been in trance for the
past five or six months"
A very handsome girl, 10 years Of age, who
has for some time been acting in comic opera
In New York, has been taken in charge by the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chill.
dren. An investigation is in progress before
Judge Donahue, in which the child testified
that she sang in Boston when years OF age.
Mrs. Ockenfuss died the other day at Eas.
ton, Pa. 1t is strongly suspected that she was
the victim OF foul play at the hands Of insur
ance sharks who had speculative risks on her
life. 1t Is ascertained that such risks were
held to the amount Of upwards of $4,000,
and an investigation is about to be instituted
by her surviving relatives.
According to London paper, which makes
speciality of Baroness Burdett- Coutts, that
lady has averted litigation by voluntarily re-
nouncing her large interest in the Coutts bank.
This decision will, at least, relieve the British
public of long suit at law thickly overlaid
with gossip and scandal. Bartlett and Walton
in one year are too much for John Bulls equa-
nimity.
Mrs. Sill Delaney, living three miles south
east of New Lordon, Mo-, went into her eel
lar, and while engaged she noticed the wall
near where she sat giving way. She jumped
to her feet and ran to the middle of the room,
just in time to save herself from being crushed
TO death, for in . moment nearly the entire
wall fell with crash that shook the whole
building.
The track of the New York, Chicago and
ST.. Louis railway runs nearly parallel with the
Lake Shore track, and but little distance from
it, through Ashtabula, O. The other day
there was an exciting race of trains for about
fifteen miles, and the fast express was but
slightly in advance. When the new road is
finished, the great strife will be, who will get
first to Gotham.
The marriage Of August Belmont, Jr., and
Miss Bessie 81. Morgan took place at the
Church OF the Ascension, in New York. in
presence Of large number Of invited guests.
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