Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-16
TIMELY TePlCs.


MRS. JOHN w. MAoKEY lives at Paris and
drives carriage that cost $4,000 The style |
of her living in other respects is on the same
extravagant scale. She is an American and
her husband is an American miner, who has
taHen out something near $lOO, 5000 600 worth
of bullion on the Comstock lode in Nevada.
When Mackey struck Virginia City, twenty
years ago, his sole property was pair OF
blankets and a few dollars cash. He is now
one OF the richest, if not the richest man in
America.
MICHAEL GOVERN, now in Jail at Leadville,
in the language OF the Rocky Mountain press,
is IAN ingenious cuss" He follows the pro-
fession of burglar, wher he works for living
at all, and has some advantages over the aver
age housebreaker. One of his legs is made OF
wood At certain place on the wooden leg
is found small needle, which, being pressed
in, causes a small door to fly open. Search
within by means Of the fingers reveals cav
ty well filled with skeleton keys, small files,
pinchers and other articles useful to 1.-THE
trade.n Mr. Govern declines to part with this
leg, though the authorities have offered him
liberal inducements.
A SENSATIONAL incident occurred at the
trial of Martin Kanowski few days ago for
the murder of a young girl named Nina Muller
in forest near New York city. The skull OF
the dead woman was produced IN evidence.
When the CHASTITY relic was exhibited to the
jury it was seen that the whole of the lett Jaw
was crushed in, the wound beginning in the
median line of the forehead about an inch and
a quarter above the nose, taking in the
nose and the whole left cheek-bone
down to the jaw and up TO the eye
brow. The prisoner turned pale and seemed
much agitated, while Judge Hoffman, OF
counsel for the defense, had to leave the room,
being unable to stand such sights.
A YOUNG lady named Woglum has just
missed nice thing in monetary way. She
| lives at Tottenville, L. l., and was engaged to
marry the venerable and wealthy Isaac
Sprague of the same village. His years were
numbered eighty and his dollars were num-
bered by many thousands. Thursday last had
! been set for the wedding, and short time be-
fore the hour arranged for the ceremony the
old gentleman took a walk, returned home,
sat down and died. He left will dividing
his estate between two granddaughter, bat 1t
was his intention after marriage to make an
other will, leaving his property to his wife,
To give due dramatic coloring to the story
the old mans relatives should have been his
murderers, but they do not seem to have had
any hand in his death at least the New York
40 mot fiour
GEN. GRANT and wife, having settled down
in New York city, are putting their house in
order and getting their effects together. Last
week the last of eighty cases, containing the
presents collected by the general on his tour
of the world, was shipped to New York from
Philadelphia, where they have been taken
care of by Mr.. Geo, W. Childs, of the Phila-
delphia Ledger. Ever since the close
of the war Gen. Grant has been in
constant receipt of presents from
all sorts of people, and he was never known to
decline anything from a bull-pup to quarter
of million of cash. His collection Of costly
and elegant articles of uirtu is probably the
finest in America and IS worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars. He will have to main
tain small standing army at his house to pro-
tect it from thieves. Among the things that
Mrs. Grant will find mighty handy is mag
nifcent set of china imported from China
while her husband was president.
JOAQUIN MILLER yields wicked and pow
erful pen when he is on the war path. He
| writes, in reply to Mckee Rankin's claim to
no md ho
poet merely for the use of his name: "The
| books which have borne my name were eX-
| ecuted by patient toll. They have elected
| from the reviewers many severe criticisms. I
have been charged-and perhaps justly-with
many faults and folles. But the charge of a
| want of originality is not one of them. "a
| the ten thousand pages of comment upon me
| and my work, have yet to find the accusation
| that received the honor and the pay for
task which another performed. When, there
| fore, man like Mr.. Mckee Rankin makes
| this charge, find myself in the position of
| one who, when about to cit down to his boiled
joint, finds that dog has stolen it; has
munched it out of palatable shape, rolled it in
the mire, and is claiming proprletorship. The
exact result of such an Incident is that, moral
~, the Joint is the mans, but actually, when
he comes to look at it, he doesn't care to own
it, nor to engage in a canine fight to prove
that he ever did,"
JAMES WALLACE is roaming the forest in
the vicinity of Stone comfy, Ark, accom-
panied by his faithful shotgun. The game
he hunts is biped game. He wants to find his
wife and George Gray. If he finds George he
will fill him full of buck-shot-unless George
should get the drop on William and give him
dose of lead pills. 1t is the old, old story
always new. William is planter living on
White river His wife is young and hand
some woman. Gray is handsome, intelli-
gent young man, who was employed to SUI
perintend the gathering of Wallace's cotton
crop. He fascinated the woaan-or she him
and one night in the starlight they got into
canoe and started down the river, intending
to strike the nearest railroad town and fly to
secure regions. Wallace pursued in skiff
and over took the runaways. He opened up a
bombardment and from the enemy's craft
came an acceptance of the challenge of war in
the shape of volley from Gray's revolver. This
naval engagement was kept up for some time
as the boats ioated down the stream. Mrs.