Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-27
GLOBELErs.

are pal0 OUT weekly.
The Irish Times, DUBLIN believes an i'm
proved feeling is growing.
The Louisiana legislature has been called
together for ten-day's session.
Mrs. Dow, a lady broker of Philadelphia,
vlctimized wealthy lady and is in Jail for it,
Parnell arrived in Armagh, December %,
unrecognized, and was taken to the county
jail.
In Cincinnati the death rate from smallpox
is decreasing. Vaccination has been Thorough
and universal.
IL is In contemplation to establish a silk
mandatory in Easton, Pa, to employ from
100 to 900 hands.
A New York company has bought of Cakes
Ames' estate, Brooht's Opera house for $780,
Ooo. The property cost Booth over a
$1,OO0,OO0
From the Peach Bottom. section, in York
| county, Pa, $4,000 worth of slate have been
shipped by rail, and the shipments by canal
were nearly as much.
ODonovan, correspondent of the London
Daily Neaos, Is under arrest, and on trial in
Constantlnope, for speaking insultingly of
| the Sultan. Bail is denied him.
Since the Pennsylvania stalwarts elected
Keller speaker, Pennsylvanians are crowding
the white house begging for offices, clamoring
for the loaves and fishes, the spoils of Office.
The new attorney general, Brewster, is said
to be very eccentric man, but whether his
eccentricity will enable him to convict the
Star route thieves is for the future to show
There is, as yet, not much confidence in their
conviction
"Lo, the poor Indian" is suffering for
food. Indian agency supplies, by the failure
of contractors, are greatly delayed. Tons are
frozen up on the rivers, with no prospect of
reaching their destination till spring. Great
is the consequent cutlery.
A drunken brute named Rhenhard Steltzer,
OF Piqua, Ohio, recently shot his wife and
then himself. They were Danes. When their
son returned be found them both dead. Why
the deed was done is not known-only this,
of late, he has been known to threaten, what
he has finally done.
Gen. Grant and wife and their daughter,
Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, are invited to spend sew
eral weeks this winter at the White House,
as the guests of President Arthur. Of
course the invitation is accepted. Gen. Grant
is delighted 10 get another, even an unofficial,
hack at the White House.
An "agitator," at the Union refinery in Oil
City, recently exploded with almost the eff
fects of an earthquake. Windows mile away
were shattered, and people were immensely
frightened, till the cause was ascertained. Five
hundred barrels of burning oil lit up the
heavens with vast illumination.
The S;alwart third-termers are now push
ing Chauncy /. Fillev for secretary of the in
terror, since he has lost the coveted general
postoffice department. The office beggars,
like leeches, are never satisfied "Give, give"
is the cry. Even cold victuals or old clothes
will be taken If nothing better can be had.
Guiteau is greatly elated at the number of
letters received from insensate stupids who
see remarkably attractive qualities in an as
sassin of great man. 1t is about time for
silly women to begin to send in their
boauets to the assassin's table. Such
things have been and will be again. The
| world is full of such fools of both sexes.
/ - ~N0~ - NONN ~~-~~~'
A new postmaster was recently appointed at
| Pittsburg, Pa, before the public knew that
there was a vacancy. The old postmaster re-
signed. whether by request or not, is not
known, and new appointment was made.
| The transaction fell like thunderbolt on the
community, and produced no little stir, COM
ment and denunciation. This is stalwart civil
service reform.
| An Ohio official of the State Board of Pub
lie Works, Fred. Newberg by name, has been
arrested and imprisoned for embezzlement.
He is high up in the Republican ranks of that
state, and has been stoutly defended by the
Republican journals. But they give it up now,
| since his reckless extravaganza and debauch-
| ing and lavish use of the public money have
come to light.
| A telegram from New Haven, announces
the death, probably by suicide, of Jacob Cra-
mer, father of the beautiful Jennie Cramer, for
ouiraglng and numbering whom, the Malley
brothers are in jail. The terrible fate of his
daughter, so wrought upon the mind of the
father as to drive him to self-destruc ion.
| How wide spread is the influence of crime in
producing the direst consequences.
| 1t is alleged that the committee appointed
to investigate the contingent fund frauds I'M
| der Mr.. Sherman's administration of the treas
ury department, have found enough to war
rant the conclusion that fraud and Inisappro-
priation of the fund has been proven. Ex-
Secretary of the Treasury Sherman is growing
uneasy and is said to be quite unhappy. The
| detested star-routers will sympathize with
| him.
The acting president, Mr.. Arthur, has gone
to New York, probably to hunt up the great
senatorial resigned, the boss machine man,
| who keeps so securely hidden away in the
| dark obscure. An important cue for flu
ture action will undoubtedly be taken by the
acting president The connundrum is sup
posed to be, how to bring the boss safety
bac k into the glare and light of active, effect
| i've political life-a hard nut to crack. Can he
| be caparisoned for the stalwart Republican
| nomination for governor of New York? That
is at present the painful, perplexing problem.
This gubernatorial scheme will be perfectly
satisfactory to the Democrats, and it is pre-
sumed the "half- breeds will be ready for the