Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-29
GLOBELETs.

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| Aman in Philadelphia, bitten by a dog three
years ago, died of hydrophobia Christmas
day.
| Howe, the new postmaster general, is
other respects.
| Queen Victoria contributed ESQ for the re-
lief OF the sufferers by the disaster at the Ring
theatre at Vienna.
A man in Youngstown, Ohio, got drunk
Christmas day, and was found dead in gutter
covered with water the next morning.
| Negroes held the lucky tickets in a lottery
drawing in Louisville, KY, Christmas day
$1,000 being dsburssd to the prize holders.
The congregation in Washington city wher.
President Garfield worshiped, have decided on
the plan for building the Memorial church
Tor which funds are now being collected.
| A Cleveland, o., Democratic paper nomin-
ates Gen. James B. Steedman of Toledo, O.,
for the presidency in 1884. Gen. Steed-
man is the editor Of the Weskly Democrat at
Toledo.
Scoville, Guiteau's lawyer, pretends to fear
| for his personal safety. Marshal Henry re-
fuses protection. deeming that there is no
danger. Scoville's pretended fears are doubt
less for effect.
Guiteau says he was crazy July Q, but says
he is sane now. The ''method in his mad
| ness" should cause him to be speedily put
''where it will do the most good''-that is, in
| hempen moose
Miss Parneil, the agitator's sister, has re-
| ceived letters from more than 100 women in
this country, offering to 60 to Ireland to ad-
| dress public meetings, most of them refusing
any compensation.
The Philadelphia Times says: SIT is begin
ming to dawn upon some of the organs that
the next Republican candidate (for presidentj
has virtually been named at Washingt ton"
Does that mean ex-secretary Blaine?
Nicholas Longworth, ownes thirty-three
acres of land in the heart of Cincinnati, said to
| be worth $2,000, 600. He is a lawyer, and
ever-so-msny years ago, received that land re-
luctantly as fee for defending horse thief.
Guiteau is confident OF acquital on the
ground of inspiration. After scquital he says
| he shall be put in an insane asylum for a few
months and be discharged cured, and then
will take the lecture Il ED and make fortune.
The Rev. Nicholas A. Gallagher, now vicar
general of Columbus, o., has been appointed
coadjutor bishop Of the Roman Catholic see
of Galveston, Texas. The Rev. Mr.. Gal
| laeher was administrator of the diocese of
Columbus on the death of the lale Bishop
Rosecrans.
| Bands Of women missionaries from Utah
visit Great Britain annually and decoy thou
sands of young women to q life Of immortal
| ity among the saints. Premier Gladstone be-
| ing appealed to said he found he could do
nothing to check the practice, as he presumed
the young people 20 voluntarily.
| Gen. Steedman, of Toledo, has bright
| eyed boy, Is months old, who bears the name
of Samuel Jones Tilden Steedman. OF course
the grateful hearted Sage of Gramercy Park,
who has no son of his own, or ought not to
have, will remember the child, who is thus
handicapped by heavy name, in his will.
The amount Of interest account on the pub
| lie debt for which the treasury will be liable
on January is more than $4,000, 900, of
which amount 81, 1877 900 is on account of the
four per cent. bonds, and the remainder on &C.
count of the six per cent. bonds, which now
bear three and half per cent. per annum.
smalls, the ex-congressman (colored) from
South Carolina, recently pitched into a cor
respondent of the Charleston Ne,Ds and
Courier, in front of Wizards hotel in Wash
ington, and in hand-to-hand fight the ex-
congressman got the worst of the battle.
Moral: Always take the measure Of q news
paper man before pitching in.
James Hood, who is a brother Of the late
Gen. John B. Hood, and who now lives in
Montgomery county, KY, claims to have dis
covered the Swift silver mines on Sand Noun
tain, in that state. Swift was a geologist who,
about a hundred years ago, obtained large
quantities of silver from Sand Mountain and
died without revealing the exact locality in
! which he worked.
The Connecticut Bible society make serious
Bible society, involving an amount of many
thousand dollars. Even the managers of be-
nevolsnt religious societies, the custodians Of
pious bsnefciency, wearing the cloaks Of
christian sanctity will bear watching. The
Connecticut society claims impossible proof
of its astounding charges.
The Russian Gar has ordered the lmmedi-
ate trial Of tweuty.three nihilists before a
special sitting of the senate. A little Of the
vigor Of the CsAr ought to be infused into
Judge Cox's court to quell the antics Of Gui-
teau, and change the trial for farce into the
solemn dignity Of great state trial for one
OF the greatest, most causeless and Infamous
crimes known to the history Of the world.
1t is seems to be understood that the special
congressional committee appointed to audit
the expenses Of President Garfeld's sickness
and funeral, will allow DR.. Bliss $4,000 and
Drs Agnew, Hamilton and Reyburn, $4,000
each, and will recommend increased rank for
for Surgeon General Barnes and Surgeon
Woodward. Marshal Henry contends that
DR.. Boynton, the hom9pathist, who occupied
the position oil nurse, should be made equal in
compensation to the surgeons.
| The constitution says, in case of the death,
resignation or inability Of the president, the
vice president shall ''act as PRESIDENT Hence