Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-23
aLoBELErs.


Ex-Attorney General DAVIS succeeds Judge |
Gray as chief justice of Massachusetts.
!. The italian senate has passed q bill giving |
franchise to all who can read or write.
Scoville expresses the confident belief that |
the jury will acquit Guiteau or disagree.
The wives of the members of the cabinet
will assist President Arthur in receiving on
the ID of January.
Gen. and Mrs. Grant have postponed their
contemplated visit to President Arthur till !!
the middle of January.
The Mollie Mcguire trials for murder are
progressing in Uniontown, Pa. Great Difficult |
ty is experienced in impanelling jury.
Collector Clark of Atlanta, Ga, in the first
three weeks in December seized ten distillerles,
10000 gallons of beer, and made eleven ar
rests.
E. Il. Taper, prosperous merchant OF
Hammond, Ind, died December 20, in dental
chair at Chicago under the influence of chloro-
form.
Howe, the new postmaster general, is one OF
Grants beloved third-termers, and a stalwart
of the stalwarts, as the assassin avowed him
self to be.
A large anaconda is loose in Cincinnati,
crawling as yet in undiscovered purlieus OF
the city. It escaped from John Robinson's
circus menagerie.
Jessie Spaulding declines to state whether he
cago, but the Tribune thinks there is no
doubt of his acceptance.
Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,, intends to
introduce bill into the senate granting fe-
male suffrage. He is determined not to be
driven from his position by rebuff or ridicule.
States from the Netherlands, has been trans
ferred to Constantinople, and Mr.. Week.
berlin succeeds him as minister at Washing
ton.
Congress has passed bill granting the
ranking privilege to Mrs. Garfield, and it has
been signed BY the president. This is timely
and just, as her correspondence has grown to
u voluminous extent.
Miss Anna Parlell announces that If the
Land League offices are seized, correspondence
may be directed to Miss Helen Taylor, an Eng
lish friend of -FOUR cause and John Stuart
Mills adopted daughter
A teacher in Shelby county, Indiana, shot
The ball missed the boy, bat his face was filled
with powder. The teacher was arrested and
great excitement prevailed.
English journals, especially the London
Times, the thunderer, severely score the as
sasslnation court at Washington for s'the lax
! ity Of its proceedings" declaring the trial to
be "the most farcical ever heard Of"
Minister Hannibal Hanlin has presented his
credentials to the king of Spain, and in doing
so gracefully alluded to the kind sentiments
expressed by the king to the government at
Washington on the death of President Gar
| held.
Mrs. Garfield, through Col. Rockwell, has
expressed her thanks to her fellow country
men, the American citizens of Ottawa, Can
| ada, for their resolutions of kindly remem.
brance Of her in her hours of trouble and
| sorrow.
tits rumored that Mr.. Filley, postmaster at
st. Louis, will be appointed Second assistant
| postmaster general. It will be remembered
that Mr.. Filley was much spoken Of for post
master general, to which position Mr.. Howe
has been appointed.
New Jersey farmer has discovered on the
Schoolby mountain, hard maple tree that
| never casts Its leaves. They remain the same
through winters blasts and summers heats.
The tree affords an excellent quality of sap,
and easily converted into good maple syrup.
In 1872 the assassin Guiteau worked, in his
way, for the election of Horace Greeley, and
in return was to receive the appointment as
minister to Chill or Switzerland. Had Greeley
been elected and refused the appointment, as
| he would, would not his fate have been that of
Garfield's by the inspiration of deity?"
1t is stated that son of the late Rev. Nehe-
miah Adams, of Boston, clergyman whose
praise was in all the churches, as staunch
and devoted orthodox divine of the old New
England Puritan school, has become speak
er and writer against Christianity, la Bob
Ingersoll, who is also son of an orthodox
clergyman.
Guiteau boastfully and complacently says:
81 made Arthur president" and, yet, charges
the murder of Garfield upon God. He patron
isingly adds: 81 am highly pleased with
President Arthur. He has done splendidly in
his new position. Arthur cannot feel very
much fattered at the commentator of the
attrocious scoundrel.
There is great rejoicing in this country and
in England caused by the long supposed-to-be
lost exploring steamer, Jeanette, tempered
and saddened, however, by the report that
| only part of the crew have yet been heard
from. The deepest anxiety, but unmixed
with hope is entertained for the safety of the
| missing portion of the crew.
Ex-secretary Sherman is being good deal
smoked, perhaps smudged, is the proper word
to use, in regard to the use made of public
money during his secretaryship of the treasury.
1t is alleged, and being proven too, that he
employed large sums of public money to help
on his thorough preliminary canvass to secure
nomination for the presidency.
When Senator Sherman was secretary of the
treasury he turned Gen. Arthur out of the
collectorship at New York, "for cause" al
legged improper conduct. President Arthur
may now return that compliment by investi-
eating the ex-secretary "for cause" the a.
eged improper use of the prepaid money.
Thus time makes II things even
Elk Secretary Blaine was expected to visi
Atlanta with Senator II II, and warm recep-
ton and banquet was planned with which to
greet hin. His failure to accompany the SEN
ator was disappointment. Mr.. Blaine gives
as a reason for not going. that visit at this
time to the South, might be construed as hav-
ing political significance, which inference
would be distasteful to him.
The Chicago Tribune says: Leading mill
tary officers at department headquarters in St. |
Paul express themselves very emphatically in |