Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-11-15
GLOBELETs.

tute children.
The fire commissioners Of New York sue
William b. Vanderbilt for ordering the cree
ton of wooden shed for the Fourth avenue
street car line.
A court martial has been ordered at Tren-
ton, N. j.. to investigate the charge that Gen.
Madison Drake, OF the state militia, said Gui-
teau did right in killing Garfield.
The environs of the residence of the car at
Gatschina and st Petersburg are nightly illum-
mated by electricity, and thus more strict OBJ
servation can be kept upon them.
Atlanta is to be discontinued as military
post. The Fifth artillery, which for two
years has been stationed at Mcpherson bar
racks, took it's departure yesterday for New
York, amid rounds Of cheers.
The impression gains ground in New York
that it will be impossible to carry out the plan
of the East river bridge with due regard to
public safety. The sum of $4,000, 900 has al.
ready been taken from taxpayers and sunk in
the structure.
Chicago is about to open two new schools,
at cost Of $4,000 each. There will then be
sixty five public school houses in the city,
with an attendance of 10000 children, and
there are $500 more pupils who can only be
accommodated half day each.
Charles E. Patrick, who robbed safe in q
hotel at Greencastle, Ind, was captured in In
dianapolis and confessed his crime. His par.
ents are wealthy people Of Carmi, ILL.,, and he
offered to draw on them for the amount stolen
but the authorities refused to settle.
Rev. o. B. rockingham, the leader of the
thinkers of the United States, who found
himself gravitating toward materiallsm, has
concluded to stop denying the truth OF
Christianity, but is not yet prepared to make
full recantation of his heterodox views.
The Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., has re-
turned from his third missionary tour Of
Alaska, having eanoed it for over 500 miles.
He has established two new Presbyterian mis-
missionaries at work in this very difficult
field.
A Sunday journal of Washington makes the
charge that during the last presidential cam
paign 1000 photographic pictures of Secretary
Sherman were manufactured in the treasury
department and sent broadcast in official
wrappers. at cost to the government Of
$1,000.
Miss Robinson, graduate Of the Boston uni
verslty law school, has failed. after full pre-
sentation of her case, to secure admission to the
Massachusetts, bar. The decision of the su
preme court has been against her, and her ap
peal will now be to the legislature for ar
amendment to the law.
Gas grow older,'' Walt Whitman remarks
81 am more and more ready to take the goot
ing myself about the bad. OF the American
poets, like Bryant better than Longfellow o.
Whittier, and Emerson better than either.
could not tolerate Poe few years ago, bu
now am getting to like him."
In Montreal breach Of promise suit it wa
shown that the pair agreed upon day TO
marriage, and marked it in calendar of he
diary, and that he twice surreptitiously rubbed
oat the mark and put it in month ahead. Sh
caught him at it on the last occasion, ant
sought by recourse to the law to compe
him to keep the original promise.
The Boston Herald suggests that the bes
way to secure reform in the administration o
public affairs is to begin at the bottom-il
town, city and state Offices and work up t.
the general government. It would have IN
partisan service in the police, park and healtl
| offices. Reform ward politics and the system
will rise to the requirements of the nation, i
| the idea of the article.
Miss Benson learned that Randell, who W II
wooing her at Mount Vernon, 0. already hs
wife. She waited until he made forma
proposal of marriage, and then applied to
justice for his arrest on charge Of bigamy
Being told that the crime of bigamy requires
| double marriage, she kept her secret, let tn
| engagement result in wedding, and then tri
| umphantly sent him to jail Immediately ate
| the ceremony.
The printers OF Leipslc have just celebrates
the 40Oth anniversary of the introduction o
| printing into that town. In 1881 Andrsa
Preisner, a professor of theology, set up tn
first printing press in Leipsic. He made
present of it to monastery on condition tina
| the monks would pray for his soul. Nov
Leipsic has eighty-two printing establish
ments, with 451 steam presses and GIL han,
presses, employing over $4,000 people.
The French journals speak of Sarah Bern
hardt's new toilets as among the most remark
able that have ever been made. She has had
complete new set made since her American
journey for the "Dame aux Camellias," ant
the lady who writes under the nom de plum
of "Etincell." in Figaro, says that "the dres
ses of 'Frou Frou' are perfumed with Paris
ianisms; that those of Hermann sing in superb
notes the great poesy that vibrates in the hear
of an amorous Spanish woman"
A man had curious race for life near Mer
iden, Conn. He swallowed large dose O
morphine, intending suicide, but quick!
changed his mind and started for the neares
physician, who was two miles away. He fell
the dangerous drowsiness stealing over him
and ran with all his might. The exercise KEEP
him awake, but his mouth became parched
his eyes filmy and his strength less. HI
stopped to pray, but an instant Of delay
warned him that unless he depended on mirac
ulous help, there was no time to be lost OF
his knees. he at length stumbled into the
DOCTORS office and fell senseless on the floor,
but was saved by energetic treatment.