Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-01
GLOBELETs.

VlCUOIldt AubtIeuo, - buOut W OOIIOW a.
other twenty millions Of dollars.
A juryman has been fined $50 for being Ten
minutes late by Baltimore Judge.
Abliah Gilbert, formerly United States soma
tor from Florida, died last week in New York.
There are hundred cases of scarlet fever at
Leominster, Mass, and the public schools will
probably be closed.
Owing to the recent decline Of ten cents in
wheat, the Milwaukee millers are starting up
again.
The tunnel between Dover aud Calais ad-
vances, Sir Garnet Wolseley notwithstanding,
at the rate of foot an hour.
Mrs. Nancy Bradley, of Louisville, who in
dorsed the paper of her bankrupt son for over
t2O0, 900, has made an assignment,
Richard Wagner will pass the winter ct
Salerno and thence 60 to Greece to complete
musical work on classical subject.
Lord Lyons has now represented England
at Paris for fourteen years, an unusually long
tenure of the blue ribbon of British embas
sizes.
Mr.. Gladstone has had regular body guard
of police OF late. This is as much novelty
for an English Prime Minister as for an Amer
lean president.
After New Years no child under 10 can DO
employed in any manufacturing establishment
in New Hampshire, except during the regular
school vacations.
The Maltese are protesting against having
the English language forced upon them. A
petition against this, signed by $4,000 persons,
is to be sent to Queen Victoria.
An eel got into the water pipe Of the Yale
Lock Manufacturing company, at Stamford.
Conn.,. the other day, and the vast manufac-
tory was obliged to shut down.
A lady has placed the sum Of s250 at tho
disposal of the committee of the Homes for
Working Girls in London, toward the found
ing Of home in the south of London, to be
called Garfield House.
The phosphate royalty of South Carolina, at
81 ton (Which royalty is paid on only the
phosphate rock obtained in the river and navi-
gable streams of the 81 ate), amounted in the
last fiscal year to $121 ,541.
Adellna Patti, under the management OF Mr..
Abbey, appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music Monday night. Every seat was taken
at IS, and the spectators sold some at twice
that figure. The receipts at the box Office
were $11 700.
The novelist, Giovanni Rufni, is dead, aged
"a. He was mixed up in conspiracies with the
Maznians, was exiled and settled in England.
Lorenzs Benoni and Doctor Antonio are his
best known works, and the latter was popular
twenty years ago.
1t is intended to build the largest malt-house
on the continent in Leroy, n. Y. As the plans
are now, there will be mailing capacity of
ready a great six-story building has been
erected for that purpose.
The dispersed orders of French monks are
beginning to show their despair Of better
times by selling off their empty establish
ments. Thus the italian Barnabite Monastery
in Paris has been demolished, and the Jesuits'
college at Poitiers is advertised for sale.
The supply of life insurance agents in this
country being nearly exhausted, twelve Eng
lish agents have been imported by New York
company. Those who have felt that the great
need of this country is more life insurance
agents will feel relieved by this announcement.
s. s. Cox arrived in New York from Eu-
rope and drove to his residence while party
of friends were cruising in the bay to meet
him. The joke was SO good that he was
taken to the reception tug, transported about
the harbor for an hour, and then escorted
home.
The chief of police at Milwaukee, learning
that a colered lad had left for Waukeshs
with suspicious bundle, ordered his arrest
at the latter place, when it was discovered
that he had all the sealskin goods recently
stolen from Hansen's factory. The burglars
prove TO have been hotel bell-boys.
The princess OF Wales, on a recent visit to
Liverpool, wore lavender colored Mother
Hubbard dolman, and beneath it a plum-col-
ored satin dress, with cream-colored lace over:
SKIRT and close-ftting dark bonnet, trimmed
with flowers. The young princesses were
each attired in peacock blue costumes.
A man In Chenango county, New York, il
the owner OF mammoth cooler, in which he
has now stored 5000 barrels of eggs. These
eggs are purchased during the summer at very
low prices and carefully packed away, and at
this season they are shipped to New York,
where they are sold for good prices Is "fresh
laid eggs"
According to statement in the Memphis
Tenu.) Appeal, Dr. Tucker, son of Gen. Tucker,
who was killed recently in Mississippi, gives
the information that white man named Sim
mons has confessed that he received $500
from another white man named Shaw to kill
Gen. Tucker, and that he gave negro $500
to do the shooting.
Society in st. Louis is in a ferment as to the
proprlety of admitting into it's sacred circles
q worthy young man who, in fit Of infatua.
ton, recently married his aunt on his mothers
side. The ceremony, it is said, was performed
in Buffalo by judge of the court OF appeals
of New York. The issue of this momentous
question will be awaited with interest.
One can get some idea Of the wealth Of the
mines on the Pacific coast from the fact that
in 1877 there was $76,0OO,OOO on deposit in
the savings banks of California. This is the
largest amount of money ever held by the
banks of the state at one time, and its accu-
mutation was the result of the mining pros
perity that had prevailed for some time pre-