Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-06
GLOBELETs.


threatened with cancer in the nose.
Moses Taylor is the richest merchant in
New York. He is rated at $40.000O00.
Two negro murderers were hung near Shep-
ardstown the other day by mob. They con-
fessed.
Senator Hill, of Georgia. who has been af-
aicted with a cancer on his tongue is re-
ported to be cured.
Gen. Robert looms, OF Georgia, thinks
Gblteau ought to be kicked to death by
mule-incisive, il not elegant.
Austria is bending under fearful burden of
taxation, but her financial condition is report.
ed triie better than it was year ago.
The eastern counties of Mississippi produced
10000 bales of cotton on $4,000 acres. An
average of one-third of bale to the acre.
Wendell Phillips, of Boston, the diseased"
philanthropist said the other day: "To hang
Gulteau, would be blot on civilization
''Papa, how do editors get in free at all the
shows?' "Well, sonny, as a general rule they
give $25 worth of advertising for ascent
ticket"
The Canadian governor general, the marquis
of Lorne, now in England, will not return to
Canada, it is said, unless his wife, the Princess
Louise, accompanies him.
Mrs. Garfield receives from thirty to sixty
letters day from impecunious fools, from
all parts of the country, begging for money;
including some "weak" churches.
Recently four negroes in the Oxford, N. c.,
charged with murder were taken out by a mob
of masked men, numbering about one hun
dred, and hung. The negroes, it is said, male
full confession of their crime.
The creditors of the Rhode Island Sprague
estate, discouraged bv the long delayed settle
ment and clouded prospects for the future,
are offering to take fifty cents on the dollar.
A compromise on this basis seems probable.
It is said of the "busted'' Pacific bank of
Boston that it is believed more hardship and
loss will be entailed by forcing it into the
hands of receiver than by letting its friends
reorganize it, which they are able and willing
to do.
A meeting was recently held in London by
the principal Jewish associations of Great
Britain to consider how best to relieve the
Russian Jews from their perilous condition,
and the dreadful fate that seems to threaten
them.
Guiteau says he will take the lecture field
and make $4,000 next year. He did not former
ly draw as lecturer, but he thinks he will
"draw" better now. The question is, will
Hades afford good field for lecturer of his
calibre.
A reverend divine of New Brunswick, "a
province of the dominion) says, the assassina-
ton of Garfield was ordered by God as pun
isment of the nation, because of the popular
and semi-official reception of Parnell in this
country.
Leavenworth, Kansas, had big scare the
other uight, caused by rumor that the
James boys with several men were about to
make descent upon that city. The reported
marauders failed, however, to put in an ap-
pearance.
The New Orleans Democrat stoutly AYERS
that there are not three greater imposters on
the theatrical road than Lawrence Barrett,
Emma Abbott and Mary Anderson. Upon
what meat has this journal fed that it is thus
maggoty?
Mrs. Garfield has been elected the first hon.
orary member of the New Shakespeare society
of London, ''as a slight tribute of admira-
ton for the loving devotion shown by her
during the long and painful illness of the late
President"
President McCosh, of Princeton college.
New Jersey, says there is decrease in the
number OF college graduates who go into the
ministry, and Rev. Lyman Abbott, editor of
the Christian Union, adds, there is decrease
in quality as well as in quantity.
Mrs. Belle Spaulding, of Galesburg, H.,
having been acquitted of the murder of her
husband, celebrated her escape by giving a
banquet to the jury. Eighbof them accepted
the invitation. The other four did not. They
received tickets to minstrel show that night
A movement is said to be on foot to run
Attorney General MacVeagh for G vernon of
Pennsylvania. The New York Herald says he
will take the nomination Gas the leader of the
reform, Independent, high-minded, Christian,
Republican party, opposed to all machines
and all Bosses"
The Republican sachems of Maine have had
meeting at Portland. Senator Frye was ap-
pointed chairman of the ''ring'' state commit
tee, in place of Secretary Blaine, resigned. For
the next Republican governor, as the choice
of Mr.. Blaine, the sachems selected William
Widgery Thomas, Jr.
"-Phebus what name
To swell the sounding trump + future
fame.
Mrs. Garfield has forwarded the photograph
of the late president requested by Queen Vic
toria. The photograph was enclosed in an
envelope bordered with mourning, addressed
to Queen Victoria, with the name of Mrs.
Garfield written on the lower corner. It was
encased in box lined with dark blue satin
velvet, which was again encased in mahog-
any box, and was transmitted by the depart
ment of state through the regular official
channels.
There is little hope for Republican form
of government in Rhode Island, but the oligar-
chy which rules that state is making little
progress in the right direction. It is actually
considering the proposition to allow honorably
discharged union soldiers to vote at elections.
even if they do not own real estate. The time
may yet come when well behaved and intelli-
gent foreign-born citizen of Rhode Island
will have the rights and privileges enjoyed by
a rascally and ignorant native-born one.
A traveller bought an excursion ticket from
Washington to Toledo, and, owing to deten-
ton of trains, for which he was not RESPONSE
BILE, its limit of time expired while he was still
on the way, The conductor on the terminal
road demanded regular fare, and put him off