Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-26
GLOBELETs.

Kieff, amounted to SIT 500:
Russian nihilists are now carrying oranges
| in their pockets with dynamite concealed in
| side. A number OF such persons have been
arrested.
Lemuel E. Miller cultivated 100 acres of
land in sugar cane near Cape May City, New
Jersey, last season. and realized from the pro-
duct $9,64S.
It is asserted that the criminal prosecution
| of the star route thieves is to be pressed for
| ward, and that civil suits will be commenced
against some of them.
The Austrian emperor will cause charita-
| BILE institution to be erected in Vienna on the
site of the lately burned Ring theatre, in
memory of the hundreds of lives lost by that
terrible disaster.
Mabel Morley was compelled to attempt her
usual daily feat OF walking tight rope to the
pole of circus tent at Athens, Texas, though
she declared she was dizzy from illness. She
fell and was killed.
During the year ending May 81, 1881, 540,-
| 997, 900 feet of merchantable lumber were cut
in Minnesota, lis, 755, 900 feet in Mississippi
245, 1896 900 feet in Alabama, 20S, 054, 900 feet
in Florida, and 274, 100000 feet in Texas.
A young lady who had an objection to the
revision of the New Testament writes to the
London Truth to say that the phrase ''purple
and linnen" conveys no idea of luxury to her
mind, and she suggests as an improvement
''sealskin and black velvet"
Will it not be rather inconsistent for the
president and congress to inaugurate decisive
measures against polygamy in Utah, while the
British minister is tolerated in Washington
society without even the poor excuse of poly
cries?
The census bureau has issued bulletin
showing that there was standing on the 3lst
day of May, 1880, 80,610, 000, 900 feet of mer-
charitable pine in Minnesota, 23,975, 000,0 600
feet in Mississippi, 81, 1872 OOO, 900 feet in Ala
bama, 6,615, 100000 feet in Florida, and ST.
sos, 500, 900 feet in Texas.
Evening up with, if not outdoing royalty,
seems now to be the aim of republican sim
plicity. President Arthur has launched his
carriage and horses on the streets of Washing
ton. The establishment is "loud," the finest
that has ever appeared in the streets of the
capital. 1t is alleged to be a model sof mag
| nifcence.
Robson, Grants secretary of the navy, now
representative from New Jersey, had large
finger in the pie in the makeup of the house
committees. He was the power behind Keifer,
"biger" with one "g'') than Keifer himself.
Robson is Grant-stalwart third-termer-the
predominant element in the present admins
| tration.
Anarchy seems to prevail in Peru. The
intensity of warning factions exists to such
an extent as to put quiet and safety out of the
question. The population is broken up into
| local factions, each under its own favorite
leader, asserting sovereignty under one or an
other extraordinary title.
| Agricultural Commissioner Loring has torn
another leaf from LIE Dues laurels. He init
mates that LIE Dues South Carolina tea farm
is fraud, says the LIE Due tea has none OF
the Celestial flavor, and suggests that Florida
| is the proper latitude for the plant. DIR. Lor-
ing's hobby is botanic garden in Florida, to
be run, Of course, on government money.
The investigation by subcommittee of
| the senate of John Sherman's alleged frauds
on the contingent fund of the treasury, is be-
ing conducted with closed doors, on the "Star
Chamber" principle. 1t is charged that the
| ''closed doors" are in accordance with Mr..
Sherman's wishes. Isn't afraid of the light,
| is he? But sunrise will be sure to come.
Pennsylvania turned over seventeen votes
to Keifer, and in making up the committees
of the house he has paid in full the contract
price. Pennsylvania gets four chairmanships,
three positions on the ways and means com
anticipates nearly equal to chairmanships,
and in addition the state is represented on
every important committee. This political
skulduggery will have its return in due time.
Mr.. Reeds assignment to the chairmanship
Of the judiciary committee is said to be part
ofthe arrangement by which Keller was elected
as speaker. The story is that Mr.. Reed was
kept in the field as candidate for speaker by
Mr.. Robson, who was acting in Keifer's in
| terest, and who desired, through the candi-
dacy Of Reed, to keep the New England vote
from going to Hiscock.
Judge Gray, just appointed to the United
States supreme bench, is rich and a bachelor
is Republican, but not violent partisan in
| the strict sense of that word He is a stately
| aristocrat, with the bluest blood of the blue
upper-ten of Boston. Of course he has no
sympathy with the masses. His confrma-
ton in the senate was not unanimous. Many
Democratic senator's voted against him on the
ground that no more Republicans should 20
| on the supreme bench. Their idea is always
too partisan, and that it is the duty of the ex-
ecutive in the interest of a justly balanced jul
dietary to appoint a Democrat to the bench,
and this too in the interest Of pure admins
tration of Justice.
| Thomas Ewing, who has disappeared from
politics since his defeat as the Democratic can.
didate for governor of Ohio, has removed
from his native town, Lancaster, Ohio, to
New York city and opened law Office. He
was admitted as attorney and counselled in
the state of New York the other day, and after
being sworn in, he could not find his hat
Some one had taken it by mistake or other
wise; and he had to borrow q chapeau, and
| 70 bic ofi No With q hot e;,os -,