Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-17
GLOBELETs.


Grant is expected soon to be in Washington
to lobby for the Nicaraguan land privilege.
1t is reported that John G. New, of Indian
apolis, win soon be appointed minister to
Austria.
There are foreign mission vacancies at
present in Austria, Chilli. Germany, Russia,
Paraguay and Hungary.
The other day the stage coach between
Tombstone and Bisbie, Arizona, was robbed
by highwaymen of $1,000.
1t is understood that Mr.. Kirkwood, when
he retires from the Guiteau department, will
be rendered an important foreign mission.
tits asserted that the big fast sailing ocean
steamers are not profitable to the owners. The
slower, freight carrying steamers are far more
profitable.
A patent has been obtained by resident of
Santa Barbara, California, for an invention en-
abling an instantaneous telegraph message to
be sent from moving railway train.
Speaker Keifer, in defending his manner of
making up the committees of the house, says
he is satisfied with his work. The World
says: "Perhaps his bitterest enemy can hardly
say harder thing of him."
That seven hundred thousand emigrants
came from Europe to the United States last
year, is somewhat prodigious, and as yet,
without precedent. The emigration of the
present year seems to promise to exceed to
exceed that of the last.
The greed, and strife and pressure for Office
at Washington, was never greater than now.
Congressman are obstreperous. They 60 to the
president and demand appointments. eff you
want my help, you must appoint my man."
is way of putting it.
Gath telegraphs: "It is getting to be gen.
eral talk that Folger is failure in the treas
ury department. He is strictly a Judge,
formed for the bench. They say he has no
ability to deal with financial questions, nor
dispatch of business in the office
The rapid redemption of the public debt,
will enable congress to reduce taxation. The
question will be where to put the reduction.
The debt is now substantially $4,000, 000, 900.
Since last June it has been reduced over $751;
100000, and during the fiscal year it will be
| reduced as much more.
Strong pressure is being brought to bear
| upon the president by prominent Republicans
and journals South, especially in New Orleans,
to have the present secretary of the navy,
Hunt, retained, the claim being made that he
| is representative Southern Republican in the
| broadcast sense of the words.
A Woman's Evangelical Temperance asso-
citation has been organized by former members
| of the Woman's National Christian Temper
ance Union who are opposed to the suffrage
| feature in that society. Thus IL appears that
the adva need temperance women are not
agreed on the suffrage dogma.
Herr August Gottel, a large owner of Cali
fornian mines and partner in New York
banking firm, has given $4,000 to the suffer
ers by the Vienna fire. Herr Gottel lives in a
quiet bachelor fashion in Vienna, where his
charities have been on a transatlantic scale,
| though he has never made himself promi-
| nent.
| The ridiculous quarrel between Congress
man Blackburn, of Kentucky, and Gen. Bur-
| bridge, of the same state, continues without
| abatement. Their letters of elimination and
recrimination are getting to be monotonous.
i "a uNOA Los WILL SAPCSoCo3 Ou0 uOuC ID lihCiy
to come Off Their wrath will be expended
in the reckless use of pen and ink.
| An Ottawa, Ontario, special says: 1t has
now been decided that the Yellowstone Pas
route through the Rockies for the Canadian
Pacific railway is to be abandoned, Mr.. Rod
gers, one of the syndicate engineers, having
found three other good passes, either of which
is available for railway purposes, and one of
which will be adopted. Bow River Pass is
the one most favored by Mr. Rodgers.
1t has been reported that William II. Eng
lish, candidate for vice president on the ticket
with Gen. Hancock in 1880, has placed stat
ue of his late wife in the Indianapolis Opera
house. But there is no truth in the report.
Mr.. English has erected on his lot at Crown
Hill cemetery the handsomest monument in
| the state, upon which is figure of Hope, the
face being an excellent likeness of his late
wife.
| a telegram from Toronto says: Several
gentlemen of this city and Montreal have ap-
piled for charter for the International Col
onzation company of Canada (limited). The
object of the promoters is to bring out to the
northwest of Canada colonies of Jews from
Russia, where they are suffering great hard
ships. The capital stock of the company is
81 100000, and the chief place of business
Montreal.
springer's bill, defining the laws of insanity
In criminal cases, provides that no person in
dicted in the United States court shall be &C
quilted on the ground of insanity, idiecy,
lunacy, or other unsoundness of mind, ex-
cept upon proof that at the time of commit
| ting the offense, he was laboring under such
| defect of reason as either not to know the ma
ture and quality of the act lie was doing, or
| not to know it was unlawful or wrong.
On the 9th of last November mail bag was
stolen from Hatton Garden postoffice, Lon
don. The robbery was very important one,
as the bag contained valuables- diamonds,
watches and jewelry-said to be worth fully
100000. The English government has offer
ed to pardon the actual perpetrator of the
theft if he will give the necessary information
to lead to the apprehension and conviction of
the remaining parties implicated therein. The
rewards offered amount to 81 200
A Republican congressman, and supporter
of Blaine remarked the other day in regard to
the rumored appointment Of Wilton E.
Chandler as secretary of the navy: "Chand-
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