Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-13
GLOBELETS.

Exports OF petroleum curing 1851, $fo,-
$50, LOB.
Cases of smallpox are reported in Brooklyn
and Jersey City.
It is not believed there will be much tariff
legislation at this session of congress.
The New York Star reports that Long
Branch is to be quarantined for smallpox.
Some civil service reformers have been
wasting their eloquence on old Jimmy Howe.
Guiteau's brother John says the assas-
sin will be dead before the day of execu-
ton.
Snow is three feet deep at Carbonate, Pa.
It showed three days in succession, adding
| foot day.
W. H. Vanderbilt's new house in the city of
New York and its furniture and decorations
cost $4,000
The Methodist church in Moline. Wis, was
recently destroyed by fire. Loss $41, 900 and
insurance $4,000.
JEFF Davis has long been blind of one eye,
and it is now reported that he is rapidly los
| ing the sight of the other.
Gen. Abe Buford, the well-known Kentucky
| turfman, has joined the church and announced
his retirement from the sporting world.
Strawberries were on sale IN New York
| City last week at 81 quart, and were quickly
gobbled up at that price by gastronomic as
| thetes.
There seems to be but little doubt that the
| will be repealed at the present session Of con-
gress.
The birthday of Susan B. Anthony is to be
celebrated on Wednesday of next week, Feb
ruary Is, when she will reach the ripe age of
| 90 years.
| And scoville, as well as John, thinks Gui-
| teau will not live to be hanged. Is it suicide
they are contemplating? He is too great
coward to kill himself.
John C. New, of Indiana, for minister to
Russia, and Judge Taft, of Ohio, for minister
to Germany, are mentioned as among the near
| by probable appointments.
The body of boy 16 years old, who had
been drowned six weeks previously at Browns
vile, Pa, was recently found at Wellsville, o.,
having drifted 800 miles from the point of
drowning.
President Arthur is said to be in favor of
Mahonizing as many southern states as posi-
BILE. He fears the Democrats will make gains
| in the north-and they will, too. His fears
are well grounded.
| The Boston Post chronicles the following
s'important if true" and startling piece of in
formation: "Boston women have begun
thanking gentlemen who give up their seats
| in the street cars" Good for the Hub.
The Prince of Wales reports by telegram in
reply to an inquiry from Canada, that his wife,
the Princess, is well and that there is no foun-
dation for the report that she had been seized
by hounds while playing with her children.
A California man worth nearly half mil
lion dollars, recently ATTENDED the funeral OF
| his son. Just before the coffin was lowered
he unscrewed the silvered handles, and taking
| them back to town sold them to an undertaken.
The New York Herald says Gen. McClellan's
social life in that city is very pleasant. At
his residence he does not leave the duties of
hospitality with the ladies' alone. Miss Nc
Clellan is blonde and is a great favorite in
society.
The wife of a man living ten miles south
| west of Bloomfield, Iowa, gave birth to male
child with three perfect legs. The third leg
grew from the top of the head. The child
weighed fifteen pounds. Mother and child
both died.
Why is it that Gen. Grant is always sus-
pected of having finger in the pie when any
thing scrooked" is going on? He denies, as
it has been inferred. if not directly charged,
that he has any interest in the Peruvian COM
pany of any kind.
The president has confirmed the sentence of
death imposed by the court martial in the case
of the three Indian shouts, ''Dead Shot,"
"Dandv Jlm,'' and "Skippy," convicted of
on the Sd of March next.
pool of blood and blood-stained pocket
book, were found on recent morning on the
bridge in the village of Kent, Potage county,
Ohio. It is believed there has been foul play.
There is much excitement and the matter is
being Investigated by detectives
When Allen Bum of Sidney, Ohio, came
home the other day he found his wife lying
on the floor dead, and their little child sit
| ting beside the dead body. The woman was
horribly burned all over the body, and it is
imposed that she fell in the fire in fainting
fit.
Orlando B. Potter, owner of the old World
| building in New York, which was recently
burned involving the loss of life, who is al
legged to have known the building was unsafe
and liable to be burned, is severely denounced
for his negligence, and it is recommended that
he be indicted for manslaughter. 1t is time
men were brought to account for maintaining
such fre-traps.
Three dead bodies were recently found in
the. ruins of the New York Observer office,
DESTROYED in the late great fire in that city.
One was the body of Mr.. Cunningham, who
had been employed in the Observer office for
over fifty years. Another was the body of
Alfred Harris, who had been employed in the
office for fifteen years, and another was the
body of Treadway, who had been employed in
the office f9Itwelve years.
Edmund Burke, late of Newport, N. H.,
left an estate of over 100000, and in his will
provided that his widow, second wife, should
have the use and income of one-thlrd OF his
estate during her life, on condition that she