Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-06
GLoBELETs.

DR.. Pussy was buried in the same vault
where the body of his wife was placed &C
years ago.
The New York horseshoers have struck
againstthe use by their employers of ma
chine made shoes.
Queen Victoria intends to spend por-
ton of the coming winter in the south OF
France, so it is stated.
The customs authorities of Montreal
have seized $4,000 of japanese family
wares consigned to a New York company
Of the whole number of letters and par
GELS opened in the dead letter office for
the year ending June 80, 1888 contained
money.
The number of yellow fever cases at
Brownsville, Texas. since thel beginning OF
the epidemic, is 1900, and the number OF
deaths 107.
Kossuth recently celebrated the eighty
first anniversary of his birth and the
thirty-third of his condemnation to death
as traitor.
The centenary of Bolivar is to be cele-
brated on July %, 1888, at Caracas, Ven-
ezuela, by the dedication of statue OF
Washington.
It is believed in the treasury department
that the banks have completed the ex-
change of bonds into 3 per cents, ask no
more are offered.
A COW in Michigan got entangled in a
clothes line, and appeared on thelistreet
habilitated in underwear, to the great hor-
ror of lady pedestrians.
A meeting of merchants has been held
in New York, and steps taken to form an
organization to work for the abolition of
duties on raw materials.
Count Edouard SIEVE, Belgian consul
general at Philadelphia has been transfer
red to Spain, and will sail next week. His
successor will be Count Rollo.
Judge Folger's letter of acceptance Is
generally characterized as ''Folger's fu-
neral sermon" The funeral baked
meats will be ready early in November.
Chief Justice Coleridge, of England,
saws that four-ffths of the crime that
comes into court results from drink, for
which Britishers pay over $4,000, 100000.
Close investigation is still in progress to
ferret out alleged gross and immense
frauds in connection with the construction
of the East Brooklyn and New York
bridge over the East river.
The secretary of war has awarded the
contracts for levee work on the lower MIS-
sissippi river. The total amount OF levee
work contracted for is $4,636,2OO cubic
yards at cost of 81 ,143,S24.
The New York Methodist, heretofore
published as an Independent Al. E. church
paper, has been sold to the Christian Ad-
vocote, the M. E. church official organ, and
has been merged in that paper.
The tariff commission held session in
New York the other day at which j. S.
Moore read paper reviewing the tariff
history of the United States, and advocat-
ing revision and reduction of duties.
The explosion of kerosense lamp at
Plymouth, Me-, did not hurt Mrs. Miles
much, and the loss of the dress which she
wore was of small account; but in burn
ed pocket was $1,000 IN paper money.
Ex-Cadet Whitaker, who is now in
South Carolina, declares that he expects to
get the Democratic nomination for con-
gress in the 'black district of the state.
The Republican candidate there is'E. W.
NJ. Mackey.
Curious Detroit people continue to wonder
what that stableIkeeper is going to do with
he three elephants he bought at auction
the other day, although he tells them that
he intends to use them in the lumber woods
in winter ''swamping out logs"
Judges Wallace andCox of the New York
supreme court, in their session in Utica,
refused to grant writ of habeas corpus
in the case of Sergeant Mason. The glo-
rious uncertainty of the law" andoftis
its injustice seem to go hand in hand.
Many of the towns in Connecticut held
elections for town officers. on Monday, Oc-
tober 2. The vote generally very light.
Hartford went Democratic. Waterbury,
West Hartford, Weathersfield, Berlin. An
dover, Meriden, Windsor, Glastonbury and
SuAield, elected Republican town officers.
A number of on-commissioned Indian
officers of the British army in Egypt are
to be taken to London to receive medals
from the queen. Royalty bestows medals
of merit on his subjects, and Grant and
his henchmen, in gorgeous imitation of
royalty, bestow medals on the 1906" Chi
cago services.
The National Liberal League at its re-
cent session in st. Louis, adopted the year
1900 B. G. as the starting point of the
Era of Man." Fatuous ignorance rather
than enlightened common sense leads the
league to dense darkness and bewilder-
ment. Festus said to Paul, much learn
ing hath made thee mad" A lack Of that
element has doubtless led the league to
the same result.
The Howard observatory has made two
observations of the comet, which establish
the fact that it is one of brief period.
According to the present data it must have
made semi-circumferance of the sun in
two or three hours, or at the rate of four
hundred miles a second. The fact that the
suns atmosphere offers no check to its pro-
gress proves it incombustible, unlike me-
taoroitos