Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-26
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AonuOA CdD1eSram says Cndb Ine session
OF parliament which commenced yester-
day, the twenty-fourth, will be devoted to
considering the question of the cloture or
the policy in regard to Egypt. The CT ,ture
will probably be passed. The Liberals
favor the evacuation of Egypt and the
government will be compelled to publish
its plans.
The death of Mr.. James D. Davidson,
n Of the leading lawyers of Virginia, is
announced from Lexington. He was a
trustee of Washington and Lee university
and connected with all of the charitable
and business enterprises of his neighbor-
hood, and a neighborhood in Virginia is
only bounded by the lines of the Old Do
minion. He leaves two daughters und an
ample estate.
Howard Carroll, Republican candidate
for representative at large in New York,
says that in the event of his election he
will become the collector. in the house.
Perhaps. though, he might nave trouble in
getting in ahead of your Uncle Holman, Of
Indiana. But the fact is so many people
in New York object to sending Carroll to
congress that he will have to do his object.
ing at home.
mont's congressional district, New York.
The World says: Dwight Townsend, of
Staten Island, received yesterday what is
alleged by interested people to be a nomi-
nation for congress against Perry Belmont.
A handful of delegates" by whom elected
is unknown, secretly met, it is said, in an
obscure room in Jamaica and there pre-
tended to decide between Townsend and
ex-Alderman Keegan, of Long Island City.
A number of the friends of Henry
George, the author of "Progress and Pow
erty," or the right of every man to a share
of land in his native country, tenderedh him
a dinner at Delmonico's, New York, on the
night of October twenty-frst, as a testi-
monial of their regard for his intellectual
qualities. Speeches were made by Mr..
George, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Perry
Belmont and others.
The merchants and bankers of any one
of the large cities of the country should
not be Disseminated against by the treas
ury department when it issues the new
gold certificates. The plan is to issue
them all at the sub-treasury in New York.
and thus let New Workers have them at
their face value, while those of other cities
who require the certificates will be obliged
to pay express charges on them. There
will probably be objections filed to this
plan from the cities of the far south and
west.
Commodore Hugh Y. Purviance, on the
retired list, died Saturday morning, Octo-
Der 81, at his residence in Baltimore. He
was born in Maryland and was appointed
to the navy in 1918. During the blockade
off Charleston and the southern coast in
1861 he commanded the frigate st. Law
renee. He sank the Confederate privateer
Petrol when off Charleston. He captured
several prizes, and participated in the
fight of the Merrimac, gunboats and bat
teries off Sewelrs Point, Hampton Roads.
In 1862 he was commissioned as commo-
dore.
The secretary of war has been requested
by the commissioners of the soldiers
home to investigate the annulment of the
contract for beef for the home. The con-
tractor says his contract was annulled be-
he declined to supply the govern
ment officers of the home with choice
pieces of beef at the same rate as the beef
called for by the contract and furnished
the inmates of the home, [Of course the
pampered martinets of the army, the
graduated a%ristocrats of West Point, ought
to be supplied Officially" with the best
CUTS" at the rate Of cheaper meats, and
contr actors failing in this, musthave their
contracts annulled.
The employees of Steinway &Sons, piano
manufacturers in New York and Astoria.
are still on a strike, and they met to con-
slider a notice published on Wednesday by
the Steinways to the effect that those who
did not return to work on Monday would
be discharged. The strike was not for any
increase of wages or for shorter hours.
The two principal demands of the men
were for the discharge of A. Somsner, the
~bookkeeper, who has become unpopular.
and the reinstatement of two men who
have been discharged, with full pay for un-
finished contracts. The Steinways refuse
to accede to the demands. They say they
pay the highest rate of wages and are not
disposed to be dictated to by their men
There are 800 men on strike.
The National Cotton Planters associa.
tion in session at Little Rock, Arkansas,
decided to hold a worlds centennial cotton
exposition in 1S84-that year being desig.
mated because of the seizure by the king
of England, in 1874, of eight bales of cot
ton as contraband, it having been charged
that America could not produce SO large a
quantity. Resolutions were adopted urging
that the commissioner of agriculture be
made a cabinet officer, asking a reduction
OF the tariff, and appointing a committe G
composed of one representative from each
state, to consider the proposition to estab-
lish a cotton and lane syndicate and for an
alliance between Manchester spinners and
American cotton growers.
The Rev. W. L. Woodruff, pastor of the
Emanuel Reformed Episcopal church, in
Baltimore, was arrested yesterday on the
Charno of 0Dar-1 l4kz