Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-21
GLOBELETS.

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Oct. II there were fifty new cases of vel
low fever at Pensacola, Fla, and thre.
deaths.
French company is building railroad
between the Niger and the Senegal rivers
in Africa.
At late dates there was no change il
Thurlow Weeds condition, and he wa.
resting comfortably.
1t is reported that the Suez canal author
tiles in Egypt will not employ any one who
worked for the British army.
Cedar Croft, Bayard Taylor's homestead
near Kenneth Square, Pa, has been sold at
auction for $14,O5O, to farmer.
Mr.. Vanderbilt and his party, Oct. II.
travelled from Burlington to Chicago at the
average rate of fifty nine miles an hour.
The claims already filed at Washington
for services rendered President Garfield
during the time Of his great suffering, ag-
gregate about $4,000.
The promotions in the army consequent
upon the retirement of Major-ueneral
Mcdowell will not be announced until after
the presidents return to Washington.
A bill has been introduced into the Yer
mont assembly providing that criminals
sentenced to death shall be made insensi-
BILE (chloroformed) before execution.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, says the
Democrats will sweep the state in Novem-
Der, from one end to the other, and that all
the fourteen Democratic congressman will
be elected.
General H. H. Dodge, of Cleveland,
Ohio, being to i'll too rise from his bed on
election day, was, at his own request, car
ried to the polls, where he voted an open
Democratic ticket
The New York Sun of Saturday last says
badges have appeared with the Vanderbilt
motto, 'Ths people be ID inscribed on
them. They Were worn in the streets of
that city on Friday.
Sir Richard Keane. of Ireland, who has
been travelling in the northwest, regards
Mime sofa as IAN overrated state" as there
is much bad water, as we'll as multitude
of mosquitoes, there.
The nice new president will have a nice
new White house to go into when he gets
home. Of course he will have house
warming. The boys and ''Chet" will have
a lively time in wining up.
Memorial services were recently held in
the Protestant cemetery at Rome, in honor
of George P. Marsh, late United States min
lister to Italtt. The services were conduc-
ted by the Rpv. DR.. Nevin.
How completely New York city domi-
nates.the country financially is indicated by
the fact that of III private banks in the
sixteen leading cities of the United States
sos of them are in that city.
Will lawyers steal? The other day Will
lam G. p. Darlington. lawyer of New
York city, was arrested, charged with the
Ia rec ny of $4,000 worth of diamonds from
Phillip Clark, a diamond broker.
DR.. G. W. Musgrave's death brings $780,
900 in legacies to Princeton college. One
of the legacies, of $4,000, was left to Dr.
Musgrave during his lifetime by his
nephew, G. NJ. Giger, who died in 1865.
1t is said that the effect of shipping
Western dressed beef to New York has in
duced four of the largest slaughterers of
the metropolis to transfer their establish
ments to Chicago and take their meat East
for sale.
The governor general of the Cana
dian Dominion, and his wife, the
Princess Louise, will not leave British Co.
lumbia till late in tn e fall. The governor
general is shooting deer and grouse at
-Kamloops.
President Arthur, on leaving Boston for
his home, was presented with baton
made from wood which grew at Daniel
Webster's birthplace in New Hampshire.
That is to be welded by the accidental
president as his scepter. Clubs are
trumps.
The late Daniel Cook, of San Francisco,
left a fortune of about $1,5OO,OOO. He
was as poor as Jobs turkey in 1853, but
between that time and his death, at the
age of forty-ive years, acquired from
books an education and from mines piles
of gold.
Thurlow Weeds friends have little hope
that he will ever recover from his present
illness. His physician fears that he may
sink through sheer hamilton and exhaus-
ton, and is, therefore, using every means
possible to induce the patient to eat as
much as he can.
President Arthur, at recent junketing
given him by College President McCosh,
at Princeton, expressed great confidence
in Princeton college, at which the faculty
gyrated with joyous ecstacy. Chefs ''con-
fidence" was regarded as a new corner
stone to the institution.
The Methodist, an independent news
paper of the Methodist church, has sunk
intot he Christian, Advocate. The Methodist
has been published for twenty-five years,
but its merging is not accepted as one of
the signs that Methodism is decaying, ev en-
by those who seem to be on the lookout
for such omens.
When the ex-Empress Eugene was in
Paris two weeks ago, on her way to the
castle of the Duke de Mouchy, she stayed
at the Hotel Bedford, in which, and close
by her apartments, was living the very
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