Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-02


women sufragists will carry Nebraska.
Daniel Scales, of Cleveland, Ohio, is said
to be the wealthiest colored man in the
United States.
A large number of government employees
at Washington, have left for the west to
vote at the November election.
After the rehearsal at the Park taeater,
New York, last Saturday, Mrs. Langtry
went to Sarony's photograph gallery and
sat for her picture.
A private letter from Georgia says that
Governor Alexander n. Stephens is q
candidate for the United States senate,
as the successor of Ben. Hill.
Daily bulletins from New York repre-
sent Thurlow Weed as passing oomforta-
BILE days and nights, but the weight of
years is carrying him steadily down.
Mr.. Basil Duke, we'll known lawyer and
police commissioner of st. Louis, has lost
his mind. Mr.. Duke is well-advanced in
years, and has a wife and three grown
sons.
It is definitely settled that Chicago will
haye May festival IN 1884. The erection
of hall for the OCCASION is in contempla
ton. The nucleus of the chorus is already
formed.
The people of Illinois will vote upon the
legislative act eeding the Illinois and
Michigan canal to the United States, land
as there is no opposition the measure
will carry.
The Kewanee bank robbers were SEN
fenced at Cambridge, Ill, Wednesday last
by Judge Glenn. Pratt, Welsh and Dunkle
were sentenced for six years each, and DR..
Scott for four years.
Nine. Nilsson left New York for Boston
on Saturday. During her tour she will
sing in San Francisco, New Orleans, Chi
cago and Cincinnati. She will appear in
New York about Christmas.
Marshal Longstreet, Of Georgia, seems
to be getting into deep water. special
examiner of the accounts Of the de-
partment of Justice, has been sent to that
state to examine his accounts.
Scovii:e's domestic Affections, his wife's
adjudged crazy crankiness, her fight to
Canada, and other unsavory developments
make him deeply regret that he ever ma
terialiZed before the public as in any way
related to, or connected with the Guiteau
tribe.
The board of trade of San Francisco has
determined to urge congress to earnestly
consider the advantage our government
would derive from the Nicaragua canal and
to show thut it would be a paying invest
ment in peace and an indispensable pos
session in case of war.
An interesting point has been decided
by the New York court of appeals. which
held that sureties Oh the bond of &
young nan who was employed as book
keere q bank were not liable for en-
bezzlen s committed by him after he
had been made receiving teller.
Gen. Wright, United States chief of en-
gineers, in his annual report just submit
ted, urges a better system of seacoast de-
Tense, and suggests important changes
He says at the present time two t.
million dollars worth of property Is at ...e
mercy of any of the maritime powers OF
Europe.
The Spanish contract for 6,OOe hogs.
heads of Maryland tobacco has been award
ed to the house of Zongoria, banking
firm in Madrid. The firm is represented
id Baltimore by Messrs. Claus, Woke
Co. The sum of the contract will reach
$4,000, and with charges very near
$4,000
Washington Territory's exports for 1882
will foot up 365,OOO,0OO feet. Of lumber
100000 tons of coal, 10000 pounds OF
hops, 100000 cases of salmon, 100000
bushels of wheat, 1000 bushels of oats
100000 bushels of potatoes, 100000
pounds of wool, and large quantities OF
oysters, clans and dairy produce.
A. B. Mullett late supervising architec!
has rendered his resignation as superin
tendent of public buildings, claiming that
he has never been removed as supervising
architect of the treasury. Mr.. Mullett's
action is regarded in Washington as pre-
liminary step toward making claim fol
compensation from 1877 up to the date OF
his resignation.
Nearly the entire civil service of this
government is hostile to civil service
They like the politics better than security
of tenure. It gives them an additional i'm
portance, and they do not like to lapse in
to mere dull negativeness. The boss
system has a certain gypsy freedom and
conspiracy about it which goes to the very
bottom of the tribe and resists civilization
like flock OF Crows.
A Chattanooga dispatch of Oct. 2S, says
Dave Thomas, of Mt. Sterling, KY, and
Bert Farrell, of West Point, Ga, who we're
employed On the railroad being completed
between Red Clay and Ooltawah, near this
city, quarreled over some trivial matter
and last night took positions and com
menced firing on each other. Both were
shot through the lungs. Thomas is dead
and Farrell is dying.
The stalwarts need a big sum to carry
the election in Pennsylvania. The Pitts
burgh Dispatch says: 1t is said that the
stalwart managers have sent forth orders
to buy individual votes the day of the cleo
tion Rnt 9aOO OOO will only INV On O0o