Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-26

And proudly l reiterate,
/ am an advertiser great!
Preparations are being made to erect
statue to Robert Burns in London.
An Illinois physician has been COM
PEELED to pay $1,000 for unskillfOlly set
ting broken bone.
Under the new code, as interpreted in
the New York courts, the punishment for
attempted suicide is marriage.
A mail consisting 600 pouches containing
papers and IL 900 letters, was recently de-
stroyed by fire at Schenectady, N. Y.
Jay Gould denies the report from Texas
that work has been suspended on the
International railway extension to Mexico.
Ex-Empress Eugene has written to M.
Rouher to convey to the city of Marseilles
the park and castle decreed to her by the
court.
Many of the freed negroes of Cuba are
arming themselves and taking to the
woods having formed a secret so1cety with
some hostile intent.
Eight of the women injured in Paris by
Mount Valerien have died, and others of
the injured women are expected to die.
The European tour which the car con-
templated making next spring will be
deferred until autumn. His coronation
has been fixed for the beginning of the
summer.
A company has been formed for the Gull
tivation of coffee, cinchona and other trop-
ical plants in south Australia, and 1000
acres surveyed, while 1878 acres are rented.
The soil is of a rich chocolate color, and
we'll watered.
versity locked a freshman in his room
He promptly broke the door to pieces
with an axe. The president approved of
this, and sentenced the sophomores to pay
for the repairs.
James Gordon, of Peoria, Wyoming
county, Ohio, has been postmaster of that
village for ffty-two consecutive years.
Only death can remove the Ohio office
holder, and death appears to be appalled, at
the magnitude of the job.
Lewis Thompson, a mulatto, eighty-one
years of age, the first man ever committed
to Sing Sing prison, has been sent back for
six months for stealing door-mat in New
been passed behind grated windows.
A deaf and dumb girl of Detroit gains
an advantage in breach of promise suit
through her in6rmity. The defendant
necessarily used her tablet In making his
proposal of marriage eud she had sufi-
cient forethought to preserve the writing.
Yee OFT, who made fortune in the laun-
dry business at Allegheny City, has re-
turned to China to marry his cousin. The
matter has caused a vast amount of talk.
Secretary Folger Was appealed to, and de-
cided that under the law the bride cannot
be brought here.
The low price of wheat is causing some
alarm in English farming circles. A large
farmer in the county of Herts had twenty
four acres of good outstanding wheat which
produced fifty quarters and sold at 40 shil-
ings, which equals e1OO for the crop.
Rents, rates, tithes, taxes and til]age, with
expense of harvesting, caused loss of
eIOO on the crop.
DR.. George w. Wisener, Baltimore
oculist, cured rich man of blindness, and
the grateful patient bequeathed him
large property. When the man died,
years after, his daughter was left pau
per, and she wrote the doctor for aid. He
at once sailed for Europe, and placed the
entire fortune in her hands. Now that he
is dead, the act is recalled to his credit.
Barnes, the 'mount tain evangelist" says
that the Lord told him to go to New York,
where ne now is. The Lord, however,
dosen't appear to have told New
Workers to go to Barnes, for his first meet
ing was attended by less than one hundred
persons. Barnes will probably not sue
coed in converting many people in city
where the pious influence of Beecher and
Talma ge is so large.
Joseph E. Acklen, who claims the seat in
congress for the Third district of Louisiana,
has gone to Washington for revenge. He
states that William Pitt Kellogg levied
$4,000 on federal officers in Louisiana,
obtained large sums from the railway COM
panies, and distributed bags of money
among plantation hands, through the me-
dunn of Lewis Soner, appraiser of the
port Of New Orleans, and George Drury
of the mint.
In a report recently issued by the
Hampton Normal and Agricultural school,
to which the United States government
sends Indians to be educated, it is stated