Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-21
GLOBELETS.


urday on the summit of Mount Washing
ton.
The postmaster at Sorono, New Mexico,
has been found a defaulter to the amount
of $500
The churches in Montreal offered thanks
giving prayers last Sunday for the British
success in Egypt.
The silver and ore recently found in
Hillstone township, Burks county, Pa, Is
not rich in silver, but contains traces of
gold.
Gen. J. d. Cox, delivered an address at
Cincinnetti. Sept. 16, on the battle of An
tietam. which was the twentieth anniversary
of the battle.
A protest has been made at Victoria,
British Columbia. against permitting the
Chinese TO take any part in the reception
to the vice-rega1 party there.
The Philadelphia Times says 1T begins
to look as if the temperance cyclone which
has been sweeping over the West would
soon be felt farther East
Julian Hawthorne intends to bring out in
November. DIR. Grimsham's Secret" the
novel said to have been left in manuscript
by his brother, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The people of Matamoras celebrated the
independence of Mexico with much en-
thusiasm, Notwithstanding the yellow-fever
quarantine and partial inundation of the
city.
Colonel Robert G. Ingersolrs lectures
loto cd OF cd hr
Buddhist priests in Japan to counteract
the teachings of the Christian mission
aries.
Sir G. Macpherson Grant, of Ballindal-
loch, NJ. p, has refused an offer from Lord
Dunmore of 1000 guineas for his famous
polled bull Justice, which was wanted for
Lord Dunmore's American property.
icar-General Welsh, of Philadelphia,
conducted the ceremony at the laying of
the corner stone of the Church of the Holy
Trinity at South Bethlehem, Pa, last Sun
day. Five thousand persons were present.
Senator Logan went to the Arkansas
Hot Springs d few months ago for the
cure of rheumatic affection. As a result
of his visit an army hospital is to be es
tablished there. at cost of 100000.
The Rev. J. S. Breckenridge, in the Sands
Street Methodist church, Brooklyn, last
Sunday. estimated that every liquor seller
in the United States had class of 100,
while the classes of school teachers aver
aged only eight.
Ex-PresidentI Hayes ran up a bill of
1855 with the Yosemite Stage company
when he visited the Yosemite valley. The
other day the Yosemite commissioners re-
fused to pay the bill, which the company
had presented to them.
Doctor Norvin Green, who is to retire
from the presidency of theiWestern Union
Telegraph company, is said to be worth as
much as S10,00O,0OO,r His salary is only
$4,000 aIyear and his immense fortune
has been made in stock manipulations.
Mr.. Gladstenesswill meet his Scotch con-
stituents early in October and make one
speech, which will be delivered in Edin-
burgh. He and Mrs. Gladstone will be the
guestsfof Lord and Lady Roseberry at
Dalmeny, during their visit to Midlothian.
Mr.. Wing, of Mendon, n. Y, lost valu-
able horse the other day in a singular man
ner. A mouse gnawed a hole from the
manger into the grain bin, and through it
the grain rushed into the feed trough.
The horse Toasted .during the night and
died the next day.
Sir Garnet Wolseley, the greatest, or at
least the most successful English general,
is said to be total abstinence man, never
drinking intoxicating liquors. That is
more than could be said of the United
States greatest or most successful general
during the war of the rebellion.
Historian Freeman during recent visit
to Schenectady was presented to an In
dian, ''the last of the Mohawks.r' MY
friend,' said Mr.. Freeman to the red man.
permit me to remark that you greatly
resemble very dear and distinguished
friend of mine, Mr.. Oscar Wilde. !
The Rev. N. A. Oker, D. D., died near Per-
rysville, Pa, September IL. Hewas rector
of ST. Paul's Episcopal church in Norfolk,
Va. He was native of Pennsylvania. and
had been rector of st. Paurs church TWEEN
ty-six years. and was one of the most prom
inent clergymen of his disocese.
1t is said that the Murraysville, West
moreland county, Pa, gas well is raising
quite a commotion in that neighborhood.
The gas comes up with a great rumbling
sound, large chunks of solid ice are thrown
up at intervals to a considerable height,
and the earth quiyers for mile around.
The chiefs of TIE war party in Egypt
are surrendering on all sides and the sol
diers are being -disarmed by the British.
The khedive will shortly review the British
troops in Cairo, after which the House
hold troops VIII go back to England. The
prisoners, it is said, Will be tried by court
martial. .---...,.,-.
Two Georgia darkey politicians were
discussing the physical condition of our
next governor, when one of them said:
"Aeck Stephens is a mighty small man.
You could wrap him up in a pocket hand
kerchief-" Yes, OATS so,;' answered the
other; ''but it would take tablecloth to
hold his brains"
An Ohio boy daubed mans wagon with