Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-05
TIMELY TOPICS.
MEXICO has 10000 Protestant Christians.

MEXICO has 10000 Protestant Christians.
| THE Roman Catholic diocese of Albany has
been divided, and the See of Syracuse created.
The foreign mission fund of the English
Presbyterian church bids fair to show de-
ficiency this year of about $4,000.
The lo-Chinese college at Foo Chow
has secured an eligible location with SUBJ
stantial building upon it, ready for occupancy.
The cost was $4,000.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS, the colored member
of the Ohio legislature, has nearly completed
a history OF his race in America, upon which
he has been at work for over two years. It
will be published in the spring. He devotes a
portion of his work to the race in Africa, and
his history of slavery in the colonies extends
from 1918 to 1880. He will attempt, also, to
prove that there is but one race, and one Ian
guage and one blood
MUCH angry feeling was produced in the
house recently by the introduction of an I'M
popular resolution by Mr.. Robson from
Mr.. Keifer's committee on rules, providing
for an enlargement of committees to give the
speaker an additional chance for favoritism.
The resolution was defeated and it's defeat was
considered blow between the eyes to "Boss-
ism" IN the house. This revolt against the
dictation of clique augurs well for the future
independence of the majority in the house, on
both sides of that body.
THE senate's judiciary committee anti Nor
mon bill, provides for keeping off from juries
all who practice or believe in polygamy; for
debarring polygamous persons from the priv
ileges of voting or holding office; and for
making tho fact of bigamous relations suffi-
cient evidence alone of violation of the stat
ute against polygamy. Thus it will be seen
that the bill takes away the rights of citizen
ship from polygamous Mormons, and opens
the way for sending them speedily to Jail. If
this bill should be enacted into a law and en-
forced, it will 60 long way towards the sup
preston and final eradication of polygamy.
JUDGE HoAR, of Massachusetts,, in his eu-
logy on the late Richard Henry Dana, made
the following silly remark: II think if be
had been born thirty or forty miles inland,
and instead of being-I say it with all respect
an adherent of the Church of England; had
he been the son of Congregationalist deacon,
he would have been the foremost man in Mas
sachusetts.' According to the learned Judge
Hoar's code, man must be born forty miles
away from Boston, and be the son of Con-
gregational deacon, to reach the top round of
the ladder. Prodigious!
NEW ORLEANS is infested with gang OF
bandits, who garrote their victims in order to
steal their valuables. A New Orleans paper
reproves these gentlemen of the road,'' for
treating their victims with injurious cruelty.
It is enough to be robbed without having
damaging, personal violence superadded.
Whereupon one of these gentlemanly ruffians
addressed note to the editor, Indignantly de-
nying the imputation of violence, asserting
that the garroters "handled" their victims Gas
tenderly as circumstances would permit
That is not at all cheeky, but only goes to
show how @sthetic these delightful gentle
men are.
The Marquis of Lorne, governor general of
Canada, is nervously fearful lest the tide of
emigration setting for Canada may be turned
aside to the States. The governor general
need have no fears that any attempt will be
made to inveigle emigrants away from the
Dominion into the States. The volume of
emigration to this country is large enough to
create apprehension, rather than otherwise, at
the rapid introduction of such large foreign
- boC &otac mil
Lorne is welcome to the few Thousand emf.
grants he can induce to settle within the
bounds of his Canadian realm.
PRoM1scUoUs and unlimited handshaking
is coming to be regarded as nuisance in
high official positions. Mr.. Arthur begins to
be FESTIVE about it, and it is given out that he
seriously entertains the idea of abolishing the
manual exercise of digital manipulation at
receptions. Let him put on short breeches,
knee buckles silver shoe latchets and elong-
gated hose, and rnffled shirt bosom and wrist
let's, Ia George Washington, and in addition
initiate the royal bearing of the august Gath
er OF his country by standing in rigid
poise against the wainscot with his hands be-
hind him, and stiffiy bow to the plehian
crowd as they reverently file past him.
The Roman Catholic arcbblshOps and
bishops in England and Wales are fourteen,
not reckoning those of Sees of Shrewsbury
and Southwark which ere vacant. There are
also in Scotland six other archbishops and
bishops. The priests in England and Wales
now number 2,O36, serving l,1G0 churches,
chapels, and missionary stations; in Scotland
there are 295 more, serving 2s6 cnapels, etc.,
thus showing that both clergy and chapels
have doubled in less than twenty-five years.
In 1858 there were only 749 chapels in Eng
land and Wales and III in Scotland, the total
of the priests who served them being 1,l79.
TIE London Pail Mall Gazette, speaking of
the poets and poetry of England, says: Byron
has largely lost his grip on the tastes of the
present day-that he was doubtless great
poet and is mostly admired by critics who are
poets themselves-buth his verse appears to lack
that felicity, that finish that indefnable
charm which Mr.. Tennyson and Mr.. Arnold
possess, and which was the gift of Shelley,
Keats and Coleridge. What then, asks the Ga
sette, remains of Byron-what of him is i'm
mortalg and replies, we say "Don juan"
That is a modern epic, perhaps the only mod
ern epic-a romantic poem of adventurous