Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-02
GLOBEEETS.

bass voice with compass of D lat on the
bass cleft.
new railroad is being built across
Staten Island, n Y. 1t will be finished
next May.
Last Sunday the Brooklyn police sur
prised 10 saloon keepers who were viola
ting the excise law.
The Albany Ecening Journal, founded
by Thurlow Weed, devoted fifteen columns
to sketch of his life and work.
Sarah Burr, of New York, left, By will
| 100000 to different charitable institu-
lions. The will is being contested.
| Gov. Foster, of Ohio, is considering the
| imposition OF a tax on ali saloon keepers,
! so as to stop the present free trade il
whisky in Ohio.
The report of the general superintend
emit of the Life-saving service. shows that
during the year only twelve lives were lost
out of a total of 2,2GS which were in
danger.
| The wife Of Engineer Melville. recently
released from an insane asylum, in COM
| pany with her brother, took her daughter
by force from the family where her father
had left her.
| The Boston Post remarks: The Repub-
| Hcan papers are telling about the Demo-
cratic opportunity. As they have lost
theirs, hadn't they better find it before
fooling with ours.
Congressman Samuel J. Randall says
that Speaker Keifer's story Of conspir-
acy in the last congress to capture the Or
ganization of the house by force is too
ridiculous for contradiction.
! More human remains continue to be
building in New York city. The reveia-
ton Of al the secrets of a great city would
be painfully startling and sensational.
The number of men who have missed
the presidency by refusing vice presiden-
tial nominations is rapidly growing and
bids fair to outnumber the collection of
sole survivors of Napoleon's cid guard.
If Brady and Dorsey in the new star
route trials go on the stand and testify, on
whom will the avalanche fall: Some promi-
nent politicians will try to ''stand from
UNDER" but some will be caught and
smashed.
They are urging Grant to become the
president of the Panama Canal company.
We fail to see any inducement for him to
do SO. Why would the holding of that
position tend to make people shower
presents on him?
| Jpo n Rrocl-;nr;dro.s son bordIr ,1d
enough to sit in congress, will represent
Arkansas as congressman at large. He is
an eloquent, earnest speaker, of admiral
personal qualities, free from vices incident
to whisky -headedness, and brilliant ca
reer is before him.
Wilbur F. Story, of the Chicago Times,
is indignant at Washington newspaper
for saying his mind is impaired, and the
Times going to decay. Nothing is farther
from the truth, says the Times, Mr.. StorS's
intellect was never clearer, and the Times
never more prosperous.
Hon. G. H. Curry is properly returned as
the congressional representative of Arizo-
ma. He was member of the Texas con-
gress when Sam Houston was president of
the Lone Star republic. Arizona could
not be more worthily represented than by
the vigorous old Texan.
An exchange says: If the counsel for
the star route prosecution found the 'star
route editors in the presidential sanctum,
and were attacked fercely the next day in
the columns of the star route organs, the
question arises: We're the yenomous ar
ticles written in the presidential >. sane
tum?
Capt. Alfred Hopkins. who had served
the country we'll for thirty years in the
regular army, was stricken from the roll of
officers because he fled from yellow fever
at Pensacola. People who fear this plague
are first to die. They who defy it, and are
seemingly unconscious of its presence, are
rarely its victims. Such is the statement
Hopkins properly fled, and was wrongfully
punished.
Jim Budd defeated Hubbel's man, Hon
d. F. Page, for reelection to congress
from California, even though Page had
the seat five successive terms, was given
absolute control of the federal patronage
in his district, and claimed Republican
majority of 1000. Budd hired mule and
blackboard, and traversed the district in
all directions, making it hot for Page, who
finally wilted, Topped, and was congress
man no more.
Prince Henry, second son of the
German crown prince. has lately had oc-
casion to show his quality as sailor. On
Oct. 26 the Olga, on board which the
prince is serving as a naval officer, was
exposed to severe storm in the Bay of
Biscay. At. IL o'clock at night a wave
swept over the men who were steering, and
washed them down the deck. The vessel
was in imminent danger, when the prince.
springing forward. seized the helm and
held it firmly until succor arrived.
The conflict between Jay Gould, by many
supposed to be the richest man in the
world, and Bennett, owner of the New
York Herald, will surely be most ruinous
to one or the other, PERHAPS to both.
Gould buys newspapers. but these are i'm
potent when arrayed against the ubiquit-
GUS Herald and its countless allies. It is
a conflict rather between brute force