Daily globe., 1882-11-08
GLOBELETS.

way.
Phylloxera have appeared in the vine
yards of Barcelona.
Tte condition Of ex-senator Hendricks
O. Indiana, continues favorable.
Alexander H. Stephens was inaugurated
governor of Georgia last Saturday.
The public square in Havana has just
been illuminated with electric lights
Last Friday 400 Mormons landed at
Castle Garden, New York, from Europe.
Advices from Panama give details of
the assassination at Bogota of General AL
dana.
The revolution in Ecuador has ended,
the leader Don Eloy Alfaro, being now in
Panama
The condition of Thurlow Weed is re-
ported TO be comfortable, but ne receives
no visitors.
There seems to be a good deal of uncer
tainty in the English military mind as to
whether the war in Egypt is yet over.
The St. Louis ssboard of ssrevision has
struck off $4,000 names of persons on the
voting lists, leaving $4,000 on the books.
The widow of ex-President Tyler has
leased for three years a house in Rich
mond, Va, where she will spend her win
ter.
A convention Of 130 clergymen recently
the state constitution in favor of prohibi-
tion.
Lopez, who shot at and wounded Gen
.Aldana in Bogata and killed his orderly
has been captured. His trial proceeds in
secret.
with British Columbia and its climate that
she proposes to remain at Victoria till
spring.
King Alfonso, of Spain, has headed
subscription for the benefit of the sufferers
by the Cuban cyclone, with contribution
of $4,000.
A line of steamships is shortly to be es-
tablished between San Francisco and Liv-
erpocl. 1t is feared this may divert some
OF the traffic Of the Southern Pacific.
In consequence of the complaints of the
French governments, the Swiss authorities
have ordered an investigation into the pro-
ceedings of the Anarchists at Geneva.
Mr.. Beecher, at recent Republican
meeting in Brooklyn said he would vote
for Cleveland because Folger was not the
proper man to be elected at the present
time.
The Duke of Aosta is betrothed to
Princess Theresa, of Bavaria, and the Duke
of Genoa is betrothed to Princess Isabella.
Both ladies are cousins of the king of Ba-
varia.
Last Sunday twenty-on COWS and five
horses on the dairy farm of A. Libermann
at Secancus, N. j., died of typhoid fever.
The remainder of the herd has been quar-
antined.
white marble spire is to be erected on
Grace church, New York. 1t is to be 13O
feet high, and is to be surmounted by an
illuminated cross, which may be seen at
night by mariners coming into port.
The Mutual Life Insurance company, of
New York, was the real purchaser of the
old postoffice, in that city. The company
will pull down the old structure and erect
handsome building for its own use.
Rev. DR.. Scudder, who goes from
Brooklyn to take charge of the Plymouth
Congregational church of Chicago. was
one of the first men who opened the eyes of
the average American to the wonderful
keenness and ciearness of the Rindoo
mind.
The latest rumor is that Capt. Howgate,
the absconding government defaulter, is
secreted in New Orleans, and is in CON-
munication with friends. No recent steps
have been taken to capture him and return
him to Washington.
Miss Lotta Crabtree, the actress, in an
equity suit against R. T. Randall, of Fall
River, Mass, has recovered $4,000, money
advanced to the defendant in consideration
of his promise to marry her, which prom
ise he failed to keep,
Gen. Neal Dow, the famous Prohibition
leader, is now about seventy eight years
old. but is so we'll preserved that he does
not look to be more than sixty. He is of
medium height, rather stout, and wears
heavy side whiskers, which, like his hair,
are silvered with age.
The Hon. W. P. Miles, formerly a con-
gresham from South Carolina, has resign
ed the presidency of South Carolina col
lege to take charge of the Burnside sugar
plantations in Louisiana, valued at 81,
100000, and belonging to his father-in-
law, Oliver Beirne, of Virginia.
Several families of colored persons, num-
bering fifty in all, old and young, sailed
from New York for Liberia last week.
When they arrive there each family will be
given OF acres of land and shelter and pro
visions for six months. after which they
are expected to become self-supporting.
Lord Houghton, brother-in-law of the
Duke of Argyle, who lately visited New
Orleans, has purchased 10000 acres Of the
Disston South Florida purchase, and in
tends going extensively into sugar raising.
He is largely interested in sugar culture in
Jamaica, and will invest half a million of
dollars in his new venture.
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