Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-06-11
SUNDAY GLOBELETs.

the mercnant princes auu oonNeio Va -'S''
York, is stated at s5O,00o,oOO.
Itis expected that prohibition tickets will
be in the field in Maine, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, and Connecticut, this year.
Henry Willard, the millionaire president of
the Northern Pacific railroad. was once
Washington correspondent OF the Chicago
Tribune.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg states that
the persecution of the Jews still continues,
and that entire villages in southern Russia
have been destroyed, and over 1900 Jews
rendered homeless.
President Garfeld's grave at Cleveland, on
every pleasant Sunday is visited by thousands
of quiet people. The sentinels still pace about
the vault, the bonEe doors OF which are
thrown back, revealing the coffin.
In New York state there is said to be man,
one Thomas McErath by name, who has not
slept for thirteen years. As it is stated that
he Is a devout Presbyterian, the inference is
that he has not slept in church for thirteen
years.
Charles Francis Adams, since his disgrace
full adventure with the bunco.men, has
''retired to private life" and has given the en-
tire control of his business affairs to his son,
John Quincy Adams. 1t is high time he had
a guardian.
The number of locomotive engines in this
country Is 12,700. Pennsylvania has 2,70O;
New York has 2,000 The Southern states has
1880; Georgia leading with BOB, Virginia
800, and North and South Caroiin 46 each,
and Florida IS.
"Polecat Lake" is the savory and euphon-
eous name of handsome, limpd sheet OF
water in Dakota Territory. Some aesthetic
gentleman of high art and refinement, if not
Oscar Wilde himself, undoubtedly had the
naming of that lake.
Not corruption, but "gross carelessness and
negligence in keeping his accounts" is the
way the committee of the Arkansas legisla-
ture denominates the $4,000 defalcation of
the late treasurer, now governor of that state,
Thomas J. Churchill.
Richard Mortimer, born in England IN 1891,
engaged in New York in the manufacture of
woolens SEINE fifty years ago, died
in that city May 80. of pneu-
monia. His estate is valued at S4,000,0O0.
His granddaughter is a countess.
Spain is the last European government to
abolish slavery. Its abolition Is to take effect
in Cuba in 1888. A strong pressure has of
late been brought to bear for immediate eman-
cipation, the wisdom of whici is generally
admitted. But the Spanish government dog
gedly refuses.
Titled Pauper Snobs are after the million
ARE daughter of Mrs. J. W. Mckay, thinking
her to be an heiress. The mother has given
these adventures notice to quit-by stating
that her young daughter will get no dowery
on her marriage. She will have nothing till
after the death of her father and mother.
All the children of Anoti, the South Ameri-
can wife of Garibaldi, are still living except
her daughter. Minotti, her eldest son, has
proved himself a good soldier, but IS not
popular among the Itallaus who think him
avaricious. Ricciotti, on the other hand is
disliked because he is gambler and a prodi-
gal.
The Courier Journal is of the opinion that
the notorious Jesse James could not have
piled his Villainous and criminal vocation in
Kentucky, indefinitely as he did in Missouri,
and expresses the belief that she would have
been brought alive and with his boots on to
the bar, before he quilted the world with his
boots on or off,
DR.. Willard Parker, Jr., has sent certifi-
cate to the New York Bureau OF Vital Stats
tics stating that James J. Sullivan had died
from poisoning of the system by tobacco"
Sullivan was only twenty-six years old. BE
had been employed as bookkeeper, and he had
used tobacco SO constantly that his system
had become impr1gnated with nicotine.
The practice of attaching special names to
articles of ladies' gear, is severely criticised,
even denounced as tomfoolery. Such as
"Obelisk hats" "Jumbo grey" "Jennie Cra-
mer" hosiery, blanche Douglass" overskirts,
etc. And is it very consistent and pretty
for ladies to affect and disport "Bernhardt"
gloves, collars and what not, while they
Stunned association and personal contact
with the profigate actress?
A St. Louis editor accidentally received In
his morning mail proof sheets intended for
| the employees of a religious publication house
and, after glancing over them, rushed to the
city editor, yelling: "Why in the world didn't
you get report of that big flood? Even that
slow old religious paper across the way Is
ahead of you. Send out your force for full
particulars-only one family saved. Interview
the old man. His name is Noah.''
Sophie, Duchess d'Alencon, though one of
| q royal line, is as devoted to her children as
are the peasant mothers who live about her
chateau at Vincennes. One day the Duchess
Decazes went down to Vlncennes topay visit
to the wife of the Bourbon prince. She was
kept waiting at least a quarter of an hour be-
fore the hostess camein, leading her youngest
sou, Prince Emmanuel, by the hand. Excuse
me-" she exclaimed to her vlsitress, ''but
was dressing my little one, who will not
let any one but his mother put his clothes
| on"
large lot of letters and manuscripts in the
hand writing of Daniel Webster has been dis
covered in an old junk shop in the lower part
OF Boston. The bale of old paper stock in
which they were discovered came from New
B-dford, and among the papers are nine fools
cap pages, on which, in Mr.. Webster's own
hand, is the opening portion of Willard Fill
more's inaugural. There is also the original
copy of his famous Fourth of July Grafton
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