Daily globe., 1882-11-09
GEOBELETS.
Suicide is said to be increasing in Prr

SUICIDE Is SAID TO De increasing IN EruS
sia.
The official majority of Gen. Stephens
O; Georgia. foots up 62,G57.
It IS asserted that Don Cameron contrib
uted and raised $6O,C)O election purpose
in Pennsylvania
The weIi-known English jockey, Archer
fell from a horse at Newmarket while
Jumping hurdle. He was severely shaker
but sustained no vital injury.
Thomas G. Sheridan, who for the last
fifteen years has been the private tele
graph operator for Jay Gould, died in New
York recently of quick consumption.
A wel-known unoe, teker in Cincinnati
was arrested the other day for conveying
the corpse of child that had died of scar
let fever, in public carriage to the ceme
terry.
Mr.. Beecher preached OF love last Sun.
day affirming that the creeds of Ohristen
dom have continued to skip and omit the
Fundamental doctrine OF the New Testa.
ment.
The recent fashion among surgeons CT
employing kangaroo tendons for ligatures
is said to be giving way to the superior ex-
cellence of the sciatic nerve Of the calf IS
now used for that purpose.
A complication in the uniting of electric
currents from two engines has led to the
perfection by Mr.. Edison of An apparatus
whereby the automatic regulators of sever
al engines can be connected.
The condition of Ex-Governor Hendricks,
of Indiana, is reported by his physicians
to be satisfactory. Healthy granulations
in the diseased foot are forming, and there
is eyecy Indication of recovery.
Mr. James McLaren, of Buckingham,
Quebec, brother of Professor McLaren,
of Toronto. has subscribed $4,000 of the
S2OO,OOO asked to endow chair Of syste-
matte theology at Knox college, Toronto.
Jerome Kidder, an eccentric millionaire
OF Boston, died recently aged seventy-four
years. The most of his property goes to
his brother, Cammelus K;dder, formerly a
merchant Of Baltimore, but now a resident
OF Ecston.
Rear Admiral CIa~les Il Poor died of
apoplexy at his residence in Washington,
Nov. 5. He has been on the retired list of
the navy since 1870. lie was Il native of
Mass ssachusetts. He entered The naval ser
vice in 1925.
Postmaster General Howe has made ar
order giving postmastecs discretion in ra
turning letters to writer's upon application
and production Of proper proof. Hereto
fore this power vested only in the post
master general.
DR.. Profile, of BuenOs Ayres, has TWEEN
ty-two ostriches now lodged at Central
Park, New York, with which he intends to
start an ostrich farm near some southern
city. He has a successful ostrich farm
at Buenos Ayres.
Society people in Washington expect a
very brilliant winter, which will be inaugE
rated by the Garfield monument fair, to be
followed by a round of receptions, of which
those given by the president will be tho
most conspicuous.
Patrick Carey, 'longshoreman i'll New
York, who was crippled for life by the fall
of coal tub into the hold of the steamer
Batavia, sued the Cunard steamship COM
pany, claiming $4,000. The jury on
Thursday last awarded him $4,000.
The Knights Telnplar OF Washington
city have issued invitations to members
of their order throughout the United States,
to be present in that city at the Garfield
fair, and participate in the parade on
Knights Templar day, the Both inst.
Hon. John B. Stickney, United States
district attorney for the northern district
Of Florida, aud who served with distinction
in the army during the rebellion, died re-
Gently at the Providence hospital, Wash
ington. D. c., in his thirty fifth year.
A meeting will shortly be held in Wash
ington of classmates OF the late Lieut..
Commander De Long, to take action upon
a proposition to ask Mrs. De Long TO allow
the remains of her husband to receive final
interment at the naval academy at Annar
oils.
A colored Brooklyn bootblock, known as
SNOWFALL" has just fallen heir to $4,000
by the decision of the New York court of
appeals, in a case where some property,
once owned by his father, had passed into
other hands by failure to pay certain as
sessmentS.
Miss Marie Prescott, the actress, was
asked her age in New York court on
Thursday last by TIE judge. She hesitated
for some time, then looked appealingly at
her counsel, but finding no help in that
quarter, said, at last, Il was born in 1853 !;
guess you can figure from that
There Is great outcry in England over
the loss of the celebrated Hamilton manu-
scripts, for which the German government
has just paid $5OO,OOO. The Germans will
publish an edition of the famous manu-
script OF Dante, with fac simile reproduc-
tions of the Batticeli illustrations.
The Rev. Br. Vibbert, of Philadelphia.
has received call from st. James Episco-
pal church, Chicago, the wealthiest church
in that city, the pulpit of which was at
one time occupied by TIE Rev. Hugh Miller
Thompson and subsequently by the Rev.
D.. Harris, now bishop OF Michigan.