Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-02-17
GLOBELETs.
Frank Blair is to have a statue.
Kate Field advocates cremation


Kate Field advocates cremation.
Early summer fruit The gallows will bear
ripe fruit June 80.
Barnum is worth sS,OOO,OOO, and owns
baby elephant besides.
Added to his other distinctions, the German
Emperor William, has became great grand
father.
1t is alleged that last year was the healthi-
est that England has known within almost or
quite the last half century.
Oscar Wilde told newspaper reporter that
the greatest number of pretty women ne had
ever seen was in Baltimore.
It is reported that Guiteau's lawyers will
open a law Office in New York and 60 In on
the notoriety the trial gave them.
That one pound bronze badge of servility
hung around the necks of the 300 may become
intolerably heavy in time. We shall see.
Senator Ingalls, (Rep.) of Kansas speaks of
Rutherford B. Hayes as can alleged Republic
can president" Ingalls, must be suppressed
The Lord Mayor of London's Jewish relief
fund amounts to .e43, 900. Grants are being
made to refugees en- route for the United
States.
The house committee on postal affairs has
agreed to report favorably bill establishing
the postal savings bank system in vogue In
England.
A meeting of Israelites has just been held in
Boston to take measures to raise funds with
which to aid the prosecuted Jews of Russia
to emf crate to this country.
Philadelphia Ne,cs: Guiteau has been
treated very considerably. Byputting off the
hanging to hot month like June, the transi-
ton will not seem so sudden.
Miss Leeds. of Lawrenceville, ILL.,, under
took to commit suicide recently by taking
chloroform, from dependency, because Of be-
| ing displaced as pestmistress at that place.
The repeal of the stamp tax on bank checks
will be welcome relief to the business COM
munity. 1t was war measure, is burden
| some, its continuance unnecessary, and ought
| to be abolished.
The Louisville Courier Journal, always
| true and loyal to Mr.. Tilden, declares, as if
| by authority, that Mr.. Tilden will not again
be candidate for president, and claims to
speak "adyisedly."
At Lynchburg, Va, recently, Lewis Powell.
Q white man, was sentenced to receive 158
| lashes on his bare back for HOUSEKEEPING and
| robbery, to be given in two instalments of
| seventy-eight each.
Great Britain paid Portugal SIS, 100000 for
ren0uncing the Brazilian slave trade, and yet,
it is said, there has been Portuguese violation
of the stipulations. Great Britain will doubt
less investigate the matter.
! Next Wednesday, the 22d inst, is Ash
Wednesday and the beginning of the Lenten
season, which lasts forty days, ending on
Easter Sunday, and is observed in commenora-
ton of the fast Of our Savior.
Boston Post: They are trying ex- Congress-
man Voorhis at Hackensack, N. j., for an al
legged larceny of 5000 in bonds. The defence
| is that Voorhis was Republican at the time
and, therefore could not possibly have COM
mitted the theft.
| The other day in the debate on Senator
Sherman's three per cent. funding bill, Sena-
tor Ingalls, SO mercilessly prodded Mr.. sher-
man that he lost his temper. Whether he
has found it or whether reward has been
offered for the loss has not transpired.
Advices from the Washington jail state that
the assassin has changed in demeanor since
the verdict. He does not act cranky, boiste-
rous or confident. He is mild, docie and soft
spoken. He is entirely losing hope in his once
pretended confidence in the ''court in banc."
The principal subject discussed at late cab
met meeting was the retirement of Surgeon
General Barnes major general. The pre-
vailiDg opinion being that he was entitled to
marked recognition for his services as an at
tendant surgeon during President Garfeld's
| illness.
| The Springfield, Mass, Republican is res
ponsibe for the statement OF opinion that the
appointment of Alien G. Thurman and E. B.
| Washburne to be members of the board of ar
bitrators to govern the relations of the great
trunk lines, takes these two men out of the
list of possible Presidential candidates.
| General Gordon ard his brothers, Walter and
| Eugene, are said to have made another round
million by recent railroad deal in the south
east. The Gordons were all poor when the
eldest of the three brothers resigned from the
Uuited States Senate to go into railroad build
ing, and now they are regarded as among the
| wealthiest men in the south.
| A convict in the Syracuse, N. Y, peniten-
tfary was SO severely punished, and with
such unusual means, for an attempt to es-
| cape, that he has become confirmed and vio-
| lent lunatic. His inhuman keepers ought to
have the same punishment administered to
them. Our penatory establishments are any
thing but reformatory institutions.
| Boston Post: The Chicago Tribune has
interviewed ga prominent Ohio politician"
| who says "the move is we'll under way to
| make Grant the nominee Of the Democratic
party in 1884," The Tribune might like to be
rid of ''the old man" on these terms, but we
| think the Democrats have tried about as much
| condemned material as they propose to.
Three hundred and 81 pounds of brass
have been Manufactured into collars, under the
supervision of Postmaster Filley, of st. Louis,
inscribed with the name of Grant, to be put
on the necks of the 1905" who voted Thirty
SIX times to nominate Grant at the Chicago
convention in 1880. By this collar the "bos-
SEES" can claim their own, when they want
another third term lift.