Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-19
SUNDAY GLOBELErs.

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property, worth 4O,00o, to his wife.
At st. Johns, New Foundland, there was re-
Gently snow storm which lasted sixty hours
John W. Defrees, public printer, is ying
dangerously i'll at his residence In Washing
! ton.
| The restoration of Fitz John Porter to the
army, it is said, will bring him Sl15,0OO
back pay.
Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is the richest
widow in America. She has 81 ,O00, 600 for
every one Of her SO years of age.
The Rev. Walter Condit purposes resgning
his pastorate at Red Wing, Goodhue county,
MIMI, on account of failing health. His
physicians recommend tropical climate.
The other day Max Sommer, book keeper
in a wholesale butcher establishment in New
York City, made a voluntary confession of
being embezzler of $4,000 for gambling pur-
poses, and insisted to be taken into custody.
The first coffee house established by a
benevolent society in Toronto, Canada, was
formally opened recently, the lieutenant gov
ernor, the archbishop, the mayor and other
prominent gentlemen being present and making
speeches.
The First Baptist Church of Minneapolis,
MIMI, was organized March 5, 1858, in a cabin
on the open prairie with ten members. Since
then six more Baptist churches have been
formed by offshoots from it, and it now con-
ducts two large missions, which are almost
ready to become independent societies.
1t costs something to quench the thirst of
Philadelphians, the supposed 10y courtesy
inheriters of the severe self-denial, gracious
amenities, and stern virtues of William Penn,
the Quaker quietist. The beverage bill in the
Quaker city last year cost 81 100000 over the
entire rental of the city, and the rental was
1913, 100000.
Leopold Dean, an emigrant, who arrived
lately at Castle Garden, ia New York, attract
ed considerable attention by two protuber
ances on his forehead, in the shape of horns
as large as those of yearling calf. Gov.
Sprague imagined he was ornamented with
something of the kind when he seized his
shotgun at Canonchet.
An ex-governor of Maine tells an enquirer
that there is less crime, not more, In the land.
Hesays the marvellous accumulation of wealth
in this generation will necessarils effect many
changes in society. But that better con-
dition of society and higher life in indi-
viduals will be the result, is the assurance Of
his philosophy and of his Christianity.
The sum of $3.50, 900 has been pledged in
Oberlin as fund to be drawn upon for prose-
| in foil
have lately had good deal of tronble with a
druggist because he would fill physicians pre-
scriptions calling for liquor. On late night
there was disastrous fire in Oberlin, involv-
ing loss of $4,000. The obnoxious drug
store is included in the ruins.
1t is alleged that Mrs. Scoville made 81 900
by selling copies of the letter which she
wrote to Mrs Garfield. The Boston Post says
proposition was made by telegram to it to
| buy copy of Mrs. Scoville's letter to the
senate in opposition to the confirmation
Conkling. 1t seems that mercenary motive
lies at the bottom Of this sorrowing sisters
sympathy for her "poor insane BROTHER
Bjornstjerne Bjornson writes to Cambridge
friend that he has made up his mind to see
Boston once more after having mastered bet
ter the English language. He says he "shall
publish this year great drama, beside several
minor poems and tale la Howells, my dear
brother in Apollo" He is preparing for the
celebration of his 50th birthday at his beauti-
full estate of Aulestad in Toldabu, Norway.
The innumerable jewel robberies in England
have led to the invention of "patent safety
case" by means of which, when the box is
perfectly set, which is done by putting a pin
in its place inside the case, it cannot be taken
up by anyone without continuously ringing
powerful alarm bell inside. If the bell once
the owner, who may thus make the case per-
fectly safe when left in the dressing room.
A writer in the London Quarterly Reriec is
very severe in his criticisms on the revision of
the new testament, and asks what would be
the gain in the church by adopting the new
version, and answers the question by saying:
1.-THE amount of certain loss would so largely
outweigh the amount of possible gain, that
the proposal may not be seriously entertained.
AS well on grounds of scholarship and taste,
as of textual criticism, the work before us is
immensely inferior and total failure.'
From Portland, Oregon, tits reported that
Chinese merchant and contractor says that ar
engagements are now being made at Hong Rong
to ship from five TO ten thousand coolies to
Portland before the anti Chinese BILL if passed,
can take effect. Three English steamers, with
a carrying capacity of $500 passengers, and
several sailing vessels, are already chartered
and the work of gathering coolies commenced.
These importations are designed for the service
Of the Northern Pacific railroad.
New York World: Those who can look
back upon the stormy days which preceded
the civil war can recall nothing so fraught
with omens of disaster to the peace and honor
of the republic as the simply hideous temper
in which the faction of the Republican party
halls to-day the solemn commemoration of
the most painful event in our history as the
opportunity Of its triumph over rival fac
ton, and as the initial step to deadly and I'M
scrupulous war to be waged against an ad-
ministratlon imposed with its help and con-
currence upon the country.
The lower portion of the City of Troy, NY,
is greatly excited over the alleged miraculous