Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-09
GLOBELETS.

There was $4,000 fire il Galveston, Tex,
on recent night.
The Almanac de Gotha for 1882 has in it a
portrait of President Garfield.
New Years day in New York was selected
by many persons to commit suicide.
The acting president has accepted the resign
alton of J. Stanley Brown as private secretary.
Cornelius Sweetser, of Biddeford, Me-, has
left an estate of $3.50, 900 for public purposes.
The car of Russia has subscribed 100000
roubles for the relief of the victims of the
Warsaw riots.
children born in England and Wales, less than
seven ever reach their twentieth year.
Chinese emigration has fallen off the past
year, and between eight and nine thousand of
the Chinese have returned to China during the
year.
Guiteau thinks he may be elected president
in 1884. He is no more crazy on the idea Of
reaching the presidency than May Others have
been and are.
| The reported reconciliation between Collect
or Robinson and President Arthur, is causing
other half breeds, it is said, to bow the sup
pie hinges of the knee and sue for favor.
| Coinage of the United States minis during
December: Gold 1,26O, 100 pieces, value $10,-
22O, $50; silver 2,425 100 pieces, value $2,41s,-
9OS; minor pieces 5,542,925, value $5s,263.
Gen. Sherman is of the opinion that there is
a great abuse of sick leaves among the officers
of the army-a shamming of sickness, and rec
ommends strigent measures to stop this
cheat.
Railroad construction in this country last
year was unprecedented, but the prospects are,
more miles will be constructed this year. New
railroad projects for the future are uncom-
monty prolific.
A great many are fearing that the country
is on the eve of great commercial revulsion.
This apprehension is attributed in part to the
spirit of speculation, which during the past
few years has INFLATED the prices both of
stocks and merchandise.
Emigration begins early this year, LOCO
emigrants have already arrived in New York,
and it is estimated that more than half a mil
lion will arrive during the year. Last year
100000 emigrants arrived, being an excess
over the previous year Of $4,000.
A bright little girl, years old has turned
up in Racine, Wis, giving her name as Mag
gle Jones. She says she has father, brother
and two sisters somewhere in Pennsylvania,
but she cannot remember the name of the
place. 1t is surmised she was stolen.
Gov. Cornell of New York, made two ju-
dicial appointments January 2, which is a
legal holiday, the LIST coming on Sunday. A
legal holiday is, legally no day, or null day
like Sunday. These appointments cause
some criticism, land their validity is denied.
Mars is evening star during the initial
month of the year. Throughout the month
he will be the most interesting study the
starry heavens present. His color is frey red,
and he exceeds in size star of the first magni-
tude, yielding the palm to only one star in the
sky, the lonely Jupiter.
E. W. Reyes, the so-called Boss Reyes OF
Wisconsin, and postmaster at Madison, has
brought suit against his wife for divorce on
the ground of incompatability and drunken
ness. They have not lived together for year
and half. Mrs. Reyes promises to contest
and lead the 'boss'' a lively dance.
A Hartford, Conn.,, man comes to the rescue
of "Old Mother Shipton," who is SO roundly
abused because the world did not come to an
end December 81, 1881. he says it is mis-
| take to limit the prophecy to that date. He
says the time should be computed under the
old style, which would bring the end of the
world to March "a, 1882. So stand from
under.
The Washington monument is evidently a
humbug, and counting from the time its
foundation was laid, and considering its alb
sorption of money, it is a very old and very
expensive humbug. A Washington CORE
spondent writes: The Washington monu-
ment can meyer, in my opinion, be made sue
cess, and can fancy how Washington himself
would have abhorred the site, the form of the
monument, and SO much expenditures to SO
little purpose were he now alive.
An English tourist writing of some of our
American cities says: "New York, as being
essentially the American London; Philadel-
phia, for it's old hall and Liberty bell, and
before long to be noted for its magnificent
block of public buildings in marble; Pitts
burg, as reaching the climax in smoke and
dirt; Rochester, Cleveland, and Detroit, for
general neatness, and, should say, good
municipal government; Chicago, as the 60
ahead of go-aheads, with its little neighbor.