Daily globe., 1882-09-27
GIOBEIETS.

ter than was expected.
Fresh outbreaks against the Jews arr
reported from all parts of Russia.
The European, American, Canadian
Asiatic Cable company, has collapsed.
The total amount of emigrants at Castle
Garden, New York, last week was 1865.
Russia. it is said, is preparing to put
in a demand for the whole Balkan PENN
sula.
DIR. E. Stone Virgins, Of the Canadian
finance department, predicts terrible
storm for March next.
The death is announced of Baron Tender
den. under secretary of state for foreign
affairs of Great Britain.
In Stratfordshire. Eng, 5000 miners
have given notice of demand for an ad-
vance of ten per cent. in wages.
The rope with which Kansas murderer
was hanged mas been woven into booS
marks and given to the convicting jury as
keepsakes.
Prominent Democratic politicians IN the
state of New York express entire confidence
in the election of Mr.. Cleveland, the Dem
ocratic nominee for governor.
The Hon. James Cox Atkins has been
appointed lieutenant governor of Manito-
ba. in place of Hon. Joseph Edward Con-
chon, whose term expires Oct. 8.
The English have begun to deal very ex-
tensiveIy in Mexican securities, as they have
faith in the success of the American enter
prises in developing that country.
1t is proposed to make Montgomery
Blair, Mr.. Lincoln's first postmaster gen.
eral. the Democratic candidate for con-
gress in the Sixth Maryland district.
Gen. Hancock the other day, entertained
Sir Henry Halford, of the British rife
team. He took his guest for sail up East
river on board the steamer Chester A.
Arthur.
The Egyptian question is becoming a
serious issue on account of the demands of
the continental powers. The better opin-
ion seems to be that the British occupa-
ton will become permanent.
The catalogue Of the British Museum.
now being printed. will ill 800 volumes,
and at the present rate it will require 40
years to complete it, by which time there
will be new matter enough to begin
afresh.
II is expected that Mr.. Folger will soon
resign the treasury portfolio having be-
come candidate for governor of New
York. The friends of Mr.. New express
confidence that he will be Mr.. Folger's
successor.
The Princess of Wales and her children
and their suite and the King and Queen of
Denmark and their suite have all been liv-
ing together like one large family party,
at Wiesbaden, and have rarely appeared in
public there.
King Cetewayo wished to take presents
back to his wives in Zululand, and the
authorities In England made grant for
that purpose; but when it was found that
there were twenty-nine wives the original
sum was increased to $50. I
1t is claimed that Brown, the stalwart
candidate for governor of Pennsylvania
broke his pledged faith, and betrayed
Blaine at Chicago in 1880, and prevented
his nomination. This revelation is pro-
ducing great excitement in the old Key
stone state.
The board of education of New York
city asks in round numbers for an appro-
priation of four million (S3, $685. ,150) dol
lars. In this sum is included, says the
New York Sun. 81, 500 to add to the pres
ent large salary of the president of the
Normal college, or an increase of % per
cent.
One of the attendants of the Watkins
Glen freethinkers infidel convention said
out that he had been perse-
cuted and imprisoned for the
cause! This awakened sympathy and
caused him to be greatly honored. Itwas
found afterwards that he had been i'm
prisoned for circulating obscene literature!
curious miser was John Birdsell of
Rush, Ind, who brought 5000 in gold from
California twenty years ago, buried it in
an iron pot, and told nobody. His family
have of late suffered for food, and when
absolute starvation threatened them, he
dug up his treasure and went off with it,
leaving his wife and four children to th e
poor master.
Charles R. Ford had spent three years in
state prison, but he was regarded as a
thoroughly reformed man, and no opposi-
tion was made to his admission to the De-
troit bar. He has since attempted to pass
forged notes, and been SO much of dis
grace to his profession that hundred
lawyers of his county have signed petit
tion to disbar him.
1t has been positively asserted that Mr..
Gladstone, the English premier, sympa
thised with the South during our late civil
war. This Mr.. Gladstone positively denies
Lord Palmerston, who was premier at the
time, did sympathise with the South, and
but for Prince Albert, England would have
formally recognized the Confederacy as a
substantial independent government.
England has a blind postmaster general,
who fills the post with unprecedented sue
cess, and last year blind man ascended
Mont Blanc. What seems almost as re-
markable is that, according to the Wolver-
hampton Chronicle for 1892, zone Briscoe,