Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-17
GLOBELETS.


joint ballot of fifteen.
Several unctious and rapid Democrat,
journals have already nominated Grove
Cleveland for president in 1884. Hastel
slowly, gentlemen!
Speaker Keifer, with remarkable sagac
ity, expresses the belief that he, himself
will not be speaker of the next house. ant
he hasn't any idea who will be.
Lieut.. Thackera, Gen. Sherman's son-in
law. has resigned from the army to go int,
the stove business. He likes that kind O
hardware better than army hardware.
DIR. Adam Cardenas, recently elected
president of Nicaragua, spent some TIM
in the United States last summer and lief
his son at Bethlehem, Pa., to be educated
Nine. Modieska has given 500 to thu
widow and children of Henry Clarke, ani
like sum to the daughter of John Lee
sufferers by the Park theater fire in New
York.
The Presbyterian and Wesleyan church
steeples In Macon, Ga, are each inhabited
by swarms of bees,and mischievous school
boys are not given to climbing up to med.
die with the bells.
They say that an expert can tell the time
of day by the movements of an alligator
as well as by watch. This is joyous news.
An alligator is so much easier to carry
about than a watch.
The trustees of the New York riot relief
fund have forw arded check of $1,000 to
Mrs. Gallagher, the wife of Roundsman
Gallagher of that city, who lost his life in
the discharge of his duty.
Ezekiel Pt;.lc d,- put $500 into Mar
blehead, Mass, savings bank when he was
twenty one years of age. He is now
ninety-fve and has never drawn a cent of
principal Or interest since.
The queen OF Spain and the young in
fanta are progressing favorably. At the
baptism of the infant the empress OF
Austria will be one of the sponsors, end
the pope will be the godfather.
M. F. Morse, M. A., of Boston, well
known in literary and educational circles,
is now head master and first project of
discipline in the New York Military
academy at Fort Washington, on the Hud-
son.
Deacan Eben Eaton, the oldest man in
Farmingham, Mass, ninety-three years Of
age, was at the town meeting on Tuesday
and voted the Republican ticket. His first
presidential vote was for James Madison
in 1912, and he has voted at every presi-
Dental election since.
Boston Post: It is as plain as that two
and two make four, that Hon. Samuel J..
Randall cannot be the next speaker. Even
his friends have to put tariff reform
plank into his platform, and on such a
platform Randalls heels would be in the
air in less than twenty-four hours.
VIM. B. Booth, son of the commander
in-chief of the salvation army, was recent
ly married in London to Miss Florence
Eleanor Soper, one of the commanders of
the salvation army operating in Paris.
The ceremony was witnessed by 5000 per-
sons, who eich paid shilling entrance
fee.
Col. H. W. Church of the British army.
who was with the party when the prince
imperial of France was killed by the Zu-
lus, having obtained three years. leave of
absence, is now in Orange county, Fla, for
the benefit of his wifes health, and to
look after some landed interests in that
section.
Herbert Spencer, the English philoso-
pher, sailed from New York last Saturday,
in company with his friend, Mr.. Edward
Lot, for England. He held reception on
the steamers dock, and babe adieu to a
number of prominent people who came
to see him off. Mr.. Spencer said he would
never return to America again.
The will of Col. John G. Hamilton, of
New York, lately deceased, son of the cele
brated Alexander Hamilton of Revolution
airy fame,who was killed in DUEL by Aaron
Burr, which was contested by heirs, has
been amicably adjusted and admitted to
probate. The estate is estimated at
$1.OOO,OOO.
Mapleson says money IS no object with
Patti It took him four months to per-
suade her to come to America, and when
she left her castle in Wales she cried like
child. He says she has declined to sing
forty nights in South America for the sum
of $685. 900, which was offered by reliable
parties which would be $4,000 night.
The canvassers of the Sixth New York
election district in the Eighteenth ward
assert that an irregularity took place in
the counting of the assembly ballots at
the polls, the rectifcation of which will
result in throwing out the vote of the dis
trict and electing Robert E. Connolly, the
Democratic candidate, by 102 majority.
The fools are not all dead yet. A Dem
ocratic correspondent of the New York
World, in the exuberance of his Joy ,rushes
to the front with the nomination of Mr..
Franklin Edison, of New York city, for
president in 1884. His recommendation
and qualification for the executive posi-
ton is that she is an extensive grain mer-
chant
AS a steamboat was approaching st.
Louis the other night an unusual sound in
the air caused the captain to turn on the
electric light. 1t was seen that the noise
proceeded from an innumerable colony of