Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-05
GLOBELRTS,

EX-Mayor Isaac Davis, of Worcester,
Massachusetts, died April 1, aged eighty
three years.
The New York Academy of Music safe
was robbed last week Of $4,000 in cash and
$6,075 in checks.
The Rev. George Allen, aged ninety-one
years, pioneer in the cause of abolition
in Worcester, Massachusetts, is dead.
April 1, the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION of Chicago celebrated the twen-
ty-sixth anniversary of its organization.
An experimental farm and hospital
for the treatment OF domestic animals is to
be established near Washington by the
bureau of agriculture.
1t is to be hoped the political resurrec-
tionists who have exhumed the corpses of
Tilden and Conkling may be brought to
justice.
France has adopted most magnani-
nous policy in dealing with the people of
madagascar. As they decline to fight,
she has generously consented not to fight
them.
As postmaster general, Mr.. Hatton
might be in position to promote the cir
culation OF his Washington newspaper.
The rural postmasters would take a sud
den interest in the concern.
The food in the Atchafalaya river in
Louisiana is at high flood tide, has over
flowed its banks, and has submerged
numerous plantations, and a portion of
the Texas Pacific railway track.
Generals Diaz and Grant dined together
in New York on Sunday, April 1. Such is
Grants profound devotional respect for
the Sabbath that no other day suits him as
well for luxurious, enjoyable wine dinner.
Dukes, the Pennsylvania fend, is de-
scribed as "a branded wanderer, with no
roof under which TO find shelter It
would be better FOX Dukes, perhaps, if he
were not too cowardly, to use his pistol on
himself.
The New York legislature has just adopt
ed bill prohibiting fishing on Sunday. 1t
is matter of great surprise that such
thoroughly devoted Christians as the Alba
ny lawmakers should have tolerated this
practice SO long.
Says an exchange: The president, re-
port says, seldom goes to bed till long
after midnight, and it is possible his noe
turnal ramblings in a long tailed night
shirt, have given rise to the story
that the White house is haunted.
If official opposition cannot restrain the
presentation of the passion Play" it ia
likely that the size of the audiences will do
81 fa1 A nc
private performance, the otleC night, the
impression created was decidedly adverse.
The potters have discovered that the re-
duction Of duty on crockery and earthen-
ware contemplated by the new tariff law
may be eluded by liberal construction of
the provision for the appraisement of in
voices contained in the ninth section of
the act.
London Truth wants the English civil
list abolished and the queen put on a sal
airy of $4,000 year, but Victoria is not
that sort Of queen. She can't afford to
fall down stairs, TO stretch out her hand to
be kissed, to be shot at once in a while
and to attend to the other duties Of royal
ty, for any such pit5auce.
The first thing city man does when he
gets rich, says the Philadelphia NeocS, is
to buy farm, move into the country and
bankrupt himself trying TO raise enough
to keep himself from starving. A rich
countryman, on the other hand, buys a
brown stone front in the city, and becomes
interestedn sticks, wish like result.
One CT the most heartily applauded
actors in a modern society drama is a cat,
which comes On the stage, stretches her
self, washes her feet, lies down before the
fire. and placidly eats the saucer Of milk
which is SET before her. She has been
shut up all day in a box too small for her,
and to cold too be comfortable, and has had
no food aeanWhile.
The o6cial s.enogra phic report of the
Guiteau trial, as published by the govern
ment printing Office, makes three solid
volumes of some nine hundred pages each
This ought to satisfy the vainest and most
exacting assassin, but, if Guiteau is in q
position to keep himself posted on Wash
ington affairs, he is probably mad and
disguised because the report of his tria
isn't bigger than the United States census
The Rev. Mr.. Menion, having resigned
the presidency of Rlpon college, Wiscon
sin, has taken the pastorate of Congre
gational church at Somerville, Massachu
sets. He has repudiated the doctrine O.
original sin, and it is expected his church
will endorse his course. The older ortho
doxy as understood and preached by iona
than Edwards andh contemporaries seems
to sit very lightly on the pastors of tn,
present day.
The people of Glasgow, the great mann
featuring metropolis of Scotland, have
been going into ecstasies over two new
Pullman palace cars, called respectively
the st. Mungo and the st. Andrew
American enterprise is making itself felt
among the canny north Britons, and th.
next ten years may witness the last of tn
''cabbined, cribbed, confined" and disma.
bob-tailed railway cars now in use.
The penal code in New York providin,
punishment for attempts at suicide he.
been in operation nearly four months, Blu
statistics which Ihave just been gatheret