Daily globe., 1883-08-25
GLOBLETS.


The Lancaster watch compvny recently |
suspended, has resumed.
The other day King Alfonso reviewed
the garrison at Madrid
The sanitary Gordon at Alexandria,
Egypt. is TO be withdrawn.
Straw lumber at its first trial as flooring
in Chicago, proved failure.
The centennial of the incorporation of
the city of Charleston was celebrated
Aug. 13.
Chinese sugar has appeared in San
Francisco in a shipment OF 100000
pounds.
A Vermont villager has his walk and
front yard paved with headstones from a
cemetery.
Commodore Selfridge is about to estab-
lish a gun-cotton factory at the Newport
torpedo station.
Yirulent foot and mouth disease has
broken out among Canadian cattle at
Bristol, England.
The leaders Of the Spanish revolt who
took refuge in Portugal have been
shipped TO France.
A monument commemorative of the de-
fence of Paris was unveiled Aug. Is, at
the French capital.
The emperor Of Austria and the king of
Servia will have an interview in Hun
gary in September.
Several American artists have been
awarded second-class medals at the Mu-
mich art exhibition.
A firm OF vinegar makers in London en-
tertained one hundred men at dinner in
their $4,000 gallon vat,
The chief prelates of the Roman catholic
churcn in Europe and America will meet
IN Rome in November.
Mayor White and six ex-fre commits
sioners of Baltimore have been indicted
for mal-feasance in Office.
A beet sugar refinery in Portland has
failed because it could not get beets even
from $3.50 and Sc ton.
Sirius which has been Ieceding from the
sun at the rate Of twenty miles a second,
is now moving towards it.
Gold mines in the famous Wilderness,
Spottsylvanie county, Virginia are being
worked, it is stated with profit.
The export of ostrich feGthers from the
Cape last year was rprecedentedly large.
The prices obtained were enormous.
A man failed to commit suicide at
Mansfield, Massachusetts, and the next day
railroad train ran over him accidentally.
A half dozen members Of the British
parliament are coming TO attend the
opening of the Northern Pacific railroad.
1t turns ont that tne greater part of the
Duchess of Edinburgh's trousseau was sold
few years ago as ''the property Of lady
of rank
oanouobet is still held by
Gov. Sprague, though he does not live
there. All the household goods have been
moved, and the house is vacant.
A sagacious newspaper Knight of the
lead pencil, thinks it a great mista Ike not
to lave discovered Noah's Ark somewhere
near an American summer resort.
In Krupp's great gun manufactory at
Essex, compressed carbonic acid is used
for the manufacture of what ice and selt-
ger water may be required by the work
men.
| The Freedmen's aid socIety M. f.
church last year made the sum of $17S,O00.
The divorced Senator Fair, now abroad
is down for another marriage. The bride
to be is the daughter of Prof. Dare, Lon
don expert in telegraphing.
There is an Oxford graduate in the
gives what is called "a very eloquent and
critical lecture on English poetry, making
judicieus selections and showing wonder
ful knowledge"
A reA edition of the works of William
H. Seward will soon be published in five
volums. The first four volumes will be a
reprint of the earlier edition, bat the fifth
will be new matter, containing the almost
unknown Diplomatic History of the War;
This will be Invaluable, and startling in
many of its revelations.
The Egyptian census has just been com
pleted. The total population is given as
I6,79S, ,230. OF whom 3.3S3,918 are males
and 3,4O4,3l2 females. Cairo has 368, Jos
inhabitants; Alexandria, with its suburbs
20S,7 ,775; Port Said, 1860: Suez, 1913;
Tantah, 49, ,725: Damietta, S4,046; Rosetta
1861; Mensurah, 6,674: Zagazig, 1905
The police of Bridgeport resigned to ge
around the law which prevented their pay
being increase while II ofice as the com
1nissioners had voted. Then dummies
were appointed and resigned, and the ole
board were reappointed at the new salary
They find now that no man over forty five
is eligible, and so a number lose theil
places.
Miss Fuller is school teacher in Grand
Marais. northern Michigan. She is also
an admirable shot with the rifle, and, afte
school hours, goes hunting in the neigh
boring woods. The family with whom
she boards are kept we'll supplied will
game, large and small. She is the admi-
ration of the country, and all the younG
men are in love with her.
The falling of in the amount of win
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