Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-30
GLoBELETs.

Napier OF MaSua4d'
Twenty-three Boston firms have been
put upon the postofice black list as swin@-
ling concerns.
Governor Cobb, of Alabama, pardoned
one convict a week during his term OF SER
vice, Just expired.
1t is almost too much to ask young
man to fall in love with girl in an India
rubber overeoat and gum shoes.
Several earthquake shocks have been
fell at Panama and Asphalt. A new comet
is now visible from the Isthmus.
Mr.. R. McKinstry, of Hudson, N. Y, is
said to own the largest apple orchard IN
the world-S9,OOO trees on 300 acres.
II cost Pennsylvania $3.50 to inaugu-
rate Governor Pattison. And yet there
are people who are not happy about it.
Residents of the caved-in district at
Wilkesbarre, Pc, are still uneasy, as the
ground continues to settle slowly in places.
Col. R. G. Ingersoll, IN an absent-minded
minded moment, during the Star Route
trial, on Wednesday, thanked the Lord"
Michael Barron told his afianced bride
at Baltimore, Ohio, that she was too
sweet to i've" and proved his sincerity by
shooting her.
It looks as though the government dIdn I
expect the tax to be taken of whisky. 1t
has lust ordered the coinage of lots of new
ten-cent pieces.
The Ohio legislature is considering a bill
to prevent the spread Of smallpox. why
not prohibit the disease outright, as 1t Is
plainly unconstitutional.
Factory operatives in New England are
uuitedly asking for weekly payments of
their wages, while their employers are as
unanimously IN favor of the monthly sys-
tenn.
The suggestion to limit the number of
barrooms and sell licenses to the highest
bidders finds favor in MissoUri,where there
Is now a bar to every three hundred of the
population.
Denver earnings for the third week in
January decreased about $4,000. The
earnings of the Iowa lines of the Illinois
Central decreased $2,805 during the sec
ond week in this month.
There is a movement among the land
lords of the leading hotels against
polyglot bills of fare, and it is proposed to
begin simultaneously in number of
houses to use plain English only.
Americanisras begin to appear in the
editorial articles of the London newspa-
pers. "The conservative party" says the
Netos, for instance, ''has shown signs of
going back on the question of household
suffrage"
The hair of girl employed in the Elgin
watch factory was caught in the machinery
and violently pulled. From that time all
of the new growth was white, and now the
receding color has reached a point half
way to the ends.
Francis Murphy, the famous temper
ance advocate, will soon return to Phila-
delphia, after an absence of nearly three
years. His health is said to be badly
broken. He is threatened with serious
pulmonary complications.
Mr.. GIadstone's illness is due to cold
and to the want of sleep. The latter is
serious, since hitherto Mr.. Gladstone has
commanded sleep at will, like Bonaparte.
Mr.. Gladstone has always been able to
sleep anywhere and at any time.
The English postmaster general is total
Iy blind, and Mr.. George Richardson, who
has just been appointed receiver and &C
countant general to the postofiee, is total
" deaf. But in the admiralty there is an
official who is both deaf and dumb.
Congressman West, of the Saratoga dis
trict, New York, has made millions of dol
lars by the manufacture of paper bags He
was born in England fifty-nine years ago.
He has plump, rosy cheeks, full gray
beard, and business-like manner, and an
in come of $500 day.
Matte Mead, wealthy girl of Salem,
Mass, was so chagrined by her failure to
pass school examination, that shs quilted
her home, leaving a note saying that she
could not bear the disappointment among
those who knew her, and preferred disgrace
among strangers. She was found in Bos-
ton.
Governor Bates leg was so fearfully
shattered at the battle of Shiloh that when
the surgeons insisted upon amputation as
the only hope of life the resolute man
said, ''Death With my leg to life without
it," and in the midst of his sufferings re-
sisted almost by force the approaches of
the knife.
It appears that W. z. Yost, who left
Kingston with ex-senator Spencer for
England, was also an exile from the United
States. A separation having been granted
between him and his wife at Watertown. he
was ordered to pay her $1,000 per year.
He left and came to Kingston, first having
disposed of his property, but she recovered
farm and $4,000.
The traffic receipts of the Canadian Pa
cifc railway from January LIST to Novem-
Der so, 1882, were $2,304,873. The com
pany's land sales to December 1st exceed
ed 100000 acres, the proceeds from which
will redeem about $17,OO0,OOO of the $780,
100000 land grant bonds issued and sold.
The company have nov unsold nearly 49,,
100000 acres, with an Indebtedness of only
100000 on land bonds.
Gambetta seems to have been conscious
of his fate before his last sickness, He