Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-01
GLoBELETs.


persons were arrested.
A balloon which was ascending at Madrid
was crushed by collision with a housetop,
and the aeronaut lost his life.
The bishop of Wheeling has ordered all
Catholics to withdraw from the knights OF
81. John or suffer communication.
Elizabeth Vessels, a handsome Boston
girl of fourteen years, killed drunken and
brutal brother in-law who assaulted her
brother.
go Lord,' said an Ohio minister in his
prayer at Monday evening class meeting,
s.Thou hast seen by the morning papers
how the Sabbath was desecrated yester-
day."
London Truth says that during 1882
fourteen wills were proved in England
with personal property exceeding 100000.
In 1881 there were only three wills over
100000.
Included in the triumphs of Revivalist
Harrison at Decatur, Illinois, are the con-
version of prominent horseman and the
leading of an Episcopalian family into the
Methodist church.
The l eaders of the fashion are divided
upon the subject as to whether or not
Freddie Gebhardt should wear black stock
ings and Grape on his hat when Mrs.
Langtry leaves the country.
George Munro, the publisher, has en-
dowed three new tutorships-Latin, Greek
and mathematics-in Dalhousie college, N.
S.. at $1,000 per annum each. He issues
on an average novel a day in the Seaside
Library series.
Hungary never had so good year as
last. Her exports reached 45,5eO,0O0 for
ms. Her exports viii still further advance
when the great elevator at Pesth, with
capacity for storing 100000 hundred
weight, Is completed.
On a plantation in Laurens county,
South Carolina, some negroes killed and
ate q goose which had been bitten by a
mad dog. Five of the family have died,
and four others we're in commissions at the
time of the last report.
Mr. Crawford, a Glasgow merchant, is
about to present the city of London with
statue of Burns, at a cost of $4,000. Mr..
Crawford is an Ayrshire man, as Burns
was. The statute will be placed in the
Thames embankment garden.
A committee of the grangers of Penn
sylvania, assisted by Judge ]. S. Black, have
prepared an act which proposes to abolish
all taxation except on $6,000,OO0,0O0 of
property in that state, and the imposition
H. ,,,ilIS On ea0b dollar DPO-
ducing S3O,OOO,OOO per annum.
Miss Laura Don, the actress, is at Nice
and will remain there until May next for
the benefit of her health, which, she says,
was seriously impaired by the close and
constant attention she was obliged to
give to the putting On the stage Of her own
play, 1.-THE Daughter of the Nile.'
A bank cashier in Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, has been arrested for steal
ing $4,000. No bank cashier of any self
respect is satisfied with the theft of such a
paltry sum. Perhaps, however, the Penn
sylvania chap was interested in steel
mill, and consequently extremely hard up
A fellow Of the Royal College of Sur
geons was lately fined $40 and costs for
''furiously riding bicycle" He was
travelling so rapidly that constable on
horseback had great difficulty in catching
him, though it was shown in court that the
surgeon had already travelled sixty miles
that day On his machine.
There is widespread interest in the
coming sesqui-centennial celebration of
the founding of Georgia, not only in that
state, but in the neighboring common
wealths. The Nelos of Savannah urges
that the proposal originally made to have
the celebration extend over two days, eb.
- and 10, be accepted, as it will be i'm
possible to carry out the programme sue
cessfully in one day.
It is reported that party of fishermen
recently discovered about a mile from the
port of Lingah on the Persian Gulf a
number of rich pearl banks. AS proof
of their existence and value it is said that
Makaberber- ud- Douleh, the Persianmini5-
ter of arts and sciences, has obtained con-
cession to work them for his own profit.
BY way of beginning he proposes to en-
ploy experienced European divers along
the whole line of coast, and should they re-
port favorably, ii is possible that Euro
pean capital viii be invited to share in the
enterprise.
The growth of the street car Ii mes in
England has been very rapid. In 1876
there were but 81 miles open for traffic; in
June, 1882, it was 444, or nearly five times
as much. The total number of passengers
carried, which was SIS, 442, 1O8 in 1878, was
187,875,779 in 1882-that is, it had more
than doubled, and the capital expended
had risen between 1876 and 1882 from
e1,25O,OOO to e6,5OO,OOO. In the Unite
Kingdom the year ending June 30, 1882,
no fewer than 257, 100000 passenge rs we're
conveyed, and the receipts amour ted to
e1,97O.35O.
Governor Hamilton, of Illinois, it is
said, owes much, if not all, of his success
in life to the great ambition of his wife,
who is an intelligent and lovely woman.
She was engaged to be married to the
youthful governor while both were attend
ing the same school in Ohio. She pre-
dicted a brilliant future for her betrothed,
on5 ,,arsuaded him To read law Tn all his