Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-27
BELETS.

houses were destroyed.
Nearly 5000 emigrants have just sailed
from Liverpool for Canada.
A London syndicate has bought l,Ooo,
900 acres Of land in Zacatecas, Mexico.
A compulsory education bill has been
passed by the Rhode Island legislature
Bureaus of associated charities now ex'
list in twenty five of the largest states OF
the Union.
The net earnings of the Atchison, Tope,
ka s. Santa Fe railroad last year were
$6,136,OOO.
1.-THE Washington relics are to Dc Trans
ferred from the patent Office to the natlon-
al museum.
All hopes of amicable arrangements be-
tween the Grand Trunk and Canada Ia
cific are abandoned.
Mahogany, rosewood, ebony and cedar
are used for fuel by the poorest people In
some parts of Mexico.
The prohibition constitutional amend
ment failed to pass the lower house in the
Pennsylvania legislature.
The Delaware house of representatives
has passed bill appropriating $4,000 for
schools for colored children.
The receipts of the Seventy-frst Regi-
ment fair in New York, which closed few
days since, amounted to $4,000.
John Bright IS rector of the Glasgow
university. He was lately invested with
the hood and received the degree of L LID.
The London Standard thinks the day
will come when characters like ODonovan
Rosa will be hunted from both CONT
nents.
It is reported that rock weighing three
pounds and three-qUarters was thrown up
by an artesian well in California few
days ago.
The New York legislature is asked to ex-
tend the principles and methods of the
Pendleton civil service law to state and
local officers.
John Lilly has obtained judgment for
$4,000 against the New York Central &
Hudson River Railroad company for the
loss of his legs.
The governments franchise bill in Can
ada, introduced recently, gives a vote to
widows and spinsters with a property val
uation of $500.
Helen Marcovitch, the woman who tried
Belgrade, has made an unsuccessful at
tempt to commit suicide.
Hops are now so dear that they are
called brewers diamonds, and $150,000
worth is not an uncommon stock on hand
in large brewery.
The Boston Civil Service Cooperative
society, which was incorporated about two
years ago, with capital of $4,000, has
voted to wind up, its store not having been
profitable.
In New York 10000 women and girls
support themselves by their own labor,
and 10000 other women support them
selves and their husbands by manual labor
and brain work.
The New York Times and Post, the
Albany Evening Journal and the Buffalo
EGpreSs, four of the most influential Re-
publican newspapers in the state, favor
reduced reduction of the tariff.
Judge Stanley Matthews is unfortunate
with his children. He lost five little ones
in one month by scarlet fever, and his
youngest surviving son is now reported to
be very near the end of his earthly ca
reer.
1.-The New York Telegraph and Telephone
companies have adopted resolutions in ia
vor of putting the wires underground, but
asking lenieney in regard to time, because
no satisfactory system has yet been de-
vised.
A report has been received by the Ma
tional Board of Health to the effect that
cholera, which prevailed to an alarming
extent in China, Japan and India some
time ago, has disappeared. Another report
says that smallpox is raging in Rio de ia
metro.
six-year-old colored boy, son of Mute
Whittier, living on Sabine river, in Texas,
was pursuing a tarantula to kill it with a
fishing pole Saturday evening, when the
venomous insect sprang several feet, fast
ening its fangs in his right hand, from the
effect of which it was thought he would
die.
The breaking of the Standard Oil Com
pany'5 pipe near Leaviettburg, Ohio, al
lowed the escape of the fluid at the rate of
100 barrels an hour. 1t formed a small
creek, and some set the oil on fire, the
heat cracked a granite culvert, causing its
destruction. The break has since been re-
paired.
A smart servant girl in New York re-
Gently induced an old man, who is past
eighty, to give her $4,000 in government
bonds which he had at home. He COM
piled with her request, and now his fami-
Iy have lawyer employed to get them
back, but the girl has sold them and moth
can be done.
Boston paper says that within the last
fifteen months wholesale dry goods firms
in that city, doing an aggregate business
of $8,000,000 annually, have gone out of
the trade, and among many of those that
continue the practice is growing of giving
credit for from six to eight months by the
process of dating bills ahead.
San Francisco dispatch states a rumo-
is current in that city that son of Sena-
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