Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-21
GLOBEEETS

Major Mordecai, of the class of 1922.
The city of Boston has 42,267 dwelling
houses; 152 apartment houses, and eS
hotels.
In the United States and abroad Is neo.
pie field $257,0OO,0o0 of our government
bonds
Jennie Lind has one son, an officer in
the British army, and two daughters Aappi-
ly married.
tits estimated that the 2,443, 148 acres of
school bonds in Nebraska, if sold now
would realize about $4O,OO0,0OO.
The editor of the Atlanta, Ga. Post IN
peal after sinking $4,000 on the paper
sold out, and departed for pastures new.
The supreme court of Massachusetts de-
cided that medical book is not compe-
tent testimony though the opinion of
doctor called as an expert is.
The action of the Governor of Virginia
in appointing colored school trustees in
Richmond continues to meet with indig-
nant protest throughout the State.
There is talk in Virginia of state con-
| vention of Confederate vetrans. The OBJ
ject is to effect a general organization of
old confederate soldiers from Maryland to
Texas.
Judge Stowe, of Pittsburg, Pa. recently
decided in case heard before him that a
sleeping car is responsible company to its
patrons for the depredations OF thieves
while they are sleeping.
| Since Bismarck was selected as the capi-
tai of Dakota, eastern capitalists, are re-
ported to have been investing heavily in
real estate there, thus swelling the real es-
tate boom in that fortunate locality.
new cotton mill company is being or =
gained at Darlington S. c., with a capital
of 100000. The establishment of facto-
ries III the cotton raising states is one of
the hopeful southern signs Of the times.
A married lady, nlnety-fve years old
| living with her husband of the same age.
in townsville, Mo-, will not have a servant
around, and does her own house-work-
happy independence and deliverance
from domestic annoyances.
Colorphobia is again infamed to ''white''
heat in the old Dominion. The Richmond
Dispatch says; 1T might as well be under
stood first as last that the whites of Vir-
ginia do not intend to permit negroes to
be trustees of white schools
An old farm house in which Poe wrote
his Raven" and in which and the same
room in which he watched the bedside of
the death of his wife, at Fordham, N. Y.
was recently sold to gentleman of Stan
ford, Conn. with grounds attached for S.,
| 700.
locomotive of 500 horse power is now
being constructed for the Kelley Motor
power Company with which to draw train
of Pullman Palace cars from Philadelphia
to New York in August next. The Presi-
dent of the company has full faith in Kee-
ley Motor power.
A prominent southerner says JEFF Davis
was a bitter man of details, and Alexan-
der Stevens an idealist and a dreamer, and
| that Howell Cobb is the one who should
| have been intrusted with the presidency of
the confederacy. The same authority says
thinking people saw after the first year of
the war that southern people must give in
The blasphemous rigmarole OF the ''Sa l.
walton Army, so called is lntollerably dis
gushing. In late Salvation Army "bulle-
tim" Syracuse, N. Y, is the following Ian {:
guage: Good day; hall packed; thirteen
killed; many wounded; the devil kicking !;
God working; Syracuse for the King"
This is the sling.slaDg of gang of fanat
les and hypocrites.
Miss Mary B. Willsher, of Brooklyn, an
eccentric spinster, has been sent to an in
sane asylum. In her residence, which she
owned, were found $4,000 in bonds, near
ly $4,000 in cash, lot of silverware which
she had melted up to keep others from
using it, and a number of pin cushions
made from costly India shawls which she
had cut up. So far as known she has no
relatives.
In a sermon delivered in Catholic
church in Washington city recently by
Father Chappelle he Indignantly denied
that the Pope in his recent letter, which
has caused so much comment had any in
tention of taking sides with the oppressors
Of Ireland. Of one thing he said the peo-
pie might always be certain and that was
that the Pope would nevsr Join hands
with tyrants.
Alfred Packer, the Colorado cannibaI
who in the winter of 1875 killed and ate
the flesh Of at least one man belonging to
the prospecting party of which he was
himself member, who was convicted of
numbering the whole party and sentenced
to be hanged May 10, and for whom a stay
of proceedings was obtained, is likely to
escape the gallows altogether by means of
a legal technicality.
Engineer Melville has written a letter
denying the report that his wife has been
living on the charity of friends. He says
that the $40 per month allotted to her by
the court has always been paid. He charg-
es that the press of the country has dealt
unfairly by him. Up to the time of the
the order of court and from the moment
he went upon the Arctic expedition he gave
his wife $50 a month out of his pay, and
part of the time $40 month.
A bill has recently passed the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature and received the sane
ton of the Governor which Drovides that