Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-01

$50.
Samuel S. Sanford, known as the father
OF negro minstrelsy, thinks that Nelson
Aheass was as great song-writer as Ste
Phen Z. Foster, and that now none of his
songs are sung by minstrel troupes.
among Kneass' songs are "Ben Bolt
Nellie Was Lady" and "Juniata John
son."
The Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette says that
If man applies the torch to his own
house IN that state even for the propose of
destroying evidence of fraud purperated
at the expense of others, the act is not
punishable under the statutes of Arkansas.
Arson" there is held to mean the burnipc
of the property of another.
II saw Gen. Hancock during the weel, -
writes Gath, the correspondent. thine
has hardly spared him. He looks as large
| and almost as unwieldy as Gen. Scott. His
skin is of copper-red hue, and white
mustache lies upon it like a mutton-chop
with wool outside roasting on the Goals. I
thought of the expression, $50 and get
some hair of the same dog and put it on
the bite'
In the manuscript records of the town
of Georgetown, Mass, appears this entry:
"l646, July 8. There arose a sud
den gust at N. W. So violent for half an
hour as it blew down multitudes of trees
1t lifted up their meeting house at New
bury the people being in it. 1t darkened
the air with dust, yet through Gods mercy
it did no hurt, but only killed one Indian
with the fall of q tree. 1t was straight
between Lynn and Hampton"
There is bitter struggle going on in
New York city between the liberal and
conservative wings of the members of the
Academy of Medicine. The conservatives
are striving to secure the re-enactment of
the State Medical society of the ethical
code of the American Medical association.
which forbids consultation with homeopa-
thists, while the liberals are working to
let things remain as they are. The liberals
claim they have majority of the 800 mem
bers of the Academy.
The ages of the United States Supreme
| Court Judges are as follows: Juda Har-
Ian is so, the youngest man on the bench;
the Chief Justice is 67; Judge Field 81
Judge Bradley, 20; Judge Woods, SO;
Judge Stanley Matthews, SO; Judge Gray,
SO; and Judge Blatchford, 63. Judge
Miller was appointed in 1862, Judge Field
in 1868, Judge Bradley in 1870, the Chief
Justice in 1874, Judge Harlan 1877, Judge
Woods in 1880, Judge Matthews in 1881,
Judge Gray in 1881, and Judge Blatchford
in 1882.
4 correspondent of the New York Eren-
ing Post, writing from New Orleans, says
''The front yards of New Orleans are its
most fascinating feature. For many a
mile along Prytania, ST. Charles and other
avenues every man does his best to surpass
his neighbor in the outside show of flowers
shrubbery and semi-tropical trees. The
result is that the pilgrim who has left g
| foot of snow in Wisconsin, here rides for
hours where he fancies himself in con-
servatory like Alexander MitchelI's magni-
| fed million times.'
| Prof. Henry Morton Stevens, of the In
stitute of Technology, New York, delivered
1
last, in which he showed by experiment
that by simple contrivance and at slight
expense, electricity could be used as mo-
tive power, not merely to propel street
car, but to run the most complicated kind
of machinery. Energy stored in a box a
cubic foot large could take car load of
passengers from one end of New York city
to the other. He claimed the continuance
might exceed in value the invention of the
telephone, as the secret of applying cleo
| tricity as motive power has hitherto been
sought in vain.
While the people of America have the
strongest sympathies for the Irish, sym
pathies which they have shown in deeds,
not words, always contributing literally
whenever Ireland appealed to them for as
| sistance, and always welcomed with cut
stretched arms the Irish emigrant and refu-
gees, they must see with some alarm and
| apprehension the new policy that the
| British government is pursuing, whereby
| it proposes to drive to our shores, against
| their will, thousands of Irish paupers, the
| unhappy victims of English misrule, fami-
| lies who have been despoiled of their all,
evicted from their homes without a cent to
their names, and finally transported
| abroad.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat calls atten-
| ton of the lawmakers of that state to the
reprehensible practice INDUCED in by
| sportsmen in shooting wild ducks which
are migrating northward to breed. The
protracted cold weather kept the web feet
in Texas and other points in the South till
the great majority had paired, after which,
very properly remarks that journal, they
should be left in peace. "The same prin-
ciple," it says, "also applies to the spring
snipe season, especially when the wlsps
| come north so late as they have done this
year. Most of the female snipe recently
shot in this locality we're ready for nesting,
| and snipe, like duck, have certainly been
appreciably thinned By the large bags of
1882"
The subject of the price of gas is
arousing great deal of interest in this
country, the general supposition being
that we pay too much for our lights. Our
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