Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-03
GLOBELETS.

The Cro| Indians OF Montana number
about 3,400.
Robert Goelet has completed a cottage
at Newport, costing 100000.
Yucatan is to have two railroads in run
ming order the present month.
Austria and Hungary pay 100000
year in subsidies 10 steam navigation lines.
The consumption of rubber goods has
more than doubled in the last three years.
The floral decorations of the churches in
New York CITY on Easter Sunday are said to
have cost $4,000.
A building i'll New York city costing
100000, was dedicated last week as a
home for aged Hebrews.
Thomas Jefferson wrote that great cities
are presidential to the morals, the health
and the liberties of man."
Last week 400 tons of freight wers
shipped east from Chicago, the largest
shipment ever reached in one week.
serious frost was experienced in Chat
tanooga when the peach trees were in full
bloom. ana fears are entertained that the
entire crop is ruined.
The Memphis Ledger says the sewerage
system of that city Is a great success, yet
if the people had been allowed to vote
upon its adoption it would have been re-
iected.
A bill has been introduced into the New
York legislature for establishing the
whipping post, for certain misdemeanors,
probably including among others wife
beating.
The North Corolina legislature has
passed law prohibiting negroes from car
rying razors. The razor is a destructive
instrument to man and too tragically used
in negro quarrels.
Mr.. ParneI says the land league is en-
tirely Innocent of any completely with the
Phoenix park murders and the dynamite
explosions, and ascribes these crimes to
men who are the worst enemies of Ire
land.
Mrs. Henrietta 4. Cole, of Des Moines,
Ia, has in her possession fine autograph
letter Of John Howard Payne. 1t is writ
ten on parchment like paper in a hand as
neat and graceful as copper-plate engrav-
ing.
The Northwestern states will have to i'm
port corn for seed, and most of the West
,ern roads carry it free. Oregon is import
ing wheat, and the Oregon Railway and
Navigation company is carrying it at
81 ton.
The state of Georgia has let out to con-
tractors 1,2O0 convicts. The lessees pay
II.
lodge them, and are entitled to ten hours a
day labor from them. The net profit to
the state is about $4,000 year.
The cost of the proposed canal for unit
ing the bay of Biscay with the Mediterra-
mean is now estimated at $248, 100000, the
length of the canal being 27O miles. En-
gineers speak confidently of the perfect
feasibility OF the great undertaking.
The spot near Newburg, on the Hudson,
where Washington had his headquarters,
is to be designated by monum ent. Con-
gross appropriated $4,000 for the work,
and the state of New York will add $4,000
so that a handsome monument ought to
be the result.
Mr.. Parnell says he has no hope that
the Gladstone government viii succeed in
pacifyjng Ireland; the Phoenix park muir
ders and the recent dynamite explosions
have so Unseated the public mind that a
peaceful solution OF the difficulties is out
of the question.
About 1000 boats and 25,O00 fishermen
are engaged II the sardine industry on the
French coast. There are about 200 facto-
ries, in which 5000 to 1900 women are
employed. \ good catch for a boat would
be $4,000 fish day, for which they get
about thirty-ive francs.
The old wagon in which John Brown
used to carry runaway negroes from Mis-
souri,, and N which tbs arms for the men
at harper's Ferry were carried to West
Liberty, Ia, was sold at the latter place q
few days ago. It will be used to carry the
mails of one of the newspapers.
At a recent interview in Paris Mr.. Par
nell declared on his honor that three of the
ten men lately executed in Ireland were
entirely innocent of the charges made
against them. This is monstrous. The
facility with which innocent men are tried,
condemned and executed is alarming.
One house of the New York Legislature
has passed bill, and the other house will
no doubt concur, for the building of new
acqueduct to New York city that will cost
between SIS 100000 and $2O,O0O,OOO. The
water is to be taken from the Croton val
ley. The present water supply of the city
is entirely insufficient.
The report is authoritatively made that no
less than e5,OOO,O0O have been invested by
English capitalists in alleged gold mines
in India. After nearly three years of work
ing the total yield of those mines does not
roach $500. But that does not prove that
they have not paid wsll-the getters up of
the mining companies.
Mr.. L. A. Spaulding, president of the
Lockport, n. Y, Pound Manufacturing
company, closed large contract q few
days ago with the Panama Canal company
Mr.. Spaulding is to excavate and complete
seven miles of the Panama ship canal, be-
ginning at the Panama end, for the sum
of S1,OOO,0U0 per mile.