Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-20
GLOBELETS.

III helI6r.
The congress of Columbia. S. A., con-
vened few days since. A negro was
elected as presiding officer of the senate.
Among the things taken by burglars
from an Illinois minister's house were a
box of tobacco, six bottles of whisky and a
pistol.
There are fourteen men in the Allegheny,
Pa, county jail, charged with murder, five
Of whom have already been sentenced to
be hung.
The estimated log cut in the Wiscon-
consIn pineries on the Black river and its
tributaries this season is estimated at POO
100000 feet.
twenty-five years ago Mr.. Newhall erect
ed the hotel recently burned in Milwaukee,
and handsome fortune. Now he
is milk dealer in that city.
A Wisconsin farmer who stored ten bar
rels of kerosene in a barn with 100 tons
of hay, went in with lantern to see that
all was safe. No insurance!
A boy died in New York recently of hy-
drophobia, two years after being bitten.
Up to few days before his death he
showed no signs of the disease.
Samuel j. Tilden is again reported,
probably for the thousandth time, to be
very i'll, at his home in Yonkers, which it
is expected never to leave alive.
A hotel in Los Angeles, Cal, has on its
printed rules, the following: ''No combus-
tibles, such as paper, old clothing, bottles
L
windows"
Some of the land leaguers of st. Louis
have been discussing the propriety of cele-
brating the birth day of Robert Emmett in
stead of st. Patrick's day, as national
Irish holiday.
The Rev. Mr.. Bowman, of Harrison, Ind,
scandalized by the offensive conduct of
young man who was calling on his daugh-
ter, captured and handcutfed him and led
him off to Jail.
The New Orleans Times Democrat says
the smallpox continues in that city as
severe as ever, and says it will summer
there unless very earnest measures are
taken to drive it hence.
1t is announced that the Ponte Vecchio
at Florence is to be pulled down because it
is thought unsafe. Few old landmarks of
Florence will cause greater regret for the
touch of medieval1sm in them.
Mr.. Ross Winans, the American inventor
and millionaire, now holds in the counties
of Ross and Inverness, Scotland, $50 square
miles of land exclusively devoted to deer,
and desires to extend his preserve.
Every now and then faith cures" are re-
ported. One of the latest is that of lady
of Norwalk, O., VINO had been treated for a
spinal trouble for twelve years, without
avail, but was finally cured by prayer.
Judge Lilley, the aged man whom ex
Senator Dorsey knocked down and kicked,
intends to get his revenge through the
courts. He says he can make exposures
that will injure Dorsey in the star route
case.
Republican leaders say that the tariff of
1888 marks the limit to which they will go
in revision. The Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal remarks that the Democratic party
will go further and comply with the popu-
lar will.
A leading Charleston paper says South
ern journalists, prompted alike by patri-
otism and self-interest, desire nothing SO
much as to see the colored population
transformed into thinking and reading
constituency"
At its first session the Forty seventh
congress appropriated 95,OOo,OOO; at its
second session only $229,0O0,000. The
difference is S66,000,0OO, the amount
saved to the country by the ''tidal wave" at
the polls last fall
will printed On type writer has been
admitted to PROBATE at New Haven, though
Connecticut statute requires that such
documents be written, the judge deciding
that such printing is writing within the
meaning Of the law.
Miss Mary Telfair, the daughter and
heir of Gov. Telfair, OF Georgia, died in
1875, leaving most of her large estate to
various charities in Savannah. Some rel
atives contested the will, but it has just
been sustained IN a. final decision.
A committee of influential men has been
formed in England to collect subscriptions
for memorial of Richard Trevithick, the
inventor of high-pressure steam engines
and probably the locomotive itself, who
died penniless and alone al hartford, Kent
in 1888.
A New Orleans editor gratifyingly &C.
knowledges the gift of quantity of impe
rial strawberries grown in the open air
some of them being over an inch in diane
ter They had a rare favor. Minnesota
editors will have to wait while for the
''imperial."
A shipowner in Ramsgate, England
wrote to the meteorological Office, London
asking,what was thought there of Virgins
prophecy. He got this reply, 1T is utter
nonsense. No living man can predict the
weather two days beforehand, much less
sixmonths."
Gen. E. E. Bryant, long one of the mos
prominent and considered one of the
staunchest Republicans III Wisconsin, sur
prises his political friends considerably BY
purchasing third interest IN the Madison
Democrat, especially as he is to be its chic
nOiitical editor.