Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-02
GLOBELErS.

Gen. 81. j. Hunt, commanding the de-
partment of the south, has been placed on
the retired list.
Receipts of the patent Office flor the fisc al
year were 81, O95,8S4, being $3O5, 1888, more
than last year.
A large number of government records
were lost by recent fire in the Olympia,
Washington Territory, land Office.
Ainosa Swallow, of Delaware has offered
a reward of $4,000 for the capture and
conviction of the slayer of his son.
A militia sham battle in Connecticut re-
suited in the loss of hand by one Of the
gunners. More reality than sham in that.
Milton G. keenan,, treasurer of jackson
county, Ohio, has disappeared. His &C
counts are said, to be all right. A girl is
also missing.
A Tennessee paper says: A dog killed a
woman near Scott's Hill on Sunday.
Further particulars next week." An enter
prising newsgatherer, that.
The state debt of Missouri is gradually
melting away. In January last it was
$13, $4,000. Payments have since been
made and it is now $13,231,0 900.
Senator Malone has issued letter to
the Virginia clerks in the departments
at Washington reminding them of their
duty to come and vote at the approaching
election.
These st. Louis disappearance are be-
coming monotonous. The papers would
save time and labor by publishing list of
st. Louis ladies who mys!eriously persist
in remaining at home.
An old frame house, Winthrop, Maine,
ia years old was recently moved half a
mile, without even cracking the plastering.
Strong, heavy timbered frames were the
order Of the day 100 years ago.
A portion of the Amoskeag mills, at
Manchester, N. H., has been shut down on
account of scarcity of water. From
8, 500 to 1000 operators are thus thrown
temporarily out Of employment.
While woman barber was shaving a
customer in Gloucester, Massachusetts,
shop the lightning knocked the razor out
of her hand so that it cut off piece of his
ear. These female BARRIERS are too magnetic.
Brazil proposes to admit aliens to citi-
zenship after four years residence. An
alien marrying native or an alien setting
up factory or going into agriculture on
large scale may become citizen in two
years.
The daughter of Bayerd Taylor has, IN
til recently, been supporting herself as a
governess in New York. She and he1
mother declined purse of 10000, raised
by New York ladies on learning that Bay.
ard Taylor died poor.
Seventeen colored clergymen of the
Episcopal church, most of them from the
south, met at st. Philips church, New
York, to confer together with reference tc
the propagation of their faith among the
millions of their race in this country
Bishop Starkey, Of New Jersey, addressed
them.
Louisiana boys take young mockine
birds just before they can fly and sci
them to New Orleans Creoles for ten o.
fifteen cents apiece. The Oreoles sci
them to German or Italian retail dealer!
for fifty cents, and the dealers, mainly ped
oilers, receive three and four dollars fol
them in the north.
"Don't like the bed?" said the hote
clerk, astonished at tho presumption o.
tho complaining guest; "vhy, some Of
the best people, some of the hansomes
folks in the United States have slept il
Iitr' eyes, that is just the trouble" re
Isponded the gnest; 81 found last nigh
that there we're altogether too many big
bugs in it for the comfort Of COMMON PEG
pie like me-"
The annual convention Of the American
bankers association will be held at Louis
vile, KY, Oct. 10 and IL. Among othel
questions to be considered are the presen
and prospective increase of industria
wealth, the causes of the decline in The
rate of interest, the absorption of Ameri
can securities abroad, the causes and pre-
vention of financial panics and the more
important features of the monetary situa
tion in this country and in Europe.
Lydia Thompson is making prepare,
tions for an extensive tour of America
She has one great advantage over Other
actresses in that she never has to pay ou
any money for extra baggage, her stag;
wardrobe requiring no larger trunk thar
that ordinarily used by an editor when hs
| starts out on an annual press excursion
with two odd socks and q fne-tootE
comb. However it speaks we'll for Miss
Thompson that she depends for success
upon her art and not upon her attire.
The suit Of the United States against
Harrison johnson, which was referred to
ex-Judge Choate, was decided in New
York adversely to the plaintiff. The
amount sued for was nearly 100000, but
was reduced to $4,000, being the value OF
the cotton confscated for the government
ami converted it was alleged by the de-
PENDANT to his own use while he was assist
ant special agent for the Treasury depart
ment in Mississippi at the close of the
war. In his report the referee says the
suit should have been begun by the gov
eminent long ago, when the facts wer.
susceptible of proof and the witnesses
to them were yet alive.