Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-28
GLOBELETS.
The Egyptian war cost England 500, $780,

UOO.
The curfew is still rung in many towns
in England.
Negotiations between Bismarck and the
pope are failure.
Great Britain produced 1878, $40 tons of
Bessemer steel ingots last year.
There were 1854 emigrants landed at
Castle Garden, New York, March %.
Gov. Cleveland, of New York, was forty
six years old, March Is, and bachelor.
Good Friday was generally observed as a
holiday by business men in New York
city.
The mayor of Louisville refuses to grant
license for the performance of the "Pas-
sion Play
In the kingdom of Siam, all college stu
dents are allowed but two wives. What
hardship!
Winter not only fingers in the lap of
spring, but over fifty members of the late
congress linger in Washington.
The produce dealers of indianapolis,
Indiana,shipped 1874, 800 eggs to New York,
to be used for Easter purposes.
President Arthur is said to be over
worked. Doubtless his stomach is, with
an over supply of rich viands and costly
fluids.
1t is reported that a colored grave digger
112 years old, was recently married in
Yonkers, n. Y, to pretty mulatto girl,
just out of her teens.
The princess imperial of Germany is re-
puted to have said to her sons tutor: an
these days princes must be taught to be
liberal; otherwise they have no chance"
The emigration from Switzerland is as
Stunning alarming proportions. Several
districts are fast becoming depopulated.
The exodus is owing to the bad harvest.
The late Postmaster General Howe was
only the figure-head of the department.
He took but little oversight CT care of the
business. The affairs were run by sub
ordinates.
A barn inBuste county, Col, is capacious
enough to hold 1000 tons of hay and shell
ter 1,4OO head of sheep. The floor is so
wide that an eight-horse team can turn
around in it.
Five contractors have been indicted in
Philadelphia for conspiracy and perjury,
in connection with aims house frauds, and
three former employees for larceny and re-
ceiving stolen goods.
The Republican party in Rhode Island
is in state of revolt against bosslsm, and
out of this fact grew the nomination of
William Sprague, as an independent can
didate for governor.
The Republicans of Chicago are endeav-
oring to induce E. B. Washburne, ex-min-
lister to France, to run for mayor against
the present. mayor, Carter Harrison. Mr..
Washburne is now in Mexico.
Secretary Teller has requested the Sec
rotary of war to detail military guard
for the protection of the Yellowstone park
property. Secretary Lincoln has prom
ised to comply with the request.
On THURSDAY night, March %, the feast
of Purim was celebrated in all the Jewish
synagogues in New York city. The festiv-
tiles in honor of Queen Esther were kept
up for the three succeeding days.
The man who has been dining at London
clubs as member, and getting checks
cashed, was detected at the Junior Army
and Navy by page who knew the mem
Der whose name the fraud had assumed.
Washington Post, (Dem.): To those
small souled editors who think it necessary
to remark that "Dukes is Democrat" we
HaprrD II 10 hot his
no more Democratic than the crime Of
Guiteau was Republican.
Frank Swenson, aged twenty-four years,
German porter at the st. Lawrence hotel,
Chicago, blew out his brains because his
brother and sister are coming from the
fatherland. He was ashamed to be found
in such an humble capacity.
The town of Helena, Ark, is $425,O0O in
dept. The total valuation of personal and
real property within the city limits is only
$706,0O0. The city charter is to be sur
rendered, and the debt compromisedif pos
sible. The bonds of the city are mostly
held in New York and Liverpool.
A bill has passed the third reading in
UOGn HOUSES Oh Inc tennessee Legislature
requiring criminals under the death penal
ty to be executed in private. Only the
sheriff and his deputy, jailer and ministers
are hereafter to be witnesses of an execu-
ton.
On the whole the present is very sick
and dying, anxious and bibulous admins
tration. Arthur is not very well himself,
Folger is in precarious state of health,
Howe is dead, Frank Hatton is on the
axious seat, hoping for the shoes of his
dead superior and Brewster is rosy with
wine.
It costs as much to travel 200miles west
ward from Denver as from New York to
Kansas. The railway fares on the noun
tain roads are excessively high. A carload
of freight was brought from Liverpool,
England, to Denver for $50 ton, but
Colorado railroad charged $3.50 for carry
ing it 100 miles further.
Said lady, who wanted to go to the
theater, to her husband, who was reading a
newspaper: "There is new opera COM