Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-01
GLOBELETS,


1t IS feared that Veintemilla. the Ecna-
dorian dictator, will sack Guoyaquil.
The recent cold weather at the South has.
caused much anxiety for the cotton cron
At Madrid 1900 troops were recently
reviewed IN honor of the King of Portu
gal.
The net earnings of the PniladeIpbia
q Reading railroad company for April were
$755,427.
In the Baltimore schools for the past
year there were 1868 enrolled pupils and
926 teachers.
Montgomery Blair, member of Presi-
dent Lincoln's first cabinet. is said to be in
failing health.
David Todd and Joseph Levesy fought a
'Nonoh" was satisfied.
Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines has offered to
compromise her claim against the city of
New Orleans for the sum of S1,317, 900.
Israel Weinstein, injured in a railroad
accident on the Pennsylvania line, failed
to recover damages because he was travel
ing on free pass.
The Chicago Tribune is assessed for only
$4,000, and the other Chicago papers at
| Proportlonately absurd small figures, says.
the Herald of that city.
An exasperated tax payer III Chicago
estimates that IN six years past the city
has been cheated out of $50,00O,OOO OF reve-
| enue by bad assess ments.
There are four universities in Switzer-
lsnd, namely at Basic, Berne, Geneva and
Zurich, at which there are 543 medical
students of whom 81 are women.
| Secretary Lincoln and Gen. Sheridan
were reported to be fishing on Lake Erie
few days since. Are they "dshers of
men," or of gudgeons of different sort.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan was in St..
Louis on Saturday last, en- route to Texas
on business trip. He had not been in
st. Louis before for twenty three years..
at which time he was president of the Ohio
and Mississippi railroad. In reply to
reporter he said he had nothing to do with
politics.
young man of Council Bluffs sent to
| Denmark for his sweetheart, on the under
standing that she was to marry him when
she arrived; but she was all the while de-
ceiving him, and, after iourneying to
America at his expense, has become the.
| wife of another sutton. This brings about
a suit for damages.
The son of the California millionaire,
Fair, who by the terms of the recent di-
vorce has been left to the care of his IA
| ther, is said to be leading life of dissipa-
ton IN San Francisco. The Chicago Her
aid says of him: Jim Fair boy of 20, and
the heir to millions, is steering a straight
| course for the gutter.
From the time of opening the Erie Canal
last year until the end of the third week of
May pa boats cleared from Buffalo. This
year the tolls are abolished, and although
navigation opened nearly month later
than last year, the number of boats cleared
up to the same date is 513. The increase
is certainly remarkable.
tunnel Of eighty-six feet in length
with two chambers of eleven feet, has been
bored into the heart of Granite mountain
on the line of he Iron Mountain railroad,
for quarrying purposes; 5000 pounds of
dynamite are to be exploded in the tunnel,
UiSlOQp0
to rs of rock, more or less broken up.
The few peaches received in New York
from Florida of the "Chinese Peentoo''
variety, although small and OF poor flavor,
brought $3.50 per dozen. Rot-house
peaches sold the same day in the Broad
way stores at 81 to 81 apiece. The first
cherries received there from North Caro-
lima brought so cents per pound at retail.
What is alleged to be a piece of the true
cross has come to light at Poitiers in an
| old chest. 1t was sent to a saint in the
second half of the sixth century by the
Emperor Justin, from Constantinople. 1t
is mounted in gold and enamel of exquis-
ite Byzantine manufacture, and excites
great interest. It disappeared during the
revolution of 1889.
One Chinaman bet another that he could
swim back and forth across the Sacrament
to river quicker than he could. It was a
cold bath, and when they reached the other
side one of them went into shanty and
warmed himself, but the other started
back. On his way he was taken with
cramp and drowned, amidst the cheers of
those betting against him.
Lovely woman comes IN for her share of
the glory of last weeks ceremonies in
opening the Brooklyn bridge. It seems
that when Washington Roebling, the engi -
neer of the bridge, was Frustrated with the
fever which made him an invalid, his wife
applied herself to the study of engineering,
with such success that she was able to at
tend to all the details of her husbands con-
tracts.
Gin fifteen years." sighed DR.. Willard
Bliss at the Army of the Potomac reunion,
"there will be great thinning out of the
ranks of veterans. Did you see the gray
haired men in the ranks? Itwon't be long
until all that are left will be gray or bald.
Then they will do very little marching.
They will ride if they go at all. 1 marched
in the procession yesterday, and it half
killed me-"
An Omaha dispatch says that President
Dillon and Director Ames of the Union
Pacific have been in conference with
Messrs. Sharp and Little of the Utah Cen
trail with reference to a proposed consoIi-