St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-24
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in Adair county, Missouri.
The Texas cattle drive for the season is
estimated at 100000 head.
The Victoria Paper mill at Fulton, New
York, have been destroyed by fire.
AT Pesth, thirty-siS anarchists, including
two editors, have just been arrested.
They talk of having the Great Eastern
steamship at the New Orleans exhibition.
Signor Quintino Sella, the celebrated Italian
statesman, is dead. He was born in 1927.
Trichinosis continues to prevail in Ger
many, Notwithstanding the enforced home
diet
Maggie Clarity, girl of fourteen. took a
fatal dose of Paris green because her mother
scolded her.
Woodwork, Faxon & Co., wholesale drug
glsts at Kansas City, have lost their estabHsh-
ment by fire. Loss, S115,OOO.
The Hon. John COTE, who served for three
terms as member of congress from Ne
braska died last Friday at North Platte.
The Fifth Virginia confederate regiment
will entertain the Twenty-eighth regiment of
New York Volunteers, at Staunton, in May.
A. Dayitt, mechanic, convicted Of arson at
Copenhagen, confesses that he is the man
who set fire to the Victoria block, London, in
1881.
The Pennsylvania railroad company has
advanced its rates on coal to all points on
the Philadelphia, Wilmington IL Baltimore
divisions 10 cents per ton.
Lesuer " Sons grist mill, in Charleston,
n. Y, was wrecked last week by an explosion
OF boiler. The proprietors were killed and
two other men were wounped.
The friends of Fitz John Porter, in Utica,
N. Y, fired a salute in honor of the passage
of the Carter bill by the senate They also
sent General Porter a congratulatory dis
patch.
By bill now before the Massachusetts leg
islature, it is proposed to prohibit the exhi
bition of deformed persons who are minors
or insane, and of persons who have an APP.
pearance of deformity produced by artificial
means.
Gen. Woring, of Newport, Rhode Island,
son of Col. George E. Worng, Jr., has mar
ried widow, the sister of his stepmother
The bride is thirty-sx years old, and the
mother of three children, and the groom 10
twenty-five years old. This will do for fash
ionable asthetic Newport.
The venerable Rev. Mr.. David Winters, of
Dayton, o., on Thursday last married his
4,9S0th couple, and after the ceremony
wished the bride as much happiness az had
been the lot of her good father and not less
estimable grandfather, at whose weddings he
had the ulaoaura Of Cff;ciatiDor
The wife of Congressman Springer, of
Illinois, although an invalid, is said to be Of
great assistance to her husband in his con-
gressional duties, attending to great part of
his correspondence, and aiding him by her
wise advice and counsel. She is an intel
lectual woman and highly educated.
NJ Lalande, deputy of the Giorande, is
one of the French statesmen who favor the
importation of American pork. "Allow me
to congratulate you on being a friend of the
transatlantic hog" said caller to him.
ooh, no" he replied, 81 am his worst ene-
my. would like to kill and eat him."
Emperor William has a French cook named
Dubois, to whom he pays large salary. He
is relieved every other month by an assist
vacation, For twenty-five years he has held
this position, and he now holds the rank of
commandant in the army, with pension
An old countrymen asked permission to
look over the files in the Springfield, (AIass)
Republican Office the other day, saying he had
heard two or three months ago that the Re
publican had an item about his son having
been killed on the plains, and he Cylinder
wanted to see if the report was true" but
hadn't time to drop in before.
Anna Gordon, of Buffalo, S. c., is one
hundred and eleven years old. In all this
time she has never missed attending COM
munion service, and never rode to church
but once, and that was when she was mar
ried, eighty-seven years ago. The church
which she now attends is four miles from
where she lives, yet she is usually in her seat
before the bell rings.
Noros and Nindermann, the heroic sailors
of the Jeanette expedition, although not in
actual want, have received slight recompcnse
for their labor and sufferings. They have
received their discharge from the naval SER
vice with one years. extra pay, but hinder
mann is still employed at the Brooklyn navy
yard, while Noros is selling Mrs. Belongs
edition of her husbands journal throughout
the New England states.
A Rochester experimentalst, according to
the New York Sun, solicits $50, 0OO,0 900 or
more capital to carry out gigantic electric
lighting scheme. His plan is to use the
power of the great Horseshoe Falls at Niagara
for working ten engines Of 100000 horse
power each. These, he thinks, will generate
enough electricity to furnish light to the
sixty five American and Canadian cities with
which they will be connected by an extern
sive system of underground wires.
G. F. Stoddard, of Providence, being
grievously pestered with rats, canght large
one some time ago and put a bell on it. This
has always been accounted a sure means of
driving the pests away. In this instance the
scheme does not work well. The old bell rat
has been seen to sit up, kangaroo HE, for
half an hour at a stretch, rafting the bell
with its fore paws, while the whole colony,
young and old, caper and dance around as if
they were at rat ball. They act so cutely
that Mrs. Stoddard VIII not allow them to be
treated to a supper of cold poison.
A story has been going the rounds Of the
press for aeveral months to the effect that the
richest Chinaman in America lived at FL
Paso, and was worth $4,000 900. 1t is too
bad to spoil such charming story, but it
isn't true. The pagan in question is very
wealthy in comparison with the rest of his
race, but his pile is nearer 5000 that the
enormous sum attributed to him. His name
is Sam Hing, and he has shop near the de-