St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-10
GLOBELETS.

Prince Victor Napoleon's proposed Ameri-
can tour has been postponed.
SAn the canvassers for Blaine's book are
said to be political campaign workers.
The Turkish government will not allow
French college to be established at Beyrout-
In the town of Seven Mile, Butler county,
Ohio, there is said to be case of genuine
leprosy.
The loss by recent fire in the city of
Utica, n. Y, is reported at nearly million
dollars.
The question of moving the state capital
OF Alabama from Montgomery to Birming-
ham is being agitated.
Minister Wallace and the Turkish govern
ment are not in accord on the treaty between
the United States and 7 turkey.
FL. Seudamore who recently died in
England, was the originator of the postal
telegraph system in that country.
F. Draper, who committed suicide at a ho-
tel in Springfield, No, last week, has been
identified as Frank Nathan, of Oden, Ill.
An internal machine of the clock work
kind exploded in the postoffice at Giesen,
Germany, recently, severely wounding one
person.
Pope Leohas conferred on Edmund Dunno,
formerly chief justice at Arizona, and now at
the head of San Antonio colony in Florida,
the title of count
o. H. Smith, of Chicago, and Ed. Miller
of Omaha, fought a bare-knuclle prize-fght,
the other day. The fight lasted an hour, and
Smith won on a foul.
There is a good deal of dissatisfaction in
the Creek nation with the recent decision of
Secretary Teller, by which the craftsmanship
was awarded to Perryman.
John B. Cough, the lecturer, is on the war
path against sensational literature, and has
written new lecture entitled ''Powers That
Be-" with this object in view.
A well known citizen of Paris, Arkansas,
named L. Weor, has been arrested, charged
with having committed murder in Blount
county, Tenn, in December, 1870.
A government official who has been ex-
aiming the new government building at
Chicago, condemns it as in a very bad con-
dition, needing complete overhauling.
Mr. Ruskin said in a recent lecture: eff
you want to show to your country friends,
how the sun looks in a London fog, throw
bad half crown into a basin of dirty water.
The pope intimated to an American cor
respondent who visited him a few days ago,
that portrait similar to that sent to Balti-
more is designed for ''another part of Ameri-
ea.'' -..-s
Lieutenant Danenhower, late Of the jean
nette, and Miss Helen Sloan will be married
at Oswego, March IL, and after the wedding
will make visit for month at Washing
ton.
A movement is reported to be on foot in
Dakota to change the name of the city Of
Bismarck to Lasker. Better drop both names
and give the city some American designa-
tlon.
Mrs. Lydia Smith, the negro woman who
was Thaddeus Stevens housekeeper for so
many years, and who died week or two ago,
bequeathed by her will $500 for the prsserya-
ton and care of Mr. Stevens grave in Lam
caster, Pa
In the First Baptist church in Boston, on
the first Sabbath in March, instead of ser
mon the hour was dev oted to raising $4,000
to clear off church debt. In less time than
the sermon would have occupied, the amount
was raised and the church is happy.
Letters to George Anderson, member of
rhe British Parliament, shows sixteen sui
cides and two murders at Monte Carlo,
since January 1st. 1t is stated that the
newspapers published in the district have
been paid to suppress all mention Of these
tragic scenes.
Senator Hoar did not love Wendell Phil
lips over much in his later years. 1t is now
reported of him that while the remains of the
great agitator were awaiting the final cere-
monies, distinguished Cambridge gentle
man asked him if he was going to attend
Wendell Phillips funeral. "No,'' was the
reply, "but L approve it,"
At the funeral of the late Mr.. Hayward,
when the coffin had been made to rest in the
aisle Of the church, Mr.. Gladstone placed an
enormous wreath of violets from Belgium,
and another of snowdrops from Hawarden
upon the lid of the coffin, which had already
been covered with crosses and wreaths. The
London World says Mr.. Hayward was ''the
last of the great intellectual diners-out," and
for this reason she was the last man who will
ever expend on society gifts SO valuable and
knowledge so wide.''
The telegraphic account Of the battle fought
in Egypt between the British and the ''rebels''
on Saturday is almost too profuse of the as
sertions of continued, hard and desperate
fighting. The reported casualties hardly JUS
tify the account. Twenty-four killed out OF
l a force of four thousand exhibits some fight
ing, but BIZ no means desperate fighting,
where the engagement continued for several
hours. The event reported, however shows
the rebellion to be very real thing and
forecasts the necessity for large English
/ force in Egypt.
: General Grant was only forty-seven when
inaugurated president, the youngest by sew
eral years of any one before or since But
no candidate more than seventy years of age
has yet been elected to that great office, and
contemporary draws an unfavorable infer
b ence from that fact as to ''the old ticket
: about which so much has been said. Presi-
: dent Harrison was the oldest president, hav,
, ing been sixty-eight when he entered the
: White house in 1871. Washington was fifty
Z eight when inaugurated in Philadelphia
n ninety-fiye years ago.
When the cowboys rode into Bisbee, Ari.,
e the 9th of December last, and shot such OF
: the citizens as happened to be on the streets
q they probably put the last straw on the
; cancels back The practice was time
;, honored one with the cowboys, but it was
: doomed to eventual extinction, and the time
e had come. With some difficulty six of the
|, miscreants were captured, and it then BE-