St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-14

III common With QUIET cities anu villages
Lancaster, Wis, observed with fitting cere-
monies Gen. Grants funeral day. The en-
terprisng correspondent wired several hun
dred words, closing with the following
peroration: '.All day huge black clouds
have draped the sky sadly, mournfully
shedding great tear drops to the muffled
thunder's roll. Fitting celestial habili-
ments 10 the terrestrial woe" The leather
medal was called in and sent to this genius
by first mail.
The Democrats of Norwalk, O., must
have experienced a terrible time in July,
1884, for the correspondent said: The
nomination of Cleveland has fallen with
dull. sickening thud among the Democrats
OF Norwalk, who are disguised. The Re-
publicans are jubilant''
In the early spring of A. d. 1884 the
young bloodS of Mt. Morris, ILL.,, had a
sorry fright, if the following is to be be-
lieyed. The item was written only four days
after this important event occurred: Some
of the students thought to have a little fun,
and preceded TO take the skeletons from
Prof. Lacy's room and bury them, but
Sect. Lichty acting the ghost by covering
himself with q white sheet. and coming
upon the boys he found out who they We're,
and it is not known who they are"
Sheffield, H., is not much of o show
town. but journalists in that burg are I'M
stinted in their praises of recognized ability.
1t is not known how many free passes in
spired this: The Lottie Wade Dramatic
company played here tonight. We can
recommend them to the public"
Lapier, Mich, emulateS the example Of
larger cities annually by giving charity
entertainment. The charity ball in this
city last night was a dazzling success. and
something ike 5000 was realized for the
city poor" A safe robbery and attempted
murder occurring on the same day has not
yet been reported.
Here is an accurate and lucid description
OF former citizen of Rockford: He is an
attorney of long standing, colonel of the
Third regiment, l. y. c.. and the hero of
one of the greatest scandals within the an
nails of Rockford" The policeman that
couldn't catch criminal possessing such
information as this would not be entitled to
a star.
There are two or three gems from a St.
Paul correspondent that shine Respondent
In this galaxy of genius: THE coroner's
! jury returned verdict of voluntary sui
eide" Here's another, reporting storm
in Wisconsin: John Humbert's planning
| mills were whipped into mince-meat."
Heres description of man drowned
sent by Michigan genius: ''rwenty-eight
years OF age, parents living when last heard
from. wife, one child years old, daughter
, complexion light eyes, hight six feet one,
r light mustache." There's perspicuity for
/ you!
On another occasion it cost the Times
/ something like half dollar to learn that
man had been arrested in Omaha for lat
tempting to set an incendiary fire." At
keokuk two engines going in opposite di-
, rectiOns on the same track at a
high rate of speed were badly mangled"
!, Springfield was the scene of criminal
crime, while widow and her husband"
were made to perform the awful deed.
, THE dead mother was motionlesS corpse,
: is not so bad unless one is disposed to be
! captious. Neither is buildings raised to
: the ground" though photographers might
: object. DeS MOines had ian epidemic of
: horse stealing" and little town in Indi-
ana was visited by hog cholera which
: was THE seyereSt scourge known for
T years" The following remarkable
I statement is emphatic if not gram
I NAUTICAL: 1.-The encampment will break
up tomorrow, which will be the last day
l of the encampment" Here's brilliant
3 gem in this tiara of truthful tid-bits. He
4 is sixfeet high. has large wart or wen on
3 his forehead, and is badly ruptured." This
5 description was framed by Mr.. Cary, and
occupied the most prominent place in his
q collection for many weeks. They had ter
rible weather up in Wisconsin one day last
winter, fourteen persons being frozen to
death with the cold" A corOneT's jury in
heOkuk decided that deceased 'felon-
iously came TO his death by two
pistol shOts"-at least the cor
5 respondent so wOrded it. A Vandalia
Horace Greeley said the ''wind storm had
every indication of cyclonlsh designs" A
most fortunate victim of asphyxiation was
: the chap at Bloomington, who ''blew out
roc 10 fba
rigid in the embrace of death. However,
he was revived and will recover" Another
lucky fellow was brakeman, whose head
was crushed by the car wheels. but he was
not dishgured." Another brilliant remark
that deserves perpetuatiOn: 1.-THE court
r room is so crowded that the observer is re-
minded that he is looking at a living box
. of sardines." A good young man
Overt in st. Joe. Mo-, robbed his employers
till. securing SO. The report said 1.-THE
robbery has been kept quiet, but is the talk
of the town." The following was evolved
from the massive intellect of another st.
Paul correspondent: His neck was broken
and he is probably fatally injured" Here
is an extremely interesting and vivid report
! of scufile that occurred between two Iowa
; citizens: THE complaints were separated
before any serious damage was done. and
neither was seriously hurt" A REMARKABLY
intelligent jury in an Illinois town is here
|, heard from: 1.-THE verdict was that the
suicide was accidental" The vic
TINS heirs probably had little
difficulty in collecting the life insurance.
Out at Des MOines 1.-THE butter exchange
met and INDUCED in an enthusiastic sale of
butter" At Rockford the correspondent
not long since uneaTthed tempest in a
teacup" Out at Leavenworth the dead
body of man was found dead in the
road" Good item from Quincy detailing
at length the shooting and stabbing of a ply
} stefan who resisted the attack of couple
of highwaymen: ''At this juncture the
doctor became convinced that bodily harm
was intended" Another coroners verdict:
died of old age and general depravity."
4 mysterious disappearance is thus com
J mepted on: Her household was one of the
pleasantest IN the county. No jawing, no
Z diScord"
But the chief topics of interest to the tel
egraph editor are politics and the weather
The political pot is boiling;;" the ''local''
ditto, ditto; the POLITICAL ditto is begin
| ming to boil; the political cauldron is in
state of ebulitiOn, - and a score or more of
changes are rung on the same tune. One
night last week the Times had more than
fifty weather kilograms in which the state
ment was made that the storm was the
''Seyerest in the memory of the Oldest in
habitant"
And yet people wonder why Carey is
bald-headed, and why the average telegraph
editor has such beastly disposition
> CHENEY.