Boston Globe, Vol. 1, No.1.

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NEWS IN BRIEF

- The steamship Japan sailed on Friday from San Francisco with $1,433,000 in specie;

- Kansas has abolished the death penalty for murder, reserving it only for horse thieves under the jurisdiction of Judge Lynch;

- Minority representation is approved under the Utah Constitutional Convention; that's to give husbands a chance of making themselves heard;

- There is a party of Japanese, consisting of seven men, now stopping at the St. James Hotel in this city;

- Our correspondent writes us from Washington that there is an average of 1,000 patents granted monthly by the Patent Office at the present time;

- An apothecary's clerk delivered a fatal dose by mistake in New York last Friday. There are few more responsible positions than that of a dispense of physicians' prescriptions;

- A passenger by the Pacific Railroad who arrived in Boston yesterday, and who understands these matters, expressed grave doubts about running these cars in winter...

... - Over one million children, it is said, attend the public schools in the New England states, a most encouraging statement...

- Spanish mackerel, considered a game fish, and as belonging exclusively to southern waters, are now nearly as common here as elsewhere:

- Canadians, for some unknown reason, are leaving the Dominion in considerable numbers and are settling on this side of the line.

- Nearly two thousand men, women, and girls are employed in the paper collar factories of Massachusetts;

- There is a dairy at Montpelier, Vermont where they do the churning by steam power;….

Boston Globe, March 4, 1872