Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-12

inquiry since resulted in nothing as to the
whereabouts of the coat and he finally came
to the conclusion it had been burned or stOl-
en-. Judge of his surprise then, when reach
ing his office yesterday morning, he found his
coat unframed and nothing disturbed in the
pockets. The mystery now is where did the
coat come FROM.
The late legislature created the office of
stationery clerk, with salary of $6O0,to be at
tached to the secretary of states staff of assist
ants Yesterday Secretary Won Baumbach APP
pointed to the position, Mr.. A. w. Petrim, of
St. Paul, who has been employed in the Office
during the session of the legislature.
George Gedues, auditor of Anoka county,
was the first to respond to the circular of the
secretary of state for copies of session laws,
general and special, to replace those destroyed
in the capitol fire. His donation aggregated
ITO volumes, covering twelve years, the first,
1860, and last 1879, some of which were not
IN the secretary's office when the fire came.
Col. Won Baumbach, secretary of state, after
a month of most laborious labor, incident to
the fire and closing up the work of the legis-
1t his home in Alexandria, Douglas county, to
return the first of the coming week.
A bulky document was received by the Sec
rotary of state from j. Clute Welmardin and
John Tuthill Harlann, of San Francisco, CAL,
being the specification aud trade mark of a
patent medicine knawn as Peruvian Bitters,"
to be filed of record in his office.
Secretary Young of the State board Of i'm
migration, occupied his new office yesterday,
No Is, on the north side of the west half of
the Market house. Col. Taylor, State libra
rian, was engaged in removing from the sec
ond floor to Nos. 3 and 5 on the first floor,
next to the supreme court room, north side,
while Clerk Nichols of the supreme court, and
Adiutant General Van Cleve were getting their
offices on the opposite side in good shape.
The only drawback in this portion of the
| building is the temperature, only one gener-
atOr having as yet been put in, not sufficient
| to furnish the necessary heat for this weather.
However, this will be remedied in dav or
| two.
Martin Ferrant, formerly of st. Paul, writes
| Secretary Young, of the State immigration
board, under date of Aachen, Luxembourg,
Feb. %, that he is recovering from his recent
severe illness, though still suffering from
| rheumatism. He says there is no doubt the
| immigration to Minnesota from Germany will
| be very much greater than last year, and hopes
| the legislature Will make liberal appropria-
| ton, so that you will be able to send good
many pamphlets, for the class of people who
are now coming eare generally industrious,
intelligent and possessed of means.
| Among q number of letters received by Col.
| Taylor, State librarian, extending regrets at
the destruction OF the State library, and prefer
| ing sympathy and assistance, was one received
yesterday from Judge Oscar Stephenson, very
| complimentary in its personal illusions, and
| rendering his services to secure through
United States Senator Malone and the State
| librarian of Virginia, and also exGov.
Mathews, of West Virginia, all os whom were
Mr.. Stephenson's classmates in college, full
sets of the statutes, law reports, etc, of
those States, without expense to Minnesota.
Both the letter and the kindly tender were duly
| appreciated and will be long remembered as
one of the pleasant incidents connected with
| the recent confagratlon.
The large vault of the State Historical So
| ciety, in which were kept the 900 bound vol
| umes of State newspapers gathered by this
society, has been opened, and the publications
| removed to the new quarters of the society in
| the basement of the market house. The books
| were nearly all found in perfect condition, but
owing to a small leak around gas pipe some
forty or fifty had been injured by water, eight
| or ten to an extent which will necesstate re-
binding In the inner vault, in which was
| deposited manuscripts and the more valuable
| records, everything was found entirely I'm.
| harmed. Mr.. Williams, the secretary, feels
highly elated over the very fortunate condition
| in which the effects of the society, upon which
he has bestowed so much labor and care
passed through the great confagration.