Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-03
GLOBEL ETs.
It is alleged that coal is found in all parts Of
the state of Colorado.


The consumption Of tobacco in France last
year amounted to over $3O,000,O 900.
W. w. Corcoran, the rich and prominent
banker of Washington, D. c., is SO years old.
The old town OF Pueblo, in Colorado, has
before the advance Of civilization.
The fog in London was SO dense the day be-
fore Christmas, as to stop the traffic in the
streets.
The London Truth says the cotillion dance
is in less favor than 1t was last year, greatly
to the delight of lovers of true dancing.
Evidences are found of eave-dwellers and
mine. workers. indicating mnch better state
of civilization than the Indians possessed.
It is thought the expense to the government
in the trial of the assassin Guiteau will crowd
hard on to quarter OF million of dollars.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts,, is literary
gentleman. Some years ago he published
metrical English version Of the Eneld OF
Virgil.
Tunneling under the straits of Dover, be-
tween England and France, is progressing at
the rate of % feet day. The length Of the
tunnel will be twenty miles.
The placing of the assassin, Guiteau, in the
prisoners desk, by Judge Cox, is meeting
with general approval, coupled with the re-
mark, cit ought to have been done long ago."
In 1795 Jean Etienne Bore, with gang of
thirty negroes, raised crop Of cane, and upon
its manufacture into brown sugar sold it for
$4,000. This enterprise established the sugar
industry firmly in Louisiana.
John @. Ward is making a handsome
statue of Lafayette for the university Of
Vermont at Burlington, the corner stone Of
which institution was laid by the French
hero in 1925. The statue will be cast in
bronze in heroic size.
At recent meeting of the Racine, (Wis.)
County Bible society, resolution was unan-
imonsly adopted, recommending the American
Bible society to drop "King James defective
edition." and commence the publication of
the revised edition of the scriptures.
on the arrival Of President Arthur in New
York, Gen. Grant, Roscoe Conkllng, and
other prominent and distinguished members
of his favorite faction, rushed to greet him,
with cordislity significant of the close affini-
ty, personal and political, existing between
them.
Already the Mansfield (Ohio) Herald, the
home organ of Senator Sherman has hoisted
the name of Speaker Keifer for United States
Senator, in place of Mr.. Pendleton to stay
home. This indicates Senator Sherman's OPP
position to Gov. Foster. A relentless fight OF
factions is said to come of.
1t has been discovered that Bayard Taylor
was an artis. of considerable power and orig
inallty, and that he left over five hundred
sketches in oil and water color, illustrating
scenery in northern Europe, and made chiefly
while. he was roughing it, with knapsack and
cane. They will be displayed in New York
next month.
1t is stated that Jay Gould and Cyrus w
Field are planning to obtain control of the
New York Associated Press by the purchase OF
the Journal Of Commerce. Gould now con-
trolls the World and Mr.. Field owns the Mail
and Express. With the add ition of the
Journal of Commerce they can control the AS
ISOLATED Press of New York and manipulate il
to their advantage in stock dealings,
Mullet, the supervising architect of the
treasury under Grant, went out of office with
furnished official record. Now by the grace
of his old master, he is seeking to 60 back to
his old position of supervising architect
Grant seems to have pretty large slice of q
third term, if not full third term. His old
friends, smirched and disgraced as they may
be, are getting another grab at the treasury.
A clerk of E. B. Hartman & Co., of New
York, lost package of certificates for $780,
600 OF bonds and stocks on Friday, Dec. %,
which was found by Henry Wolf on the same
day. Wolf took the package home to await
the offering of reward. But on Saturday he
took the package to the firm, who gave him
$500, saying they would have given him 6
larger sum if he had returned the package
promptly.
The star route swindle is being developed in
stupendous proportions. Ex-senator Dorsey
and his partners took contracts for 134 routes
and twelve of them were soon abandoned. Fol
these $4,000 year was to be paid. Before
the contracts were ended and in most cases il
in few months the pay was increased te
$500, 900 year. The pretext for this increase
was expedition" routes, more rapid trans
mission.
A leading journsl says Patti is such 6
piquant little woman that it is pity that she
has such bad taste as to daub rouge upon
cheeks and noir upon her eyebrows and lashes
and deep red upon her lips to the extent thai
leads her audience to exclaim, as she Gomez
upon the stage: elbow she's painted" She
has pretty black eyes, mobile features, pearly
teeth and a graceful poise of head. There
really seems no reason why she should indulge
in artifce.
In the case of E. H. Taper, of Hammond,
Indiana, who recently died in dental chair il
Chicago, under the influence of morphine
the coroner's jury brought in verdict that
Taper came by his death through the admin
istration of chloroform by DR.. Dodge, the
cause being pulmonary congestion and paraly.
sis of the heart; and that DR.. Dodge did moi
observe sufficient precaution in the use of the
an@sthetic, nor did he take sufficient and pro.
tracted efforts to recuscitate the deceased. To
this verdict was appended a protest against
the use Of chloroform in dental cases.
Some of the items of the bills for medical
attendance on Gen. Garfield are beginning to
come to light. DR.. Agnew has rendered his
bill for $32, 600, Que item bring $4,000 for the
first operation he made last summer. DR..
Hamilton's bill is understood to be $4,000,
while DR.. Bliss charges $1,000, or at about the
rate of 800 day. No bills have been received
from the nurses. An attempt will be made to
have Boynton an Edison paid as physicians and
not as nurses.
Gen. Garfield died September 10. Mr.. Blaine
placed his resignation of the position of Sec
rotary of state in the hands of the president
September %. Mr.. Arthur requested him to