Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-18
average

22,636, being an average of
one and a half volumes
per man per month. A large number of
papers and periodicals were also received
and placed in the reading rooms, to which
the average daily attendance number 437.
The report recommends the passage by
congress of bill authorizing the employ
ment of $50 teachers with rank and pay of
commissary sergeants, $34 per month with
allowance for rations, room, etc. Mr..
Mullins joins in the recommendation of
several officers that system of compul-
Try education, be't nforced ar ong celt n
class of men. In appealing for larger ap-
preparation for lights to be used at night
schools, the chaplain says to furnish lights
for colored schools requires at least one
third more than for others.
Secretary Teller has limited the expen-
diture for surveying the Crow Indian
agency to $1,000.
An evening paper says: The Democrats,
it is understood, will make bitter fight in
the senate against the the confirmation of
General Pope to be major general. The
friends of Fitz John Porter accuse Pope of
instigating the overthrow of Porter, and
this, together with Pope's well-known anti
Democratic principles, will, it is thought,
combine all the Democrats against him.
At a meeting of the arbitration league
this evening resolution was adopted Apo
timing commission to suggest to President
Arthur the propriety of his calling the
attention of congress to the resolutions
adopted by the national arbitration con-
vention last May. The resolutionsIIrefer
red to ask that congress may endeavor to
T,r0ui6a for tho - I>r
of all difficulties arising between the
United States and foreign nations.
Col. G. c. Snydam, of New York, coun-
sci for the United States in the Spanish
American claims commission, appeared
before the umpire this morning and argued
a case which had been referred to him.
Afterward the commission held meeting,
but owing to the absence of the Marquis
de Spatch, Spanish arbitrator, adjourned
to the 9th inst.
Mr.. W. H. Prescott, recently appointed
one of commission to negotiate a com
mercial treaty between the United States
and Mexico, called at the state dep artment
to-day and had a conversation with the
secretary relative to the details of the
commissions work. No date has as ye
been assigned for tho departure of thu
| CouLulSSlOus WHICH IS composed OF Gon
Grant and Mr.. Prescott.
The blank agency division of the post
office department has so far furnished tt
500 postofices of the fourth class, which
are entitled to them, letter balances max
ing and rating stamps, and ink and pad
leaving to be supplied about $500 offices
OF this number $500 cannot be furnished
this year, the appropriation for this objec
not being sufficient. The cost of the della,
OF the contractor in furnishing the article
has prevented the department from sup
plying this outfit as, rapidly as hoped
Postmaster General Howe in his repor
will recommend that a uniform cancelins
ink be supplied to all postoffces in tn
country.
| Henry Brooks, an old colored man VIII,
claims to have been the body servant o
Gen. Geo. Washington, and who says h
has voted for thirty-seven presidents an,
never took drink or uttered an oath il
his life, went to the workhouse to-day TO
three months for vagrancy.
The bureau of revenue marine to-day
received telegram announcing the arriva
of the Corwin at San Francisco Wednes
| day night.
| The bureau of statistics reports the val
| ne of exports of domestic breadstuffs dur
ing October SIS, 2O5, JOB. In the sam,
| month in 1881 the value was S14, S39,914
| The total for ten months ending Oct. 81
| 1881. was $192,29c, $50, against S149, 737,
$50 for the same period in 1892 .