Daily globe., 1882-09-30
GLOBEaETS.
President Arthur will be fifty years OLE

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the 5th of October.
Gen. Lovejoy, who founded Portland
Oregon, died in that city recently.
Mrs. Garfield and family have taken uE
their winter quarters in Cleveland.
The Selma, Alabama, cotton mills have
just shipped five car loads of cotton goods
to China
The yellow fever at Matamoras has sub
sided, and the city is now pronounced
healthy.
Henry o. Havemeyer, of New York, has
bought Puts Hill, where Gen. Putnam
made his daring raide.
Jay Gould is attempting to seize upon
and control the Associated Press organiza
tion and dictate its news.
The city of Moscow was Illuminated on a
recent evening in honor of the presence OF
the emperor and empress.
Senator Vest, or Missouri, says there
will be two Republican presidential candi-
dates in 1884, Arthur and Blaine. ANa
Wilkie Collins, the great novelist, can no
longer read or write, owing to failing sight.
He is dependent on an amanuensis.
At the naval observatory in Washington,
the belief is entertained that the comet
now visible is the great comet of 1880.
lis reported that ex-senator Dorsey
and his brother have retained Gen. Butler
to defend them in the next star route
trial.
Gov. Long, of Massachusetts,, presided
at the Unitarian conference in Saratoga.
Two thousand people arrived the night
previous to the conference.
When Solon Chase was asked recently if
the Fusionists in Maine were dead, he re-
piled: 'Well, don't know; some people
don't know when they are dead"
1t is predicted that Gen. Bates, the regu-
lar Democratic nominee for governor of
Tennessee, will be elected by at least 90
600, and perhaps 10000, majority.
Ex-senator Conkling and w. II. Hurl-
burt editor of the New York World, have
returned to New York after fortnight's
absence in the mountains of Virginia.
An epidemic of sore eyes prevails over
two-thirds of the South. It is not danger
ous, but very annoying and painful, and
those afflicted are confined to their homes.
Great preparations are already being
made in London for the reception of Sir
Garnet Wolseley on his return from
Egypt. ''Lo, the conquering hero comes"
A dispatch to the London Daily Neacs
from Paris says 1.-The mayor has served NJ.
Coquelin, the actor, with writ demanding
$4,000 pounds damage for breach of agree
ment to act in America.
The firm of A. T. Stewart & Co. will be
formally dissolved October 1, and will be
succeeded by new firm. The stock of
goods now on hand is valued at a million
of dollars, and is to be bought by the new
firm.
The Republicans of Massachusetts have
nominated one Bishop for governor, and
Bowerman for lieutenant governor, both
obscure men-their obscurity, probably,
being their greatest recommendation. The
Boston Post calls it a kangaroo ticket.
Of the sons of ex-President Tyler, one is
a commissioner to superintend the destruc-
ton of cancelled national bonds at Wash
ington; second is a prosperous physician
in the same city, and third is principal
of an academy at Memphis, Tennessee.
The surgeon general of the Marine hos
pital service says there is no danger in the
northern cities from any yellow fever this
season, but that unless greater precautions
are taken than now seem probable in the
South there will be great danger next
year.
Ex-senator Bruce, colored, now register
of the treasury, drawing government sal
airy, is to make dozen speeches in Ala
bama, Mississippi and New York states,
and his government pay is to go on all the
same. That is Republican ''civil service
reform"
The Memphis Appeal (Dem.) says as the
figures show to certainty that the Demo
Gratis will gain twenty or thirty members
of congress in the Northern states, the
only hope of the Republican party to re-
tain its majority in the house of represent
atives is to make gains in the South to off
set their losses in the North
At Gardiner, Maine, on a recent night.
Mrs. Samuel II. Stevens, daughter of ex-
Mayor Lord, was alone in her house about
s O'Clock, and hearing a voice, took lamp
to investigate. She was met at the foot of
the stairs by rufiian, who knocked her
down, cut open her dress and robbed her
of $40, concealed in the lining.
The Albany Journal one of the most
powerful Republican newspapers in this
country, wheels into line with those journ-
ais that denounce the rascality and trick
cry Of the politicians who captured the
Saratoga convention and nominated Judge
Folger for governor. The Journal declares
that the party has been betrayed and sold
out.
The body of Augustus Green, wealthy
EngEshman living in Chesterfield, Va, was
found recently in the woods some dis
tance from his home. he had been miss
ing for over week. A setter dog in an
emaciated condition was lying by the
body. It is supposed that in ft of de-
irium tremens he wandered into the woods
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