Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-03-31
GLOBELErs.

John @. Calhoun is to have costly monu-
ment aid statue in Charleston.
Italians predominant in point OF num-
bers IN the present emigration to Mexico.
The project for an elevated railway does not
take popularity in Baltimore, neither in Bos-
ton.
Over forty million dollars were expended in
building improvements in New York city last
year.
Official figures put .he number of suffering
destitute In the water-swept region Of the
South at $1,000.
When exGov. Purdy was memberof the
California legislature he refused the offer Of a
bride of s5o0,000 for his vote.
"she gets of her base sometimes is the
appreciative and affectionaie way Mr.. scoYilie
refers to his wife-the sister of the assassin.
Masons sentence is said to be more severe
than any that could have been inflicted on
Guiteau by the laws of the District of Colum-
bia, had Garfield lived.
Uncle Sans purse contains sa52,6l7,64s
but he will have to hold the purse strings
tight or the present congress will leave him
but little, If anything, for pocket money.
Burglars are now varying their operations.
In our neighboripg Canadian domain, they
are now breaking into churches and stealing
Sunday school books. There may be hope yet
of the pionsly inclined rascals. ~
1t is said Methodist colony is about to be
established in Manitoba. Why not?- Let
other denominations follow and fill Up the
town with elevated moral colonial Influences
1t will be better than elevated railroads.
Yankeeized Italian, who has got his eye
teeth cut by living come time in Americs,
proposes to tunnel the base of Mount Vesu-
vius and draw off unlimited supplies of pc
! troleum which he believes exists there.
John A. Bingham, United States minister at
Toxic, sends Sl00 for the national Garfield
memorial hospital, and expresses the hope
that 10000 of his countrymen will each con-
tribute like or larger sum to the enterprise
million emigrabts are expected arrive In
| the United States from Europe the present
year. Is there another country in the world
that would receive, give place 10, and make
| comfortable such vast tbrong, in single
year.
Ridpath's "Life and Trial of Guiteau" has
just been published in Chicago. 1t is said TO
be dispassiOnate, impartial and complete. It
is also published as supplement to Rldpath'S
"Llfe an Work of Gan field, making volume
of 500 pages.
| A persistent "book sgep," encountered a
woman and dog in Quebec the lother day.
| He did not make sale of his book, but he left
as mementoes handful of hair in the hands of
| the woman, and quantity of his clothing in
the mouth of the dog.
Don Carlos is looking with hope into the
changing, disrupsiug future. 1t is said be has
abdicated his preteDtions TO the Spanish
throne in favor Of his ten year old boy. Don
Carlos is spoony. His boy is "every inch a
king" as much as his father is, or ever viii
be.
The Albany Journal rep. Thurlow Weeds
old paper, begins to be alarmed and to have
horror OF factions influences and strife for
peace in the Republican party, but SO stub
born is factions hate, th At the Jour raps ZACH.
rymose pleadings receive no very general,
responsive ameDs.
| E. G. Sprague Of Fargo is one of the largest
land owDers in the world, having clear title
to one half million acres, 56,t 90 of which &
Dakota; 100000 in Texas; $4,000 in Mississi-
ppi, and various other tracts in different parts
Of the Union. He says he lost 81, 100000 in
the great Chicago fire.
Lord George Montagu, an attache of the
British embassy, died in the city of Washing
ton few days since, of diphtheris, after an
illness of three days. His mother was the
dowager duchess of Manchester. Lord Mon.
tagu was great favorite in social circles In
| Washington, and was esteemed as one of the
most intelligent and honorable of the foreign
attaches.
| A Pacific Coast paper alleges that the eli
mate of California Is steadily changing, the
weather being colder every winter. The late
winter has no recorded parallel for the raw
temperature or the number of days OF frost.
| 1t review of the real estate market and situa.
tion In New York shows that rents In several
rather extensive quarters, have increased from
40 20 Is per cent in the past year.
| Now that the example has been set by the
action in relation to tie Chinese, we may ex.
pect crusades against an invasion" of French
Canadians on the northern border, of Next
cans on the southern, or of any other foreign
race against which it may be convenient for
demagogues to raise the old Know-nothing
howl for the protection of the 'homogeneity"
of people which includes nearly all races of
Europe and Africa.
The Democratic mayor of Philadelphia has
created sensation by appointing several col.
ored men to places on the police force, and sin
gular as it may appear, the only directors are
the Republicans, who have always protested
their extreme devotion to the colored race.
It looks very much as If the two parties In the
states were changing places, for the Philadel.
phia incident is not at all exceptional.
Hayes patronage of the Chirique job seems
to have been of the most barefaced sort. Pri-
vate Secretary W. K Rogers was a lobbyist
for the persons who wanted to sell the prop.
erty, and yet, when the subject was laid before
Hayes by Secretary Thompson, Hayes referred
it to Rogers. The favor shown the job by the
administration was sufficient to get an appro-
priation OF 5000, 900 by congress, but was not