Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-17
MINNEAPoL1s GLoBELETs.

coming.
a snowy, sloppy, sticky, slushy spring day
was yesterday.
The Women's Christian Association cleared
$50 from their New England dinners.
Hon. Franklin Bebee has been appointed
assignee of Hon. j. NJ. Waldron, of Litch-
field.
The dime concert for last evening was
weather.
The stock-yards Of the Milwaukee 6 ST.
Paul railway now contain four car loads of
fat Iowa cattle.
Mr.. A. r. Kenyon is to build fine resi-
dence at the corner of Fourth street and
Hennepin avenue.
The street railway company ran their cars
on schedule time yesterday, Notwithstanding
the prevailing snow storm.
Gilmores band has secured dates for Min
neapois i'll March, and Nine. Julia Rive
King is announced for April
Three tramps were before the municipal
court for vagrancy yesterday, and were each
sent to the county jail for thirty days.
The cakes of ice now taken out of the
river by the ice-men are thin, porous, and
hardly large enough for a good lemonade.
1t is now estimated that the estate of the
$4,000 after the final settlement and costs
are made.
Gospel Temperance meeting at the hall of
the III. L. Il. club, 10 south Washington
avenue, this afternoon at o'clock. to which
all are cordially invited.
The Irishmen of the city are to hold a
meeting at Emerald hall tomorrow evening
at $50 O'Clock to make arrangements for the
annual st. Patrick S day celebration.
Mrs. S. $. Rrown, of the choir of the
Church of the Redeemer, was called sud-
denly to her home III Dayton, Ohio, yester-
day, by the receipt of news of the severe
illness of her father.
Mr.. j. A. Armstrong, the we'll known wood
dealer, has been confined to his room for two
weeks OF more with severe attack of asth-
ma. AS soon as he is able to be about, he
will search for health III q southern climate
Owing to the proposed resignation of Al
derman jackson of the 10th ward, two al
dermen will have to be elected from that
ward at the coming municipal election, one
for term OF two years, and one to fill Al
derman Jacksons unexpired term of one
year.
Minneapolis lodge, number 5S7 of the
knights of Honor will hold their regular
meeting tomorrow evening. Work in the
third degree. The grand lodge for the State
Will either be organized III this city OF st.
Paul on the evening of March 18th.
Strackosch would not bring his Kellogg
Cary Opera Company to Minneapolis for
less than guarantee of $1,000 for weeks
engagement, and a percentage of all money
received i'll excess of that amount. It was
about $500 a night above the best record of
Minneapolis, hence, the offer has been de-
clined.
Coykendall Bros, have determined TO
close out their retail business and de-
vote their energies exclusively to the whole
sale trade, which recent venture they find to
be profitable. Az additional and very large
stock Of dry goods and notions will be added
and the entire block will be occupied by
them.
Alderman 4. F. Jackson, of the 10th ward,
will tender his resignation at the next meet
ing of the city council, to take effect April
LIST. Mi. jackson is a thorough gentleman,
popular citizen and a good alderman, and
his departure will be regretted He is to re-
move to Lake Addie, on the Hastings & Da-
koia division of the Chicago Milwaukee d
St. Paul railroad, where he will engage in
farming OH 500 acre tract of land which he
owns
City Engineer Rinker was yesterday figur-
ing out the amount of weight which the
basement supporting columns to the city
hall were compelled to support. It has been
feared by many that there was too much of a
strain upon them, and that the floors were i11
danger of settling. He finds that each of the
16 posts have an average dead weight of
about $4,000 pounds, and that unless unfor-
seen events occur, they are sufficient for all
that is intended of them.
Messrs. Barber q Son and Leonard Day
q Co. have been making direct shipments
of flour from this city to London and Glas
gov during the past week. Yesterday
Messrs Christian d Co. shipped between
1000 and 1900 barrels of their very best to
the same ports, and it is understood that
Messrs. Hobart & Schuler have telegraphic
order from London for 1000 barrels. The
direct foreign trade with Minneapolis is get
ting to be an item of magnitude, and the
foreign war prospects give every evidence of
forthcoming increased demand.
Telephones are very convenient, but
you should be sure you know who you are
talking to through them. Minneapolitan
who has his Office and residence thus con-
nected stepped out few moments the other
day, leaving an intimate friend in the Office.
The electric bell of the telephone rang, and
the friend, stepping to the tube, gave la
comic reply, and soon volume of family
secrets was journeying into his ear that would
have caused any except married man to
beat a hasty retreat. AS the parties were on
Intimate terms, however, the joke is good
one, and both prefer hereafter to converse
by telephone entirely, or at least until the
hrst conversation has been forgotten.
District Court.
Judge Young filed lengthy decision yes
terday granting Judgment for defendant in
the case of G. McC. Reeve vs. VIM. Gould.