Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-17
CITY GLOBULES.
Judge Wilkin goes to Hastings to-day to sit
in the case of Judkins VS.. Norton.

In the case of Judkins VS.. Norton.
John Oily, probate judge, and G. A. Hoff-
man, clerk of the court, Wright county, were
in the city yesterday.
Collector Bickel was yesterday engaged in
sending to the internal revenue department at
Washington all his old stub books.
The grand and petit juries for the October
term Of the United States district court will
be drawn to-day. Court meets on the 7th of
| next month.
| Michael and Frank Ledar of Mclean town
ship were fined 800 and 1927 costs each for
pulling down a fence and committing a
| trespass.
The journal of the Senate of the twentieth
session of the Minnesota Legislature was issued
yesterday. It is neat, well printed volu me
of $50 pages.
h. y. Strong, treasurer, and the st. Paul
member of the board of directors of the State
Insurance association, will attend the regular
monthly meeting of the association at Mime
apolis to-day.
line county auditor sold at auction at the
court house yesterday morning lots and prop
erty in the First ward for delinquent taxes
he will sell to-day from the Second and Third
| wards.
The yellow fever contributions made through
Gov. Pillsbury, now reaches 1925, as follows:
Gen. 81. 81. Sibley, 800, N. W. Kitson, 800. J.
| 3. Prince 80, E.. T. Archibald & Son $50,
Minnesota Soap Company employees $25.
Grand Secretary Pierson acknowledges addi-
| tions to the Masonic yellow fever fund from
Dorlc lodge, of Wells, Constellation lodge. of
Alexandra. Star lodge, of Rockford, Star in
| the East lodge of Owatonna and Tuscan lodge,
OF Waseca. The moneys sent by the two last
| lodges are their second installments The fund
now amounts to 1,748.
At the American chapel, Paris, the 2Sth ult
Mr.. A. X. Barnum of this city was married to
Miss Carrie Josephine Thompson, also of st.
Paul, by the Rev. MIR. Hitchcock. Consul Gen
eral Falrchild gave away the bride. The happy
couple left Paris the same afternoon for Lon
| don, and thence sailed on the 7th inst, in the
Abysslnla, for New York, en-route for st. Paul
postal card from Harry J. Chaplain, well
known in this city as the manager for years of
Haverly's famous minstrel troupe, announces
that he has secured Paysons English Opera
company for the season, and that he is now
| arranging his route, in which he proposes to
include visit to st. Paul. Harry personally.
as well as his company, will meet with cordial
reception whenever the visit is made.
The Republican State Central committee
met at the Icapitol yesterday and organized by
electipg Geo. A. Brackett chairman; Henry
a. Castle, secretary and treasurer. Geo. A.
Brackett, of Hennepin; FL. A. Castle of Ram
sey; d. M. Sabin, of Washington; A. Il, Rice
of Kandiyohi; and D. L. How, of Scott. were
| appointed an executive committee No funds
were contributed for Washburn's election
| Measures are being taken, and are being al
most perfected, to establish boom company
at st. Paul. The company will manufacture
lumber by steam power, and many experienced
| lumbermen are Of the opinion that it can be
done as cheaply as with water power In anv
event 1t can be done within paying figures. The
right men are interested in the project to make
IL success and 1t Will not be many days ere
the full plans of the company are fully stated
| to the public.
Up to last evening track laying on the St.
Vincent extension of the st. Paul & Pacific rail
way had reached Tamarac river, leaving only
forty miles to be completed to reach the ter
minus of the road at st. Vincent where it con-
meets with the Pembina branch of the Cana
dian Pacific. The progress being made is en-
tlrely satisfactory, even meeting the pushing
ideas OF Manager Farley, and insures the COM
| pletlon OF the line in advance of the time set
by him. the middle of October.
The many friends of Capt. J. X. Arnold will
be glad to learn that he has sstruck OIL" In
other words, he has secured the sole agency
and attorneyship of Miller's nut lock plate for
| railway joints, pronounced by railway men
who have examined it to be the most simple and
yet practical lock plate yet invented, and bound
to come into general use upon the railroads of
| the country. The captain Is about to start
East to introduce his device to the leading
railroad arrangements of the country, and his
friends all hope that his most sanguine expec
| mo w hn RI, ~1,,ls
Mrs. Hutton. of Burlington, came into the
city on Sunday In search of her husband, J. D.
Hutton. She applied to the chief of police and
told him that her husband left Burlington for
st. Paul on July 9th, intending to start a CANDY
store and as he gave no address except the post
Office, where his letters were to be sent she
could not, with her sick child-a beautiful
little girl four years old-hunt for him. The
chief provided the lady, who had no means.
WIN lodgings, and yesterday he hunted UP the
missing man and made the twain happy once
| more.
Quite an improvement has been made in
Elevator A, by putting in new row of dis
charging spouts. These spouts are for dis
charging into standing on the second or
outside railroad track, and greatly increase the
handling capacity of the elevator, as by them
| grain can be taken into the elevator from cars
| and loaded into cars from the elevator at the
same time, and without one operation in the
least interfering with the other MANAGER
| I1merman is inclined to boast that he has
now charge OF one of the most complete eleva-
tors in the United States. Now give him the
| grain to handle and he will be perfectly hannv.
The Furnish Fifth Avenue company will fur
nlsh the next entertainments at the Opera
House. The company is booked for five per-
formances next week, viz: Monday. Tuesday
and Wednesday evenings, then going to Mime
| apolls for Thursday and Friday EVENINGS and
returning here for Saturday matinee and
evening performance, the latter closing the en-
gagement The delightful entertainments
gwen by the Fifth Avenue company under the
management OF Mr. kurdish IN past seasons are
| pleasantly remembered by our citizens. and the
| temperance of the company at this time with
| many of the familiar faces will he hailed with
real satisfaction.
| The stage of water in the river. az shown INV
the board yesterday, was ten and half inches.
This would give fifteen inches in the channel.
the lowest known to the oldest inhabitant ex-
cepting the years 1864 in both of which wears
ABOUT tne same low stage was reached in the
| month OF October. Above the Falls of ST
Anthony old settlers report the water lower
| than ever before known. Old settlers also claim
that decided rise was never known in the
river IN the fall of the year, and argue that as
all streams leading into the Mississippi are I'M
usually low, the swamps dried up. and the
earth parched for lack of moisture, there roust
be, even with more than the average rain fall
for the balance of the season, a continued de
cline, reaching before checked a lower point
than ever before known. The REASONING is
good, but far from satisfactory to river men.
The New Fire Alarm.