Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-25
CITY GEoBULEs.

The city treasury yesterday expended $500
on account of city contracts.
The delinquent taxpayers made things lively
around the county auditors Office yesterday.
Margaret Thomas, the incorriglble, was
locked up last nieht in drunken condition.
The st. Paul & Pacific company will have
their tracks replaced into the fair ground this
evening.
| The water fountain at the Seven Corners
commenced to spout again yesterday after a
season of repairs
| One week more and the graces of the bank
ruptcy court will CEASE and the gates OF saliva
ton will be closed.
The chief of police advertises the loss of a
watch and chain in this issue which he would
| like to have returned.
Public Examiner Knox was yesterday fooling
around the county treasurers books but failed
to unearth another Renyille.
Chief Weber yesterday procured the stars
tt at are to spread their efulgence from the
/ lapeIs of the special police during the fair
week.
The third in a series of discourses on Hin
ORANGES and Helps to Christian Believing is to
be given in Plymouth church this morning by
Rev. DIR. Dana.
The daily prayer meeting under the auspices
of the Y. NJ. G. A. will be continued this week,
commencing at 11:45 and closing at 1890.
Everybody is invited.
The flooring ;;eists and portion of the
! flooring Of No. 8 engine house were renewed
| yesterday, and the boys feel happy now that
they know the steamer will not fall through.
Hon. Isaac Staples, Of Saltwater, in the city
yesterday, said his entire stable of trooting
and running horses some twenty in number,
would be brought over and taken out to The
fair ground Monday.
| 1t is hoped that next Tuesday evening will
be pleasant so that all may have an opportu-
nifty OF attending the Summit avenue concert.
hese are the great attractions in our city and
no one can afford to miss them.
| The clerk of the district court yesterday re-
ceived from Gov, Pillsburry, the certificate Of
! pardon of George Morton, sentenced to the
county Jail on Oct. IS, 1877, for the crime of
assault with dangerous weapon.
| Quite a large crowd attended the Egyptian
Mystery and Ghost Illusion" at Temperance
hall on Seventh street, last night, and pro-
z.
ment will remain until after the fair.
The practice cannot be too much deprecated
of parties throwing sheets of paper upon the
public thoroughfares. This was especially OBJ
servable on Third street yesterday and several
runaways caused thereby were only checked
In time to prevent serious trouble.
The Eureka ball club had the conceit pretty
thoroughly knocked out of them yesterday
especially the pitcher. They got hold of 9
picked nine of type singers and cigar rollers
were getting in three ooh, guess 1 can
pitch"
The citizens of St. Paul cannot possibly be
too cautious during the next two weeks. Ths
influx of thieves and general BURNER will BIZ
something beyond precedent, and it is best fol-
each and all to be on their 4uard and remember
that an ounce of prevention is better than {
pound of cure.
| Mr.. Edward Rotert has become member oil
the well-known law firm of Mead & Thompson
the firm being styled Mead, Thompson &
Rotert. MIR. Rotert is young man who will
| prove valuable addition to the firm, and en-
able them to better attend to their large and
increasing business.
A young man named Bertheim, employed ir
a pawnbroker' shop on Jackson street, had al
| experience yesterday morning which will teach
| him not to fool with the business end of a re-
volver. He managed to impart to himself
flesh wounds through the tips of the centre
fingers of his left hand. His injuries were at
tended to by DR.. Owens.
| Frank Travis, of the Great Western band
yesterday received nickel plated e fat cornet
with which he thinks he can toot the world out
OF existence. 1t combines all the modern I'M
provenents, being a piston and rotary valve
| motion in one action. 1t was called into re-
QUESTION for the first time at the Rice park
concert last evening.
The driver of street car No. 9, VIM. Dunbar
was suddenly stricken with illness last even
ing near the Fort street terminus. Dr. Stein
who passing at the time, conveyed him ir
his buggy to DIR. Mattocks, having first admin
istered to the sick man. Dunbar was sent tx
his boarding house, corner Sixth and Minnesota
streets.
We are in receipt of advance sheets Of tht
forthcoming volume of A. j. Coopers poems
''the bard of Kinnickinnic fats" The speci
men stanzas are printed on fine medicated pa
per. that readers need be in no fear of con
tracing the divine aftlatus. This edition is in
tended for popular distribution. 1t needs onl,
to be seen o be appreciated.
Yesterday forenoon the municipal court wa
reused by an unusual incident. An individual
named John Doherty was sitting on one of til,
back seats listening to case, when he sudden
ly fell forward in fit, receiving slight cut il
the head. Officer Dowlan, assisted by Patrol
man Johnson, carried the man out of the cour
room, and succeeded in reviving him.
Mr.. Buckley, the section foreman of the G..
M. & st. P. R. R., mentioned in yesterday
GLOBE as having been shot at Pennington OF
the evening previous, came to this city yester
day for medical examination by DR.. Murphy
The bullet is lodged near or about the lef
shoulder joint and is not at all serious, and it,
extraction being considered inadvisablc, th,
man returned to his home.
West Third street had it's runaway yesterday
First of all came team which ran into ane
upset buggy standing near the sidewalk. Mr.
Chapron, of Pine Bend, was sitting in hi
wagon near the elevator, and, fearing a col
lision, started up his horses. In doing SO, tbs
fore wheel of his wagon climbed the sidewalk
and he was thrown out, the vehicle passing
over him. No bones were broken, but the suf
ferer was generally shaken up.
The fire department last evening settled by
lot the question of their attendance at the fail
grounds for duty. The choice of machine fell
upon No. 2, which will be kept upon the ground
all the week. the men changing off daily as fol
lows: The regular men of No. 2 will go with
| the machine Monday morning and remain I'M
til Tuesday, and will be relieved by No. 8, they
| by No. for Wednesday, No. will have Thurs
day, No. having Friday, and the hook and