Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-14
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs.


Meeting at Sioux City Junction.
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs.
Secure seats for Camilla Urso's concert.
Next Sunday will be Easter, and then lent
closes.
The weather was warm and bright again
yesterday.
The court house was barren of news items
yesterday.
Real estate business is lively in Minneapo-
Lis at present.
Wheat sold at 81 .O3 per bushel in Mime
apolis yesterday.
The front of Mr.. George Huhn's drug
store is to be frescoed.
The sidewalk on Main stree t, East Division,
is sadly in need of repairs.
Camilla Urso sails for Europe on the 18th
day of May, to be absent two years.
The fish commissioners have placed three
thousand lake trout in Lake Minnetonka.
Fourteen thousand eight hundred bushels
of wheat were received in Minneapolis yes
terday.
Howorth's Hibernica closed successful
three nights engagement in this city last
evening.
The work of stringing the booms in the
main channel of the river is being pushed
forward.
Four thousand seven hundred and thr ee
barrels of flour were shipped from Mime
apolis yesterday.
The churches should be we'll attended
to- day, as some excellent sermons have been
prepared for the occasion.
The Philomathean Society received $261
at their entertainment on Wednesday even
ing. The net gain is $166.85.
Miss Nellie E. Cahill, of Minneapolis, and
Mr.. Will Il. Maxfeld, of St. Paul, are to be
married in this city next Thursday after
noon.
Strawberries have made their appearance
in Minneapolis, and may be had for thirty
five cents box, and not very large boxes
either.
Land hunters are unusually numerous
now-a-d days. They are focking through the
city, en- route for the farming districts, by
the hundred
A chimney IN the residence of Mr.. L. B.
Walker burned out yesterday morning, caus-
ing considerable excitement in that vicinity
for short time.
The lightning rod fiend is once more at
large in Minneapolis and has commenced
his annual attack upon the unprotected res
idents of this city.
W. B. Phillips, who last year played first
base with the Minneapolis Brown Stockings
last season, has joined the Cleveland, Ohio,
club for the season.
Hermion Lodge, No. IS, Knights of
Pythias, hold a regular meeting on Monday
evening to confer the first and second de-
grees upon charter members.
A company of amateurs of this city will
give an entertainment at the Academy of
Music on the Both inst, for the benefit of
the organ fund of Gethsemans parish.
Winston Brothers, to whom the City Coun-
Gil awarded the contract of constructing a
nepin avenue, commenced work yesterday
morning.
Quite a number of men are on the anxious
seat awaiting to know which of them the
mayor will choose to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of two Of the newly ap-
pointed ones.
The Social Science association hold meet
ing in Good Templars' hall, over Menden-
halls bank, on Washington avenue, between
o,,1F iroko Cd
8 o'clock this afternoon.
New Jerusalem Tor Swedenborgian)
church, corner of Fifth avenue south and
Ninth street, Rev. E. G. Mitchell, pastor
Services at P. M. Subject: "Lot's wife
becoming pillar of salt"
The front of tho city ticket Office of the
Minneapolis & St. Louis road, opposite the
Nicollet House, has been handsomely orna-
mented with some elegant sign painting
upon the large panes of French plate glass.
Call at ''Our Brandt packing house, 300 First
avenue south. Among other good things you
will find picked tongues beef, pork and lamb,
extra nice. Sausage in every variety. Fresh
pork and lard of extra quality at very low
prices.
The streets presented lively appearance
all day yesterday. Crowds of pedestrians
crowded the sidewalks, and the principal
thoroughfares were lined with carriages of
every description. It was good day for
business men.
About half past five o'clock last evening
horse owned by Mr.. John Gilmore ran
away on Bridge Square, and created some
excitement for short time. The team
finally collided with another wagon, throwing
the driver out. No serious damages re-
suited thereby.
It is reported that Michael Ryan and
James Nolan have been appointed by the
mayor to fill the places made vacant by the
resignation of G. D. Smith and W. w
Woodbury.. The City Council committee on
police held meeting yesterday and con
Guided to confirm the appointments.
During the past month the officers of the
public schools have been endeavoring to dis
cover the perpetrators of series of petty
thefts in the school rooms anc
cloak rooms. The guilty party was
ferretted out yesterday, and proved