Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-11
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
MINNEAPOLIs GLOBELETs.

MINNEAPOLIs GLOBELETs.
Weather cold.
Shipments of -four yesterday, 1900 barrels.
Wheat received, 600 bushels. No. l. SO cents
No. 2, 81 cents.
There will be an adjourned meeting Of thu
city council tonight.
The Hennepin county poor farm will be
ready for occupancy about the LIST OF October
The preliminary examinations for admittance
to the State University began yesterday morn,
ing.
A petition is in circulation for the extension
of the Fourth ave...e street car line to Frank
lin avenue.
The Andrew Presbyterian church, on the
East Side last Sunday donated $50 to the vel
low fever sufferers.
Minneapolis chapter No. 8, O. e. s. will give
social entertainment at the Pence Opera House
the last of this month.
A regulator for the street car line has been
put in the Academy of Music, and hereafter
the cars will be run on time.
The new stone arch bridge is a nuisance as it
now stands. Cannot the work be made to 60
forward with aslight acceleration?
The John Murray combination played to
good house last night, the troupe appearing in
East Lynne, which was finely presented.
Messrs. Bracket and Smith went to Ovation
ma. and have unanimously determined that
they wouldn't take that chemical engine as a
gift.
Can't old probabilities take time from his
iunketing trips to the Northwest to hurry the
polar wave down to Memphis and New Or
leans2
Clerk Wolverton was at dinner about
o'clock yesterday afternoon, which accounts
for The dearth of court news in the GLOBE this
morning.
A decision was filed in the Office of the clerk
of the district court yesterday in the case OF
Barnum Bros. vs.. J. f. N DeFlon, assignee of
Max. Pfeiffer overruling demurrer.
The tunnel under Hennepin island lacks
only about fifty feet of completion. The work
Is progressing at the rate of eight or ten feet
per day, and will be finished sometime next
week.
Wednesday of next week the University of
Minnesota will open for the year. Get your
books ready girls and boys, and prepare for the
benign rule Of the professor for another nine
months.
Parties are engaged in dredging the river
preparatory to laying the submerged pipe to
supply the east side water mains. It is thought
that about two miles of mains will be put
down the east side yet this fall.
Geo. s. Bicknell, who was dangerously gored
by bull at the fair grounds the early part of
last week, is improving rapidly, and bids fair
to make a live Of it. 1t was close call for
George, and his friends will all rejoice at his
prospective recovery.
The rifle club will hold their regular weekly
practice on Thursday, at Q p. NJ, on the grounds
near Minnenaha. The practice day has been
changed from Wednesday to Thursday after
noon. All members requested to be on
hand at o'clock sharp.
In all human probability there will be a bill
presented to the council tonight to cover the
expense of entertaining the President. Well.
we all saw Rutherford and Bill Duke, and it
was worth comic rtable sum to see Bill swell
up on the honors of the occasion.
The board of county commissioners emphat-
ically declines to regard the construction of the
temporary bridge part of the expense of
building the stone arch bridge, and hence de-
cline to pay their proportion OF the expense of
building that structure-about $7OO. The
question is mighty liable to go into the courts.
street fight occurred yesterday afternoon
on Washington avenue, between farmer and
teamster. The Transfers cart collided with
the farmers wagon and after some short re-
marks more forcible than elegant, the parties
came to blows and lively fight ensued The
cry of police was raised and the farmer with
drew to a drug store to be fixed up.
The Minneapolis high school will open in the
new Twelfth street building next Monday.
Teachers and pupils will please not forget that
they are occupying the finest, most beautiful
and complete educational building in the State,
and surpassed by few in any State. DO not
grow proud, but useit well and proftably and
the public that built it will be satisfied.
Mr.. Brown, the gentleman in charge of the
collection for the Southern yellow fever suf-
ferers, ut the fair grounds last week, reports
about $3.50 as the sum collected, besides the
amount realized from the soldiers bible sale.
Mr.. b. yesterday sent the amount to the Y M.
@. A. at New Orleans for use. Now if we could
only bottle up fair share of this bracing at
mosphere of ours, laden with health and vital
ity, what blessing it would be.
Monthly Meeting of the Board of Directors
of the Y. M. C. II.
At regular meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Y. M. G. A., eleven members were
present, President j. Il. Bell presiding.
On behalf of the devotional committee Geo.
B. Bradbury reported ffty-two devotional
meetings including bible readings. The at
tendance at the meetings has increased, and
much interest has been manifested He also
stated that the reading received papers
from different cities, but that some secular
papers from New York, Chicago, Boston and
st. Louis were needed.
2. E. Brown volunteered to furnish the New
York Tribune weekly for one year, and J. E.
Bell said he would furnish the T,i- Weehly
Inter Ocean, OF Chicago for year, both papers
to be q gift from the gentleman mentioned.
a book reception under the management of
the reception and library committee will be
held soon; each person attending to bring a
book, and thus replcnish the library free of
cost.
z. E. Brown, treasurer, reported about 5000
collected at the fair for the benefit of the vel
low fever sufferers and desired instructions
how it should be disposed of.
The 500 received from the sale of Bible
donated by D. Newton Severance with the re-
quest that the proceeds be sent to the families
of confederate soldiers suffering from yellow
fever, be sent to the Howard association at
Memphis to be appropriated according to the
request of the donor, and the money collected
at the fair grounds be sent to the Y. NJ c. A.
at New Orleans
The following persons were received as active
members of the association: Silas Mofit, O.
Opergard and William Hauliston. The meeting
then adjourned.
HMDptU Dunpty.
Thursday night next the celebrated Humpty
Dumpty troupe, with the clown Grimaldi as
chief attraction, will open at the Academy OF
Music in this city. This troupe has a world
wide reputation, and is the most celebrated OF
its character in America. The Oil City Derrick
thus speaks of the performance Of the troupe
The Grand Opera House was crowded last
night from pit to dome and standing room
at a premium, with the best of our citizens, tt