Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-03
CITY GLOBULES.

CITY GLoBULES.
East Lynne at the Opera House tonight.
The sun rises at and sets at 5:37 O Clock to-
day.
Pound Master Mitchell ran in thirteen tramp
COWS early yesterday morning.
Wagner and Cotton's Ministries are billed for
the 9th and 9th inst. at the Opera House.
Household furniture, carpets, ETC., at auction
this morning corner Robert and Tenth streets.
The teachers in the public schools were paid
their September salaries yesterday afternoon.
The ducet tones of the hand organ attracted
the small boys in horde at the custom house
corner yesterday.
The city treasurer will pay the street laborers
their September wages next Saturday. The
amount to be disbursed is S, 200.
The box office is open daily from A. NJ. to 4
P. NJ. for sale of reserved seats for East Lynne,
Jane Eyre and Hunchback performances by
Miss Charlotte Thompson.
Chief Strong and several members of the fire
brigade. and citizens, go to Anoka to- day, to be
present at the trial of the new steamer, men
toned in yesterdays GLOBE.
City contractors will receive their pay for
work done in grading, sewerage, etc., next
Saturday morning. The amount to be dis
bursed on all accounts will foot up to some
thing over $4,000.
Another lot of Canadians bound for Mani
/. toba, reached the city by the Chicago. Mil
waukee u st. Paul train yesterday afternoon,
and In the evening took the st. Paul & Pacific
train for Crookston.
White Bear luxuriated in a burglary Tuesday
night McGrath's saloon being entered and four
or five dollars in small change stolen. There
have been several cases of petty thieving at
White Bear recently.
Among the speakers at the Young Mems
Donnelly club meeting this evening, will prob
ably be ex-Gov. Magoffn, the Democratic war
horse of Kentucky, now visiting his son, Hon.
berlah Magoffin, Jr., in this city.
The money order department of the post
office during September paid out $685. 1873. GO
for money orders received in this city; received
SlO.5l7,26 from the sale of orders; received
Soi,oOb from country pOstmasters, and sent a
surplus funu of $30,8o0 to Chicago
The fellow who was up at the municipal
court "n Tuesday morning and gave the name
of John Herman was fraud as we'll as a
drunken loafer. John Herman is a sober and
industrious stone-mason, and the assum ion
of his name by this fraud did gross Injustice
to a worthy citizen.
There is great want of nice, snug little
houses in which respectable working people
would not be ashamed to live. Persons holding
vacant lots could make money by erecting
such. There is not day passes in which en-
quiries are not made for small houses at every
real estate agency in the city.
The ridiculous sketch in Ha,.pe,'s, supposed
illustrate the field trials in connection with
the Minnesota Bench show, would lead the peo-
pie to imagine, if they did not know the con-
trary, that in September cold biting winds and
two feet OF snow on the ground were the order
OF the day instead of clear skies and sultry
weather.
There was a p. p. man. yesterday inquiring
anxiously about the escape Of six prisoners
from the Jail, an account of which had been
given in the GLOBE He was immensely dis
gusted when he learned 'the jail delivery
only referred to the discharge of six pr oners
by the court, written up an escape, but ex-
planned in the last line.
Belle Painters father came after her yeste-
day from Howard Lake. She is the girl who
was sentenced to Jail for the theft of ring
from Mrs. Goode. Friends wrote to the aged
father, and he responded in person, to get his
errlng daughter released from durance and re-
y.
company him home to-day.
Mrs. Penny, very bad counterfeit pre-
sentiment of womanhood, came into police
headquarters last night just as the night SQUAD
were going on duty, and wanted protection
from one Myers, who had bursted her front
door In. AS she was very noisy and violent in
her demands, and showed up in a half besotted
condition, she was put out of Myers and harms
way. by being given sleeping quarters in the
station.
Asmall unpleasantness occurred in the neigh
borhood of Robert street between Fifth and
Sixth streets yesterday afternoon about, 3
O'Clock. The way one of the disputants showed
up afterwards, the probabilities were large that
light eliminated from the discussion. Bar
ney Allen was the party who appeared on the
horizon In search of q police officer He found
one on the corner of Wabashaw and Fourth
streets, and was safely conducted to the police
station.
A letter received here from Mr.. Joseph
Ellick, member of the Red Cap base ball
club of last season, now in Cincinnati brings
the information that his wife's father, residing
at Memphis, died few days since of yellow
fever. and the other members of the family
were all sick Of the disease. though all were in
q 1a!r way OF recovery, except the Youngest
child. Mr.. Ellick contemplates taking m his
residence in Memphis as soon as the endemic
disappears.
Last nights fire showed the folly of blowing
up whole street for grading instead of COM
pleting the street block by block. The wear
and tear on horseaesh and engines last night
wond almost pay for the grading of street Of
ordinary length. Would it not be a sensible
thing for the city to procure good stone
cracker and with it chaw into proper-sized mug
gets the immense quantity of niggerheads piled
In all parts of the city AND dress our muddy.
SOFT impossible streets with them In this
way we would soon have solid, smooth, clean