Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-15


Eagle. It looks as bright and clean as a |
newly coined eagle.
At the Worthington land ofico 65,051
acres of land were taken thu FIST three
months of the year.
pThe new bridge at Shakopee is to be To-
Gated opposite the steam mill about half a
mile below the ferry.
Pillsbury & Co., of Minneapolis, are to
build an elevator at Granite Falls, to beready
for the next grain crop.
The local columns of the last Worthington
Advnnce are taken up with the arrivals and
purchases of home-seekers.
Thompson & Kendall are opening large
farm in southeast Minnesota, covering 1890
acres in towns 1O4 and los, range 81.
VIM. Morris, owner of more land in
Freeborn county than any other one man,
has seeded ], 300 acres to wheat this season.
The appraised school and internal improve
ment La Ids in Redwood county are to be
offered for sale at Redwood Falls May 18th.
Bishop Whipple is expected to return
from the South next week, and will be
present at the Easter services in Faribault.
John A. Willard and J. G. Dodsworth, OF
Mankato, have established banking house
at Granite Falls, Yellow Medicine county
MINI.
The western villages of the State are daily
traversed by trains of prairie schooners,
conveying settlers to their new homes on the
prairies.
Hon. F. r. Delano is comforting with the
settlers on the Brainerd Branch land gran,
at different points, to procure an early set
Element Of titles.
There are l12 runs of burrs in the -four
ing mills Of Goodhue county, instead of 81,
as has been published. OF these 36 are in
the mills of Red Wing.
Mexican who is in the employ of Col.
Wright Of Madelia claims to have been a
drummer boy in the Mexican army which
fought against Meximilian.
The Granite Falls Journal, unconvinced
by Selah Chamberlain's letter to the CON
| trary, says the Hastings & Dakota road is
being built into that village.
| The Rochester & Northern railway will
have station and depot on section one, il
the town of Kalmar, Olmstea county. The
station Will be named Douglas.
new $4,000 national bank Is about to
begin business in Cannon Falls. Stephel
Gardener is president, w. p. Tanner vic,
president, and L.. S. Follett cashier.
Two farmers of Zambro Falls, Wabashap
county, have each recently missed about
wagon-load of wheat from their granaries
Shot guns are in demand in the neigabor-
hood.
N. F. w. Kranz, of Hastings, and his bro
theirs nave bought five sections of Northern
Pacific lands in Coddington county, Dakota
None of the family are interested in the
purchase.
The Worthington Journal says: 'srhe
able manner in which Judge Cox presided
during the recent term of court in Rock
county has elected praise from the bar and
people"
A young married couple of St. Cloud have
taken the wife's mother and considerable
funds belonging to the wife's father and de-
parted, leaving the old man doubly q
mourner.
The daughter of Jacob Kern, of Lake town
Carver county, who accidently scalded herself
three weeks ago, died last Monday. after
suffering agonies of pain almost constantly
since the accident.
The five year old daughter of John Story
Milton, Dodge county, last week fell and up
set kettle of boiling water, which so badl,
scalded her as to produce her death about
twenty-five hours afterward.
John D. and Joseph w. Heritage have set
out this spring 10000 trees and cuttings on
their farm in Blue Earth county. They have
planted in previous years more than 10000
trees that are now from ten to twenty feet
high.
Pat Murphy, of Prescott, has recovered a
horse which was stolen from him by Tripp.
now in the Ramsey county Jail, about year
ago. The horse had been sold four times
since it was stolen. It was found at Men
omonie, Wis.
The Brown House at Brownsville was
being repaired few days ago when several
dollars in bogus silver coins OF different
denominations, dated 1859, with plaster-of-
Paris molds were found behind the Office
ceiling.
A school teacher at Long Prairie, hearing
one boy offering another $1,000 Tor jack
knife, investigated the matter, and learned
that the boy had found that sum where a
villager, to whom it was restored. had drop
ped it.
Frank G. Davis, through the Mankato
Union makes complaint as to the distribu-
ton of seed wheat to grasshopper sufferers
| in Butternut Valley, that those who were
able to buy their own seed received most
from the State.
81 An immigrant party of two dozen Luxeua-
burgers, men and women, goin. to New
Trier, Dakota county, on landing at Has
tings, formed in doubla file and, with O
leader playing "Hold the Fort,'' on a trum.
pet, marched to refreshments, at the nearest
bier halle.
Little Charlie Nash, who was drowned two
weeks ago at LIE Sueur, when he sat in the
buggy as it floated down the river, almost
quietly asked his brother what he should do
and uttered no other exclamation than to sa,
to those trying to save him, just before ht
sank, "hurry up!"
Twenty-six tramps were corraled at thu
Winona lookup Tuesday night. Most O
them were transported to the Wisconsin
side next morning and set loose in the woods
Four other tramps were rescued there from
the river, Tuesday evening. They were
clinging to capsized boat and said they hai
been in the water for four hours.
A bartender at Hastings, the LIST inst.
when blue ribbon man asked him for
, drink Of water, thought to fool him with
drink of gin. The b-r-m swallowed thu
fluid, smiled, thanked the bar-keeper for hi!
, drink and walked out. And now the bar
| keeper don't know which was fooled.
How do earthworms get into the air SO a:
to come down with rain? Or do they come
up out of the ground when it is soaked with
} rain At Albert Lea, Rochester and Red
Wing, as in st. Paul, millions of angle
worms covered the streets and sidewalks aftel
!, last Monday night e showers. Andth editor
of the Preston Republican tells Of seeing the
} side of building covered with these worms
mangled and ifeless, after rain,