Daily globe., 1878-03-22
CITY GLonULEs
Give the sidewalks their spring repairing

Isn't 1t about time tho proverb was re-
versed, and the old Broom was swept clean
ont?
DR.. Roy, as predicted in yesterdays GLOBE,
was better yesterday, and viii soon be him
self again.
The Sioux City train due here at HOS
yesterday morning, was delayed one hour by
a hot box.
The Catholic colonization bureau forwarded
yesterday twenty-five persons, young and
old, 10 the Swift county settlement.
The st. Paul Sioux City railroad yester-
day completed special arrangements for trains
to the Odd Fellows colony via St. James.
Among the delighted auditors last night at
the Opera house was NJ lie. lima di Murska,
who occupied one of the stage boxes, and fully
appreciated Dillon's laughable eccentricities.
There may be finale to Marshal McLar-
ems Oregon trip which is not down in the
books, and may proves sumner to that Of
fetal.
Forty-eight horses belonging to the Cana
dian Pacific railroad will be forwarded from
this city tomorrow, on the St. Paul & Pa
ciic, to Fishers Landing.
Mrs. Gilmore, one of tho municipal courts
regular old-timers, was locked up last night for
drunkenness, having only just completed
sixty-days' term in the county Jail for a similar
offence.
State Secretary Irgens yesterday gracefully
acknowledged, through the secretary Of the
Catholic Orphans association, the thanks of
that society for his gift of the miniature
church.
The Mannerchor, of this city, will appear in
q few weeks at Saltwater in the performance
of der Waffenschmidt.' The same musical
association will shortly put in rehearsal the
opera Of "Undtne," by Lortzing.
On Saturday next, F. w. Schultz, P. Classen
and II. Dyer, of this city, leave for Nicholson,
the st. Paul & Sioux City railroad and near the
Odd Fellows colony, with the intention of
closing contracts for the lands.
Col. j. r. King leaves this evening for the
Catholic colony in Big Stone county, to see
to the welfare of the 200 settlers already
there, and to make preparations for the in
coming tide.
The St. Paul & Pacific train for Fishers
Landing yesterday afternoon, was again
crowded, and when it pulled out scarcely
standing room could be found for the i'm
| mense crowd.
Wheat was delivered yesterday at the ele
vator in this city from within less than FIVE
miles of Saltwater, and also from near Has
tings. All which shows that st. Paul is q
first class wheat market.
! The increased immigration now rushing into
all parts of the State has created an immense
demand for land which is taxing the energies
of the land departments of the several land
grant railroads, to the utmost.
Com. C. B. Kloos is busily engaged in paint
ing his magnificent clipper-built barge at the
X. N. line warehouse. Charlie has made up
his mind to own the finest craft on the river
this season, and he's the boy to do it.
Anton Burg, who tossed over the bluff on
Wednesday night from the rear of the
Adelphia, was considerably easier yesterday,
though doubts of his ultimate recovery are
still entertained by his physicians.
1t is safe to affirm that four -ffths of the
people one meets in the streets now-a-days
are persons who are entire strangers, tenn
porarily sojourning in the city previous
to land-hunting or locating in the West.
| Parties from Wisconsin and Illinois, con
nected with Odd Fellows colony in Watonwa1
county, left this city yesterday for the seen,
of operations to make arrangements for the es
tablishment of lumber yards and manu-
factures.
A movement is on foot to make Bass LAX,
this season one of the most agreeable ant
pleasant places of resort anywhere in tn,
Northwest. A considerable sum of none,
will be expended by the company in max
ing all necessary improvements to this end.
A gentleman, who travelled upon the west
ern bound train of the Winona & st. Pete
railroad on Tuesday last, informed a G1op
reporter yesterday the cars were SO crowde,
with immigrants for the western borde
counties that there was not even standin
room.
The grain distribution continued yester
day in the Governors Office, in which servic
the telegraph was kept in operation at
pretty lively rate, mostly in consequence o
wheat holders shamelessly taking advantage
of the States necessities, by putting u
prices.
: Perhaps the busiest man in all st. Paul i
, polemical discussion, yet finds time to atten
to and foster the interests of two Cathoi
, colonies and to daily answer scores of inquire
regarding them propounded by parties who wi
be contented with nothing less than person,
reply.
Y Nj lie. lima di Murska, the prima donna fo
: merly associated with Mad. Lucca, with he
agent NJ. De Vivo, has been in the city for
couple of days. Having failed to secure Il
8 Opera house for the present or immediate f,
ture she has expressed her intention of returnin
after hel Southern tour to this city, when 81
> will appear in grand opera, assisted by
. talented troupe.
!. Judge OGorman returned yesterday fro1
: St. Peter, where he had left at the asylu1
+ there, the eight insane persons, lately in Il
county almshouse, whose cases were recent
y adjudicated upon in the probate court. The
), names are: Fredricka Bjorkland, Ellie
y Egan, Katie Kohlmann, L. Nelson, Ann
Q Hanson, Elizabeth Willard, Mary Yolkman
IS and Ellen Golden.
= SALT SPRING LAYDs.
The Governor Sends an Agent to Ott
- Tail County to Enquire Into and Repo
Thereon.
70 Samuel H. Nichols, the efficient and pc
Q. tlemanly clerk of the supreme court left
e, Wednesday night for Fergus Falls, his Q
q stamping grounds Shaving been delegat
% by Governor Pillsbury to enquire into a,
e ascertain the facts connected with the occ
a patton by some thirty-one settlers of certa
r. lands in Otter Tail county, known as s.