Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-28
CITY GLOBULEs.

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State Treasurer Pfaender yesterday paid out
Sl4, 900 for seed wheat.
Gov. Pillsbury is still kept pegging away at
the seed wheat distribution.
Personal taxes are pouring into the county
treasurer's possession at lively rate.
q Mr.. Albert Scheffer celebrated his birthday
last night, in a most enjoyable fashion.
Even the sturdiest opponents Of the Fort
Smelling bridge felt reconciled, if not wholly
satisfied yesterday.
The GLOBES hint has been acted upon, and
the brick sidewalk on Wabashaw street, oppo-
site the capitol, has been repaired.
The Hessian band will give performance at
the Athen@um next Sunday. Positively their
last of the season in this city.
Allen, charged some time ago with robbery
from the person of one McLyndon, will be had
up for trial to-day in the municipal court.
Doc. Murphy was over in Saltwater yester-
day. He took along his instrument case, and
is bound to amputate a leg or an arm before he
returns.
Rev. d. R. Breed will address the Temperance
Reform club at their rooms this evening, at
: 80 o'clock. Subject: Political Opposition
in Temperance Legislation"
The Merchants yesterday started new regis
ter, the last one having been 'chawed up
since the 9th of January. Registers, with the
present influx of travel don't stand much of a
show.
Anthony Burke, whose death resulted from
falling from the balcony of the Adelphia, as
previously recorded, was buried yesterday
morning, at o'clock, from the Church of the
Assumption, in this city.
Parties on Robert and Mississippi streets
will find an advertisement of the city comp
troller in another column, announcing that
deeds for certain property, sold to satisfy city
Judgments, will soon issue.
movement is on foot to establish, in this
| city. a manu- factory Of railroad cars which is
| receiving marked encouragement, and will
probably be introduced to the attention of. the
Chamber Of Commerce on Monday.
Hon. J.B. Brisbin will address the Temperance
| Reform club on the 18th prox. This is re-
| minder that the association is proving itself an
| fundamentally in effecting much good. The
club now numbers membership of 1000 in
| this city.
The Chief of Police has notified property
| owners, who are known to lease or rent their
premises to women of loose character, that,
unless their tenants are ousted in one weeks
| time, the proprietors of the houses will be
| prosecuted.
Col. e. A. Knight, the well known architect,
is drawing the plans for a fine residence to be
built by Col. Brodbelt, on the shores of Lake
Ripley, near Litchfeld. The dwelling is to be
first-class in every particular, and is to be
erected without delay.
| ,poot;,or hold ~ S+;)l,,o4o. &c ~ S4:l1
water & Taylor's Falls railroad company, the
following directors for 1878 were chosen: Da-
vid Bronson John McKusick, Fl. p Murdoch,
| John z. Illsly, James Smith, Jr., s. M. FELTON,,
| and w. E. MOorehead.
Bishop Ireland left on Tuesday night for the
Catholic colony in Swift county, and will prob
ably visit, ere his return, the similar colony in
Big Stone county. The busy bishop goes out
| to personally assure himself of the well-being
| OF his wards, and is expected back Friday.
| This is the season of the year when the male
| head of the family goes home to dinner and
finds the parlor furniture strewn round the
| door-yard to catch all the whirling dust, and is
| told by the partner of his SORROWS, who is in
| state of general tegumental muss, that this is
| house cleaning.
Sheriff Matt Kelley, Of Waseca county, ar
rived yesterday by the st. Paul & Sioux City
| railroad, having in charge Henry Wilson, con-
victed last Saturday of horse stealing and SEN
fenced to term of two and half years in the
penitentiary. The prisoner was conveyed by
the officer to Saltwater during the afternoon.
T. R. Huddleston, Esq, sole executor Of the
last will and testament of the late Martin L.
| Vebber, yesterday filed his final account in the
probate court. Mr.. Huddleston has received
from the estate the sum of 1868 and has
disbursed $44. O58.34, among the latter being
legacies of 500, 600 paid to his wife, Mrs. Abbie
Vebber; Sic, 600 to Mr.. Huddleston; and SIS, 900
to ri his r brother, Russell vebber. The balance
| of $2 .46 is on deposit in the First National
bank in this city, subject to future disposal.
The Fort Smelling bridge bonds have not only
been carried triumphantly at the polls, but the
| structure has actually been commenced. Yes
terday Mr. Fred Emmert was overjoyed at
| the result of the election, that he calamity
yoked up his team and gratuitously carted two
| loads of stone to the banks of the Mississippi,
| and deposited them on the site of the proposed
bridge, to be used therein. MIR. Emmert is a
| man that fights as he votes, and has the honor
of being the first man who put his opinions in
this matter to the practical test.
| meeting of the Workingmen's union was
held last night in the old court house, The
attendance, owing undoubtedly to want of
proper announcement, was but slim. Sixteen
new members joined, and the society now num-
bers LOU paid-up members, and an enrolment
of 300. The Turner hall has been rented for
| the purposes of the society, and the day of reg
uiar meeting will hereafter be Monday. Several
addresses were made by various members, and
the meeting adjourned, after resolving to adj
Vertlse its next assembling.
transit of Mercury will occur on Nav 18th
next, and will be visible from this city. This
| astronomical event will be of considerable
i info
| has ordered Lieut.. Mcclure, chief engineer of
this military department. to make the neces-
| sary observations. To accomplish this object
instruments will be forwarded from Washing
ton, and will be placed in position upon the
grounds of Mr.. Allis, which will afford an ex-
cellent east and west view, very essential
point, as the transit occurs at p. M, when
the sun will be very low.
John K. Davidson, ESQ.,, and Mr.. J, R.
Rogers, agent for the Mary Anderson company,
left for Eau Claire last evening, where it has
been decided to present the sLady of Lyon."
| with Miss Anderson Pauline on Thursday
evening, April 4th. To give the citizens Of
Chippewa Falls an opportunity to witness this
great actress in one of her very best characters,
| a special train will run to Eau Claire and re-
| turn the evening of the performance Stand.
ing room ought to sell at a premium, and it
will If the people of Eau Claire and Chippewa
Falls rightly appreciate the rich treat in store
| for them.
two-plank sidewalk is cheap, easily and
rapidly laid and very effective, as temporary
affair, if properly constructed. In those now
IN the city, the space between the planks is left
untitled, and forms an excellent trap in which
to break leg or sprain an ankle, and they are
almost universally laid in a generally loose,
shiftless and dangerous fashion. Sidewalks of
thus character should be laid in fine coal ashes,
material costing nothing but the hanline