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

Hon. NJ. s. Wilkinson was among the arrivals
on the Sioux city train yesterday.
]. A. Harding, of Deadwood and J. Ellis, of
Bozeman are also registered at the Merchants.
Senator G. F. Macdonald, of st. Cloud, ar
rived last evening and put up at his old quar-
tiers at the Merchants.
Charles Mansfield, ESQ.,, of Mankato, deputy
collector of internal revenue for the first dis
trict, is in the city.
Captain John Duncan, of Calumet, Lake
Superior, Mich, arrived last evening from the
Black Hills and is registered at the Merchants.
Among the arrivals at the Merchants last eve
ming are s. j. Willard, of Red Wing; G. E. Bost-
wick, of Duluth and J. W. Walsh, Of Northfeld.
Hon. A. E. Rice Of Willmar, was in the city
yesterday, on his way home from st. Peter,
where he has been as member of the Senate
rial investigating committee.
j. n. Dix, of Deadwood City, one of the early
pioneers to the Hills, and thriving hardware
merchant of that unique capital of the gold
regions, arrived last evening and mped at the
Merchants.
J. ID. Woolley, another of the solid men of
Deadwood, and largely interested in mining
and other business interests in the Hills, is
looking over st. Paul, and already announces
it the queen city of the Northwest.
Mr.. Eugene Shenton, graduate from the
Soldiers Orphans Home, Winona, was in the
city yesterday purchasing stock of drugs,
ETC., for Candy, Yellow Medicine county, where
he is about to locate in business. Mr.. Shenton
has the best wishes of his old schoolmates and
many friends in his venture
Milford Kiefer and Charles Emmert have re-
turned from their Anoka county ducking ex-
cursion. They shot SO many birds that all
means of transportation that the country
afforded failed in the attempt to bring the
wild fowl to st. Paul. where the gunners were
fain to arrive without single feather.
j. Ellis, of Bozeman, NJ. T., is registered at
the Merchants. This is the first visit to St.
Paul of this gentleman, who is large mer-
chant in the far off region whence he halls
He comes to st. Paul to interview the whole
sale dealers, and, if terms are favorable, he will
transfer his base of supplies to this city.
A Red Wing Colony for Mobiles County.
;. party of gentlemen consisting of p Mel
son, II. s. Olson, T. X. Simmons, John Hawk
anson Charles Peterson, Alfred Carlson, S. J.
Willard, and Charles A. Swanson, all of Red
Wing, arrived here on yesterday afternoons
train. The object of these gentlemen is to ne
gotiate with the st. Paul g. Sioux City road for
the purchase of 10000 acres of land in Mobiles
county for the purpose of forming colony,
and it is their intention, if the sale is consum-
mated, to cultivate every acre, instead of hold
ing it for speculative purposes. They leave to-
day, to examine the ground already referred to.
State Teachers Institutes.
State teachers institutes will commence on
Monday at Pennington, Dakota county, and
Mantorville, Dodge county. At the former,
Prof. Kiehle, of the st. Cloud Normal school,
and Prof. Dunn, an old-time and efficient
teacher, will oficiate; at the latter, Prof. MUIR
rey, of the Winona Normal school, and Prof.
Hyde, Of the Minneapolis Business college, will
be the institute teachers. State Superinten-
dent Burt will be present at each for portion
OF the time, and will lecture. The commune
ties of the neighborhoods indicated are deeply
interested in these movements, and every
promise is afforded of a large attendance
The Pullman Drawing Room Sleeping Car
Potosi will leave this evening at S:25 for
st. Louis and intermediate Minnesota Iowa
and Missouri points via the Ne,o Great South
e,.n Route of the Chicago, Milacaae1;ee and ST.
Paul railway. Births can be secured of Geo.
L. Scott, at No. Nicollet house block, Mime
apols; and Chas Thompson, No. 118 East Third
street and levee denot ST. panl