Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-21
CITY GLOBULES.

Brewer, ST. CT )ud D. B. Cloud, A. Cane, st. Louis
N. Marx, New York; T. J. Higgins, AIisso ulin
Mont; L. L, Bird, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
CITY GLOBULES.
The wonderful McGibeny family tonight at
the Baptist church.
The excavation for the capitol extension has
got down to the rock.
Passenger travel by river is beginning to i'm
prove since the advent of the hot weather.
Twenty-eight complaints were lodged yester-
day morning by Officer Mitchell in the munic-
igal court against as many saloon keepers, who
were alleged to be plying their traffic without
the necessary license from the city.
And now to cap the climax-timothy feet
high; winter wheat feet and rye ~ feet.
Such are the specimens of wonderful growth
sent in to the GLOBE Office from Mr.. L. o.
Tombler's farm at Wyoming on the st. Paul 4
Duluth railroad.
The team of bays to No. 1 engine were
weighed yesterday, tipping the scales, with
their harnesses on, at twenty-six hundred
pounds. Subtracting the harness, seventy
pounds, and the weight of the horses is twenty
five hundred and thirty pounds.
The citizens meeting at the chamber of
commerce last night, which was to have taken
measures into consideration for celebrating the
Foul tn. proved to be a complete fzzle As far
as st. Paul is concerned, it may be considered
the Fourth of July will not happen this year.
The returns from the recent State land sales
are not all yet completed received at the
state auditors office. However, the first draft
has been made on the account of the sales in
the department name, the Rock county sales
being drawn up as those retains were entirely
finished.
The concert at the Baptist church tonight
will be of the most enjoyable character
The wonderfully and carefully trained McGib-
ney family OF eight persons create furore
wherever they go. They won golden opinions
and golden dollars in Minneapolis, and they
will do SO here.
:. Mr.. Cariveau, residing on Cedar, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets, lost cow year
ago. To-day he heard Of her whereabouts in
Little Canada the man from whom he bought
her informing Mr.. Cariveau that he saw and
recognized her. Of conrse the happy owner
lost no time in sending to reclaim her.
handsome little propeller is being built
upon Washington street by F. d. Kent, which
is intended for the Missouri river. The craft
is all but completed, and the engine is already
IN position, but the only puzzle is how the
building in which it has been constructed
without knocking out the wall.
The Pioneer Press was unwittingly led into
sad blunder yesterday morning. Seeing that
Thomas Cochran was participating in the State
Sunday School association exercises, the re-
porter quite naturally assumed that the pro-
| ceedings would be secret, and to avoid being
kicked out he did not attend. He accordingly
wrote up his report from the printed pro
gramme, but it happened that the programme
was not followed at all.
Every guest Of the Merchants has reason to
remember with gratitude Mr.. P. Carroll, who
so long served as night clerk of that popular
hostelry. Mr.. Carroll has changed his base,
having taken possession OF the Northwestern
hotel, Grand Forks, d. T., which he will reft
and refurnish. AS he is one of those rare
Individuals who knows how to run a hotel,''
| it is fair to anticipate he will prosper in his
new enterprise.
About $50 o'clock yesterday morning Mrs.
Fl. T. Judd was driving along Robert street in
a double-seated open buggy, upon the back
seat being her two young children. The seat is
one of those treachelOus movable affairs.
Suddenly it became disconnected, and the two
children rolled over backward upon the pave
ment. Beyond the scare, the children were en-
| tirely uninjured, but they might have broken
their necks.
1t is reported that the coming Forepaugh
circus has in its wake unusually large num-
Der of the swell mob. 1t will, therefore, be
well Tor all to be on their gard when the exhi-
! bltlOn is here. OF course, the circus is not to
| blame for this condition of affairs as every
similar show seems to be similarly afflicted,
| but it is an amazing pity that these attendant
| thieves and pickpockets could not be prevented
following these popular places of amusement.
The chief quartermaster of this military de-
partment, Gen. c.. II. Tompkins left yesterday
IN company with MIR. McCrary, son of the secre-
| tary OF war. on tour of inspection Of the
western forts, and it is supposed that during
| their inspection the military posts on Milk
river will be located. They are expected to be
absent for some time, and in the interim Col.
Lee, depot quartermaster, will transact the
| business OF the department of Gen. Tompkins
district court of Ramsey county, Judge Wilkin
presiding, yesterday. Samuel Tripp, arrested
| last February by Detective Brissett, for steal
found it impossible to convince the jury that
| he had merely snapped horses with another man,
| and after absence Of twenty minutes the
| jury returned a verdict Of guilty. County
Attorney Rogers appeared for the State, and
| W. W. Erwin for the defense.
The first jury trial of the term in the United
States circuit court began yesterday afternoon,
it being that of the United States VS.. Edward
| Mckinney. 1t will be remembered that Nc.
| Kinney arrested some months ago. charged
with having exchanged some poor horses Of bis
own for better animals belonging to the gov
eminent which were stationed at the stock
yards under charge of one Plummer. The in
dictment sets forth that Mckinney was know
ing to the fact that the horses he received be.
| longed to the government, and engaged in the
transaction with intent to defraud the United
| States. The evidence was not all in at the
time of the adjournment Of the court. Nc.
Kinney alleges that he did not know the horses
belonged to the government, but that he was
deceived by Plummer.
WaterY Waits.