Daily globe., 1878-04-08
MINNEAPOLIS GLOEELErs.
We have had a rain storm at last.

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We have had rain storm at last
It begins to look like business around the
saw mills.
The lumbermen are making slow but sure
progress in driving the logs.
The street cars did land Office business
yesterday and reaped harvest of nickels.
Several suspicious looking characters are
loafing about the city. Look out for them.
The candidates for city clerkship, under
the new administration, are too numerous
to mention.
The trial of Joe Robinson the much mar
ried man takes place in the municipal court
this morning.
Nearly all the churches were we'll attended
yesterday despite the rainy weather. Many
fine sermons were heard.
his trip in the country, and reports the farm
ers doing nicely and anticipating big crops
Trouble commences in the public schools
| this morning and many an urchin will plead
sickness until about ten o'clock. Twas ever
thus.
The men injured by the falling scaffold on
the Montgomery building last week are
slowly but surely improving, thanks to the
skill of the physicians in attendance upon
them.
| Howorth's Hibernica will appear in Pence
Opera house three nights, commencing
Thursday evening -Four years ago they
attracted crowded houses, and it is said they
are even better than before.
! The street car drivers are required to
punch a hole in a strip of cardboard for
every fare dropped in the box. The number
of fares and holes in the cardboard must
correspond, or the driver has to account for
the discrepancy.
Tickets for the Philomathean society ex-
hibition at the Academy of Music on We'd
nesday evening, this week, may be obtained
at Wilson's music store, under the Academy
The house will be crowded, and seats should
be secured early.
/, A reckless young blood riding spirited
horse, ran against an elderly lady on Fourth
street yesterday afternoon, throwing her to
the ground. The lady was quite badly, al
though fortunately, not seriously injured.
It was careless piece of business to say the
! least.
A large number of Office seekers are on
the ragged edge. SO to speak, and will not
enjoy much comfort until after all Offices are
filled, and there is no show for them. Many
a citizen will carry sore head for some
time after everything has been settled. But
all cannot have office, you know.
They do say that two prominent politi-
clans button-holed Mayor-elect Rand almost
as soon as he set foot in the city, and are die
tating to him what his administration shall
be. Thought he was the man they elected,
because he was SO capable of attending to
his own business. Consistency thou art
jewel.
The clerk of the weather kindly changed
day morning and ground out little moist
ure to refresh suffering humanity and other
things in Minneapolis. Tie street sprink-
lers will not be needed for several days to
come, and yet there was not one tenth part
of the rain needed.
Judge Rea, of the probate court, has filed
his opinion in the Ovid Pinney case, and
held that the application to place Mr. Pinney
under guardianship, as a person incompe-
tent, by reason of old age and loss and i'm
perfection of his mental faculties, to have
the care and management of his property, is
not sustained by the evidence, and must
therefore be denied.
/ Work the east channel bridge is pro-
crossing finely, but is not quiet SO far ad-
vanced as an evening journal states, /. e.,
that 's the east channel bridge is nearly
completed, and two courses more of stone
will finish the mason work. Some of the
arches are only just commenced, and the
middle arch has not been started yet. Only
one arch is ready for the key stone.
The demand for tenement houses is on
the increase and the supply on the decline.
If this thing continues Minneapolis will
double her population within the next five
years. The rush is believed to be without a
precedent, especially for SO early in the sea-
son. It is wonderful, and at the same time
must be encouraging to the real estate men,
If not to all residents of the city.
1 The Delta Sigma society of the State
tainments this evening. The programme is
as follows: Defamation, Mr.. Hunlund
essay, Mr.. Dickerman; reading, Miss Heath.
Debate-G. w. Lewis and s. F. Heath,
affirmative: G. w. Smith and F. E. Gray,
negative.
Paper on the works of Sir Walter Scott
Miss Fletcher.
The subject for debate is: Itesolced, That
more good than evil has resulted from the
life and religion of Mahomed. The exercises
commence promptly at o'clock. ALI
friends of the society are cordially invited.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
Report ofthe Health Officer for the MontA
of March.
The report of the health officer, for the
month of March, gives the following number
of births and deaths in Minneapolis: The