Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-18
CITY GLoBULEs.
Holy Tnursday.

i Holy Thursday.
Whew! but how tho rain began to pour ct
midnight!
The atreetcar track lagoons were developed
again yesterday.
Great Western band rehearsed last evening
in preparation for the Rice Park concerts.
Attorneys practising in the district court
will find an important notice in the regular
court report of this issue.
''The feast of the Pascal Lamb" will be oh
served at P. N. to-day by the Knights of Rose
Croix, in the Masonic hall.
The new carpet was being laid yesterday in
the Office of the secretary Of state. 1t was from
the establishment of John Matheis.
Tomorrow morning the box Office of the
Opera House will be open for the sale of tickets
for the Hunchback entertainment.
The ash heap has, at length, disappeared from
the capitol grounds, and the officials in the
north end of the building must feel quite lone
some In consequence.
On consulting the timetable of the Northern
Pacific railroad, severa. important changes and
additions will be observed, which the travelling
public will do well to note.
Two four-horse prairie schooners passed
through the city yesterday to the freight depot
Of the St. Paul Il Sioux City railroad, where
the outfit took passage for Luyerne.
By reference to the regular report in this is
sue, of decisions filed in the district court, it
will be learned that 'sJim'' failed in securing
that divorce from Nett" Now they can
equitably divide the property, and begin jim
Ing and Netting once more.
City Treasurer REM will forward to-day
$4,000 to the financial agents of the city of
St. Paul-Messrs. Kountz & Bros, in New
York. OF this sum Sl1, 900 is to be applied to
the redemption of old bonds, and the balance
| to the payment of interest due.
In Manitoba, they imprison prosecuting wit
nesses, who, it is feared may skedaddle. Here
| they postpone and postpone trials until the
| prosecuting witnesses either exhaust their
| means in waiting, or are tempered with during
the delay, but, in either case they disappear.
picked nine from the GLOBE and Ponce,
Press Offices will play the North Star cigar max
ers game of ball Saturday afternoon. Both
the type singers and cigar twister's mines will
| contain some good ball material, and there
ought to be close and exciting game.
| Farmers drawing wheat to St. Paul should
bear in mind that all wheat at this point is
graded No. /, while much of it if taken to 9th
er points would be graded No. 2. This fact is
sufficient to show that $l.02 at St. Paul is bet
ter than $l.O3 for No. /, and $1.O0 for No. 2
elsewhere.
| drunken man entered the saloon of JOSEPH,
Ehrmantraut, 167 East Seventh street, last
night, to get sobered up. He was unceremoni.
ously turned out but returning armed with a
club-he was handed over to the solicitous care
nf ,noe ofa1x dali
to the safe keeping of Jessrang.
DR.. Mahan, agent of the La Pointe Indians,
Hayfeld, sat for good portion of the day yes.
tesday as congress upon the four bids fol
| -four for 1.-THE agency finally reaching the con.
johnson was the best, and that firm, therefore,
has been awarded the contract.
Mr.. G. s. Kent, who returned to town to-day
from trip through Iowa, buying up cattle,
| says that on Saturday last he travelled from,
Mapleton to Sioux City in a heavy storm OF
snow, hail and rain. 1t was as cold as Februa.
ry and tho storm continued all day. Sunday
and Monday heavy rain fell throughout the two
days.
/ The time of the municipal court was wasted
for some two hours yesterday in the trial al
Robert Helms, photograph colorer, for as.
| sault and battery, and for larceny. The prose
cutting witness. Mrs. Matteson, was unusually
voluminous in her testimony, but, failing te
prove her charges, the prisoner was dis
charged.
One of the worst looking vags that the season
has so far developed in the municipal court
was brought into the municipal court yester
day morning by Mr.. James O'Farrol. Th.
tramp gave his name as James Williams, anc
excused his two black eyes by saying that h,
on he 10
cave for shelter. There he found the othe
tramps numerically handling brother va
grant, to whose rescue the prisoner, gooG
Samaritan like, CALAMITY came, and received
drubbing for his pains. He was sent up fo
seven dayson a bread-and-water diet and will
hard labor.
A letter has been received from Mr.. Hewitt
of Milwaukee, who visited this city last fall
in the interest of the proposed airline, mar
row. gauge railroad between here and Mime
apolis. MIR. Hewitt says matters had so fa
progressed al to enable him to assert that tn
necessary capital had been secured. A consul
tation, however, had been had with Mr.. Merrill
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad
who had declared that he would bury tn
new scheme out Of sight, by putting on trai'
every half hour between the two Cities It i
presumable that the people of this city will
not entertain any grave objection to the i'm
mediate execution of the latter part of Mr.
Merrill threat.
Another special train, consisting of six pas
senger coaches and five freight cars, will arriv
at about A. NJ. to-day, over the West Wiscon
sin roalroad. The train is loaded with 16t
passengers journeying from Canada to Mantle
ba, together with their effects and some stock
These immigrants come under the same specia
arrangements as those which arrived here OF
Saturday, an account of which appeared in tn,
SUNDAY GLOBE. On Friday they will be fol
lowed by 800 more, who will reach this city ii
the evening, and further installments, number
ing 900 persons in all, are to succeed within ;
week. All these are being carried by the Wes
Wisconsin link in the chain Of railroad,
conveying the special immigrant trains, anc
are irrespective Of some fifty settlers wht
arrive daily on the regular passenger trains b,
the West Wisconsin.