Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-11
CITY GLOBULES.

The water declined one inch yesterday, maxi
| ing the depth four feet ten inches.
special term of the district court will open
to-day at 10A. NJ, with Judge Simons presid-
| ing.
Unless this evening proves to be pleasanter
than yesterday. there will be no concert at Rice
Park.
special meeting of the common council
WILL be held at P. M. to-day, for the purpose
| OF acting upon the Rice street sewer and gen
| eral business.
Rev. Il. Dubs of the Evangelical association
| will preach Sunday, May 18th, at IL 80 A. NJ,
| In the Immanuel's church, corner of Pine and
| 18th street st. Paul.
| The fine X. N. packet Clinton. Capt. La
Mont, arrived in from St. Louis about II
o'clock yesterday morning, bringing large
Trip and tine passenger list. She returned
about o'clock P. NJ.
| The fire department had short run yester-
day afternoon, in consequence of a false alarm,
The cause was subsequently discovered by Su-
perintendent Brge, to be in the fracture of a
wire leading to box Is.
The sale of reserved seats for the reading
| tournament on Monday evening commences at
the Opera House box office this morning. The
low price of admission rs cents, should fill
every seat in the house.
The city comptroller publishes an important
! advertisement this morning. It is an an
nouncement that he is ready to issue deeds for
property sold for local improvements Parties
interested In saving their property will do we'll
to scan the advertisement
The st. Paul hackmen Indignantly deny that
| one of their number was mixed up in the dis
graceful row reported in the Saltwater column
of the z. z. yesterday morning. The man is
known here, but the st. Paul hackmen feel to
congratulate themselves that he is not one of
their number.
The walls of the Merchants hotel addition,
have been run up to the fifth and last story.
The next two weeks will see the fine addition
under roof. and work upon the interior COM
| menced. When the improvements now under
way are finished, Col. Allen will have the honor
| of presiding over the finest hotel building in
| the Northwest.
Helen Potter, who read in the reading tout
nament in Chicago, with Miss Jessie Cauthoui
and others, stated to a gentleman of this city
during her visit, that she regarded Miss Couth-
oui one of the very best of the many readers
| before the public, and young woman remark
ably talented She holds her in the highest
esteem, and has no word Of praise to warm for
her.
Business at the internal revenue Office has
been unusually busy of late. To give an ado
| quate! conception thereof, it may be stated
that, within the last ten days, 300 licences
! have been issued for the handling and manu-
| facture Of liquors and tobacco to parties in
| this district whose names begin with the letter
IL. Those under B, Fl, and NJ are nearly as
| numerous.
police drill, the first of the season. took
place yesterday afternoon under the command
OF Capt. Weber. The men were under arms,
and, during the proceedings marched past the
Metropolitan hotel when the parade was wit
messed from the window by Mayor Maxfeld.
His honor subsequently congratulated the
captain on the military efficiency and bearing
of his charge.
The dummy bod carrier employed on the
! Merchants hotel addition, got away from it's
! human keepers yesterday afternoon and the
| way 1t deposited it's several hods of brick and
| mortar in the basement and about the tempo-
rary flooring Of the first story, was warning
to the workmen in the immediate vicinity that
| they had better get little e'out'' and they
got. The dummy was pretty badly wrecked
in the melee, but damages were righted in due
| time, and work resumed, as if nothing had
happened.
Board Of Public Works.
The regular meeting of the board Of public
works was held yesterday morning, at which all
the members were present.
RECONSIDERATION.
An informally having been detected in the
bid of Boyer & Lux for the grading of Iglehart
and Rice streets, the proposal was rejected and
the clerk was directed to readvertise the con-
tract.
The bid of Moline & Bill for the grading of
Carroll and Arundel streets was reconsidered,
because of the insufficincy of the bondsmen for
tho contractors. This contract was also ordered
to be advertised over again.
CONTRACTORS BoNDsMEN.
The following resolution was submitted by
MIR. Rice:
RESOLVED, That each surety to bid ders bonds
shall Justify under oath that he is WORTH over
and above all Indebtedness, one half the sum
specified in the engineer s estimate of the cost
of the work bid for.
by it's mover, was to place the board in
position to more readily enforce the terms
of contracts, by being enabled to make con-
tractors live mp to their agreements. The
resolution would not affect the present
qualifications of the bondsmen, as required
by law, but it would add greater security to
the city in atfording leverage, whereby con-
tractors hereafter could be moved to do
their duties expeditiously and thoroughly.
The resolution was adopted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bills as follows were approved: Thomas
Han]ey, horseshoeing, $6.37; and F. Knauft,
hardware, $3.50.
The street inspectors weekly reports were
filed, showing an expenditure, in the first dis
trict Of $83.37 and, in the second, Of $223.63.
AS the board now happily makes weekly
sweep of all business before it, an early adj
journment resulted, because nothing further
remained To he acto1 ,,yor