Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-07
MINNEAPOLIS GLoBELETs.

The Comus club danced at Silver Gre,
hall last night.
Seven up-that is seven dodgers put up al
the station house last night.
| A fire alarm was sounded from the East
Side yesterday forenoon. 1t was only cass
of tar in Herzog's fence factory. No dam
| age.
Swan Norstrom was scooped last evening
Tor being drunk and abusing his wife,
which same offense he is guilty of whenever
he gets drunk.
The lady managers of Bethany Home
have taken charge Of the remains of Grace
Davis CHE suicide of yesterday and will to-
day give it Christian burial.
| John Pease, boy of dozen years of age,
was popular candidate for heaven. yester-
day, and came within speaking distance of
that happy land. He was skating on the
newly-formed ice along the bank Of the river
and went through. His comrades, by prompt
measures, succeeded in rescuing him from
the pearly gates and restoring him to the
world and the flesh. But he was very cold.
The lesson is obvious. Next!
Another victim of the thin ice A young
man named Jenkins, living near Wayzata,
was married on Thanksgiving day. On last
Sunday he put on his skates and tempted
the fates by gliding over the unsubstantial
ice of Lake Minnetonka. Of course it broke
through, and, it happening to be in deep
water. of course he was drowned. His body
was recovered, and his bride-widow is heart
broken. Let us all go skating before the ice
IS solid.
Daily paper projects are thick as leaves in
'. lambrosia. j. B. Bell now threatens to
submerge the community with the Daily
Times for free systematic distribution.
There is still room, gentlemen, for few
more daily newspaper enterprises in Mime
apolis. Do not be modest, but walk up, and,
when everything else fails, spit on your
hands, get a seventeen. cent damphool to adj
vertise with you, and then-start daily
newspaper. There's nothing so easy to make
living at in hard times as journalism.
runor found its way on to the streets
yesterday afternoon to the effect that the
express train on the Minneapolis & St. Louis
railway, bound south, had gone through the
high tressel work just this side of Chaska,
and that all the passengers except two had
been killed. The GLOBE man followed the
rumor from place to place until he struck the
general Offices of the N. & st. L. railroad,
and there learned that the report was
canard, there having been no accident to any
train on that road throughout the day.
DR.. Wendall has been invited by citizens
Of Minneapolis to deliver lecture on his
experiences in Memphis during the recent
yellow fever epidemic in that scourged city.
He has consented, and the date of the lee
ture will be- fixed sometime in the near fu-
turo. The Doctor is the only survivor cut of
six volunteer physicians from the Northern
States who went to Memphis at the call of
the Howard association-the other five sleep
the sleep of heroism in Memphis church
yards. DIR. Wendall will reopen his Office
over the new drug store of Geo. e. Higgins,
on Nlcollet Avenue, next week.
The Little Giant Bible class of Centenary
church, celebrated it's fourth anniversary
last evening. The class now has member
ship of nearly 200. The feature of the cele-
bratlon last evening was the presentation by
the class of large arm chair to Gen. Rey-
nolds, the organizer of the band. The pre-
sentation was made by Mr.. S. A. Reed, to
which the general responded in his usual
happy style. DR.. Brookes, Superintendent
Hooker and others also made appropriate re-
marks. The Young Ladies' society, com
panion organization to Gen. Reynolds class,
had provided for the occasion palatable
and abundant array of refreshments, to
which the Little Giants did ample justice.