Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
M1NNEAPoL1s GLoBELErs.

There will be special term of the district
court to-day.
Mr.. J. w. Brigham contemplates another
trip to the Black Hills next month.
The store recently vacated by Anthony
Kelly is to be reftted and divided into two
stores.
The musicale of Mrs. Wales was held at
the residence Of Mrs. Z. w. Herrick last
evening.
Miss L. S. Hewson will contribute reel
tation to the programme of the dime con-
cert this evening.
Wheat is coming forward to meet the ris-
ing market, and Minneapolis mills and eleva-
tors are taking care of it.
Frank Nelson was before the Municipal
Court yesterday, and on pleading guilty of
intoxication, was sent to Jail for ten days.
The funeral of the late Samuel Stanch-
field will take place at the Holy Trinity
church. East Division, tomorrow at y. M
The rentals from the water works for the
current year are estimated at $4,000 against
$4,000 and $4,000 for the two wears pre-
vlOuS.
An inch water supply pipe was broken at
the Barlow House yesterday, and for time
the proprietor proposed transforming the
hotel into an ark.
The tender on tho engine of the 5::33 train
from Breckenridge, jumped the track at this
city night before last, and delayed the train
nearly two hours.
There is to be meeting of the West Divi-
sion school board at the office of Judge
Atwater this afternoon. The union question
will not be further discussed.
The City band at the request of leading
German citizens, is to meet the Royal Hes
sian band at the depot on Monday next and
escort them to their hotel.
The street car company have made re-
duction in the price of tickets, now Offering
100 for SIS. This rate however, does not ap-
ply to the sale in smaller quantities.
At a meeting of the lumbermen of the
city, held at the Office of Camp & Walker
yesterday afternoon, the price of lumber was
advanced from fifty cents to So per thousand
feet.
Messrs. Geo. E. Case and Charles G. Con-
key have left for a three months soiourn in
the northern woods of Wisconsin, where they
will engage in getting out ties for the Has
tings and Dakota extension.
farmer named LIE Brere, living in the
vicinity of Osseo, started for this city yes
terday with load of wood. His team be-
came frightened and ran away, throwing him
from the load and breaking his leg.
The Mill company, according to the terms
of appraisal, have decided to lease the water
power of the Petit e. Robinson mill for a
term of five years, at So 200 per year, rather
than purchase the mill for $4,000.
1t is understood that the Board of Educa-
ton will be very soon compelled to furnish
additional school facilities, both in North
and South Minneapolis. Every school build
ing in those ~icinitics is ovcrcrowded.
Frank Slocum is beginning to inquire how
much CT CARS cost by the box. He will step
into County Treasurer Huntington's shoes
March LIST, and Frank was never known to
hand out mean quality of cigar.
bran new train, consisting of new
coaches, sleeping car, and everything
throughout, is expected to soon take the
place of one of the through eastern trains
of the G. NJ. 81 st. p. railroad from this
city.
The University museum of technology has
lately been presented with a valuable collec-
ton of specimens by Herr Ernst Althaus,
inspector of mines for Silesia, and DIR. Ro-
mer. curator of the museum of the Universe
ty of Breslau.
It is astonishing how the color line seems
to evaporate under the influence of Minneso
ia educational institutions. The leader of a
class of 20 students in the Washington
school, is>a colored girl of about ~ years of
agc-Miss Jennie Hillyer.
Postmaster Keith has been appointed and
authorized to collect subscriptions at this
point for the Morton memorial fund. He
has the necessary books and papers and
would like to have as many as feel so dis
posed to contribute their mite.
An appeal on the ground of irregularity in
proceedings, is to be taken from the location
and award of the county commissioners from
the north shore road to Lake Minnetonka.
The alleged irregularity consists in not hav-
ing posted the required number of notices.
Judge Young yesterday filed decision in
the case of Gustavus A. Austin, VS.. John
Corlnerais and John Jarvis, Judgment being
to the effect that plaintiff is entitled to re-
cover of defendants the sum of $2,1OO, with
interest thereon at seven per cent. from April,
1877.
Fourteen hundred pupils of the public
schools of the West division have passed
through written examinations during
the past week, and the average stand
ing is found to be 10 per cent.
higher than at any similar examination here
tofore submitted.
The annual meeting of the Hennepin
County Bible society will take place to-mor-
row Sunday evening, February II, at the
Baptist church, corner of Hennepin avenue
and Fifth street. Prof. G. Campbell, of the
State University, will preach-subject, s'The
Bible and Civil Government
County Auditor Black snatches the crown
of honor from the head of Geo. r. Stuntz,
whom the Pioneer Press yesterday declared
the 'pioneer surveyor of Minnesota Capt.
Black drove surveyors stakes, and bIazed
trees near Saltwater in August, 1S47. and
wants any one to 60 behind those returns if
they can.
Among GO new books added to the Attic
naeum library during the past two months
may be mentioned Benjamin's "Contempo-
rary Art in Europe Mark Twain's "Gilded
Age "Roughing IT, and ''Innocents
Abroad" Dodge's ''Hans Brinker,'' "One
Summer Settlements "Mycene'' and