Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-24
CITY eLoBULEs.
Lincoln Grove No. II, q. A. o. D., will give
a grand ball New Years Eve.

Lincoln Grove No. II, q. A. o. D., will give
grand ball New Years Eve.
Fourteen degrees below zero Sunday night
makes the ice men laugh out of both corners
OF their mouths.
The city teasurer, yesterday, received vouch.
ers from New York to the amount Of 81, 9O2.5O
for payment of interest coupons.
The stores were crowded yesterday with holi-
day purchasers, and many bundles great and
small were mysteriously Struggled into houses
| last evening and hid away for the ''we nrna
| hours" tonight,
Mr. Gyms Levern, living two miles northwest
of Farnlington, ran across and shot large tim
Der wolf near his place Friday afternoon last
| the first of his species in that locality known
to the Oldest inhabitant.
| Yesterday another attachment against M. E.
Chambers, auctioneer, was sued ont. this VIC
tim is the boot and shog firm of SELF, Schwab
t& Co, of Chicago. The amount scored up is
$64283 Meanwhile Chambers is as mysteri-
| ousy absent as ever.
The American Express company did a big
Christmas business yesterday. Over 1900
packages were received, Christmas gifts, and
seven clerks We're engaged in billing presents
sent from the city by friends to favored absent
! friends and relatives.
| The one-price clothier Of Minneapolis, whose
failure was mentioned in yesterdays GLOBE,
had few more legal plasters attached to his
| stock III trade. Suits were filed and writs
issued in favor Of Leopold Bros & Co.,
$l,297.75; Charles Stein & Co., $474.34; Hart
Bros, $315.50; and more are to come.
| Long, big men think they have a special call
to be policemen. Truly, something more is
required than the knock down and drag out
buslness--acuteness and astuteness nre very
req uisite. This homily is written for the ben
ent OF long, lanky, strawberry blonde bifur-
| Gated Individual, who applied for position
yesterday, with the sole recommendation of
length.
Yesterday MIR. Fl. E. Mann, eletk Of the
United States circuit court, was busy all day
countersigntng the st. Paul & Pacific railroad
debentures. They are being issued in sums of
SlO, OOO and $2O,00O The design of the bond
IS neat and handsomely executed train TN
loaolng at depot, steamboat in the distance
and other evidence of Interstate commerce
heads the design. The dcbentures are made
i payable in gold at the American Exchange Ma
tlonal bank of New York; the interast being 8
| per cent. per annurn in gold The promise to
| pay 10 drawn up in compliance with the late
| order Issued by Judges Dillon and Nelson.
lney potn got red-hot In cold place and on
cold subject. Harry Faendal declares he
staked off claim for q summer supply of ice
ON the Mississippi river. Yesterday he came
out over the slippery surface, and found that
Mike Defiel had jumped his claim. He remon-
strated Dehel thought he, Faendal, too fresh,
and tcld him to 60 put himself on ice. That's
| just what Faendal wanted to do. ANYWAY they
got tempered up hot enough to melt the icioies
off their whiskers, and then got to blows. De-
hel put Faendal on the ice by vigorous blow.
Ihen faendal came blowing up to police
| headquarters, and the whole thing will be vena
tllated in the municipal court.
Some special artist on the spot drew a
cartoon yesterday. and passed it around among
the legal lumlnaries in the United States circuit
court, which provoked no uncomfortable sup.
pressed merrlment. 1t presented pictorially a
new version of "the little Ratchet story" A
contanently appareled gent looked down upon
small and very good specimen of the modern
Young America. Alongside of him was an i'm
mense telled tree of the California giant type.
Inc kld had very dirninutive Ratchet in his
hand, and confessed he had done the biz with
his little utensii. The artistic piece of work
was entitled u. ]. johnson in his youthful
days. An insurance case which had wearied
The patience of court, counsel, witnesses and
jury, had been on trial for a week. j, J. J. in
his manhood days had just bean witness to
faots and fancies in the trial.