Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-29
CITY GLoBULEs.

CITY GLOBULEs.
BY all means let us have stone pile.
Sunny, dusty, windy. chilly, were the adjec-
tives applicable yesterday.
The city bus and hack men will labor with
the question of fares tonight.
As usual, Mounds View is the last precinct
to be heard from. Twas ever thus.
Attorneys will find a decision of importance
epitomized in to-day's regular court report.
The ash heap on the capitol grounds, like the
last rose of winter. is "left blooming alone"
"E. W. can recover her lost portemonaie
upon application to Capt Webber, at police
headquarters.
With wholesome doses of changing. st.
Paul would be cured of the tramp nuisance in
less than month.
And still the innumerable caravan of land
seekers wends its way to the fertile prairies OF
the West and Northwest.
The St. Paul & Duluth road, it is understood,
will make some important changes in their
running time on the LIST of April.
Thirty-six applicants for relief were con-
sidered yesterday by the board of CONTROL of
which thirty-one received succor.
It was the st. Paul Saltwater road whose
directors were elected in saltwater Tuesday,
and not the Saltwater and Taylor Falls.
few more such tramp hauls as that of yes
terday morning, and the streets could be
elegantly cleaned by blooming chain-gangs.
Twenty-Five carloads of ties for the Midland
narrow gauge road are being daily forwarded
from points along the st. Paul Duluth road.
st. Joseph's Catholic congregation, of Glen
coe, Mcleod county, fled it's articles of moor
poration yesterday with the secretary of state.
Alexander j. Gallagher, a youthful lump of
innate cussedness, spent last night in Jail,
awaiting his transmission to the reform school.
Now that the Merchants is undergoing such
ex teusive repairs, would it not be useful idea
te put in an elevator for passengers and bag
gage?
Pat. Connolly will have an opportunity in
the municipal court this morning of demon
strating what he doesn't know about fre-arm
practice.
Every man, with spark of decency in his
composition, who witnesses the of-scourings
pouring in and out of the Adelphia every night,
cries out Down with it..
For the information of school officers, the
State superintendent has issued, in pamphlet
form, the general acts affecting schools, which
were passed at the late legislative session.
Coroner Stein was unexpectedly summoned
to Minneapolis yesterday, and of course moth
%I111r ,<>f rfh
ton of the inquiry into the Burke mystery.
There was big rush of land buyers at the
Nothern Pacific Office in this city yesterday,
and as consequence Land Commissioner
Power and his associates were kept hopping
busy" all day.
Two handsome side lamps were yesterday re-
ceived for the hook and ladder truck, and its
attendants have had several narrow escapes
from collisions rendered imminent from want
Of sufficient light.
John Matheis, the enterprising carpet man,
started in to celebrate his birthday by block
aiding the sidewalk with immense piles of
goods and has kept celebrating in his pc
culiar style ever since.
After the opening of lake navigation. proba-
bly, about the middle of April, the St. Paul &
Duluth road will put on its usual night rrain
which will prove Of the greatest possible con-
venlence to the public.
In bygone times it was saying that "a peck
of March dust was worth peck of gold" If
this lie true, the levee yesterday was worth
more than the we 18th of "Ormus and of Ind
and barbaric pearls combined.
At the election of Tuesday, the town of Nc
Lean voted for and against issuing the Fort
Smelling bridge bonds. This makes the major
ity in favor Of the bond 1871, with the town
OF Mounds View still to hear from.
Under the pressure of war-like European
advices, No. wheat advanced yesterday from
$1.O2, at the opening, to $l,04, at the close,
where it remained firm. Oats also partook of
the rise, No. white closing at 3O@3lc, an adj
vance of one cent
On the recommendation of the judge before
whom he was tried, Frank Oothoudt has been
pardoned by Gov. Pillsbury. The prisoner was
convicted in Hennepin county of larceny, on
May 29th, 1877, and sentenced thereby to ten
months imprisonment in the penitentiary,
More people, it is confidently predicted, will
immigrate to Minnesota this year than have
come here in all the five Yeas ;r:;st. Steadily
the stream of immigration is passing west
ward, particularly along the lines of the
Northern Pacific and St. Paul & Pacific roads.
A corner loafer was heard yesterday making
an offer to bet $10-he possibly had ten cents
that Jennie Green would yet get clear, as there
was possibility of the prosecuting witness
failing to put in an appearance when required.
The incident was trivial, but it indicated the
way the wind might set.
Two railroads, two steamboat companies,
and several leading business houses do business
on the levee near Jackson, and yet, it seems
the whole cabOodle is too poor to employ a
watering cart to keep down the binding clouds
Of dust which are thick enough to suffocate
anyone venturing into that locality.
A magnificent dark bay, almost black,
draught horse has been bought for fire engine
No. to take the place of a disabled one or
dered to be sold. The animal weighs 1880
pounds, is the heaviest horse in the depart
ment, and was severely tested as to his powers
before being purchased, giving every satisfac-
ton.
A meeting was held last evening in DR..
Stones Office, of the committee appointed to
secure the necessary grounds for the new driv-
ing park. Very successful progress was re-
ported, but few days more we're asked for, in
which to complete the work. Timely notice of
the next meeting will be given in these
columns.
company of capitalists, some of them gen.
tlemen we'll known in this city, have recently
opened up a large stock farm near Black Hoof,
in Carlton county, on the st. Paul & Duluth
railroad, and propose to place thereon, the
coming season, some of the best bred short
horns and dairy stock to be found anywhere in
the Northwest.
State Treasurer Pfaender yesterday expended
500 for seed wheat, thus making $122, 900