Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-24
CITY GLOBULEs.
The dust, oh! the binding dust!


season.
All the State papers give the coming State
fair in this city. good send of.
The Hessian band will give concert in the
Atheneum on Sunday, March 81.
The State library yesterday underwent its
spring cleaning and coat of whitewash.
The watering carts were in demand on the
levee yesterday, but they were not there.
The cleansing of the streets is still being Wig
orously prosecuted in all parts of the city.
The s'boys'' in the sheriff Office are not given
to pride, but they do exult in that bran new
desk.
In their limited spheres the street sprinklers
yesterday did much-desired good in allaying
the dust.
John Matheis received whole carload of
carpets from the Lowell Manufacturing CON-
pany yesterday.
The Great Western band has added an ac-
comPlished futist to its corps, in the person of
Henry Luehr, formerly of Omaha.
The box-ofice of the Opera House will be
open tomorrow for the sale of tickets for the
De Murska concert on that evening,
The banks of the river were dotted yesterday
with boys engaged in that rare and attractive
sport of childhood's happy days-fshing.
The brick sidewalk on Wabashaw street. al
ways in a greater or less stage of chronic dilap-
idation, is in immediate necessity of repairs.
Ice cream in the restaurants and bundles of
freshly arrived fishing poles in the variety
stores, are the latest developments of spring.
The brisk wind of yesterday scattered the
dust in whirling clouds along the leyee, making
business in that section anything but pleasant.
woman was fined yesterday in the munich
pal court for frequenting houses of ill-fame
When is time to be called on the male visi-
tors2
Rima was visited again yesterday, in the
county jail, by GLOBE representative, to
whom he expressed his confidence in his ability
to secure bail.
Theatrical people know so well where it pays
to advertise that attempts of brainless, charac
terless concerns to blackmail, meet with con-
tempt instead of ducats.
Camilla Urso is about to make another fare
well concert tour through the northwest, in
Guiding visit to St. Paul, Minneapolis and
other points in the State.
DR.. Roy had SO far recovered yesterday after.
noon from his recent toss and tumble as to be
enabled, with mufled-up left eye, to proceed
on an eighteen mile journey to visit a patient.
Mile lima de Murska,. possessing a voice of
rare sweetness and power adds the further at
traction OF personal magnetism, which is
equally as bewitching as her charms as a can
tatrice.
State superintendent Burt opens teachers
institute, which will last one week, at Marshall,
Lyon county, on tomorrow. Mrs. Swami, of
the Mankato Normal school, will be the princi-
pal teacher.
The imitatory powers of the street gan.ins
are now taxed in the endeavor to approach as
nearly as possible to the tones of the parrots in
the third story windows Of the jackson street
front of the Merchants.
The Ramsey County Agricultural society
met at the chamber of commerce yesterday
forenoon and spent some two hours in arrang-
ing the premium lists to be offered to exhibit
ors at the ensuing exhibition.
Inquiries instituted yesterday by GLOBE re-
porter, developed the gratifying intelligence
that all of the betossed participants in Fridays
runaway were no worse than reported in yes
terday's GLOBE account of the stampede.
Jack Wampler has been again indulging his
appreciation and taste of the beautiful and
unique in nature, and this time has secured
large specimen of the water-dog or proteus-
the largest be has yet had in his tank.
Capt. John G. Devereaux, of this city, is
about to commence the publication Of paper
at De Graft. Capt. Devereaux has had con-
newspaper experience and will give
the people of De Graft and vicinity a creditable
newspaper.
Now, when immigration is rushing, when
business is reviving, when the trains are crowd
ed and the railroad men are feeling good; when
the desert places of the State are in a fair way
to blossom the rose-now is the time to
agitate the question of building grand union
depot in st. Paul.
Some of the farmers are apprehensive of
rough weather between this and June, and in
consequence are hesitating about sowing wheat,
or rather their whole crop, at this time. These,
however, are the old-timers who haven't as yet
worked up to realizing appreciation Of the
new order of things.
At half-past ten o'clock last night Officers
Keefe and Nugent pulled the establishment Of
Lena johnson, and succeeded in bagging the
proprietress and two men, named Sam Quiva-
Ian and Andrew Smith. Lena is the "paI' of
the municipal court, Of frequenting houses of
Anton Burg, the bluff acrobat, was reported
yesterday by DR.. Mattocks as still improving.
There is little doubt, however, but that Burg is
injured internally in the region of the kidneys
and his convalescence may be somewhat pro
tracted, or he may collapse altogether, though
the chances Of the latter contingency are much
more remote than the former.
G. P. Barnard, of the internal revenue
department., returned Friday from Wilmar,
Kandiyohi county. He reports the tide of inn
migration as surging in immense waves
through that territory. The passenger trains
are crowded with immigrants and the freight
trains with stock and farming implements,
which reminded him most forcibly of the rush
hither in 1856, when the steamboats, were
similarly loaded down to their guards. Many
st. Paul parties are up in that vicinity on land
hunting expeditions.
Some time during the night of Friday, the
store of H. H. Timme, corner of Tenth and st.
Peter streets, was entered by thieves. The
south bar-room door was forced open, the night
lock being out of order, and an attempt was
made to break through into the grocery de-
partment by the communicating door. This
means Of ingress failing. the thieves must have