Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-02
CITY GLOBULEs.

The hotel registers last night betokened the
arrival Of IN army of lawyers.
The police, FIRE and other city departments,
enjoyed being made April fools of yesterday,
as they received their monthly pay.
Thomas Lumley, q well known drayman, re-
siding on Oak street, died last evening. he
leaves widow and seven children.
The levee is being leveled up and put in
good condition by free use of coarse gravel.
This is good, as far as it goes, but the crying
need of that locality is paving.
A committee of the Knights of st. Paul were
yesterday discussing the nature and appoint
ments of their proposed uniform.
The common council cannot do . better thing
to-day than act upon Aid. Rhodes former sug-
gestion, and enact q law strictly preventing
cows ct al, running at large in the city.
The carpets were being laid yesterday in the
new addition to the State library, which forms
the vestibule to the supreme court room.
Ole Anderson, the alleged Wright county
parricide left yesterday for Buffalo, the county
seat of Wright county, where he will be placed
on trial to-day.
The Ramsey county Historical society met
yesterday in Turner Hall. Beyond adding
fourteen to the membership, no business of
importance was transacted.
The temperance wave can't be gaining very
extensively, judging by the mountains of kegs
| and demijohns blocking up the sidewalk yes
| terday in front of the store of Peabody, Lyons
& Co.
The levee presented very busy appearance
yesterday, with the almost innumerable string
of drays and trucks hauling goods from the
| steamboat warehouses and cars, or unloading
goods for shipment.
The many friends of Esquire Dodge, will be
glad to learn that he is slowly recovering from
his long and serious illness, and that his re-
| appearance in outdoor life is now considered
only question of time.
| Another old landmark is going. /. F. A.
| Studdart has commenced work on new dwell
| ing on Pearl street, and is demolishing the old
double house 80 well and long known on the
South side of that. thoroughfare.
The board of public works convened in
special session at "a. M. yesterday. After aud.
iting the usual pay rolls and estimates, the
board proceeded to a personal inspection of the
Ohio street grading, West St. Paul.
/ Now the trout will suffer. The president OF
1 the common council has departed, rod in hand
for regions where the unsuspecting speckled
beauties linger in the ripping waters. There.
going to be wet feet. or an empty basket.
The grading on Exchange street, between
Cedar and Wabashaw, was commenced yester
day. When completed, the capitol, like Jeru
salem of old, will be ''set upon hill, and can
not be hid" and the south sidewalk will b
more rickety still.
Blodgett Il Osgood's steam planning mill Sc
every body, who had legs and leisure to spar
at o'clock yesterday afternoon. to running t
the corner of Sixth and Cedar street, in the ez
pectation of q monstrous blaze. Cause: Boile
Z cleaning all day; whistle sounds for men t
, commence work.
, The Harrison & Verplank nine got badl
scooped. In their challenge to the other ciga
twisters, they said the latter must conside
themselves beaten if they did not come to til
scratch. And now the query is, how do til
Harrison & Verplank nine like winning as fs
+ as they have gone?
Schumann, the West st. Paul butche,
bought lot of sheep last week, which we,
found to have disappeared on Sunday. Yeste
day, he was hunting for them, the sellers b.
ing the supposed parties who knew more co,
corning the vanishing of the walking mutto
than anybody else.
/ ~ NJ