Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-04
CITY GLoBULEs.
The capitol will be closed to-day and to-mo

Over SEQ State fair visitors dinned at the
Merchants yesterday.
| Grand concert at Grote's, Bridge Square, to-
night and Friday night.
| The banks of the city will close at noon of
| to-day, Thursday and Friday.
The State board of equalization met at the
| capitol yesterday forenoon, and merely organ
| led adjourning until 10 A. NJ. to-day.
The district court clerks office will open to-
day at A. NJ. for the convenience of the pen
sioners whose papers have to be sworn to.
Fully 1000 strangers were in the city last
night and the streets, up to late hour at
night, were truly metropolitan in their aspect.
The Catholic parochial schools held socia-
BILE last evening in the cathedral school house,
which will be continued on this and tomorrow
evenings.
noisy drunk sat bowling at the glimmering
light of a street lamp like a dog baying the
moon, at o'clock this morning. a special
ran him in
The visiting fremen from neighboring cities
are being furnished sleeping accommodations
in the parlor of the hook and ladder house
ST. Peterstreet
Up to a late hour last evening reporters could
not reach the register at the Merchants because
of the crowd of guests waiting to be assigned
to rooms and COTS
Forepaugh the circus man, yesterday remit
ted from this city 800 to the yellow fever SUI
ferers of the South having previously forward
ed $3.50 for the same object
The CONNIE il Faut cigar made by Fetsch 4
OGorman is all the rage. Ten thousand persons
in the fair grounds sampled them yesterday,
and pronounced them the best in the market.
The Great Western band will give two grand
concerts at Grote's garden-the most delight
full resort in the city. The first concert will
take place tonight and the second one Friday
night.
| The usual monthly meeting of the st.
Paul Fire Department BENEVOLENT associa-
ton was held last evening in the parlor of the
hook and ladder house, but no business was
transacted beyond the receipt of dues.
! The Minnesota Boat club entertained their
guests the 'tExiles'' and their friends, in
princely style last evening at the Boat house.
The home club never do anything by halves
and this time 1t was a champagne supper.
The Duluth glee club gave excellent con-
cert last evening at Music Hall There was
quite large audience, which thoroughly appre
The telephone seemed to amuse the assembly
highly.
The Temple Quartette, composed of Messrs.
W. W, Leib, Frank Wood, W. w. Buckalew
and r. G. Munger, gives a. grand promenade
concert at the Summit Avenue house to-
morrow evening, in injunction with the st.
Louis cOrnet band.
The railroad company ought to run later
train from the fair grounds to the city. The
| last train now leaves the grounds at G:1S. while
about P. M. a train goes to Minneapolis.
train ought to leave for the city certainly as
late 7 o'clock.
The secretary Of state opened the bids YES
ferday for supplying the State with stationery
tor the ensuing year, Averill Russell & Car
penter, and L. s. White q Co., of st. Paul, and
the Cleveland Paper company were the bidders
The first named obtained the contract
Senator Doran, chairman of the insane asy-
lum investigation committee, telegraphed yes
terday to the members of the committee to
meet him, last evening, at the Metropolitan
hotel. Senators Drew and Edgerton promptly
responded, and Senator Morton also attended
the meeting, which ives held fo- private consul
tation.
Our City Poor. Visitors to the State fair
should remember the ice cream stand of the
1auy managers OF the Rellef society. 1t is the
only one on the grounds where ice cream can
be had. Pure soda water iced tea lemonade,
sandwiches, cakes, ETC.. also provided Re-
member that in feeding your hungry selves
you may thus feed the poor as we'll
Grand Secretary Pierson, Of the Grand Lodge
OF Alasons of Minnesota, yesterday received
additional contributions to the fund for the re-
lief OF the yellow fever sufferers of the South
| amounting to $95.50 The contributions
come from Anoka lodge, Anoka; King Solomon
lodge, Shakopee; Comedian lodge, Lake City;
| North Star Lodge, st. Cloud, and Lake Civ
commandery. The fund now aggregates $500,
| Several gentlemen who were at the Bohemian
picnic on Sunday state that instead of attempt
ing to mob an Irishman and create disturb
| ance, there were from fifteen to twenty men
who came into the grounds and tried to raise a
row, when the committee appointed to keep Or
der tried to put them ont, and hence the row
They assert that if the police had not inter
| Tered the Committee would have cleared the
place of the roughs.
| Fair Hits-This morning there will appear
real burlesGue poem, in the real old Yankee
Doodle style hitting off the impropriety of
our Minneapolis friends in holding a county
fair, when they, as part of the State, ought
10 nave participated In our magnificent State
fair We hope that Hennepin has not Sc
coded, and we think that Minneapolis ought
not quite yet, to consider itself bigger than
the State. 1t will be sold by all the newsboys
on the streets and fair grounds.