Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-07
CITY GLOBULES.
The Armorer tomorrow.

IN Cne CIVIL SIDE OF Jne municipal court.
Minnehaha Supreme Arch chapter, of the O.
A. o. D., which surrendered its charter in 1873, is
soon to be re-organized with large member
ship.
MI. Ten Brock will deliver his first lecture
on the difference between the Episcopal and
the Roman Catholic churches on Sunday even
ing at Christ church.
From church notices it will be seen that the
Bible class held-at the Y. NJ. @. A. rooms, will
not for the present be discontinued as announc-
ed at the class last Sunday.
The investigation by the municipal court
into the cruelty perpetrated upon that Robert
street bear, already noted in the GLOBE, has
been continued until Monday.
A party from Milwaukee has arrived and
taken the Adelphia which, so he expresses it,
he sis going to remodel The Milwaukee
stranger never had, and never will have, a wider
field.
On Friday, the police picked up on St. Peter
street white saddle pony, on which was bran
new saddle, and torn bride. The owner can
secure the return thereof by applying at police
headquarters and proving property.
City Engineer sewall, accompanied with
full corps of assistants, set out yesterday in an
omnibus to the site of the Fort Smelling bridge,
where the party commenced the preliminary
survey for the structure and its estimates.
The special committee appointed to inquire
as to a location for the proposed new driving
park will make their report at meeting to be
held at the office of DR.. Stone tomorrow even
ing. It is understood the committee have re-
ceived very satisfactory propositions.
The Armorer, to be performed tomorrow at
the Athenaum, is one of the most interesting
operas from the pen of Lortzing, and judging
from its first performance by the same cast, it
will prove one Of the most enjoyable perform
ances ever given at the Athenaum.
One can inhale, the perfumes of lovely
flowers, can listen to the rapturous songs of
birds, and can-pay Uncle Sam his revenue in
Collector BickeIs Office which is the only
apartment in the custom house that thus rises
above the purely sordid to the sweet-hearted.
The property Of ex-Congressman w. s. King,
Of Minneapolis, was sold at auction yesterday,
at the Wabashaw street door of the custom
house to satisfy his creditors. The property
was purchased by the Remington estate, Of
New York, which held mortgage on the es-
tate.
Seventy live hogs, in admirable condition
were shipped yesterday by George w. Went
worth, the Robert street butcher. The AMI
mails were reared and fattened on that gentle
mans farm in Dakota county, and were much
admired, as they travelled through the streets
to the depot.
Tobacco is grown quite extensively in the
neighborhood of Duluth, a sample of which
was shown a GLOBE reporter yesterday. and
which, on trial. was found to quite equal any
of the far-famed Connecticut growth. Here is
very profitable product which agricultural
lists might cultivate.
Adam Stahlmann has resumed control of the
saloon, 81 Wabashaw street. the lease of the
former owner having expired. Mr.. Stahlmann
has painted and otherwise adorned the apart
ment, and as his former fame as caterer has
not yet been forgotten, his friends will be sure
of the old-time, familiar welcome.
The tramps are becoming such an unmiti-
gated nuisance in this vicinity that number
of citizens have expressed determination to
build stockade, in which it is proposed to
work them upon stone pile from sunrise to
sunset. This will be a salubrious change from
the excellent food and lazy leisure of the county
Jail.
The last phase of the Lick murder consists
in Mrs. Mary Lautenschlager having yesterday
been granted an absolute divorce from her hus-
band, George Lautenschlager, now serving a
life sentence for that crime. The ground upon
which the divorce was granted was the impris-
onment Of the husband, sufficient cause un-
der the statute.
The steel cane which was mentioned in the
GLOBE as having been distracted from the
Office of the State auditor, never travelled out of
the capitol. It was discovered yesterday in a
pile Of rubbish in the basement lumber closet
by Janitor Chapel, and returned in all it's eff
fulgence to it's beaming owner. Wasn't it lost
on the first of April?
John W. Arctander, the Kandiyohi county
attorney who was brought up in the supreme
court day two ago, had row in the dis
trict court in his own county few days ago.
Referring to one of the witnesses in suit he
was trying he said: 4 have gone into his
dark, dirty heart, and God forbid that should
go into such dirty place " The court fined
him $40 for contempt.
Heretofore the street force has been paid by
the Street inspectors. That plan having been
abolished bv recently amended ordinance, the
improved order of things, for the first time
paid the street laborers yesterday, expanding
therein the sum of 81 ,O2O. In addition thereto
the contractors received from his hands their
customary advances.
Some unknown philanthropist, evidently
with considerable means and an immence
amount of sound Judgment, has placed upon a
GLOBE reporters table a box Of superior cigars.
duly addressed to the donee, but mysteriously
silent as to the donor. Their flavor might be
improved if the generous giver could be per-
sonally thanked, but they smoke good all the
same. In this regard, Shakespeare motto of
"both thanks and use'' will be cheerfully
adopted.
The most effective method yet offered for
settling the Como avenue assessment is to fol-
low the plan of certain ex-alderman of the
First ward. He suggests that a charge Of dy-
Mantle be procured to blow Como Park down.
and then flood it with water conducted through
a pipe from st. Anthony's Falls. BY this
means it would afford crop of ice in winter,
and the tramps could be made to cultivate
cranberries thereon in summer. Thus, there
FORE there would be no necessity for an avenue,
and the assessment might be incontinently
abolished.
It might have been funeral, but it will
only eventuate in a picnic. Coxswain Getty,
of the Minnesota Boat club, made dash at the
railroad bridge on Friday evening, while out
for row. Paper and stone, however, don't
assimilate to any alarming extent, SO there
resulted badly dilapidated shell and a wet
skin to the jolly coxswain, the bridge sus-
tanning no injury, as far as heard from. Getty
may as well make arrangements for that picnic
to appear with the opening flower, as by the
rules of the club that follows a duckinp