Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-12
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CITY GLOBULEs.
The Red river, it is reported, is open.
Madam Rive-King at the Opera House to-
night.
The river has risen upwards Of ten inches
since Saturday.
The Boston Philharmonics are registered at
the Metropolitan.
The musical society had very satisfactory
rehearsal last evening.
Railroad travel is getting brisk on all lines
centering in this city.
Four marriage licenses were issued by the
clerk of the courts yesterday.
A large number of lumbermen came down
last evening from Hinckley and Kettle river.
One of the heaviest kind of noreasters pre-
vailed at the head of Lake Superior on Sunday.
1t takes church deacon to discover the sights
and beauties of metropolitan life, and to relish
them, too.
Up to 10 o'clock last night there was neither
prisoner, nor even a solitary lodger, at the
police station.
Prof Saroni will give popular lecture upon
American music prior to 1854, at the Academy
of Science on the 22d.
The Aunt Betsey started down the river yes
terday afternoon with her barges after load
of wood. She goes to Prescott.
The blue ribbons not as numsrously dis
played as of yore, and those worn are begin
ming to creep under coat lappels
That yawning chasm on Third street, in front
10 hai 1v lar b1y
degrees and beautifully expensive.
A gentleman just down from Lake Superior
| reports the weather there as ''just Splendid
far milder than it was last year on the first of
| May.
! The lumbermen leaving the woods in
large numbers-the season having been brought
| to an untimely close by the entire absence of
| snow.
The father Of waters has swelled up consid-
| erably from the recent rains and is now foot
| and a half above the low water mark of last
| season.
| Shakopee is proud Of her champion and did
honor to herself as we'll as Mr.. Kinds in accord
ing him public demonstration on Saturday
evening.
Miss Whinnery, Boston's new soprano, sings
tonight at the Rive-King concert This lady
is spoken of in the highest terms by the East
ern press.
Tickets are selling rapidly for the concert to-
night; all st. Paul seems DESTROYS to hear
Americas greatest pianist and Boston's favor
lite soprano.
James O'Brien, Esq, presumably the assist
ant judge of the municipal court is to address
an audience in Caledonia, Houston county, on
st. Patricks day.
There are about 125, 600 bushels of wheat in
the two Duluth elevators, awaiting shipment
to the East. All this has been received since
December LIST.
considerable amount of wheat, it is ex-
pected, will, on the opening Of navigation, find
its way from Winnepeg to this and other mar
kets further east.
The Governor signed yesterday, the bill in-
creasing the register of deeds fees from ten to
twelve and one-half cents per folio, for tran
scription of records.
very large number of passengers, filling
four coaches, came up on the river road yester.
day afternoon, and the great bulk of them
| stopped over in st. Paul.
Mr.. F. Schultz, the widely popular German
lecturer, of Carver, this State addressed an
appreciative audience last night in the Turne,
Hall on the subject of Prayer
Hon. W. B. Lutz, and Messrs. r. B. Gates
and J. Bailey, of Lake City, arrived yesterday
afternoon, and will go to Minneapolis to-day tc
organize State Lodge of the knights Of Honor
Several gentlemen left yesterday afternoon
for Mountain lake, near Window, on the sioua
City road, on a hunting trip Geese and ducks
are represented as being plentiful in that
locality.
The sheriff utilized yesterday the idle hand.
OF some of his city prisoners, whose terms wer.
nearly expired, by causing them to rake thu
winters top-dressing of odds and ends off tn,
court house yard.
The regular monthly meeting of the State
Firemen's Insurance association occurs to-day
in Minneapolis. Among others who will be il
attendance from this city will be Il. o. Strong
the president, George w. Freeman, Peter Heck
Henry Jansen and +. Brewer.
The next and last concert of the season Of tn,
Musical society, will occur on the 9th prox
The speciality of the occasion will be a piano
duet by Profs. Wood and Goodyear, will
orchestral accompaniment. The Great Western
band will perform the overture.
The musical society, of st. Paul, and tn,
Minneapolis choral union, the latter number.
| lug seVenty-nVe members, wall give Join
concert in this city about the middle of Ma,
next, Hayden's -Four Seasons having beef
selected as the work to be presented.
i Passage ways from the dining and billiard
halls Of the Merchants hotel to the addition
built the past summer, have been constructed
preparatory to tearing down the old part, which
will be commenced some time this week.
Beethoven, Handl, schuman. Rubinstein
! Taubert, Sir Jules Benedict, Chopin, .Eckert
Strauss, Paine, Franz and Liszt all, have ,
place on the splendid programme Of the Rive
King concert for this evening variety enough
to please any audience. :
It is reported in railroad circles that the Min
nesota Midland railroad has fallen into th,
hands of Minnesota capitalists, and that til,
prospects are favorable for the road to b,
pushed ahead as far as Melville, distance o
twelve miles. during the coming month.
| A number of Sabbath smashers, variousl,
armed, jurneyed from the city Sunday i,
pursuit of wild pigeons, but their tram
through the soggy woods, lover brush, owe
brier, was only rewarded BY the ASSURANCE
that the birds were there, without the satisfac