Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-23

If any one desires to form q vivid concep-
ton Of what Bunyan's s:Slough of Despond'
was, he or she has only to traverse that por-
ton of the Hudson road within the CITY
limits to receive the needed idea.
If the House of Representatives, some OF
it's committees and the Common Council
committee on prostitution would only pro-
vide themselves each with traditional goat
they would then lack nothing requisite for
frst-class secret societies.
The Fifth Ward Building association
| which is reported in fourishing condition,
held a meeting on Thursday night, at which
all the spare money was loaned out at a fair
rate of interest, thus indicating that trade
and future prospects are Frightening.
Sometime during Thursday night, the
stable of M. 0. Bickford, Langdon, some
twelve miles south of this city. was broken
open and his horse stolen. The animal was
then attached to the wagon of Samuel Ness,
and the thieves proceeded to the elevator, at
the depot, whence they distracted quantity
of wheat in sacks. Yesterday the burglars
were tracked to Hastings by Constable Ness
and others. who are i'll hot pursuit of the
villains.
Washington's birthday did not prevent
the due exercise of gubernatorial; clemency.
The subjects were Hugh Kelly and James
Manning, sentenced to fifty days imprison-
ment in the Hennepin county jail, for the
theft of a horse blanket, valued at So.
They were pardoned on the recommendation
of Judge Cooley. of Minneapolis, by whom
they were tried and the clerk of the court,
the fact of the wants of their families hav-
also much influence in inducing the Governor
to stay their punishment.
Notwithstanding the outwardly unattrac-
tiyeness and apparent frigidity of the title
of the lecture, ''The Treasures of the Snow -
at the Academy of Natural Sciences last
night, quite respectable audience gathered
at the society rooms to listen to Rev. w. G.
Gannett upon that subject. 1t is impossible,
within the limits of paragraph, to do JUS
tice to MIR. Gannett's lecture, or, as he called
it, sermon. It was delivered with enhancing
eloquence, and may be briefly characterized
as the very poetry of science, and was re-
ceived with marked appreciation and i.:e1e,t
by highly appreciatiye and discriminating
audience.
Although yesterday, Washington's birth
day, was a legalized national holiday, the
flag at Uncle Sans granite palace on Wa
bashaw street failed to put in an appearance,
and for the following unique, red-tape rea.
son: The halyards Of the flag staff are out of
order. 1t was, therefore, ordered that pro-
posals for their repair be advertised. Pend
ing the result Of this little piece of circum-
locution business, the immortal Georges
natal day sped past, and was unhonored by
the display of the national colors, although
the repairs could have been effected on time
and at less cost than that of advertising.
A few days ago TIE GLOBE chronicled the
fact Of the arrival here of Chief-of- Police
E. S. Miller, of Bloomington, ILL.,, he having
come with requisition to Gov. Pillsbury,
from the Governor of Illinois, for the person
of a supposed murderer, named Klusty, then
in confinement in Preston, Fillmore county.
jail. Chief Miller arrived in Bloomington
with his prisoner on the Goth. At the pre-
liminary examination on that day, the latter
gave his name as John Garsteller, and, al
though he bore striking resemblance to the
sought-for Klusty, even to q peculiar scar
upon his head, Garsteller was released on his
own recognizance, it being believed he was
not the guilty man.
On Monday, March 4th, will occur the
centenary Of the birth of Robert Emmett,
justly celebrated and reyered the world over
as an Irish patriot and martyr. movement
has been inaugurated to celebrate the ami
versary throughout the entire country in a
manner betitting the occasion and worthy of
the distinguished hero. st. Paul will also
put her best foot foremost on that day. The
details of the proposed celebration will be
at a preliminary meeting, to which
all, and especially Irish Americans. are
cordially invited, to be held in the old court
house at 7:30 p. M, on Monday, March 4th,
when, without doubt, an enthusiastic rally
will result.
The clerk of the supreme court came yes-
terday near to officially quitting his foot in
it, Unmindful, at the time, of its being
Washington's birthday, he was about to
issue certain court document, when his
forgetfulness vanished, and he
paused. 10 re-assure himself, he searched
Bissell's statutes of Minnesota, and, to his
surprise, discovered that work is entirely
silent upon any State law declaring Washing
toms birthday legal State holiday. Shaw's
analytical index of the Minnesota statutes
was then ransacked, and found to be equally
retlcent on the matter. Judge Cornell, Of
the supreme bench, and the attorney general
were next consulted, by whom it was evolved
that general statute was passed in 1860 de-
claring Washington's birthday to be legal
State holiday. That settled the question.
and the clerk wiped his official pen, and laid
back on his official oars for the rest Of the
day.
Personal.
Messrs G. B. Kennedy, of the LIE Roy
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