Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-09
CITY GLOBULEs.

The hotels wore solitary air last night.
March has been fruitful, so far, in fire alarms
and fires
Como yesterday.
Grip-sacks have risen in price under the tenn
porary increased demand.
Two terribly tipsy soldiers slept off their de-
bauch at the police station last night.
The man Hays, injured on the West Wiscon-
sin railroad on Thursday, is progressing favor
ably.
corn planter factory is to be shortly estab-
lished in this city by p. A. Bergsma, who has
already become somewhat famous for the man
ufacture of those machines.
Tax payers who have not payed their personal
tax should remember that it was due February
LIST. The county treasurer has an advertise
ment in THE GLOBE, which tax payers should
read.
The engineer corps, engaged under COL Nc
Clellan of this city, in surveying the Hudson
and River Falls railroad, has almost completed
the line over the bluff rising behind Hudson,
the most difficult part of the whole work.
Little Mack" William Mcclellan the
short stop for the Red Cap base ball club the
past two seasons, has signed with the Chicago's
for the present season, and will leave to take
his position about the LIST of April.
There was another arrival yesterday of re-
cruits for the Seventh infantry, now stationed
in Montana. The squad consisted of eighty
men, and was sent to Fort Smelling to await for.
wardal to their ultimate destination upon the
opening of Northwestern navigation.
"Have they left their seats?" was the in
quiry of a clerk in the secretary of States
Office yesterday, the sergeant-at-arms de
posted in the care of the official homeopathic
parcel of "all that was left" in one of the
| Legislative chambers.
| The retrenchers of the Chamber of Commerce
may, in their disappointment, lay this 'Aatter-
ing JUNCTION to their souls,'' that if they had
displayed more moderation and betrayed less
| fanaticism their chances for success against
the office-holders' woodehucks would have
been 'as triple BRASS
Mr.. 7. Connolly lectured last night before
the Academy of Sciences upon ''The History
of Geometry The subject was treated most
felicitously and was worthy of much larger
audiences than that which greeted the speaker,
although the few that were there were fully APP
preciative, attentive and gratifed.
A large delegation of we'll to-do and enter
prising citizens of saltwater spent last eve
ming in this city on their way along the line of
the Northern Pacific to hunt up lands. Some of
the party have already secured their locations
in that region, from whom, most likely, the
land fever has spread to the balance.
That worst of chronic nuisances, base ball
tossing upon the public streets, has again put
| in an appearance. About noon yesterday, even
Third street, at the intersection of jackson
crowded though it was at the time, was invaded
by the irrepressible mania. If balls must be
tossed, why cannot they be relegated to less
crowded thoroughfares, where ladies will not be
quite SO apt to have to run the gauntlet OF
Needless human catapults?
About 8 o'clock yesterday morning, as Mr.
Reilly, of Slater Il Reilly, horse shoers, was
driving along Dayton avenue his horse became
unmanageable. The animal, finding or con-
sidering the avenue all too narrow for his mad
antics, took to the sidewalk, tanning the
vehicle between the trees, and throwing out the
driver. A badly demoralized buggy resulted
but nobody was, fortunately, injured.
We learn from most trustworthy source
that the Minnesota Midland Railway from Wa
bashaw to Zumbrota, has passed into Other
hands-men of means sufficient to complete
fully equip and manage the road and that til.
work Of completing it through to Zumbrota, t.
which point the road bed and piling are com
plete, will be pushed forward at once and Wig
orously until that place is reached.