Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-17
m1NNEApoL1s GLoBELErs.

Wheat receipts, $500 bushels.
Flour shipments, SO barrels.
Meeting of the board of education TINS
morning at 9 o'clock.
Frank Carver, clerk of the probate court,
has returned from his vacation.
The council tax committee meets tins
evening to arrange the city tax levy.
Three DRINKS in the municipal court yes
terday was all the important business.
The water tunnel under the Island has
been skooped OUT a distance of 400 feet
of possible 1000.
Charley Reeve, of Lake Harriet gets TWEEN
ty-seyen bushels of No. wheat TO the acre
off his farm this year.
The street railway has finally got its line
completed so that full trains leave regularly
for the East Division now.
Prices of wheat as follows: Old, No. l.,
$105; No. 2, S1.03; new, No /, 81; No. 2,
SIC; No. 3, TIC; rejected, SOC.
Tonight IS one of Harlow Gales regular
dime nights, with the Walker family music,
and plenty of call promenade
The North Star Iron works will have an
eight-horse power engine for the exposition
to be used in running the machinery.
Allan's string band, of Faribault, one of
the best in the State, will accompany the
X. of P. excursion to Lake Minnetonka next
week.
James Murison, formerly proprietor of
the Model Drug Store in this city, now
hotel proprietor in Texas, arrived in this city
yesterday, and is shaking hands with friends.
Sheriff Thompson is onto the war path.
The GLOBE learns that he has recently be-
come wonderfully interested in the crops,
and will learn what the wheat grades on his
return.
Mr.. James Sweeney, who three weeks ago
met with an accident, by which his leg was
broken, is around on crutches, receiving
congratulations that it was his leg instead of
his neck.
Abe Wisan, of Richfeld had valuable
booded sheep killed by dogs a day or two
since. Such is the result of the bench show
ST. Paul. Sad.
If, in the just providence of Cod O.
Charles Gale don't break his everlasting neck
in making race-track of Hennepin avenue,
he is mighty liable to break some other fel-
lows who would be great deal more loss to
the world.
The New York G1wphtc to-day prints a
obi civ n hal of w
is devoted to Minneapolis the great expo
sition and our local interests. 1t will be on
sale with Brown, at p. O. news stand, next
Tuesday night.
j. T.. Booth, the florist, has fitted up beau
tiful grounds at Minnehaha, and is now
building q magnificent hot house. This will
be an additional attraction to the innumer-
able caravan of visitors who daily throne
that place of pleasure.
A gentleman named Tyler, of Jackson,
Michigan, has rented the incompleted store
of Mr. Mattson, on Nicollet avenue, next to
the savings bank building, and will open an
extensive boot and shoe store therein this
autumn. Let them come, there is room for
all.
Bisbee ~ Moses, contractors and builders,
have filed voluntary petition in bankruptcy
with liabilities aggregating nearly $4,000
Assets unknow. The heaviest lossers by the
break are G. A. Austin, of Burlington VT,
$500; Merchants National bank, of Mime
apolis, 5000; Byron Porter, Bangor, Me-
81 500; Union Brick company, of Minneapo
lis, ST. $50, and Janney, Mobiles, Brooks &
Co., 81 ,419.
Jones Che fish mani has struck it again
Yesterday he received from the Bermudas
direct green sea turtle weighing 500 pounds
The old fellow is alive and fiourishing, and
gets away with about half ton of fish at &
meal, and does it easy. The same enterpris
ing young man has bargained for a six-foo
alligator, from Florida, which will be here in
a few days, and both these monsters will bs
on exhibition at the exposition in Jones
aquarium.