Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-26
CITY aLoBULEs.
To-day is Ash Wednesday, the beginning

To-day is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of
Lent
Nick Schultz, runner for the Wild Hunters
hotel, is in the lookup. He was run in for at
tempting to pick a drunken mans pocket.
The arrivals at the Merchants yesterday
filled nearly four pages of the register, and it
wasn't very good day for travelling either.
Intelligence is received of the death at Farm
ington yesterday of Mr.. Frank Vaughan, a
merchant there, of dropsy. Mr.. Vaughan had
many acquaintance in st. Paul.
The board of public works met yesterday
noon to consider the Seventh street bridge mat
ter, but owing to pressure of legislative bust
ness demanding the city attorneys attention,
an adjournment was taken until to-day at II
| o'clock m.
The society for the prevention of cruelty to
animals was to have held meeting yesterday,
but didn't. At the designated hour, 10 o'clock
A. NJ, four assembled at No. So Robert street.
This number not forming quorum, the cruel
necessity arose for au adjournment, which was
taken to the 18th prox.
horse stealing case was called up in the mu
ricipal court yesterday. DR.. Mintzer and John
Lawton, West st. Paul. are the parties to the
horse trade. The doctor claims that Lawton
stole the brute, and Lawton claims he found
the animal astray in the Sixth ward, and took
him up for safe keeping. The merits of the
affair will be decided tomorrow.
The health department is after DR.. L. NJ.
Roy. He made report of thirty-three births
during January and February, without giving
the locality of the advent or the names of the
parents of the several increase to the popula-
ton as required by law. The city health de-
partment wants to accumulate the wisdom to
impart to the child who his dad is.
Representative David McCarty, of Winona
county, has given the Historical society another
OF those curious copper spear or arrow heads
used by the aboriginal races. It was found in
the Zumbro river, by him, and differs somewhat
| in form from either of the other specimens in
the cabinet of the society, although the fanges
FOR the insertion of shaft are much in the
same form.
Mike McDermott will have to answer to the
charge of forgery, in the municipal court, to-
day. ROCKFORD, of the New York house on
Minnesota street, claims that he was the vic
tim. For value received at his (Rocheford's)
house. McDermott attempted to pass off an
$lS order purporting to be signed by Joseph
Peltier, for whom McDermott had been work
ing. ROCKFORD suspected, inquired learned
1t was forgery, and had McDermott arrested
yesterday.
/ The ragged edge of a Manitoba wave struck
the city yesterday afternoon with piercing
and chilling effect. At o'clock yesterday the
Thermometer got down to "a at Manitoba, and
the wind got up to velocity of sixty-fve
miles per hour. If the full extent of the cold
is brought down to this region with the pushing
force OF the wind, it may be assumed that St.
Paul will be visited with spell of weather.
fha Hhoro fror 1ofs 1f n,
may be interpreted to mean, get out your ear
muffs.
Col. Aliens remedy to abate the tramp nuis-
ance has worked to charm. At present there
are only four of this variety of the human
family cutting wood for county or city board.
They come less frequently to the station for
lodging. The sign of st. Paul's rock pile and
wood pile has been set up along the converging
roads-and wide divergence is made by the
tramp whose nose is pointed toward st. Paul.
II stress OF weather forces one Of them to seek
shelter IN the city they give the authorities a
VIDE avoidance. Their new scheme is to tackle
the Christian sympathy of the Relief society
with hungry tale of suffering. They get
there on time to make the recital of their story
run over into nightfall, SO no little odd job of
work may b. requested of them.
One of the street cars measured the distance.
all alone, yesterday, from Wabashaw street to
Jackson. As it began the Fourth street descent
the brake gave way, and between horse and car
it soon became case of the cart before the
horse. Against this irregular procedure the
horse protested with vigorous kicks against the
iron dashboard and guard. The driver got to
be mingled up in the confusion, and was unset
tied IN mind as to who was bossing the down
grade job horse or car-he apprehended he was
counted out. The passengers became alarmed
at the extraordinary turn Of affairs, and became
considerably frightened, when the driver sue
ceeded in uncoupling the horse and abandoning
the car. Everybody landed safe at jackson
street about 80 clock, having left the station
on the hill at l:29:5 S11aa. No fares collected.
case of true courage has come to light that
deserves to be handed down to future genera
tions. leading professional man has home
establishment, in which is included pair of
fast stepping horses, driver and man of all
work, as general superintendent. The man
driver attachment had continued for two years.
BY virtue of his position this man went to
sleep in his masters easy chair after building
the ire IN the morning. wore his masters slip
pers and dressing gown in his absence, sampled
his wine, smoked his Havanas, and naturally
assumed all the rights of ownership inherent
IN his position. Yesterday morning, without
the aid of an officer of the law or hest friend
the master dissolved the partnership hv q
peremptory discharge. Such deed of per-
sonal and moral courage is believed to be I'M
paralleled in the history of the country since
the servant rule regime was inaugurated. The
strain upon the system Of the master was fear
full. He suffered excruciatingly all through
the day, but it is believed he will recover in
time. But the man-driver. He was the hero
| OF the day as he detailed what he had been
| Obliged to undergo to give tone of respect-
| ability to the establishment he had Quilted.
and wondered how in the name of all that is
good he had been such blasted fool to remain
III such an uncongenial place as long as he had,