Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-24
CITY GLOBULEs.


yesterday to:meet interest falling due about the
LIST of January.
The evening train on the I. Il NJ. division of
tho Chicago, Milwaukee, l. st. Paul road was
two hours late, owing to the storm.
The meeting of the board Of regents of the
State University, called at the Capitol yester-
day, has been postponed to next month.
The public schools are out, or, at any rate,
the children are, for the holidays. On Jan.
9Th parents will again school their issues.
Articles of incorporation of tho Lake Suerior
& Red River Valley railroad, noticed in the
GLOBE Tuesday, were fled in the office of the
Secretary Of State yesterday.
Four members of the council met yesterday
in accordance with the call for a special meet
ing. waited for others to appear, but none
coming Vice President Grace adjourned the
council until Jan. 9Th, regular day for meeting.
Yesterday the United States marshal, by one
Of his deputies, brought Jacob Bender up from
New Ulm. Bender, who il pursuing the bust
ness of a brewer in New Ulm, is charged with
selling too much beer with only one United
States stamp doing service for the sales.
Tho p. p. as usual was one day late in find
ing out that their cultivated gentlemau-i in
every-sense. of-the-word-Stiff1e was a common
hotel thief. But having passed their exalted
Judgment, the tramp reporters of the concern
have fellow feeling in not yet or wholly
abandoning Stiffle.
The case of T. r. Huddleston against the
Northern Pacific railroad engaged the
attention of the United States circuit court all
day, yesterday. The suit, as heretofore men
inn - hrn co fs>po
rendered before the State legislature in 1877.
Likely the case will be given to the jury to-
day, and q verdict reached,
Last evening about Z o'clock young man
walked rapidly to the door of Dow & Berg
fields clothing store, at 108 jackson street, and
took an ulster from one of the frames stand
ing outside and ran. The act was seen by a
passer-by, and the proprietors of the store no
titled, but the thief had disappeared. The ul-
ster was valued at $40. -
The following personal mention of new
conner to st. Paul is from the Sioux City Jour-
nal: IF. N: Curren, who for three years past
has occupied the position of coppersmith in
the st. Paul shops in this city, has resigned
his situation for the purpose of going into bus
iness on his own account in st. Paul, for which
city he leaves tomorrow evening,
+ The man who does the funny business for the
GLOBE has wagered July buster against a
government mule Warranted not to make more
than sixty revolutions to the minute) that al
though it might be hard work to foreshadow
what some of the boys will find in their stock
ings. he can tell to a dead certainty what some
OF the gang, during the past year, unexpected
" happened to find in their mitten.
A man named Fred Art entered the munich
pal court yesterday morning wearing mourn
full look, and requested warrant for the arrest
Of party named James Cudihy. As ground
in lower town day before yesterday, his wagon
was seized by Cudihy and two other men, who
overturned the vehicle and precipitated him to
the ground, causing painful injuries. The case
will come up this morning.
Superintendent Walsh, of the street car line,
has gone to Chicago. He will be back to-day
or tomorrow, in time to execute his generous
resolve in regard to the employees of the COM
pany. Anyway, provision ,is made that all the
receipts of the street cars on tomorrow will be
turned over to drivers, barnmen, etc.. as a
Christmas gift. The days receipts mean tick
cts a. we'll as cash, and the advice is given to
owners of tickets to drop in their whole bun
die
Yesterday the work of laying out the driving
track on the river was commenced, and it will
be fully completed this evening, ready for use
on Christmas, when if the weather is pleasant
there will be some rare sport. The track is
eighty feet wide and three-quarters Of mile
in length, extending down the river from tho
bridge. The track will be reached from the
foot of Sibley street, where substantial bridge
will lead down from the bank to the ice. The
fun will commence Christmas about 2:3O P. NJ.
and be kept up all the afternoon, and it is
probable there will be some of the fastest
speeding ever seen on the ice in this city.