Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-18
CITY GLOBULEs.

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Prof. Wright received telegram from Utica,
Y. Y, yesterday afternoon, conveying tho sad
intelligence that his son was lying dangerously
IL with diphtheria. He left for that city last
light.
At the rock pile yesterday, aworkman en-
Jagged in breaking rock, discovered imbeded
in fragment an iron screw, the point of |
shich was exposed about an inch. Here Ia an
interesting subject for geologists.
Prof Slack of the Humboldt school, Sixth
ward, made complaint of q lot of boys, who
hang around the building, to the great annoy |
ance of the pupils. The police are ordered to
cisperse the gang of young hoodlums.
The admission of candidates for practice
in the supreme court will take place to-
morrow at ~ A. N. in the court room. The
examining committee is composed OF Messrs.
H. f. Masterson, George l.. Otis and James b.
Beals.
Yesterday, A. J. White Of Minneapolis, was
arraigned before United States Commissioner
Cardozo on the charge of selling liquor without
the special license. He was held to answer Pc
fore the grand jury in bonds of S2OO. suretles
were forthcoming.
The lecture on edinburgh and the land OF
Burns" next Tuesday, at Plymouth church,
promises to command large audience. NOT
only Scotchmen, but all others are on the
aui vive to hear what DR.. Daua has to say Tor
romantic Scotland.
q The best investment Eastern capitalists can
make, is 70 come to st. Paul and put their
money in blocks of cottage tenements, renting
from $8 to $2U Over 800 of them could be
rented in few days, and they could bring IN
to the builder at least Is per cent. interest.
The small boy will be grati6ed to learn that
P. T. Barnum the great Snowman, has thrown
his proclamation for 1879 to the breeze, and
that several of them now occupy place on st.
Paul bill boards, sign that his great aggrega-
ton of wonders, etc, will visit our city ere
long.
Aid. Mccarthy, who has already this season
added one handsome residence to the Sixth
ward, is having the plans prepared for i've
more buildings of the same general style' ana
work will be commenced upon them in few
days. few more Aid. McCarthys would be
good thing for st. Paul at this time.
To date Dr. Day, postmaster, has disposed of
l02 of the United States refunding certificates.
As they are of the denomination Of $40 each,
the above number represents $1,000 so far &C
cumulated for the United States. Two parties
have purchased 5000 worth each, but the sales
generally have been in small amounts to the
poorer classes.
Ahern, "Slim Jim," the phenomenal (7) left
handed pitcher, is organizing ball club, and
would be ready for commencing practice it he
had his catcher. OF course it takes first class
man to hold ''Slim.' Added to catching skill
Slim insists that his man must be strictly
temperate and willing to work for the interests
of the club, without special reference to his in
dividual standing.
Minneapolis conceit and selfshness never
fails to crop out. A prominent bank officer
observes to a new conner to St. Paul: Our city
growing With a un9naton
Then cooking his eye, adds, Zone OF these
cities has got to fall behind, but, my friend, it
won't be Minneapolis.'' Whereat the official
swells up and the friend departs saying with
the pedagogue, Dominic Sampson" Pc
diglous! prodigious!
A serious accident occurred at the st. Paul
iron works, yesterday afternoon, by which Mr..
Thomas Welsh narrowly escaped with his life
While engaged in making carpenter repairs on
the outside of the building, at 80 o'clock, 8
portion of the scaffolding gave way, precipi
tating him to the ground and inflicting quite
serious if not dangerous injuries about the
head and lower part of the body. The injured
man was removed to his home, where the
wounds were pronounced serious but not neces
sarily fatal.
Asking about certain unimproved area ii
the heart of the city, the answer was, "Itl
owned by q New Yorker. who won't do any
thing to improve his property here. BE ii
prove their lots that his may thereby become
more valuable. and years hence command 1
high price," The city ought to plan to hav'
such obstxuctionists to St. PauIs growth wei
assessed for everything that can be legitimatel.
put upon them. Sidewalks, fences, and Grad
ing ought to be ordered till they are made t.
feel its poo, policy-keeping great areas in TIL
J heart of the city, beyond the reach of buyers
A fire, which threatened for time the de-
struction of Mr.. George Benz's barn, happened
: Yesterday about 8 o clock P. M. in this way
; One of the children, little boy, got hold Of
some matches, and proceeded t., celebrate with
bonfire out of some straw lying around on the
outside of the barn. When the blaze got uE
, In good shape, he ran in the house to call on
his sister to admire. She saw with consterna
, tlon that the barn was in imminent peril, an,
called for assistance. Several lads near a
, hand at play came at her call and succeeded
in putting out the FIRE without sending in a
alarm to the fire department. The side of tn
barn was pretty we'll scorched.
Yesterday morning spry little miss of 8 Q
10 years of age came into police headquarters
and asked if there were any children there
, When asked if she had lost one, she answere
, in a motherly way, and in tone of surprise
, .sWhy, yes; two" EARLY in the morning tw
children, boy aged 5 years. girl girl year
. street, had strayed oil, and ther
! was he usual hurry and alarm about tina
, household. The scare aud uneasincss contin
ued until o'clock, when the boy was found
| and the girl shortly afterwards. The ittl
s girl was found by officer Brousseou away mp o
l Ramsey street, near the engine house.
) From the advance sheets of Chic
| Weber, annual report, it is learned that tn
3 cost of maintaining the police last year wa
, S27 ,572. As an offset to this the licenses col
1898 so of the whole sum paid for the supper
3 of the force. Add to this amount the fines CO.
looted from the municipal court, not yet full
, reckoned, and it will be found that the polio
force and police court are sustaining. Fe,
indeed are the cities that can boast of so 81
! ficient police force as St. Paul, and then tn
] | beauty of it is that the tax payers don't hav
!, to pay cent for it. 1t is not Inappropriate t
refer to St. Paurs tax levy of ID mills in thi
connection. s.,
A small boy did a neat circus act yesterda
q on the corner of Fourth and Wabashaw streets
. but off a horse He was surveying rudd
: faced spring with serene content from hons
back. He or the horse were Jogging along wit
I serene content, mutually 49, when the hors
3 stopped Of q sudden on the above named COZ
? ner. He also, stopped of sudden, when b
8 reached the ground in front of his steed: II
horse seemed surprised at the boys bein
! there, and so did the boy. Both contemplate
: each other for . while, then the youngster g,
no. looked around furtively, saw ever!
, body grinning, and then looked unconcernedl
T about as if he had done it on purpose. 3
8 rishted himself by brushing off the dus
!, mounted again, and boy and horse logged off.
Parties having business along the line of Il
: Northern Pacific, will find something of int
eat to them by an examination of the time ca,
in another column, important changes beir
made to 60 into effect Sunday next. Some fe
d changes will be found in the running of Il
0 morning train, but the new feature OF impor
: ance is the fact that the company. in order