Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-16
SALTWATER NEWS.
Staples saw mill is now running in ship

shape, everything being in perfect order.
The stamps used by two breweries and one
cigar factory for the month of March
amounts to $3S7.621a.
Rev. A. A..Keihle departed yesterday for
Minneapolis to attend the meeting of the
presbytery, held in that city.
Mr.. j. R. Hudson, formerly of Texas, is
spending few days in this city visiting Mr..
M. M. Clark and examining the business
pros poets Of the place.
Colonel Morgan May, of the town of Ma
rine, intends to break 1000 acres of land this
year. The teams to do the work have been
furnished by Isaac Staples.
Sheriff Sheehan, of Freedom county, ar
rived from Albert Lea, Monday evening,
with Louis Bennett, sentenced to the peni-
teRtiary for two years for larceny.
The shaft which drives the crushers in the
Saltwater Mills broke yesterday morning, in
consequence of which the mill has shut
down until new shaft is put in.
Piper, VIM. Veazie's driver, has taken up
his quarters on the Driving park with the
following horses: Capt. Herod, Viator,
Western Maid, Marine jim, Peter Hopkins,
Susie and Nameless.
The regular meeting of the fire company
was held Monday evening. After the usual
order of business was transacted Chief En-
| gineer Bronson made few remarks concern
| ing the negligence of fremen in attending
alarms and spoke in favor of a reorganiza-
ton of the hose company. Mr.. F. Joy stated
/ hat %Ioro I>oo nSo1, Co%,1n
day evening of the hose company for the
election of officers. A number of members
were reported in arrears longer than the
time allowed and unless they iquidate Sat
urday or give satisfactory excuse they will
be expelled.
TaxTnverei7l Exhibition.
The exhibition given by the Turnverein
Monday evening was frst-class in every
respect, and was largely attended. It was
in fact the best exhibition eyer given by the
society in this city, and was appreciated as
such by the audience, who manifested their
pleasure in frequent bursts Of applause.
/ Many of the parallel bar exercises were
especially praiseworthy, in particular the diff
fcult feats performed by Anthony Schaeffer,
of st. Panl, and the display of muscle ex-
hibited by Mr.. I. Sax, of this city.
The calisthenic exercises By the active
Turner's were very pretty, and showed thor
ough and careful drill.
In the 100 pounds dumb bell exercises Mr..
I. Sax displayed his muscular abilities to adj
vantage, showing some difficult feats, and
performing them with ease. The dumb
bells ranged from 1O8 to 40 pounds in
weight
The infant Hercules, concerning whose
identity curiosity was at its height, turned
out to be Willie Dreschsler, son of Con.
Dreschsler, whose dumb bells were made of
wood. At the conclusion of the dumb-bell
exercises Mr.. Sax extended an invitation to
some one in the audience to come forward
and examine the bells. The invitation was
accepted by Mr.. Leroy Farrell, who examined
the dumb-bells thoroughly, and handled
them with infinite ease. Mr.. Farrell's i'm
mense strength is we'll known, and he
showed it to advantage, receiving hearty ap-
plause from all parts of the house.
The vaulting- horse exercises, pyramids,
Indian club exercises, foil fencing,
horizontal bar exercises, combination
exercises on vaulting- horse were
very good, and gave thorough satisfac-
ton. Prof. Lampe not being present his
place in the Indian club exercises was credit
ably filled by Anthony Shaeffer.
J At the end of the performance the seats
were removed from the hall and large
number remained to trip the light fantastic
to the music of the Germania orchestra.