Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-26
CITY GIoBuLEs.

Mr.. Joe Leighton received car load of
mules yesterday, destined for his business as
post trader at Fort Buford. In taking them
from the train to q stable, four escaped and
had not been caught at last reports.
The Once Week club has its second ball of
the season at Music hall this evening. The
auspices and the party of this evening prom
Uses to be largely attended and very pleasant
one.
Capt. 81. Bessie. from New Brunswick ar
rived in st. Paul, Wednesday night, with
twenty lumbermen, ready for the Minnesota
woods. The men are qualified as blscksmiths.
cooks. teamsters, etc. They are quartered at
the Manitoba house.
One of the great features of the Union fair
in Market hall is the voting for the maguif
cent chair put up by the building societies,
and for which the presidents of the various
associations are the candidates. At the close
of last nights tair Alderman John Dowlan
was ahead, having forty-one, while E. f.
Berrisford is second.
Quite lively interest is excited at the
Catholic fair in the contest of awarding the
"Bride of the Season. to the most popular
Young man. Ehle Allen is ahead with forty
votes, and Jack Murnane second with twenty
one votes. l0e Ialr DrfQ6 Is D handsome
young thing, magnihceDtly dressed and very
reserved in her manners, as she has right to
be, as she is a dell.
Mr.. John Comiskey. who is general managing
agent for the Oupard line, is in the city. He
Is establishing agencies for the Ounard line
throughout the Northwest, ard goes from here
down the Sioux City road. When he has GOT
his circle of agencies established he will ap-
point general agent in st. Paul and make this
city the headquarters for tho C1nard company's
Northwest business.
Yesterday man was brought to st. Joseph's
hospital whose leg had been shattered by
chsrge of buckshot accidentally fred from his
own gun. 1t vas found that amputatiou was
necessary, and the operation was accordingly
performed. At late hour last night he was
res ing easily as could be expected and will
probably recover from the shock to his system,
which was quite severe.
A movement is on foot among our music
living citizens to tender a complimentary
benefit to Miss Louisa Lester, the prima donna
of the Nathal opera company, to take place on
Monday evening next at the Opera house.
Miss Lester is q hard working, painstaking ar
tiste, who possesses q voice of remarkable
hexioillty and compass. and her efforts to
please the st. Paul public certainly entitle
her to rousing benefit.
Conductor John W. .Colgrave, of the North
Wisconsin railroad, met with a severe accident
yesterday morning. When his train was near
Clayton, Wis.,, the baggage-man WAS careles ly
handling revolver, when it was accidentally
discharged, the ball taking effect in MIR.
Cograve's left thigh, inficting o painful
though not q dangerous flesh wound. MIR.
Oolgrave was conveyed to his home in this
city, where the ball was extracted. He will
be attending to his duties within few days.
Havery's New Mastodon minstrels concluded
their engagement in st. Paul last evening to
house crowded to the doors. The entertain-
ment passed of with all the eclat that charact-
erized the first performance of the company
here, each number on the programme being re-
celved with loud applause and great laug liter.
Everything passed IF smoothly. and the unan-
imous verdict of all present was that the show
was one of the best if not the best that has
ever been given in st. Paul The matinee was
also largely patronized, especially by the ladies'
and children.
Wednesday night, an old man named Carr,
who was at one time county charge, and for
the last two years has been pauper and tramp
about the street. dependent on the charity of
the public and the amenities of the calaboose,
was brought in, being at the time in q fit of
some kind he was kindly cared for, SO far as
the conveniences of The institution would go,
and in the morning DR.. Mattocks Was called,
who decided to take him to the city hospital.
A hack was got, and the poor unfortunate
lifted into it in a comatose state. from which
itiis improbable that be will ever recover.
Yesterday, when Haverly's band was coming
down Wabashsw to the Matinee Dan KelIe-
hers black mare. attached to dray and stand
ing in front of the American house, on the CD
po-ite side of The street, became upmanageable
from fright and made wild rush across the
sidewalk and broke through the court yard
fence, tearing down a whole panel next to the
turn-stile. Dan had her by the head aud stuck
to her manfully, bringing her to standstill
within a few feet of where she broke through
the fence. In crossing the sidewalk two ladies
were in imminent danger of being run down,
and only escaped by a hairs breadth. It is
due to the band to say that the instant they
saw the trouble they stopped playing, and thus