Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-25
MINNEAPOLIS NEWS
MINNEAPOLIS GLOBELETs.

Now for another four weeks blockade on
the Hastings " Dakota.
Mr.. {. b. Tcrrill will be deputy clerk of the
courts under Daycnport's administration.
The employees of the street railway company
are among the lucky ones, and will all be re-
mcmbcred.
The cars yesterday were crowded with peo'
pie leaving for old homes and the firesides OF
fond parents.
4 full rugged ship sailed through the First
VI. f.. church last night. Old Santa Claus was
in full command.
4 train of 10 cars loaded with wheat, with
two engines at either end, was hauled i'll for
the millcrS yesterday.
The storm yesterday eliect,ally disposed oil
the scheme to create artificial slcighing 10y
sprinkling the streets.
Tomorrow the Second Congregational
church will make an effort TO remove the
mortgage on the editice.
Mr.. Williams, superintendent of the poor,
busy yesterday afternoon in distributing
presents received for the poor.
At the Nicollet yesterday: r. A. Gray, Du-
mth; Ed. \. Sweet, New York; VI. j. Boyle,
ST Paul: :. NJ. Marsh, Sioux City.
The Christmas tree at the Cottage hospital
was most successful affair, being ladencd
with gifts TO the value of more than $500.
Two insane men are now confined in the
county Jail, and make things lively by Singing
about hot tea and anything else within their
reach.
Fraser Il Shepard have presented G. \.
jerks, their bookkecper, with a gold-headed
cane, as token of their high appreciation of
his services.
John Beecroft, injured, Wednesday, on the
seventh street crossing, was very low yester-
day afternoon, and death was expected at any
hour.
The timc-kecper, named Brown, who issued
two duplicate checks to men employed on the
C., NJ. IL st. p road was arrested yesterday,
and arrived on the evening train last night.
The trio will answer the charges against them
in the municipal court tomorrow.
The genial court officer, Stiles Gray, received
4 letter from Washington attorney yester-
day, stating that he is lawful heir to IS, 140,
which is now banked up in the treasury. Mr.
GRAY was postmaster at New Berlin, \. Y, in
1869, and, owing to some change in the laws,
this sum is now due him on the old poStoffic
account.
City Attorney Benton, who will draft the
new charter for the city, has difficult task to
perform. The portion of it which he read to
the committee on charter amendments, prOvOk-
ed storm of opposition from all sides, and
the objections of the committee were as diverse
as the four winds. The struggle over the new
charter will be vigorous if conflicting Opin-
ions amount TO anything.
Tclegraphic reports from New York confirm
the opinion that has been held by the
GLOBE from the first, that Mr. HARDWOOD will
not succeed in affecting compromise with
his creditors. At a meeting of the creditors
in New York on Thursday, Il motion to ac
ccpt the offer of fifty cents on the dollar, was
ruled out of order, and disposition was
expressed to drive SMr. Harwood out of bust
ness. 1t appears from the report of the eX-
perts who examined the books of the firm in
this city, that on July LIST, 1876, when he gave
Mrs. HARDWOOD note for 100000,
as half of his property, his net capital
was only SS1 900. The report further
states that Mrs. HARDWOOD was paid between
Nov and -, 1880, which was previous to her
departure for New Orleans, the sum of ST.
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