Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-11
CITY GLOBULES.

| OOl. Won bomDauch secretary OF state Is
duck hunting up the Minnesota valley.
Messrs. George R. Finch and Bruno Beaupre
were slaughtering ducks at Heron lake yester-
| day.
| The next general meeting of the teachers of
| the public schools will be held on the 20th
| inst
About a mile of track of the Iglehart street
| railway extension had been laid up to last
evening.
If there is good boating stage of water in
the river through the spring and summer river
freights will be somewhat lower than last sea-
son.
Arnold Bertram, the embezzling postmaster
of Adams Mower county, furnished bail n'the
sum of $1,000 yesterday, and was released from
the county jail.
The ice in Lake Elmo broke up yesterday.
and without damage to any of the boats or
wharves. In few days the lake will be clear
for sailing purposes.
The Arkansas, of the K. n. line, left Du-
buque yesterday for st. Paul, and considerable
freight for her return trip is already accumu-
lated at the levee warehouse.
The Northwestern telegraph company's office
will next month be moved into the building
adjoining the one now occupied on Minnesota
street, with the operating room in the second
story.
According to a recent decision of the post
Office department, all bills, statements of ac-
count, or balance sheets, where credit has been
given, will hereafter be subject to letter post
age.
Rev. Samuel G.. Smith has consented to de-
liver his lecture, "Men and Money at the
First M. E. church, on Tuesday night, April
Goth, under the auspices of the lyceum, for the
benefit OF the organ fund.
Lieut.. Ezra b. Fuller, Seventh United States
cavalry, and bride, are registered at the Mer-
chants hotel. The newly married pair were
the recipient of many calls and congratulations
yesterday from army friends.
Yesterday afternoon Deputy Sheriffs Har-
rison and Guion started out on duck hunt
Their preparations were big enough TO fulfil
all their promises to supply friends with the
product of their skill as sportsmen.
The Northwestern telegraph company, in an
ticipation of the coming of the American Onion
lines, has reduced its rates, and is now putting
its wires out of the reach of rivals, on the tall
est telegraph poles ever set in St. Paul.
The last will and testament of May Goodhue
Moore was filed in the probate court yesterday,
and the document is q model of brevity. The
deceased wills her entire property of every de-
scription to her husband Charles A. Moore.
Articles of incorporation of the Concordia
Singing society of the city of st. Cloud, Min
nesota, were filed in the Office of the secretary
of state yesterday. The incorporators embrace
good part of the German citizens of St.
Cloud.
Prof. Stein, of the Great Union band, re-
turned from st. Cloud Yesterday, where be has
arranged to give grand vocal and instrumen-
tai concert, to take place the first week in May.
Half rate tickets will be issued by the railroad
companies, and preparations are on foot for a
big time.
A brace of shabby looking pugilists named
John Dougherty and William Moore were be-
fore his honor yesterday charged with being
drunk and disorderly. Night before last they
sought advertisement in pitched battle,
which was fought on the railroad track near
the upper levee' They were given two week 8
service each on the rock pile.
Night before last Henry Fisher was
discovered coiled up and fast asleep
in the Northern Pacific railroad shops.
He was yanked in on the charge of
vagrancy, but when arraigned at the police
court yesterday he repudiated the insinuation
and asseverated that he was horny-handed
son of toll. The court gave him thirty min
utes to get out of town and he left.
Linus Delozier and James McManus think
it rather rough. They were arrested on the
charge of being train wreckers and taken to
saltwater. There it was discovered that they
| were the wrong men and they were promptly
| discharged, no examination being deemed nec-
| essary. McManus looked like man who was
wanted and it was clear case of mistaken
| identity.
Yesterday Lieut.. Col. Glover Perrin, surgeon.
U. s. Al reported for duty at department
headquarters, he having been assigned to duty
as medical director of the department of Dako.
| ia In place of Col. Sloan, deceased. DR. Perrin
has lately and for several years served as chief
medical officer of the department of the Mis-
ouri. with station at Fort Leavenworth. He is
| not unknown to many of our old citizens, be
having served in years past at Fort Smelling.
An action for divorce was commenced in the
| district court yesterday by Helen Runnings,
| from her husband Edward Runnings, on the
| grounds of habitual drunkenness. The parties
were married in 1869 and have four children, it
being alleged that for the past ten years the de-
| fendant has been constantly under the inhu-
| ence of liquor. In addition to this he has neg
lected to provide for his family. the support of
| whom has depended upon the exertions of the
plaintiff. s
| A sable-colored citizen bearing sae illustrious
name of Washington was before Judge Flint
yesterday charged with disorderly conduct.
| Early yesterday morning Officer Mcmahon was
| attracted by the screams of a damsel in the vi
cinity of Eagle street. and upon looking up the
origin of the outcry it was discovered that she
| was pursued by the prisoner, who YVES lodged
| in the cooler. Like his great prototype he
could not tell lie, and upon entering plea of
guilty he was committed for three days.
Thursday evening Judge O'Gorman was
treated to a surprise party. Friends remem-
| bered that it was the thirty-fourth birthday of
his honor, and prepared to celebrate it with the
| very kindest remembrances. In the evening
| the judge was visited by several friends, and,
after passing congratulations, he was present
ed with several handsome and costly presents
of silverware. Following this the evening was
pleasantly passed in social converse, and host
and hostess made it very agreeable to their vis-
itors.
Advices from down river are that the Keokuk
Northern line steamer Arkansas, Capt. Miles
BuIk, will reach St. Paul from st. Louis some
time Monday if nothing unforeseen occurs.
The Arkansas is bringing an immense freight
on self and tow. The through packets between
st. Paul and st. Louis will commence running
the 10Th, leaving both cities every day for the