Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-09
CITY GLOBULES.
Ash Wed

Lent begins on next Wednesday. Ash Wed.
nesday.
The press of freight business on the st. Paul
& Sioux City railroad is SO great that extra
trains weze run yesterday in order to prevent a
blockade.
Gen. Charles 81. Tompkins, chief quarter
master, left, last night, on business visit to
st. Louis, which will be extended to Louis
Vile, Ky.
The through train on the Northern Pacific
road due here at 1855 yesterday morning, was
delayed by snow above Brainerd. and did not
arrive until O. clock this morning.
The lyceum of the First M. Z. church meets
| tonight at the church parlors. The feature
of the evening will be an historical review OF
the country during Washington's administra-
ton.
The dime concert at Pteifer's hall, pleasant
institution of the Great Union band, yesterday
afternoon, was largely attended. The selec-
tions were choice, well rendered and afforded
much genuine pleasure.
The grand carnival masquerade Of the Ger
man Society, at the Atheneum, will be the
great attraction tonight. The preparations
to make the affair a signal event in the amuse-
ment world have been prodigious, and will
meet with complete success.
The Graves combination will this evening
present at the Opera house the play Of the
Queens Evidence. The company is spoken of
as being excellent in their several parts. The
we'll known actor, George G. Boniface, is the
leading man, and the entertainment offered
will be good.
The police authorities are in receipt of a cir
cular from P. r. Athey, chief of police at
Memphis, istating that safe belonging to L. A.
Moss, of Edwards, Miss, was opened by bur
glars recently, and $4,000 worth of jewelry
taken. The owner offers a reward of 81 zoo for
the recovery of any of the property and oonvic-
ton of the thieves. 1t is supposed that the
gang are coming this way.
About month ago John Finan member of
Company l, Seventh infantry, while in par
TALLY intoxicated condition, fell from the
| bluff at Fort Smelling and was seriously in
| iured Since that time he has been an inmate
of the hospital, but is now slowly recovering.
| His injuries are of such a nature as to render
him unfit for service and he will be discharged
! az so IN as he RECEIVERS. Owing to his being in
toxicated at the time of the accident he will be
| unable to procure pension.
Owing to the large number of tickets sold by
| tainment for the benefit the coming Wednes-
day evening of Jas. Henry, afflicted with
| blindness, the place of this entertainment has
been changed from Turner's hall to Pfeifer q
hall. The programme selected by the club for
the occasion is the comedy Of "Lend me Five
| Shillings' and the roaring farce of Mr..
Bodkin's Troubles" Interspersedi between the
| two plays will be vocal selections by Messrs.
johnson and Hilyard, Mrs. Perkins and the
Misses Bright and Combs. Both the pro
| gramme and the object ate worthy liberal
patronage.
| Lovers of amusement will not lack the OPP
| portunity in choosing what will best suit them
| for to-days entertainment: The German sOci-
| ETY. give their grand carnival masquerade at the
Athenaum tonight the st. Paul Skating club
| celebrate Mardi -Gras day with masquerade
| this evening at the Elmo rink; the Brotherhood
| of Locomotive Firemen extend Invitations to
| their annual ball, at Pfeifer's hall; the Rev.
Mr.. Terry lectures at Plymouth church this
| evening, aud George G. BOniface will enter
| tain and amuse with "The Queens Evidence,
at the Opera House. Out of this variety nc
| one should be at a loss to put in profitable
evening in joyous way.
| Yesterday morning George Merthaller, re-
siding in Dakota county on the river road,
| about five miles from St.. Paul, drove in town
with his family to attend mass at the German
Catholic church. While engaged in devotional
exercises his team, which was hitched near the
church, broke the hitching strap and started on
| brisk go-as-ynu-please. At the corner OF
| Seventh and st. Peter streets Tho aeioh attach.
ed to the runaways struck passing rig owned
| by Lorenzo Mitsch and slightly damaged it:
The boraes ran to and down Third street, and
the last seen of them they were making good
time up Dayton's bluff. Mr.. Merthaller and
his family, owing to the runaway, were obliged
to walk home.