Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-15
CITY GLOBULEs.

Good Friday.
The river 10 wide open.
To-day is quasi legal holiday.
The banks will remain closed all day.
Sheriff Ecstrom, of Ltchfield, visited St.
Paul yesterday.
The postoffice will not deviate from the hum
drum Of other days.
Yesterdays rain was really the first genuine
indication OF spring.
Collector Bickel's Office will be open from s
to GA. NJ. this morning.
Detective Bresett, who has been doing the
Hot Springs, is expected home tomorrow.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the assas-
sination of President Lincoln April II, 1885.
The committees on streets and claims of the
council will meet at 1880 o'clock this evening.
Health officer Patterson is on the lay for a
man who was around yesterday trying to sell
sick COW.
Yesterday afternoon Officer Newall fshed a
dizzy Swede from the gutter at the corner Of
Seventh and Jackson streets.
A courageous member of the boat club
might have been seen last night pulling his
canoe hardly against the stream.
c. p Hallot was brought down from Brain
erd yesterday charged with selling fire water
to Indians The examination will take place
to-day.
Last night Officer Roulleau collared tipsy
tailor who was airing himself too freely on
Jackson street. He possessed $40 and q pawn
ticket.
Thomas Wallace was examined in the pro-
bate court yesterday and found insane. He
will be taken to st. Peter to-day by Sheriff
Richter.
In the United States circuit court yesterday
the order to show cause why the action should
not be reinstated in the case of Ezra D. Dun
ham against Henry Harris, was discharged.
An employe at Martins lumber yard fell
from the top of q lumber pile yesterday morn
ing and was knocked insensible. He soon re-
covered his equilibrium and sustained no
serious injuries.
The sale of seats for the operate concert at
the Opera house on Sunday evening begins
this morning at o'clock. There is every evi.
dence that the house will be too small to con-
tain the audience.
A Democratic caucus IN the Sixth ward has
selected j. G. Mccarthy, for alderman, and
c: 81. Lenau, for school inspector, and this
will be the primary meeting ticket tonight.
This is ticket which ought to unite the
Democracy of the Sixth ward, and enable them
to rollup one of their old time victories at the
polls.
A Bohemian youth named E. F. Rabinska,
was arraigned at the police court Yesterday,
charged with the larceny ola grip sack from
one Hutchinson residing at Owatonna. It ap-
peared that defendant procured the check un.
der false pretences, after which he cabbaged
the valise from the depot. He was held in the
sum of $3.50 and committed.
Christian Stephany, cranky Polander, was
before hizzoner yesterday for trying to
clean out the settlement of his countrymen
whose habitations are on the banks of the
ripping waters of Trout Brook. The prisoner
was lank, lean, silent and saturnine. He had
been as drunk as fiddler's canine and as crazy
as bedbug, in view of which he went to the
roost for ten days.
There was quite a large caucus of the Demo-
cratic voters held in the second precinct of
the Second ward yesterday afternoon at which,
after general interchange of views, Joseph
Robert was nominated for alderman and
Joseph Oppenheim for school Inspector Both
nominations were unanimous. They will be
supported at the primary meeting tonight
and triumphantly elected.
Now doth the politician invade each handy
bar as he swells the man of in-foo.ence on
ripe old whisky sour How doth the latter
wag his ear and cause his eye to wink, as he
more confidential grows, with each succeeding
drink; but then, alas! there comes day when
he pauses, o. to think, how that seedy bum
with the knowing eye did blk him of his chink.
illustrated hourly at any of the down town
bar rooms.
gem men of color named Jim DAILY, and
the pestiferous pelican, Anna Crosby, were up
yesterday, charged with being drunk and
promenading within the orbit of decency on
Third street. DAILY stated that he had been ap-
preached by the woman, who wanted him to
show her alocation. She stated that she re-
sided in Minneapolis and that she wanted to
60 home They promised to leave town and
were ordered to hustle.
In chambers, before Judge Simons yester-
day, the hearing was resumed on the applica-
ton for the release of John Ferguson on
writ OF habeas corpus. The case came up on
Wednesday, and counsel for defendant, Mr..
Flint, claimed that the evidence on which he
was bound over was not strong enough to
constitute case. Mr.. Egan maintained that
all The evidence had not been taken, and the
case went over until certificate on this point
could be had from Judge Burr. The latter
ceruned TO the fact yesterday and the prisoner