Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-20
CITY GLOBULES.

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The public schools will close next Friday
for weeks vacation.
special meeting of board of education will
be held tomorrow night.
Collector Bickel affixed his autograph 1900
times yesterday in signing bonds.
The bond of the town treasurer of Reserve
township, for s., ,O00 was filed in the register of
deeds office yesterday afternoon.
The regular weekly meeting of the Sixth
Ward Land League will take place this Sun
day afternoon, as usual, at 4:S0 o'clock, in st.
MichaePs Temperance hall.
The polygamy case Of Matilda Pollard
against Eugene T. Pollard came up il the dis
trict court yesterday on motion for alimony.
The motion was denied.
A pockctknife was picked up on the corner
of Sixth and Cedar streets, by an employe OF
the mill, supposed to be the one used by Bur
ton in the killing of George Larkin.
A couple of seedy muldoons named Pat
Harkins and James Mcdonald were up yester-
day, charged with having been beastly budged.
They went to Richter's roost for five days
each.
The bonds OF oaths of Office of Messrs.
Quinby, Hoyt, Terry and Peters, the new
members of the board of public works, were
filed in the register of deeds office Yesterday
afternoon.
Prof. Stein has arranged for the coming
summers series of Wednesday evening con-
certs at Rice Park by his Great Uni on band,
which will be stronger and better organiza-
tion than ever before.
Mike McNurney faced the music at Judge
Burr's bailiwick yesterday, charged with
polishing off a young man named Mccall.
The latter didn't care to prosecute and the
defendant was discharged.
Now, by st. Paul, the work goes bravcly on.
Two cripples and gang boss were observed
on Wabashaw street yesterday tickling up the
mud with their little hoes, and still the howl
goes up for better street regulations.
The auction sales yesterday at the corner of
Third and Cedar streets were attended by hum
dreds of apparently eager buyers, whose ap-
pearance and business was suggestive of the
coming of spring and the approach of moving
day.
Night before last young son OF Mr.. Prem
dergast was attacked and bitten by vicious
dog at the corner of Pleasant avenue and Ram
sey street. Yesterday Officer Vogtle took his
little gun and that purp was sent to the happy
land of canine.
A maniac, named James Brown. who is tied
up waiting for the spring freshet, hove to on
Wabashaw street night before last with more
benzine in his locker than he could comfortably
manipulate. He was yanked up, and yesterday
the spree cost him five ducats.
Special stamps for licenses were received
by Collector Bickel yesterday from the treas
ury department at Washington to the amount
of SS5,o00. They are for the tax year COM
mencing May 1st, but will be ready for is
suance on the first day of April.
One Brown, surnamed Peter. was before hiz-
zoner yesterday, charged with calcimining the
bugle of fellow workman named Healey. 1t
was shown that defendant had been attacked
by Healey, and that he had entered the COM
bat reluctantly, in the way of self-dcfense. He
was discharged.
The divorce case Of Patrick New VS.. Julia
N. New, in which action was brought On the
grounds of cruelty, came before Judge Wilkin
Yesterday, on motion for alimony and q de-
murrer to the complaint. The motion for
almony was denied and the demurrer taken
under advisement
The boom in building operations has never
equaled the present activity in st. Prul. The
business houses to be constructed during the
ensuing season will alone have a frontage Of
3,743 front feet or a frontage of three
quarters of mile in length. They are three,
four and five story buildings, and will be
erected in q style to surpass anything yet at
tempted in this city.
A degenerate fellow named Henry Terwelt,
who claims to be retired captain of Dutch
man -o'war, was before Judge Burr yesterday
charged with insulting his wife. The testi-
mony showed that the latter had left his bed
and board and was skipping the tra-la-le.
They met on the street last Friday and he took
her to task for her misconduct. The court
thought they were both to blame, but On
promise of good behavior, the sentence Of de-
fendant, thirty days, was suspended.
Yesterday afternoon, about 8 O'Clock, dis
charged soldier named Hurlbut climbed upon
a government wagon loaded with barrels of
oil, as it was passing the Metropolitan hotel.
He was flexible drunk and fell off, almost
directly under the wheels. The hind wheel
just gr azed his head and shoulders, as he lay
prone upon his face, stunned by the fall. Hs
was taken 30 the sidewalk, and soon recovered
sufficiently to walk off. He lives near the
corner of Sixth and Exchange streets.
James Brady, a Eshiftless tramp, COM
bines an adroitness for petty thieving with
all the lower clements Of vicious and shift
less career. He was before the court Friday
and promise to leave town. Yesterday be
was caught in the act of cabbaglng an over
coat from q farmers wagon on Wabashaw
street. The granger held him till Officer
Lowell came up and he was run in. He also