Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-12
CITY GLOBULES

this morning
The Terpsichorean society gave delightful
party at College hall last evening.
The Jail has been newly whitewashed and
presents sweet and clean appearance
C.. J. Monfort raid import duties on brandy
Yesterday to the amount of $1S6.1S.
The Union club has organized for another
party, which will be held on Friday evening,
Jan. 81.
Adiutant General Van Cleve yesterday re-
ceived notice of the allowance of an invalid
pension claim for 81, 975. SO.
The United States circuit court will be in
session to-day, when the case ofJohn Wann VS..
P. H. Kelly will be taken up.
The committee on ways and means of the
county board were engaged yesterday in connt.
ing the county vouchers for the past fifteen
months.
In the district court yesterday Mr.. Otis re-
tanned the struck jury in the case of A. r.
Capehart VS.. James King, which was contin-
ned to the 31st inst.
A. o. Bailey & Co. had on exhibition yester-
day fine wool from near Pennington, which
was fourteen to fifteen inches long. Beat that
if you can. Burdick gives it up.
man named Chas. Jay, from Detroit, this
state, was before United States Commissioner
Cardozo Yesterday, charged with selling liquor
10 Indians. He was held in $500 and COM
mitted.
A drunken cigar-maker was arrested on
Third street by Officer Babe yesterday after
noon for insulting q lady. The wretch was
yanked to the tower, and Oh being searched, a
half hundred roots were found in his pockets.
A party and masquerade ball was given at
the Sherman house last evening, participated
in by the guests and quite a large number of
citizens. The costumes were unique, fantastic
and beautiful and very enjoyable time was
had.
1t will be disappointment, no doubt, to a
number of old-young men and youngold men
to know that the Como dancing party, to
which they were invited for Thursday evening,
has been indefinitely postponed--for reasons
prudential.
The next meeting of the Lyceum of the M.
E. church will be on the evening of Monday,
the 25th inst The officers elected last Mon
day evening for the ensuing year are, H. K.
Brill, president; D. A. Congdon, vice president;
and Miss Frank Minor, secretary
About o'clock yesterday afternoon pedes
trian was knocked down and run over by q
cutter at the corner of Fifth and Wabashaw
streets. The cutter passed over one of his legs,
and, considering that he jumped up and
skipped off, he was not hurt much.
James O'Farrell, an old and well known
resident of the city, died at his residence on
Dayton Bluff, Oh Monday. Mr.. O'Farrell was
an impulsive but good hearted man, and up
right and honorable. His funeral takes place
from the Cathedral at 9 A. NJ. to-day.
The new assistant signal officer has arrived
His name is Cone, weight eleven pounds, and
he will sustain the reputation of the corps as
weather sharp. If squalls fail to come as
lungs and fine physique. Mother and boy
doing well.
painful accident occurred on Mt. Airy
street yesterday afternoon, resulting in serious
injury to q lad named Frank Clark About 4
o'clock, while coasting on that thoroughfare
his sleigh collided with q lamp post, throwing
the lad to the ground and breaking his righ1
leg. He was removed to the residence of his
parents on Somerset street.
Mr.. w. F. Steele, the banana king of tn,
NOGtucTn IdCllC, WHO6C MISFORTUNE Win
recently purchased trotter from Kentucky wa,
recorded in Tuesday mornings GLOBE, ha.
traded the animal for q riding mare called
Maud S. He had the mare out on the Como
road for exercise last evening, and is perfect,
delighted with her movements.
While driving on Eighth street yesterda,
forenoon, horse attached to a cutter driver
by Mrs Blair, mother-in-law of Mr. M. D
Miller hnnono frf md ,,1u rinc for
ward, overturned the cutter, throwing Mrs
Blair to the street. The lady suffered severely
from the shock, but sustained no permanent
injuries. She was assisted to her residence OF
University avenue.
Gov. Pillsbury yesterday advanced $500
from his own private funds to complete the
furnishing and heating of the insane asylum
at Rochester, the appropriation for that pur-
pose having been exhausted. The necessity OF
completing this work Immediately so as to
properly care for the insane recently sent to
Rochester from st. Peter was urgent; hence
Gov. Pillsbury's action.
John Leroy frisky little frog eater, ma
nipulates the goose at the tailor shop at Fl.
Smelling. He got on toot Monday aud while
going the rounds called on Long Kate, where
he collared d handsome and valuable silk sack,
being in turn gobbed by officer Baer. Yester-
uiy Ht was DcIOIC IHe court. Long hdue SIaI'
d that he was in liquor and that she thought
he took it in the way of joke. He was sent
up for twenty days.
Harry Williams, young boy of Perham,
Otter Tail county, has contributed two spirit.
ed sketches, illustrating his ideas of the advan-
tages of his home over other regions. One
represents an Indiana farmer, his old horse and
cattle, all looking as if they had had the ague
till they had shaken all the fat and muscle out
Of their bodies. The other portrays the same
farmer, horse and cattle, two years afterward,
in Otter Tail county--all fat and frisky and evil
IDENTIFY possessed of healthy appetites and an
abundance to feed them.
The flourish of trumpets with which the
Pollard Finch-Preston case was ushered before
the public bids fair to develop into a whole
brass band, so to speak, of litigation Yester-
day an action was begun by VIM. F. Smythe,
attorney for Mrs. Preston nee Pollard, his eli.
ent, to enforce payment of S155, alleged to be
due for professional services rendered as her
attorney. 1t is claimed that plaintiff expended
the sum of S45 at her request, and that the
balance is due for services. Day before YES
terday plaintiff endeavored to garnishee sum
of money supposed to be on deposit in the
First National bank of Minneapolis, but as
there was no money there he got left.