Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-07
SALTWATER.

Staples and c. N. Nelson & Co.'s mill start
ed up yesterday.
insolvency will commence to-day to lay
brick for his new block.
The water in the lake continues to fall at the
rate of ten inches each day.
The steamer G.. B. Knapp will take party
to Taylors Falls tomorrow.
Seats and new bonnets are all the 60 for the
opening at the Opera house.
J. J. Robinson and John Ellingsworth left
yesterday for Iowa to buy cattle.
The new fountain will not sprout In the
council room; they don't take WATER ggs
Capt. G. B. Knapp will commence work for
government on the st. Croix in a few days.
At 8 o'clock Yesterday over five hundred
seats had been sold at the Grand Opera house.
The windows and columns of ssThe Grand"
are receiving their finishing touch. It will be
opened next week. & eggc5 q
Geo. Evans sprained his wrist quite severely
He now promenades around the baggage with
his hand in sling.
DIR. Haskell returned home from the East in
time to attend the auction sale of seats at
the Grand Opera house.
Capt. Ben. Knapp has been laid up for q
| few days with sore throat. tits pretty rough
on Ben. when he can't talk. ar-3.' - II
Mr.. Eldridge has nearly disposed of his
opera glasses. They have been rented for the
opening at the Opera house. 10 eA
In few DAYS the iron fence for the city
hall lot will be up, aud the fountain will be
playing stream of cool, fresh water.
The galvanized iron cornice on McKusick
| block, and, by the way, the finest in the city,
| is progressing finely. The front is now COM
pleted. b. ~efi. s gT.
The railroad men on the upper road are put
| ting on heaps of style with their new uniforms.
All the principal men on the train are uni
formed.
will be opened in few days in the building on
Chestnut street lately occupied by the express
| company.
The streams and river on the upper St.
Croix are reported to be very low and the
driving almost impossible, and in many rivers
| it has been deemed advisable to stop and the
men are fast coming down.
| Yesterday morning whilesthe workmen were
passing into the prison yard tramp attempted
| TO 20 in with them. But Heber brought his
shooting iron to bear on him and ordered him
| to about face and march back, which he very
consistently did.
The subject of the lecture to be delivered at
the Universalist church Sunday evening by the
/ Otf. w. u. hdIIlu&GOu Will 4AV lOOus
These lectures are unusually interesting Of
they disprove the theory OF IngersOll and
some other skeptics.
D. NJ. Sabin is expected home from Chicago
to-day; when he gets back we expect to sex
immediate steps taken to erect large cal
works: the company have had the matter
under consideration for some time and we
understand that they have decided to build the
works.
The water works have put stream onto the
hill, in the rear of the city hall, and are fast
washing it down into the ravine below. They
have already made about five acres OF land
that can be used for building lots, which be-
fore was nothing but q sand bank and deep
ravlne.
The child taken up by Doctors Pratt ant
Clarke Thursday was returned to its home
yesterday. 1t proved to belong to German
/ family living near the prison wall. The family
had not been over from Germany but few
days. 1t was some trouble to find it's parents
as the child would not speak when spoken u
in its own language. ~
The car works and the shoe factory wheI
put into operation will add to this city Ovei
one hundred families, and at pre-
sent there is not tenement houses for those tina
are here now. Why doesn't some of oul
manufacturing firms and property holders
take hold and put up houses for rent, and IN
courage people to come here. People have beer
obliged to stay out of this city for the wan
Of suitable rent.
The ushers at the Grand Opera house last
night, Willis Prince, Chas. Easton, Will
Bromley, Chas. Foster, Jim Rhodes and VIII
Stewart, acquitted themselves nobly. Mex
Thursday the boys will have chance to LEI
themselves out, as it is the opening night
and there will be one OF the largest and mos
/ co. o,,1i hat mot fht
city, but the boys are all prompt and acquaint
ed with their business, and they are not going
to make skip nor break during the even