Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-19
SALTWATER GLoBULEs.

SALTWATER GLOBULES.
The district court reconvened yesterday
afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Dressed beef sold yesterday for six and
a half cents per pound.
The Sunday school scholars of Ascension
church are to have Christmas tree.
The Simons' Comedy company are
booked at the Grand Opera house for all
of next week.
Washington chapter No. II, r. A. NJ,
will install their officers elect in public on
Thursday evening, Dec. 81.
A report was in circulation yesterday
that the Car and Manufacturing company
would shut down for a week.
The present is to be a mild winter. So
says gentleman who has thus far sue
ceeded in freezing his feet and ears.
Workmen are engaged in putting on the
slate roof on the new depot. It is to be
hoped there will be no more accidents to
record.
The Presbyterian people are said to be
meeting with gratifying success in obtain
ing subscriptions toward building their
new church.
The streets were throngsd with teams
yesterday. The merchants are having
their harvest time, of which they are max
ing the most.
Mr.. McGann and Miss Fallon left on the
Monday evening train for visit to their
old homes in Madison, Wis. They intend
to be absent two weeks.
Last night Prof. Palmer delivered his
last lecture in this city for the present.
The whole course has been well attended,
and are very highly spoken of.
The entertainment given by the Man.
nerchor on Sunday night at Music hall was
largely attended. Everything passed off
in the most satisfactory manner.
Quite number of tickets we're sold for
the readings by Mr.. Arctander last Satur-
day night. The attendance was net large,
owing to the cold which prevailed that
night.
Rev. Thomas McCleary, pastor of the
First Methodist church in this city, will
lecture in Excelsior on Tuesday evening,
and the Wednesday evening following at
St. Peter.
-Four dodgers graced the city hall with
their presence from Saturday night until
Monday morning. One of them procured
work; the others shook the snow off their
feet and departed hence.
Any of the readers of the GLOBE who are
DESTROYS of purchasing Christmas goods
should call at the N.nety-nine cent store,
where they will find large and varied as
sortment to select from.
Townsend & Co. have forty Car loads of
coal on the road, which they expect in a
few days. The company ordered it Nov.
Is. They will have enough to supply all
demands in day or two.
There has not been an arrest for the last
three days. The city hall was empty Tues
day night. One young chap applied for
lodging, but a man came in and hired him.
The young fellow WINS apparently glad of
the chance.
The market is we'll supplied with beef
and pork at present. Large amounts are
purchased for the pineries, which has a
tendency to keep up prices. Yesterday
beef sold from TX to cents per pound,
pork 8 and 81.
Wood is coming into market quite free
ly from the country, but those who are
compelled to purchase have probably be-
come aware that the price remains the
same. Those who control the wood market
will take good care that the poor farmer
does not have to sell his wood for nothing.
John Sherrard, who made the attempt on
his life last Saturday morning, is yet in
rather precarious condition. On Sunday
he had violent coughing spell which re-
suited in bursting the thread with which
the wound on his throat was sewed. In
consequence of this mishap the surgeon in
charge was compelled to perform his work
over again.
this season no great length of time will
elapse before there will be none to slaugh-
ter. A gentleman whose business calls
him along The lines of the st. Paul & On
luth and North Wisconsin roads, states that
the carcasses of these animals are being
shipped in large numbers by the pot
hunters by whom the woods are thronged.
He further states that between these men
and the Indians the deer will soon bscome
extinct in this part of the country.
Geo. Warner came down from the woods
Sunday to procure surgical aid, he having
broken his arm last Thursday afternoon.
He was at work near where two men were
engaged in telling large pine. As it fell
it lodged on a birch tree, the top of which
was snapped of. Before Warner could
get out of the way he was struck on the
arm by the broken tree top, with the re-
suit as above. In order to reach railroad
station he was compelled to ride thirty five
miles in wagon, from the jolting of which
he suffered most excruciating agony,
caused by the rubbing together of the sew
eral bones.
Fatal Railway Collision.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 18.-The east bound
passenger express train on the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati & st. Louis road, leaving here
at o'clock, collided with the limited ex-
press due here at 8. but which WAS three