Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24
Sergeant Signal Corps, q. 8. A.
TO-DAY's WEATHER.
CITY GLOBULEs.

The public schools are closed for the
holidays.
Most of the business houses will close up
tomorrow.
Mary Keene was allowed divorce yes
terday from Horace Keene.
The postofice will be open few hours,
as is usual on Christmas day.
The banks and courts and county offices
will be closed on Christmas day.
There will be good music tomorrow
morning at the cathedral and at St.
Mary's.
Messrs. Corlies, Chapman & Drake
gave to each of their employees turkey
for Christmas.
The receipts of the St. Paul Street Rail
way company tomorrow will be donated
to the employees.
M. G. Kimberly, assistant engineer of
construction on the Northern Pacific at
Billings, is in st. Paul.
Sheriff Richter. will give his prisoners in
the county Jail an opportunity tomorrow
to taste of the turkey bird. fntas -.
The two posts, G. A. R., this city, have
accepted an invitation of the Minneapolis
post to have camp fire on Tuesday even
ing next.
The st. Paul Gas Light company gave
to each of its employees turkey and can
of oysters. 1t took three hundred pounds
of the American bird to go around.
All the railroad offices will be closed on
Christmas day, though some of the officers
and employees will be around during a part
of the day just to see that business is being
attended to.
A concert will be given in the basement
of st. Joseph's church, corner of Virginia
avenue and Carroll street, on the evening
of the 2Sth, for the benefit of the schools
in the parish.
The Bennett Seminary association of
Hennepin county filed amendments to
their articles of incorporation with the
secretary of state yesterday, increasing
their capital stock to $4,000.
Yesterdays GLOBE mentioned the arrest
of two men for robbery at the Minnesota
house. 1t seems there is a Minnesota
house and Minnesota home and it was
at the ''home' that the robbery took place.
J..F. Alexander, who has just resigned
his position as superintendent of the st.
Paul Street railway, is Weather by hand
some gold watch and chain which he re-
ceived as Christmas present from the
men at work for the company.
Youmans Bros. & Hodgins, of Winona
filed amended articles of incorporation
with the secretary of state yesterday. The
firm are engaged in numbering, the scope
OF which is enlarged by the amendments
to their articles of incorporation in cues
ton.
The streets and shops were full of peo-
pie yesterday all of whom were engaged in
selecting and purchasing presents fol
Christmas. An immense business was done
by all the retail dealers, and everybody
went home with their hands full of pres
ents that were to gladden. the hearts of the
little ones.
WI. Connally and c. Blair, boarders al
Lew Cornish's boarding house, 379 Rosabe
street, made complaint to the chief oil
police last evening of having been robbed
the former of an overcoat and the latter
of watch. The articles were in thei,
room at noon, but we're gone when they re-
turned at night.
Edward Hammond, the colored porter al
Martins, Jackson street, was arrested Fri
day evening as about to take the train fol
Chicago on suspicion of having abstracted
$1O5 from the pocket of the proprietor
pleaded guilty when arraigned in the mu
nicipal court yesterday morning, and was
held to the grand jury, standing committed
in the meantime in default of $1,000 bail
The December term of the United States
court, Judges McCrary and Nelson presid
ing, adjourned at the close of yesterdays
session to Wednesday, Jan. 8, to which
date the petit jury is excused. The Sos.
sion has been a very busy one, the two
judges sitting separately most of the
time, while several very important cases
pending for years, have been finally dis.
posed of.
PERSONAL.