Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-31
CITY GLoBULEs.

To-day is the last day for paying taxes.
Look out for yourselves.
The granite curbing for the pavement on
lower Third street is being laid.
4 The board of trade of St. Paul closed up
yesterday on account of Decoration day.
A meeting of the Woman's Christian Tem-
perance Union is to be held at the Y. M. G.
A. at o'clock this afternoon.
4 portion of the cedar blocks for the pave
ment on lower Third street from sibley TO
Bro adway are being delivered.
The Protestant Orphan Asylum annual
meeting is to be held at the rooms OF the Y.
NJ. c. A. at $50 this afternoon.
The lie Seueur county sheriff passed through
st. Paul to saltwater with the tramp who
committed an Indecent assault upon little
girl, and who was sentenced for life at STILL
water.
The diocesan council of the Episcopal
church will be held at Christ church, this
city, the 14th and 18th of June next. The
exercises are expected to be of an unusually
interesting nature.
Thos. Mccormick, The tramp who rode off
with Frank McGraw's horse and neglected to
return him, was held to the grand jury in the
municipal court yesterday morning, and In
default OF $3.50 bonds was committed for trial.
Last evening two fellows obtruded them
selves upon the German fair now in progress
at Pfeifer's hall, under the pretense of being
reporters of the Fargo Argus. 1t would not
be healthy for them to repeat the experiment.
Some time during Monday night the resi-
dence of John Eagan, on Western avenue,
was entered, as is supposed, by tramp, who
took a suit of clothes belonging to Mr..
Eagan and left ragged old suit in the place
of those taken.
Census bulletin No. 2S2, giving the num-
Der of families in the United States, and the
number of persons to family, etc., shows
that Maine leads in the percentage of persons
to family, her ratio being SIS. West Vir-
ginia comes next, 5.54, while Minnesota and
Kentucky come next, 5.45 each.
The annual meeting for the election of a
board of managers of the Protestant Orphan
asylum will be held to-day at o'clock in the
afternoon at the rooms of the Y. M. G. A..
The reports of the secretary and treasurer
will be read, the orphans will be present, and
the meeting will be addressed by Gen. R. w.
johnson.
Lavalle, who was arrested last Sunday on a
charge of robbery at Glencoe, and who was
taken up to Mcleod county on Monday, was
there held to bail in the sum of SO 500, in de-
fault of which he was returned to St. Paul
and placed in Ramsey county Jail for safe
keeping where he now is.
Last evening the organization Of the double
quartet, under the management of Prof.
Frank Wood, was completed. This organiza.
ton will consist of sixteen selected male
singers, chosen for the superiority of their
voices. They will receive instruction from
the director, Prof. Wood, and will seek to i'm
prove and perfect themselves in the art of
singing with view of constituting singing
band as near perfection IN vocal music as pos
sible.
Mr.. w. r. Merriam has just returned from
Washington with contract to supply the
government with S,5OO,eOO pounds
of beef and 100000 pounds of
bacon. The beef is to BIZ delivered
at Rosebud, Brule and Santee agencies, by
the 18th day of November next. The bacon
is to be delivered at Sioux City. Maxfeld &
Co., also have just taken a contract from the
government to supply 100000 pounds of
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