Daily globe., 1882-09-28
NO 27I
PERSONAL.

Hon. j. G. Pierce, of Red Wing, spent a
few hours in st. Paul yesterday.
Hon. Herman Greve returned home yes
terday from business trip to Chicago
Mr.. A. MeKinstry, of the Faribault Re
publican, was in the city yesterday.
Hon. w. II. Officer, of Austin, ''the sena-
tor from Mower was in the city yester-
day.
Mr. c. livingston and A. B. stickney
returned home yesterday from a business
trip east.
Hon. j. W. Arctander, Willmar, the we'll
known and eloquent advocate, is visiting
in the city.
Hon. John F. Meagher, of Mankato,y visits
st. Paul occasionally, and yesterday was
one of his days.
P. II. Kelley, Esq, left last evening for
one of his business trips to New York and
other eastern cities.
Hon. W. w. Billson, of Duluth, arrived
in the city yesterday morning, and is reg
istered at the Merchants.
Hon. Levi Nutting, of Faribaultpaid st.
Paul a visit yesterday, for the first time
| after 10! these many months.
Hon. Charles A. Ruffee, from the new
precinct of Cass county, in the Fifth CON
gressional district, is in the city.
G. @. Wilson, Esq, OF Rochester,
prominent citizen of southern Minnesota,
was among the arrivals at the MetropoIi-
tan yesterday.
W. J. Murphy, Esq, the enterprising
editor and publisher of the daily Grand
Forks Cd. T.) PIoindedJer, has been spend
ing few days in st. Paul and its vicinity.
Gen. J. A. Baker, state railroad COM
missioner, left last evening for Hutchin-
son, Mcleod county, where he delivers the
annual address before the county fair to-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Merriam viii cele-
brate their tin wedding at their new resi-
dence, No. 25 University avenue, near the
head of Robert street, on Tuesday next,
October 3.
William K. Weaver, Esq. representing
the we'll known wholesale house OF j. NJ.
W. Jones & Co., Of Chicago, has been
spending few days in the northwest. He
has learned something during his trip
about this neck of woods.
Mr.. E. S. Austin, of Wildwood, Wiscon-
sin, formerly an old resident of Minneso-
ia, paid his old home a visit yesterday. 1t
was his first visit to st. Paul for several
years. and he was .'oxtonished''
Conductor Howard, familiarly known as
dan Howard one of the Oldest and best
known ticket punchers in the northwest,
was kept busy yesterday shaking hands
with his numerous friends in St. Paul.
Col. w. II, II. Taylor, state librarian, ar
rived back yesterday from vacation of
two weeks spent at and about Lake Osakis.
The colonel pronounces the sitnation
grand, and the country the finest he ever
saw, but hereafter he proposes. to take his
summer vacation little earAer IN the
season.
John NJ. d. Crossaw, Esq, the proprie-
tor of the Monongahela house at Pitts
burgh, Pa, having heard of the fame of the
! Merchants hotel in this city, has come in
person to see whether there has not been
some tall lying about this noted hostelry
of the northwest Mr.. Crossaw has the
reputation of being a hotel man that is a
| yard wide, all wool and snow white, and his
report will be looded for with interest by
the travelling public.
! There was a sort of an extra session Of
the senate at the Merchants hotel yester-
| day. The roll which was not called dis
closed the fact that Senators Clement of
Rice county, Howard of st. Louis county,
Officer of Mower county, and ex-senator
Meagher of Blue Earth were present. With
the members of the third house, there was
sufficient to form quorum, and the regu-
| lar business was proceeded with and one
or two bills were passed.