Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-20
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Since the late rains grass has started uI
green and fresh in many places as in the
spring time.
Charles and Joseph Knapps of Winona
have taken out letters patent for an i'm
proved curry-comb.
The Waseca Radical (Rep.) prefers Gen
Baker to either Window or Dunnell foz
the United States senate.
W. P. Hinkle, of Montevideo, has re-
ceived back pension money to the amount
of $1,1OO. His case has been before the
department for nearly twenty years.
A fourteen-year-oldi boy in Mankato, in
pulling gun through fence caught the
hammer on a rail and it was discharged
inhicting serious but not fatal wound.
The st. Peter Tribune attributes to
Whittier the following we'll known poetic
expression of Bryant: 'The melancholy
days have come, the saddest of the year."
Saltwater San, Oct. 10: John G. Nelson
came down yesterday from Long & Mel
sons camp, and reports that the Bob An
derson and Has McCusick party bagged
forty-two ducks the first day of their hunt
at Rice lake.
A44tCAO l. oils IQtty 4JQNSCTtDC, OCI.
Ex-Gov. G. X. Davis of st. Paul. generally
regarded as the finest orator in the state.
has taken the field for C. F. Kindred. He
will deliver his first speech in the present
campaign at Duluth.
Last week the remains of drowned
man, apparently about thirty-fve years of
age, were found floating in the river at
Minnesota, Wabashaw county. The body
was supposed to be that of John Sullivan.
capsized in boat near Alma.
A terrible prairie fire passed through
Murray, Lyon and portion of Redwood
counties last Sunday. The high wind pre-
vailing at the time hurried the flames
along at fearful rate OF speed. and hay
stacks, stables and other combustibles sue
cumbed in the conAagration. Mr.. Blais-
del, near Balaton, Lyon county, lost his
stables, ali his hay aud grain and only sue
ceeded in saving his horses and his cattle
with the greatest difficulty. Several other
parties in that vicinity lost heavily by the
fire.
According to the Minnesota Radical. alr
the senators elected this fall hold thei,
offices for four years. The Radical. in
speaking of the subject, says: ''The law
yers-an but Brownell-say we are wrong
on the senatorial question, that all sena-
tors elected this fall hold for four years.
They admit the law contemplated that half
the terms (the odd numbered districtsl
should expire in two years, but ball was
made in wording the law end now al the
senators will hold the full term and the
terms all expire at once"
Glencoe Enterprise: We understand
from different persons that Mr.. Liberty
Hall, of the Register, is favorably spoken
OF for the Office of insurance commissioner
of the state. Although differences have
existed between the Enterprise and the Reg
ister. it would give Us pleasure to see Mr..
Hall get the appointment. He has always
been "A ardent supporter of the present
state administration. and we think that
Gov. Hubbard would do but an act of ius-
tice to appoint him to the Office, for which.
no doubt, he is as well qualified as any
man in the state; and we mean just what
we say.
Mankota Rerie:v, Oct. IL: It is singu-
lar fact that while heavy frosts have visit
ed all the low lands in Minnesota. killing
the tender vines and vegetables and even
the corn, on the bluffs, such for instance
the one east of our city, cucumber and
pumpkin vines have been unframed, and
Mr.. Geo. e. Bea!s who lives on the side
hill has vines of both these species in bios.
SOM and maturing cucombers and pump
klns the same as summer. Samples of
both were left with us last week and the
fact that they were green and unframed.
shows that the frosts have not yet reached
that elevation.