Daily globe., 1883-05-15

ner of Fourth and Sibley yesterday.
Prof. Kiehle d leaves the city to-day to
conduct the examination of the GAINESVILLE
high school.
= julius Krausett has conveyed to Her
mann Zerndt, lot Z, block 1, Irvine's addl-
ton, for $4,000.
Two allowances of back pensions of
5000 we're received at the adjutant gener-
ars Office yesterday.
Fire alarm box number twenty-four
was pulled off the post by some ones horse
that was hitched to it.
The work Of grading Eighth street be-
tween Cedar and Wabashaw streets was
commenced yesterday.
The Market hall bell is cut out of the
circuit and will not sound any more at
present when fires occur.
Chief Engineer Black, of the fire de-
partment, was given leave Of absence last
night to go to Milwaukee for his family.
The portraits Of the members of the late
senate and house, the property of U. S.
Senator Sabin, have been boxed up and
sent to his residence at saltwater.
A gentleman who visited the land sale up
al Lake Minnetonka on Friday, says the
forest trees up there have not unpacked
their trunks of a sign of foliage, aud stand
out boldly in winter nakedness.
1t takes a pile of scrubbing to keep the
tiles of the state house hall in respectable
appearance. The original laying of them
was faulty done, which caused partial
discoloration of the white tiles, so that a
very little dirt thereon makes bad show.
A musical and literary entertainment
will be given at Standard hall, on Thurs
day evening, the 18th inst, by the Young
Peoples club (colored). 1t will consist of
vocal and instrumental music, recitations
and essays, and will be worthy of liberal
patronage.
A deed was filed yesterday from j. w.
Bass to J. P. Gribben conveying lots 8, 8,
10, II, -, 13, IA, Is, 16, II, Is, 10, 20, 81,
%, % and a Of block 1, and lots 8 to 30
of block 2, J. W. Bass subdivision of lots
IS, Il and of Calling's addition of
out lots to st. Paul, for $4,000.
The board of public works have good
deal of their time occupied lately in set
fling the matter of improvements contem
plated up on St Anthony hill, where they
have evidently met ''lions in the way" but
whether to any formidable extent we have
not yet learned.
A com mittee of ladies will be in attend
ance at Sherman hall after the hour iof two
o'clock Thursday afternoon, next, to re-
ceive the refreshments that may be donat-
ed for the dramatic and promenade con-
cert entertainment, which takes place on
Thursday evening, for the benefit Of st.
John the Evangelist church.
IAN uncle of Thomas Young, the crazy
man. that was arrested Sunday morning,
was in st. Paul yesterday afternoon. His
name is J. ". Turnbull. He was at No.
239 Norris street, and is an engineer for
the Standard Oil company. This man
Young had nice business III Meadvilie,
Pa, and sold out. He was on his way to
Dakota to buy up land and got c!aZy III St.
Paul. He is single man, and bis folks
reside twenty miles from Cleveland, ..
The Oldest inhabitant of st. Paul, who is
not bald-headed and who has no gray hair
back of his ears, says that the present May
sourness of weather, as well as the severity
of the past win er, has not been visiting up
this way since corresponding seasons of
1858. Then he buttoned up his fur-lined
ulster about his ears, groaned out some
thing alb out Jumbo coal and wood &C.
count, and st arted off home just as though
he was mad. Singular-very singular.
Henry Lcomis of St. Peter was tried last
week on an old count for hypothecating
wheat tickets, (having its origin certainly
as far back as $780, and going through
legal evolutions from that up to the present
time) and was sentenced by the judicial
court to thirteen months in the penitenti
ary. He was brought as far as this city on
Wednesday last by a sheriff, where he was
pardoned by Gov. Hubbard and returned
TO ST. Peter on the same train with the
sheriff, but out of durance vile.
1t did not seem out of place at all just
as the shades of night were being dropped
down over daylight last evening to find a
street evangelist, on the corner of Third
and Minnesota streets, holding forth to a
mixed but quite respectable audience
on the subject of Divine love, for is not
our city named after the greatest of the
evangelists, and is it not fitting he should
have examplers here? The heart of the
stranger was evidently in his work, his ap
parel cleanly, while his words were those
of t.frT1th and SoherneSS -