Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-21
CITY GLOBULES.

almost as good as new.
Allowances of back pensions to the
amount of $4,000 were received by Adiu-
tant General Hawley yesterday.
a stuffed owl in the state house is really
wrapped up in a copy of the P. p, whose
deeds also are of the darkness. ApprOpri-
ate mantle.
Messrs. Kiefer s. Schurmeier yesterday
sold lots l, . and 3,block 4, Holcombe's ad-
diVion, for $4,000, the same being on Day
ton avenue.
A wag has got a plan for a new court
house IN his head, and that is to have it
fourteen stories high and cover an entire
square. He wears a seven and a half
beaver.
The popular style about town of calling the
central telephone Office is: "Hello, central,
cut of the Pioneer Press and give mead
ding the name Of whoever may be
wanted,
The Bank Of Minneapolis having fled
certificate of incorporation according to
law, purchased its certificate of State Aud
itor Brayton yesterday and commenced
business on that date.
Miss Susanna Gruber has conveyed to
John L. Merriam, 103 feet on Seventh
street, by ninety on Fifth street, for
$1,000. The property is located short
distance below Berkey's livery stable, on
Seventh street.
VIM. Morrison, for some time past edi-
tor of the now defunct Winona Tribune,
has assumed an editorial position an the
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Of Edmund R. Otis, who proposes to de
vote his entire time to the publication of
At Home.
The incorporators of the st. Paul Fruit
company met in the Office of the Fire G.
Marine Insurance company at 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon, and continued the
stock soliciting committees, and adjourned
to May 2, the day designated in the articles
of incorporation for completing the or
ganization and the election of officers.
The condition of the Rev. Mr.. Breed yes
terdaY was such as to relieve his relatives
and friends of all apprehension. No bones
are broken, and so far as can be Judged
there are no internal injuries calculated to
cause the least alarm. 1t is supposed that
he will be out in the course of a week or
two.
All the pet female names are in vogue
ia st. Paul as plentiful as in other parts of
the country with the exception of that of
Mime. No paterfamilias who names his
girl Mime can ever hope to be mayor of
the city of the bluffs. It's too suggestive
of something higher up the stream, for the
average ST. Paul personal appetite appel
lative.
The workhouse commitments IN the
municipal court yesterday morning were
fonr il number, and aggregated one hun
dred and twenty-five days. Two of the
commitments were for larceny, one for
sixty ana the other for thirty days, vag
Thirty Gays and simple drunk five days.
There are oaly thirty-two prisoners in the
wOrkhouse now, the smallest number since
the institution opened.
''Who is the woman?'' was the current
cJaundrum about town yesterday after
noon when the Minneapolis scandal was
supposed to involve st. Paul lady. NJ
merOus wiseacres who are always ready to
think ill of their neighbors, gave knowing
winks and intimated that they could name
the guilty party. They will be much
chagrined to find that the offending female
He was over to the board of public works
with the plan in his head of getting his
assessment for laying out street reduced
from $23 and some cents, but Judge of
his "pheelinks" when, after full hearing
of his case, the board saw him $14 better,
and placed his benefits at S37 and few
more cents. Twas ever thus, from
childhood's hour" murmured he, 'and this
luck comes to me after weathering the
toughest winter since Washing ton crossed
the Delaware"
n. Nelson lodged at the station house
last night, charged by P. NJ. johnson, who
roomed with him Thursday night at the
Stockholm house, with relieving him of
$57 in currency. In proof of his charge
Johnson asserts that Nelson was dead
broke Wednesday, on which day he Dor
rowed 1915 to pay bills incurred, and that
on Thursday he was flush, getting $40
bills changed at different places, while he.
johnson, was minus the amount above
designated.
The swan and fountain brought from
Chicago by Mr.. Van Slyke for Rice park
has arrived and can be seen in Prendergast
Brothers store on Third street. In coming
off at the thirty ninth vertebra, and since
the graceful fowl has been in st. Paul, his
condition has been considered critical.
Prendergast says, however, after making
careful diagnosis of the bird, that he can
be saved and that that vertebra can he
made just as good as new. So much for a
competent doctor.
The village of White Bear has brought a
suit in the district court against II. L.
Hinckly. The complainant recites that
for many years there has been road in
existence known as the st. Paul, Lake
Phalen and White Bear road, which runs
from ST. Paul to White Bear lake; that
tdis road has been worked by the town OF
White Bear; that the defendant is endeav-
oring now to place distinctions in the
road by building a large house thereon,
and otherwise. The plaintiff therefore
asks taat a temporary injunction be issued
to restrain the defendant from interfering