Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-19
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DUB NORTHWESTERN NEIGHBORS.
News Gleanings and Points Specially
Collected andsForwarded by Tele-
graph to the Daily Globe.
Fargo Special kilograms, Dee. Is, to the st.
Paul Globe.
Daketr and Mentame Notes.

and is all paid for.
Up to Dec. II the weather in North
Dakota was suitable for base bali and
wild games in most sections.
Snow enough fell on the line of the N
P. in Dakota the first of the week to
make moderate but not smooth sleigh
ing.
The soldiers at Fort Lincoln have a
minstrel troupe under the name Of the
''Orlandos" which gives very pleasant en-
tertainmsnt.
One Jos. Marshall of Fargo wants some
one to walk against him from Fargo to
Bismarck anytime before Christmas.
Tramps can fall in.
1t is figured up that there are about $50
miles of railroad in operation in North
Dakota with indications that the figures
will be nearly doubled in 1884.
Bishop Walhsr, the new Episcopal pre-
late is expected to reach his field in North
Dakota early i'll January, and public re-
ception will no doubt be rendered him.
A Presbyterian church has been organ
lied at Niagara. This is Grand Forks
town. Ali the new settlements in Dakota
provide churches as feature of attraction
to settlers.
The trustees of the central Dakota uni
versity met at Ordway on the 18th and
made arrangements for the erection OF the
frat building which it is designed to put
up in the spring.
Some of the ladies of Detroit give an
entertainment Wednesday night consist
ing Of tableaux, statuary, songs, etc. The
editor of the Record has discouraged them
from further essays upon the ice.
Bismarck claims to be not more than
40 miles from the geographical center of
the territory Of Dakota. Still it will very
likely require considerable ballast to hold
the capital there in case the territory is
admitted as one state.
1t is reported that the editor in chief of
one Of the Fargo dailies is about to pro-
claim radical change in his religious
creed. There is however. nothing or the
mountainous character in the theological
structures Of any of them.
jamestown has a high license measure
to go into effect Jan. 1, and it is antici
pated that it will result in closing out
quite a portion Of the saloons. There
no apprehensions that the bibulous de-
mand of the community will be unsatis-
fed.
West of the Missouri there are in gen
eral ambitious little towns that are try
ing to get the eye and ear of incomers.
Sims and Little Missouri are to have
newspapers to proclaim their expecta-
tions in the way of coal and cattle. Mr..
Packard newspaper man OF Mandan is
at the head OF one of them.
Parties who want to secure telegraph
lines and become bloated monopolists can
have sn opportunity to invest on the 22d
at Bismarck. The government in prusu-
ance of its economical freak in regard to
the signal service, will sell the 2O6 miles
of wire from Bismarck to Fort Buford,
and the 1853 miles from Fort Bennett to
Fort Meade, in Dakota.
1t is claimed that at Ordwsy from five
to ten cents a bushel more is paid for
wheat than at nsighooring points in
Central Dakota. There is a surprising
difference in the prices paid for the great
staple at maRy points in Dakota, for
which there 10 no apparent reason e1-
oept the fact that some buyers take unfair
advantage of their opportunities.
The first issue of the Fargo Evening
Call, which has appeared, is quite up to
ticipations, and has champagne
sparkle to its columns. 1t starts in with
good subscription list and the evil
dences Of vitality. Its success seems as
sured provided there is judicious manage
ment, and not a surfeit Of brightness
and there are definite orbits for all the
stars.
Among the social events that add to the
aggregate of human felicity may be men
Toned the recent marriage of Fred W. Arm
old and Miss Abbie White at Grand Forks.
Fred is a young business man there who
has made hosts of friends in residence
of year, and the bride was formely
Cincinnati belle and on visits to Grand
Forks was captured by the gailantry and
manly demeanor of the young Dakota
merchant.
Capt. Egbert has concluded that he
fell short of the goal of municipal ambi-
ton last April by modestly waiting too
long for the Office to hunt the man, and
with the same ambition, he does not
mean to fall into the like error the COM
ing spring. His face is said to be al
ready set toward the eminezce where
fame and power sit enthroned. AS a
prelude he, With others. has bought the
plant of the defanct Evening Post.
At the Colby benefit Tuesday night the
opera hose was crowded with as fine an
audience as ever gathered within its walls.
Thsre was perhaps fuller representation
of tbs culture, society and theological
classes than has ever gathered .t popu-
lar entertainment here. It was q pener-
GUS and spontaneous tribute to merit, and
tireiess service in the treadmill of every
benevolent, humane or ohsrch undertaking
as well as a season of unqualified enjoy
ment. One of even callous sensibilisies
could but be touched at SO marked an ex-
preston of appreciation.
The Evening Capital, which was start
ed at Bismarck at the time of the
boom over the location of the capital
and was sheet worthy of life, has given
up the struggle and passed in its checks
chiefly from the fact that IT had more
checks TO pay out than to take in by
about two thousand dollars. The ener-
petic MANAGER Ed Henderson has Tnodo