Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-13

The river is steadily falling at Taylors
Falls.
Franconia, Chisago county, is now an
incorporated village.
The harley harvest will succeed the hay
ing season. and is near at hand.
Wheat and oats look finely. Corn is
backward, but is pushing ahead vigor-
ously.
Over seven thousand tickets were sold
for Coles circus afternoon entertainment
at Taylors Falls,
1t is reported that ex-senator Window
has sold his residence in Winona for $1O,-
600, and thus his last semblance of being a
resident of Minnesota is extinguished.
The st. Peter Tribune says man caught
260 pounds of fish in Lake Emily one day
last week, and the day was not Sunday
either.
S. E. Rolf, in Burnside, Goodhue county,
the other day, carelessly handling a revoIv-
er, shot himself in the leg, inficting only a
flesh wound,
A ''sham bottle was advertised as one
of the attractions of the military parade
at New UIm. A 'bottle" we'll charged
generally proves to be no ''sham."
The villainous dog poisoner is abroad in
Albert Lea, destroying, indiscriminately,
the valuable with the worthless CANNES. A
dog poisoner is a mean cur any way.
An alteration and the use of a revolver
closed up dance in "a secOnd-class hotel
in Sleepy Eye July 4. A bystander was
hit in the head receiving a scalp wound.
The other night the Hon. c. Amundson
and his son found horse thief in their
stable, endeavoring to take away a horse.
The thief was captured at the pistols
mouth.
The Lake Crystal Union says that Pat
Sullivan, engineer, and Shannon, the con-
ductor on the Omaha road were suspend
ed last week for thirty days for running a
cattle train twenty-five miles in thirty-tive
minutes.
The thermometer is reported to. have
reached 107 degrees in the shade in LIE
Sueur during the late heated term. This
is supposed to be about as hot as the place
sin futurity" (which the superorthodox
Henry Ward Beecher, declares since he re-
| ceived his new light, does not exist!
Rochester Post: A man came into town
to spend the Fourth. He brought S14
with which he promised to buy his wife a
lounge. He saw a man putting SIC
gold piece inside the wrapper around a
cake of soap, and selling them for SO.
He invested his 81 and got two five cent
cakes of soap.
1t is said the miscalIed 'boy preacher
Harrison, now middle aged, if not an
old man (once, probably, boy, was a
dismal failure at the Red Rock camp meet
ing Empty, rhodomontade, sensational
preaching does not wear. Better dismiss
the young, or old gentleman, as the case
may be, to private life.
Complaints come from numerous places
of the stealing of flowers from cemeteries
The depravity of this act of despoiling
| graves of flowers placed upon
them by the tender hands OF
affection, in the sadness OF mourn
ing bereavement can hardly be
| measured. What such brutal motives can
find to enjoy in the beautiful garniture of
flowers with which God clothes the land is
past finding out.
LIE Sueur Ne1US: Quite a little excite
ment was caused Monday evening, at
about $50 p. m. by the alarm of fire.
Upon investigation it was discovered to be
the feed mill belonging to Mr.. Jos. Boett-
cher. The fire seems to have caught from
hot journal in the elevator, igniting the
roof. Fortunately, there was no wind
blowing, which made it quite easy to get
control of the flames. Mr.. Boettcher esti-
mates his loss at about 1875, which is fully
covered by insurance.
Waseca Herald: The lightning rod men
have new dodge. They are as affable as
ever and if possible will deceive the very
elect" They agree to rod building for
a certain price, say $25, promising still
further that if the bill exceeds that figure