St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-25
Special Reports from the GLOBE Mank alto ofic
August "a
W0nkdtO Dots.

Ia, ia, Hart
Mankato boys lost about 81 900 on Hart.
j. H. Baker and wife, of Rapidan, spent Sun
day in Mankato
AS usual, Mankato was well represented at
Lake Madison yesterday
Will P. Snow came up from st. Paul Saturday
to spend a few days in the city.
F. L. Waters, Esq, went to st. Paul yesterda
morning on a short business trip.
The new Episcopal church, just completed
at Lake Crystal is said to be fine structure.
Rev. J. T. Merriam, of Minneapolis, spent
few days in Mankato among his many friends.
The Blaine and Logan club meets this evening
at their rooms in the Office of Mr.. B. u. Smith,
over the express office.
Miss Viva Williams entertained a number OF
friends at her home Tuesday evening and a nice
time was enjoyed
A blind man with the hand organ was in the
city Saturday, making everything hideous with
the mournful music and the singing of that in
fernal "Peek-a-boo' song.
The melon trade at Mankato has been good
this season and number of carloads of ''water-
millions have been brought INTO the city and
the market glutted necessarily lowering the
price of the melons and no longer making them
a luxury.
A man from Winnebago Agency, coming into
this city to take in the circus, took in entirely
too much benzine for his own good and hit his
head against stone gutter and cut quite a Sc
we're cash in his head. DR.. Livingstone was
summoned the man fixed up and loaded for Win
nebago Agency.
With s. H. Barrett s. Co.'S circus the gang of
hangers-on and takers were particularly numeF
Gus. There were recognized among the crowd
several who had been convicted and sentenced
for penitentiary offenses, and the officers
on the look out the entire day and night for hard
characters.
The circus has come and gone and it is the
largest show that has visited Mankato for several
seasons. The street parade good and in
teresting The animal exhibit did
not turn out very well, nor the
riding. Otherwise the circus of S. II.
Barrett & Co. was good, it exhibits to-day at
Sleepy Eye.
The public and normal schools of this city COM
mence one week from to-day. The normal school,
which has been steadily gaining in the past four
years in point of numbers, will have increased
attendance. The corps of teachers is complete
and several of the best model school teacher
from the east, and the term will open under mos
suspicious circumstances, and 1t is hoped tina
the necessary accommodations necessary for
much increased attendance will be forthcoming
The usual gang of street takers, sharps and
other characters were with the circus and numer-
Gus instances are at hand where the verdant
youth went away wiser, but without so much
money in pocket. AT the main entrance one OF
the men going with the circus anxious to
give silver for a ten dollar gold piece and only
gave him one dollar in return. a policeman was
called and the circus attache was willing to dis
gorge to the man from the rural districts
Everything augurs well from the inaugural
meeting of the Southern Minnesota Live Stock
and Fair association, to take place in this city
! Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week,
August 20, 27 and 90. The horses entered, over
fifty in number, are as a class the finest that
entered at any meeting in the west. Those at
Minneapolis do not compare with them, and the
meeting cannot but be success if properly
managed