St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-16
Stiti,carer Notes.

Saltwater Notes.
Yesterday the pay car on the Omaha road
was In the city, and the boys looked happy.
Miss Lottie A., Thomas is visiting Miss
Minnie Rogers, and will remain some time.
Miss Matte Elliott, Miss Nellie Ward and
Miss Abbie Goodwin went yesterday to Lake
Elmo for week OF pleasure.
Mr.. c. R. Virgin of Chicago special agent
OF the Queens insurance company, was in
this city yesterday on business.
Want of time forces US again to defer
'seen about the city," but we will attend to
the furniture men and others tomorrow.
We learn that fourteen passenger trains
leave this point daily on the Omaha road.
This shows that Saltwater is an important
point on this line of road.
Owing to the warm weather many of the
prisoners are laid up with the cholera
morbus, and the hospital is full. They will
be all right when the weather gets little
cooler.
Everything is getting parched and rain is
much needed. 1t has been threatening rain
for several days but it is still keeping off.
We need something to cool the dry, hot at
h1osphere.
Yesterday morning quite a number of our
| citlzens went for an outing to White Bear
| lake. Among them we noticed DR.. I. G.
Clark and family, Postmaster Butts and
family and others.
Contractor McDougall, of the Wisconsin
Central was in the city yesterday morning
on the way with the needful to pay the men
To fl,a;, E.. II
took goodly sum to do it.
Our teachers are returning by degrees,
Miss Fay having arrived home yesterday.
She has been spending much of her holidays
in Minneapolis and at Lake Minnetonka, and
places around, and has had very pleasant
time. .
This evening, at 7:30, there will be meet
ing of the millmen In Durant & Wheeler's
office, for the purpose Of electing delegate
to attend the convention of millmen in Chi
cago. full attendance is especially re-
| quested.
The grouting and ventilation of the old
| cell room at the prison was completed yes
terday afternoon, and it is now very COM
| plete. 1t is as white and clean as plaster
can make it. The prisoners will be pleased
that the muss and fuss are over.
A large party went north yesterday morn
ing by the steamer Hayes to Taylor's Falls,
| and the Delles of the st. Croix. The younger
members of Mr.. w. g. Clarke's family went
accompanied by their st. Louis visitors
They were much delighted with the trip and
what they saw.
Tonight the new roller skating rink at
River Falls will be opened. They will have
| some fine skating by Prof Barrows and
others. Mr.. and Mrs. Parmelee went down
| on Thursday evening to a roller skating
party in a large hall in the town, and re-
| turned yesterday morning. They had a
pleasant time.
| MIR. Issue Staples has begun the remodel
ing the old shell of warehouse just north
of his store, and into which he is to move
the goods from his present store Instead of
| fixing up that old structure. it would have
! pleased the citizens better if he had erected
handsome structure on its site.
A large amount of iron for the bridge on
the Wisconsin road over the st. Croiy river
has been arriving for the past few days
In loading heavy girder yesterday the rope
broke and it went down in twenty feet OF
water Dan Flynn dove down and put a
rope around it by which it was hoisted.
Yesterday the wheel of Sam Hadley's nice
top buggy came to grief. 1t appears his horse
and buggy were at the watering trough at the
head of Chestnut street. when lady driving
buggy backed into his wheel, badly dishing
| it, all the spokes being started from the hub.
! The lady did not know how to manage her
aud
At the municipal court, yesterday, the case
of Thompson for assault and battery was
continued until to-day. There was also
| drunk in the cells, but he had not got over
his spree and could not be brought up stairs
! to the court room. The case of Gould against
| Yorks was continued until Monday. The
| weather is so hot that the court is held open
| as short time as possible.
| The work of plastering at the prison is get
| ting on well and the finishing coats that are
being put on cannot well be improved. The
| percentage of plaster of paris in the finish is
| so large that the greatest care has to be ex-
ercised on account of its setting. They are
putting down excellent oak floors, and when
| the base boards are down and the painting
done, the state may be congratulated on
having the best finished prison in the union,
| as well as the most convenient aud secure.
Yesterday gave loose rain to the hunters,
and everyone who thoughShe conld hit any
| thing, on the wing or off, had his gun bur
! nished and his ammunition in order. Some
have gone up the river and others are follow
ing Mr.. Gilbert, of the great lumber firm
of Gilbert, Hedge & Co., st. Louis, with
| Messrs George Castleman and J. r. Dough-
| erty, of st. Louis, who have been visiting
with Mr.. w. G.. Clark left for Appleton on
the Hastings 81 Dakota road. They are all
old hunters, and expect to bag large
amount of game.
| Receiver Brown, of the Northwestern Man
ufacturing & Car company was particularly
well pleased yesterday, having lots of money
! wherewith to pay every man working at the
works He is much encouraged at the way
| things are working, the prospects getting
brighter daily. The magnificent crop pros
poets are telling on the business already.
| The citizens of Saltwater we are sure, will
be delighted to hear the good news, aud that
| the main manufacturing establishment in
the city Is on the road to prosperity.
A young man from Minneapolis, but who
mas oeen eOo uIuuh " give HIS hdthe, mas
been in the city, or rather across the river in
one of the dens there, in company with a
girl. Yesterday morning he came across the
bridge having on a good suit of clothes, and
wandered down to Oak Park. There
couple Of men stripped him Of his clothes,
| leaving him an exceedingly poor suit, which
| he had to put on. He bewails the hard lines
that have fallen to him, money. watch and
clothes being gone. Perhaps he will get
sober nowr
We are glad to know that the work of
| building separators and engines at the North
western Manufacturing q Car company