St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-14
STREET SAYINGS.

The sweeping OF the streets in the day
time is causing considerable opposition on
the part of people, both the pedestrians and
those who occupy houses and stores on the
streets so swept. The objection is that the
operation of sweeping raises cloud of dust
that penetrates the stores and houses and
covers those who may be passing
along on the sidewalk. The attention of
one of the aldermen was called to the dust
raised on Fifth street yesterday by the
street sweeping brigade, and he
remarked: ''T'hat will never do
in the world. If the streets
that are to be swept and all sprinkled, the
difficulty might be avoided, but that cannot
be done. Some other remedy must be
found for the dirt nuisance than sweeping
it when it is dry"
The stone crusher was partly placed in
position yesterday in court house square,
and will soon be ready for work. 1t has a
wonderful capacity for chewing up stone,
and has an awful appetite. 1t is almost
equal to some of the lunch fiendS in ST.
Paul.
A gentleman in st. Paul entertained
some of his friends yesterday by telling
them long and interesting stories about the
great rebellion. The way he came to do it
was this: A discussion was opened in re-
gard to the destructive force, or capacity of
the Calling gun. It was maintained by
this gentleman that no matter how de-
structive the gun might be, it had a limit,
and that if the attacking party was suf-
ficiently numerous, it could, and must
necessarily, at least capture the gun. To
illustrate the truth of his state
ment, he said that at the battle
of MurfreeSboro the Seventy-eighth
Wisconsin battery was stationed on a hill
with ten or twelve pieces of artillery, and
it becoming necessary to capture this battery
the rebels formed their storming parties and
went for it. They were driven back num-
Der of times, and the dead rebels were piled
up in front Of the guns by the hundred. So
high were their bodies that the guns could
not be used. All the men but one that
manned the guns had been killed. Seeing
there was no chance to hold the position
any longer, the last man hitched the only
pair of horses left to one of the guns and
started to drag it away. When he got away
about forty or fifty feet, one of the horses
was shot and fell. The man was bound to
carry the gun off and so he whipped UP the
horse he rode and dragged the gun and the
dead horse clean across a corn field for sew
eral miles, and at last escaped with the
gun. This was the gentleman's story, and
notwithstanding it's reasonableness and the
inherent evidence of its truthfulnesS there
were among those who heard it some who
did not believe it, and derisively took out
their watches to time the speaker.
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CT ILL To-,
horse yesterday: 81 don't see how the adj
ministration can hurry matters any faster
regarding Minnesota appointments. You
see there are other states to be looked after
first. There's Ohio, for instance, where a
United States senator is to be elected this
fall. In Virginia it is the same, where the
question is whether Malone will be re-
turned to the senate. In other states there
are important fall elections, and if change
in federal offices can affect those elections
those states should have the preference
Minnesota is black Republican state any
way, and there are no elections in it this
fall of any character and so there is no
hurry at all about the appointments here"
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Secretary n. III. Young of the state board
of immigration says that exaggerated re-
ports of the decrease in wheat Acreage in
Minnesota have gone out AS far as he
can learn, officially, the decrease will be
under 10 per cent and probably not over
6, considerable land having been gotten
ready and sown to wheat in hurry since
the first reports were made, AS far as he
can learn the grain has received no injury
from the weather. Mr.. Young has received
word from the United States commissioner
of agriculture that the appropriation for
the monthly crop reports being nearly ex-
hausted, these reports will be discontinued
this summer.
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An effort is being made to make Judge
Burr secretary of the chamber of commerce
and the Jobbers' union, with salary of
So, 600.
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Maj. Gen. Kennedy, who is said to have
forwarded two Calling guns to Riel, was
seen yesterday by representative of the
GLOBE, when he denied all reports of this
kind. Most men would be very much
angered by the publication of such reports,
but not SO with Maj. Gen. Kennedy. He
is not only good military man and a
loyal citizen, but a profound philosopher