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THE BOY NUISANCE.
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One That Should Be and Must Be Abated.
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A CARD FROM THE MINISTRIES OF ST. CLOUD.
EDITOR JOURNAL.—During this winter we have had several very fine entertainments; they who were engaged in them spared neither time nor pains to make them interesting; yet the people who attended them had to bear with an indignity that has become insufferable — we refer to the rude and unmannerly boys who turn the occasion into an opportunity to show how exceedingly rude and offensive boys can be.—They have been requested time and time again to behave themselves, but all to no avail. We appeal to parents and guardians to give their children instructions in regard to this matter. A word to the wise should be sufficient. If parents do not or cannot stop this barbarity and offense against good manners, we shall feel ourselves compelled to call in the police. We are determined that in the future we will have good order at our church entertainments.
E.V. CAMPBELL,
W.E. STANLEY,
J.W. KLEPPER,
GEO. R. MILTON.
The public debt was reduced $4,240,866 during March.
The Senate Monday refused to reconsider the bill reducing the President’s salary to $25,000.
Dr. Ames, Democrat, is elected Mayor of Minneapolis by 337 majority over Major Brackett.
The last citadel of Honesty and virtue has been taken. A number of Aldermen at St. Louis have been indicted for bribery and perjury.
The Republicans of Minneapolis, East side, nominated two ladies as School Directors, Mrs. H.P. VanCleve and Mrs. N.C. Winchell, and they were elected. A considerable number of ladies voted.
This doesn’t read too bad: Ten carloads of machinery, including engines, boilers, etc, were shipped from St. Louis Saturday, via San Francisco, for Nicholawsk, Siberia, where they are to be put into eight steamers being built at that point for the Amoor (sic) river.” Uncle Sam will soon be furnishing the whole world with machinery.
—The Mankato Normal School this year graduated a class of 9; the St. Cloud School, 17.
—The Council will meet next Monday evening to swear in the new Aldermen and hear the inaugural message of Mayor-elect Collins.
—The Fire Department of this city at its meeting Tuesday evening elected the following officers:
Chief Engineer—J.M. Rosenberger.
1st. Assistant—H. Ottensmeyer.
2d. Assistant—J.J. Dorr.
—Mr. O. Tenny, of this city, is engaged in building a custom grist mill at Rockville, twelve miles from here. It will have three run of stone, and will be completed by harvest. It is a good point for a mill, and Mr. Tenny thoroughly understands the mill-building business, so that a first-rate mill may be safely promised.
—Saturday evening a woman living some distance from town drove in, carrying in her arms a sick infant. Going to the office of one of our physicians she said, “Dr., here is my sick child; I wish you would do something to help it.” The Dr. looked at the little thing, lying white and still in its mother’s arms, and said, “Madam, your child is dead.” So it was.
—It has long been a mystery why mothers should insist upon taking babes-in-arms to evening entertainments regardless of the conditions of the weather, the health of the little ones and the comfort of the audience. At the graduating exercises at the Normal School Tuesday evening Prof. Kiehle was compelled to advert to this annoyance, and, remarking mildly that it was not believed that any of the exercises could interest children of so tender an age, to request that the little ones be either quieted or removed from the hall—doing this as a matter of justice to the large audience assembled. — It is very much better and wiser to leave them at home.
—Alice, an eight-years’ old daughter of Mr. John T. Marvin, died this morning.
—The “shoddy peddlers” got $1800 in notes out of the farmers of Dakota county. To what extent will they be able to victimize the farmers of Stearns county? Look out for them! (That’s almost $50,000 in today’s money!! —ed.)
—Rochester, like this city, is afflicted with the boy nuisance. Tuesday evening the aid of the police was called in while the young ruffians were disturbing an entertainment, and a number of the ringleaders were arrested, taken before a justice and held in $800 bail each for their good behavior in the future. If the unmanerly (sic) boys in St. Cloud, who disturb entertainments, do not either behave themselves or stay away, they may expect similar treatment.
—In order that those of our people who came recently from the East, and still longed for the flesh-pots of Egypt, might not become homesick we are visited Sabbath by tow inches of snow, which was resolved the next day into slush, and Tuesday to inches more snow came, which is now also slush of the most orthodox kind. The oldest inhabitant is disgusted, and the later arrivals are satisfied to cry, “hold, enough.”
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