The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-09-12
. ,-pr. Major May Halklr iaealled 5 ).
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a white coon i. exciting the Won. :
der al of the people Of lafayette, Ind.
-,~--Barnum 49, makes 100000 . year
out Of his Museum. sz@s-1a =
Mrs. Lincoln and her son Tad have
arrived in Chicago, where they will re-
main through next winter. -
..g:T': g:T'one hundred and thirty lodges of
6 Good TCemplars have been started in
!! Ohio y during the past year.
:o.-Gen, 3Sheridan's order transferring
command to Gen. Griffin has been pub
1t is reported by correspondent
Of the, New York Gazette that Gail
Hamilton purposes to remove to Mil
lwaukee to reside.
8. ---Ex-Governor Yates, of Illinois, has
chosen for his subject in the Old Bay
State course Of lectures, at Boston.
s'The Life and Character of Abraham
Lincoln.
There are in Virginia and West
Virginia 8l8 Baptist churches, with
1892 members, besides over 5000
anti-mission Baptists.
"A National convention of the base
ball players is to be held in Cincinnati.
at the Clarendon Hotel, on the 25th of
September.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton have gone to stump Kan
sas foswoman suffrage.
JEFF. Davis has taken his daughter
from the Canadian convent, where she
was being educated, from fear that
she would become Catholic.
The weekly statement of the Bank
of England shows an increase of bullion
Of nearly half million pounds. For
the first time in fifteen years the specie
in vault exceeds bank circulation.
The immigration to Minnesota this
year has been immense. It it estima-
ted that 10000 persons have settled in
the Sauk Valley alone. The average
number, passing Winona was at one
time 700 daily Washington Chroni-
Gle.
"A young burglar named William
Murray was killed in St. Louis by the
discharge of a spring-gun, while at
tempting to enter by the back door in
to store where this gun had been fix
cd for just such cases.
"A fair maiden, Margie Pagan, who
kept a pie and cake shop in Boston,
was stabbed in the back one day last
week by youth who was enamored of
her, but whose heart was torn by jeal-
GUS doubts. It is thought she will re-
cover.
The St. Louis papers of last Wed.
nesday returns thanks for a rain which
ended ian almost unprecedented period
Of drought in this regivn, and Of conse-
quent suffering in city and country, to
both animal and vegetable life"
The Troy Times says Thurlow
Weed has issued private circular, in
which he confesses to mistake in tenn
porarily abandoning the Republican
party, but protesting that single error
should not outweigh the services of
lifetime.
A young man in Portland, Maine,
recently committed suicide by shooting
himself the night before the one set for
his wedding. He left letter stating
that he could not muster up the cour
age necessary to assuming the response
bilities of married man, 81 he quietly
shot himself: Every one to his taste
Major Gen. Alfred h. Terry, ac-
companied by his staff, and Gen. Com
stock of Gen. Grants staff, has arrived
in Helena, Montana Territory. The
General left St. Paul on the sth of
June, and has been making the rounds
among the forts Of the Northern Oyer-
land Mail route.
belle Key" the reigning beauty
Of Kentucky twenty years ago, in whose
honor steamboats,, stage-coaches, fast
horses, &c, were named, has lately
married q Polish gentleman in Paris.
She was late the widow of Maj. James
w. Hewitt, killed on the rebel side, at
Chickamauga.
Dickens is collecting for the 'Dia-
mond Edition" Of his works several ar
ticles hitherto not brought together in
any edition Of his writings, either in
England or America.
-Dr. Carter, a vell-known surgeon
of indianapolis, pricked his thumb, dur
ing the post mortem examination of an
hydrophobia subject, last week, and
sput himself under the influence of
whiskey" for one day, coming out rath-
er headachy, but otherwise all right.
The effects were very much like = big
drunk.
DIR. Browne having long admired
a very beautiful young lady, made .
point Of always giving ter for his toast
Being once told it was time to change
it, he replied, II believe it is; for,
though I have been toasting her for
these twenty years, I have not been
able to make her brown yet"
| Mrs. Stowe has already sent to the
printer large installments Of her new
work, which is to Re sort of chronicle
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