The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-12-17

! Faox MoxrAxA.-ltr. Chas. +. Sims. Of
:. this city, who won't to Montana with Fisk's
= expedition in 1866, returned home on Tues.
day. He left Helena City on tho 10th
Of November, coming via Salt Lake
? City and tho Union Pacific. He brings
J news from St. Clsudites.
E.. Sims and family are still At Helena.
DANIEL A. Bentley, who left here in 1862,
with less than 500, Is now worth over
$4,000.
John B. Marvin IL 1t Helena, doing we'll.
John D. Rogers left Helena IN septem-
Der, to locate At some point near the ter
minus Of the Union Pacific.
Mr.. Sims says that last season more
gold Va taken from quarts and placer
disginss il Montana than ever before in
enc year. At the same time there has
been no large discoveries. Tho gold has
been dug in small quantities BY = larger
number Of people.
Quarts mining 10 al that now amounts to
much, the placer Digging being about OK
haustsd.
Montana is good agricultural country.
but tho surface all needs irrigsting.-
It's excellent for stock raising.
Mr.. Sims says he would advise man to
60 to Montana only if he were dead broke
here and had lost oil his friends. If doing
anything at all in Minnesota, let him stick
to it aud he will be better off in tho end.
| The CAUSE.-THE st. Paul Press, IN re-
ferring to the fact that the Mississippi is
still open here while it is frozen over at
that place, says:
There must be coed deal Of whisky in
the water up that way.
No, SIR; it is because Of the permeating
exhalations Of the superaBuent warm
heartedness Of the people Of this locality,
affecting both dir and river. That's what's
the matter. We are gushing community,
and are slow to freeze up. And we have
moreover learned. by careful inquiry, that
the people here do not put whisky in wa
ter; they believe it spoils ths-water.
They take the whisky first and the water
Afterwards, provided the latter is not for
gotten.
"WH1rs CATs."-Some time since, an
invalid minister came to st. Cloud for the
benefit Of his health. Expressing desire |
to 30 rabbit hunting, he was furnished by
. friend with gun and ammunition, and |
told where the kind Of game he wanted |
wss plenty. He hunted diligently all |
day, returning in the evening, With nary |
rabbit. "Why," said 10 to his friend,
''yeu told me rabbits were Numerous
there. I could ind nons." $50 they
ars. Il h strange you did not see any"
1T certainly Il. But, by the Wy, hsv
many ~1its eats you have in the woods
about here! cav dozens to-day While
locking for rabbits." Accustomed to the
dark-furrsd rabbits It the East, our min
lstsrial Ninrod did not know hat il Min
nssota they turned new-vhits In winter,
and that Ais game vas skipping oil around
him. The joke leaked out before long.
Sock 70 n OP111D.-Ths following
dispatch received by the officers Of the q.
8. Land o9dce At this plae, On Tussday,
Indicates that work will sosn 10 commence
ID ct the new ONCE At Alexandra: !
WAsHlxa1ox, DEE. IA, 1863.
Rap;sssr ss1 Reseisr, D. q. Lsnd eEes, st.
Cloud, Aisn. i:
Cease sficial action on al eases embrace
cd in that pert Of tho Northwestern Dig
triet which lies west Of Range 86. Write
instructions by nail.
Jos. WILSON, Commissioners.
wu11l RA1ss.-At . meeting Of tho
Directors Of the St. Cloud Bridge Conpa-
ny on the 18th int., the following rates
we're adopted. t. 90 into effect - soo1 ~
the river closes and to continue until April
Let, 1890:
j: :': 2" mule o. .. .s''.' !.
4. :. i
Each extra annimal,
S1ttoot passenger ~
nos's!; 10. p:.' {:,o.,:2 !:
&: 10 =. ts..s. se< s:oo; 10 ticket. .,so: 90
The toll-keeper Wa authorized to re
oeive winter-rate tickets in payment of
tolls after April LIST, 1869, At cost prices
and not otherwise.
Tho shop windows never looked more
attractive than at the present time.-N. ?.
Citizen.
That is just the fix at West & Co.'s
They have splendid stock Of holiday
goods. It makes person wish they had
thousand dollars to spend when they 90
in and see tho shelves and cases filed with
handsome gifts. But if you haven't that
much, 90 and buy oil you can At West &
Co.'s.
Coon But CosTLY.-The Chat6sld DEM !
oerat reports case At that place wherein
Chas. N. Paine was fined $25 and costs for |
kissing the wife Of g. W. Bolster. This is |
''paying dear for the whistle no, not ex.
sctly the whistle, but something very close |
to it. 1885 apiece is the legal price,
what would . well-selscted assortment Of |
these little Injuries come at by tho yeas? |
And wouldn't it be cheaper for Mr.. Paine |
to get . Bolster Of his owni
Jusr II Tlxs.-Louis Goyette has just |
received at the City Restaurant, fns A.
sortment Of fresh fancy French confsction-
cry, including some beautiful designs for
tho Christmas stockings Of tho little felix's.
he has also nuts, raisins, figs, apples,
canned fruit, jsllies, sad everything nice
for the holidays. Give him . call whom ~
Letting up your good things:
Tho Boston Post saanounsss that .
bsautifal woman Il . - sold a auction i,
that city. We guess Piekit L Abbott have
aess Of these 70, ssls, but they have every:
thing that beautiful ladies want in The Wy
Of drsss goods, eloskings, shawls, fars, nu-