The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-07-23
IRON ; RAYMOND ; I.
RAYMOND. Inlx 18lh

N@O1sOs SOty AO0l LOGO.
EDIroR JoUIxAI.-It Il said that Rrea
point Is gained when : writer or spe.ke,
knows enough to stop whom he gets through
With his subject, but ] oftsn think il re-.
quires some knowledge to know how to Be.
gin. As your correspondents in differen,
localities have kept the readers of THl
JOURNAL posted in regard to matters and
things.s1 thought that . little something
cooling would be beneficial in these days,
when people are gradually melting away
under heat which runs tho mercury up
to 1859 IN the shade. Some innocent peo-
pie who are living. down South and Ba.t
are verdant enough to suppose that Minne-
sofa is cold country. Shades Of Green
land why people who entertain that idea
ought to como here and witness the rapid
growth Of oil kinds Of grain and veeeta.
bles, and to see the corn fairly jump out Of
the ground.
The good people Of this town are natur-
ally feeling we'll over the prospect of the
coming harvest. Crops Of all kinds are
splendid. Beautiful fields Of wheat, oats,
barley and corn are waving and rustline
in the breeze, where two years since nought
but one Eunbrokens prairie lay in its still.
ness and grandeur. its only occupants be-
ing the deer and elk feeding on its luxu-
RANT vegetation.
FESTIVITIES. z
While the inhabitants of other localities
were making their calculations to celebrate
the Fourth, the people here concluded to
take time by the forelock and celebrate
the second anniversary of the settlement of
the town. Accordingly on the Goth of June
goodly number of the youth and beauty
Of tho town assembled at the house of your
correspondent, and Glanced all night, till
broad daylight" and I suppose event home
with the girls in the morning" ~i5ZW 81
BREAKING.
believe if this section can be taken as
an average, some 1900 acres Of land will
be broken in the township this year, and
if nothing intervenes to cut off tho crops
now on the ground, surplus win DO rails
cd here this season so that the p.lmJ days
Of our -four merchants in selling -four from
ten to twenty. five dollars per barre: is
about played out. 49,: H.. .,-5l<
have read letters Of late from relatives
and friends in Wisconsin, inquiring if We
''could raise corn 80 far North" As ''the
proof Of the pudding is in eating" so |
answer them, "eoms and see." For one
will say that during = residence Of eighteen
years in the Badger State, never saw
better corn or any that Was farther advance
ID at this season Of the year than some
bat l am now growing. Why. Mr.. Edi-
or, calculate to have what the pupils un.
iel my charge used to read about in Web |
tiers speller, viz: green corn in July
'ut, whether it will be on plate or not |
will inform you some future time.
If Wisconsin can produce better climate
or corn than We have here, failed to sec |
t; and if she don't. look we'll to her lau-
els she will be left out in the cold raising !
'orn as we'll as wheat. think the seasons |
preferable here on one account. There it |
nay be truly said that winter fingers in
he lap Of spring; but here she wont let
he old gentleman take that kind of a seat,
tut makes him pick up his duds and be off
It once. Z:
Are not much agitated at present, but |
believe pretty much every body and his wife
lere have concluded to vote for Grant and
;olfax at the coming election. But lest
'ou think that l have forgotten what I
'rote in the first sentence of my commu-
Iicatian, I will simply adj that the old po-
itical hacks, sey and Blair, will get
ew hackers here.
Truly Yours,
L. B. RAYMOND.