The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-04-08

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There is = serious stringsnoy in
abe New York money market.
. Kicking Ferdinand Of Portugal
positively declines tho crown Of Spain.
A food At Louisville has been do.
ing much damage.
About two hundred clerks were
dismissed from the Treasury department
last week. =. II
All attempts to ferret out the
Rogers murderer in, New York have
about ceased.
The peach crop 10 Michigan, for
this year, will, it is s.id, be the largest
svor gathered.
The " catcher of the Mutual Base
Ball Club, Of New York, is said to re-
ceive 81, 900 salary year.
james NJ. Ashley, Of Ohio, better
known Is "1mpeaohment Ashloy," has
been nominated as Governor of Montana
Ty..
Victor Emanuel, appreheusive that
The reias Of government may pass from
him, is said to be investing largely 10
foreign securities.
The steamship Java which sailed
from London for New York on the Sd,
took out $4,000 pounds sterling in
specie, on American account.
Mail advices from Europe state that
Henri Jomini, the great military writer
born in Switzerland ia 1779, died at Pas
assy few days since at the age of 81
years.
German papers are very warlike in
tone, and private letters FAY there is
great activity in mob,Iiz,ng the Prus-
sian troops and concentrations upon the
Rhine.
Frank Pierce's Cabinet was the
only ono in the history Of the United
States thst remained unbroken from the
beginning to the end of the administre.
ton.
Mrs john Jacob Astor, on the o.
casion other son attaining bis majority,
last week, donated to the Children's Aid
Society = sum sufficient to provide 100
boys with homes in the West.
The President has nominated B.
+. Joubert for Assessor of Internal Rev
enue for the First District Of Louisian.
and q. NJ. Wilder for Postmaster a,
Columbia, s. c., both colored.
The Hudson's Bay Company are
reported to have accepted the govern
mental offer for the cession of their terri.
tory, and the Canadians, who were at
tending to the matter in England, arr
said to be on their way home.
! Miss E. j. Ketcham, Of Phil
adelphia, has been appointed to I
c!erkship in the Treasury Department
Miss Ketcham is the first colored wo
man appointed to clerkship in any o
tho departments, by the new administra
ton.
"A fire and burglar proof safe weigh
ing $50 tons was shipped to Pittsbur,
last week in sections; it occupied
twenty.one cars, is twenty feet lonl
eighteen feet wide, and twelve fee
high; it was made IN Cincinnati and va
, eight months constructing.
II Tits rumored that Mrs. b. Beech
, er Stowe and her sister, Catherine
have selected Aiken, s. c., as the locs
t ton Of their proposed "sohool Of Agr
: culture for Girls" if they secure sui,
!! table grounds.
The Ku-Klux Of Greenville, Ala
. have added another tragedy to their a
: ready lengthy list Of outrages and mu
ders. Judge s. s. Gardner was sht
. aud fatally woudned by one Of tn
organization on Tuesday. The assassi
= escaped.
The editor of the Utica O6scrvt
j. has it bad. Says he: awe detect
It tendency on the part Of Winter to con
IS fortably and ncstingly tarry ia i
,. POLITICALLY improv,sed couch amid tt
q graceful folds of the robes adorning Il
9 reclining and lovely from of fair your
n Spring"