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


There is a serious stringenoy in
abe New York money market.
Elk King Ferdinand Of Portugal
positively declines the 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.
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 said, be the largest |
ever 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 "Impeachment Ashlcy," has
been nominated as Governor Of Montana
Ty..
Victor Emanuel, .pprehensiye that
the reins 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 10 l779, died at Pas
assy few days since at the age of 81
years.
German papers are very warlike in
tone, and private letters say there is
great activity in mob,liz,ng the Prus-
sian troops and concentrations upon the
Rhine.
Frank Pierce's Cabinet was the
only one in the history of the United
States thst remained unbroken from the
beginning to the end of the administre.
ton.
Mrs Johu 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.
F. Joubert for Assessor of Internal Rev.
enue for the First District OF Louisiana.
and q. NJ. Wilder for Postmaster at
Columbia, s. c., both oolored.
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, are
said to be on their way home.
Miss E. J. Ketcham, Of Phil
adelphia, has been appointed to q
c:erkship in the Treasury Department.
Miss Ketcham is the first colored wo-
man appointed to a clerkship in any Of
the departments, by the new administra-
ton.
"A FIRE and burglar proof safe weigh
ing ESQ tons was shipped to Pittsburg
last week in sections; it occupied
twenty-one cars, is twenty feet long
eighteen feet wide, and twelve feet
high; it was made IN Cincinnati and was
eight months constructing.
Tits rumored that Mrs. b. Beech
er Stowe and her sister, Catherine,
have selected Aiken, s. c., as the loca.
ton Of their proposed *scbool of Agri.
culture for Girls" if they secure suit.
table grounds.
The Ku-Klux Of Greenville, Ala,
have added another tragedy to their al.
ready lengthy list of outrages and muir.
ders. Judge S. S. Gardner was shot
aud fatally woudned by one Of the
organization on Tuesday. The assassin
escaped.
The editor of the Utica Observe,
has it bad. Says he: "We detect a
tendency on the part Of Winter to com
fortably and ncstingly larry ia it,
POLITICALLY improvlsed couch amid the
graceful folds of the robes adjoining the
reclining and lovely from of fair young
Spring."