The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-01-28

ment Of the State school fund in Febu-
ary, 1868, was 81 cents pcr scholar in
August 70 cents per scholar.
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Secretary Stanton asserts that he
will never again hold any public Office.
Bennett, Of the Herald, is said to
be worth four millions.
Last year &C, 658,580 letters were
sent from the Chicago Post-ofiee.
One sixth Of tie population Of
Salt Like is Gentle.
The granaries Of Californi. are
overlooking with the surplus produc. Of
20, 100000 bushels Of wheat.
Secretary Stanton denies that any
order was ever issued directing Gen.
Banks to relieve Gen. Grant.
General Grant requests that the Gus
tomary inaugural ball be dispensed
with.
Carl ochurz is the FIRST German
ever elected to the United States Sem
ate.
Gen. Burnside declines being
again candidate for Governor of Rhode
Island.
Seven hundred miles of the French
Atlantic cable have been manufactured
up to the present time.
-Corresronding in violet ink is now
the rage among young ladies and
school girls.
A fond papa in New York forked
over S., 900 to Delmonico the expense
of little party to bring out a daugh.
ter.
brigham Young charges billiard
and barroom keepers in Salt Lake City,
license Of $4,000 a month. Business
must be good out there.
France owes a debt of $685.
100000, has standing army Of $780,
900 men, and her annual expenditures
IN peace amount to SIS, 100000.
Mrs Lincoln has written from
Frankfort, Germany, to the Senate,
asking that she may be allowed a year.
ly pension.
Strong efforts are being made in
the Kentucky Legislature to remove
tho capital from Frankfort to Louis.
vile.
Tho Omaha HeralTs correspond
ence from the new Sioux reservation,
predicts much trouble next spring from
the Sioux and Northern Chippewas.
The London Spectator thinks that
no living English writer equals Ma.
thaniel Hawthorne in purely classical
diction.
There is a bakery 10 Chicago,
claimed to DO the largest in the Uuited
States, which consumes nearly fifty
thousand barrels Of flour year.
. The whisky revenue collected
during the five months beginning July
last amounted to $4,000, 27s, an in
crease Of Sc, 833, 800 over the amount
collected in the corresponding five
months Of the previous year.
The Chinese have indemni6ed the
missionaries for the outrages committed
o. them, and they have been invited
back and reinstated. The ring leaders
were severely punished.
The full particulars Of the loss Of
the steamer Gulf City. which was
wrecked off the North Carolina coast,
show that twenty-one sailors and one
passenger were lost.
Three children were burned to
death in Brooklyn, on Thursday, in a
grocery store. The clelk Of the gro
Gerry has been arrested for setting the
place on fire:
Judge Drummond, Of the U. s.
District court sitting in Chicago, has
decided that in making income returns
a man may deduct promissory note.
and bad debt. a !
Tho President has filed the va.
cant brigadier generalships by the ap'
pointmert Of, Gen. R. G. Buchanan
and Gen. A. c.. Gillem. The Sen.
ate will probably not confirm.
- "A Cincinnati: dispatch says Gov
Brownlow will: enroll 10000 militia.
twenty-five counties: of Tennessee are
to be placed under martial law. Thi.
has been rendered necessary by Ku
Klux outrages. .:s.:. -.
On Friday evening, Hannah
Woidman young girl of sixteen, threw
herself beneath the wheels Of a train oil
cars near Chicago, and was instantly
killed, her body being horribly man
gled: She committed the act because
her parents refused to GLOW Der ia
marry the man Of her choice.
- London is growing SO rapidly that
its population will soon be 1900, 900.
The Metropolitan, Police, Of 1880
members, have to control and patrol q
district Of thirty miles in diameter.
Mime. Clara, Mundt, alias Louisa