The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-12-30
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90 ', i IT,. -. RAYxoxp, Dec 24th, 1869.
IL RDlroR 7JouRxAI.-It 10 some time sin,
! have cast in my mite towards supplyiu
The journal with local news: In fact
} is rather difficult 70. get anything out !,
" nothing Such being the case, will ses,
up sueh :, we have, subject, ofsoourss. I
b deal. out ~ you shall think proper.
TO soy that our psople are sadly disal
pointed in regard to the marketing 81 the1
produce. would be but reiterasing what
said in all sections Of the State; but her,
remote from any railroad, VI feel tho d
fssts Of the srsat depression in tho pries
1 Of oil kinds Of grain, from re- fact Tia
money, cannot be . obtained for: soareel
anything that' the farmer has to sell. Ad
70 this the saornously high prices whie
are demanded for. goods Of Ill kinds whic
the farmer gets In exchange, and it viii no
require more than ordinary intelligence t
perceive that one 81 these Two things mus
b done: goods must 90 down to grail
standard. or farmers cease to purchase
The idea Of giving bushel Of Minnesota
wheat for three pounds Of New Orleans ~
gar, Or four bushels Of the same for on
pound Of tss, and thirteen bushels for ,
pair Of coarse boots, may seem good polio,
for some people. but the writer fails to Sc,
it. Notwithstanding the darkness Of thu
present times, our people are looking hope
fully forward to . time not far distant,
whom the iron horse shall be steaming his
way over tho Mississippi at st. Cloud, pre-
parstory to his journey across the CONT
,nent to the waters Of tho Pacific.
+. We have completed our schoolhouss and
claim that We have tho best country
sohoolhouse vest Of St. Cloud. It wss
ready for use some four weeks since, and
was first used By the Methodists for quar-
terly meeting, Rev. Noah Lathrop presid-
ing. He is preacher Of rare abilities,
and 70 ny that he Vas we'll liked is but to
express tho opinion Of many who listened
70 his logical reasoning and persuasive elo-
quence. The good seed that was sown the
past year by the Rev. VIM. "Bowdish was
abundantly xatered by him during his two
days preaching with Us, and Rev. Burka-
loo fqr three weeks continued to hold . g.
riss a. meetings, and under his powerful
sad convincing, reasoning moro than two
score persons have been brought to see the
better Wy, and We trust much good has
been done. One week ago last Sabbath
evening more than two hundred people
we're present to listen to his teaching,
il Who would have believed, three years
since, when 70 first pitched our tent on
this uninhabited prairie, that in % short .
time such : congregation could DO gathered
tor religious services Why, one
who was with Us when We took
our claim; asserted that there would not be
enough inhabitants in this township in ten
years to support . school. But mark the
result We have thres school districts in
Town, and in this district mo. 57) We 70.
turned fifty scholars last fall, and have
\ winter school in operation, with IN aver
we attendance Of thirty scholars. Thus
10 can fully realize that 'Westward the
'tar Of empire takes its way
Our Neatfer it:Eeally delightful for win.
'er, with scarcely snow enough to make
passable sleishing, and were it not for An
cold day, We should be 10th to
believe that We were drawing near the first
Of January, 1870.
Correspondence from Wisconsin, Iowa
md Illinois come to US with shivering tales
Of snow and cold weather. Two feet Of
'now in Wisconsin, and half that depth in
central Iowa and Illinois. We can pity
hem, but If people will persist in living in
luch odd countries the fault lies with
hem.
Government land having played out in
his section, real estate is: changing hands
and sales would DO more
frequent but owners have no disposition to
Iell, being satisfied to remain, and conse-
luently buyers have to look somewhere
Use for homes. From present indications
he inhabitants are inclined to believe that
his town win soon be as noted for piety as
or Republcanism. Truly yours,
L. B. RAYMOND.