The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-08-05

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week. common ding on the 23d.
"A Norwegian died at Lanesboro
last week from sun stroke.
Tho editor of tho Mankato Record
had present Of roasting ears last
week.
Tho telegraph has been extended
along the Main Line Of the St. P. Il P.
R. H. TO- Grow Lake.. .~sf s.g.r i.
Tho Lake City Leader says that
Rev. W. B. Dad. has gone East on =
visit.
The St. Charles Herald says that
little Frank Clark fell from a tree and
broke both his arms.
The Office of the American Ex-
press Company at St. Charles Was bro
ken open last week and 500 taken.
There are ll9 saloons in St. Paul.
1t nevc. was considered very "dry"
place.
Tho Hastings Gazette suggests
Hon. John McKusiok, Of Saltwater,
for Lieutenant Governor.
Tho St. Paul bridge is found |
to be unsafe. 1t is 1880 feet long and
cost $4,000 in 1853.
The Ramsey County Agricultural
Fair will be held in St. Paul on the
10th and 18th Of September.
St. Cloud hasn't a monopoly Of
the whoopiug cough ; it is prevailing
more or less throughout the entire
State.
The Wabasha Herald reports the
suicide Of Willard Stups, lad aged 16,
by shooting himself in the breast with
a rifle. 81
The st. Peter Tribune complains
that the boys in that place ale very
light fingered. One man has been re-
lieved Of $50 by these young scamps.
One Of our neighboring exchanges
contained in single issue three new
divorce summons. Chicago must look
to its laurels. II
Two girls living at Brownsville,
Mower Co., ran away with each other
last week: They had not been found
at latest accounts.
j Tho Rochester Post reports the
shooting Of John Moran BY Charles
Carroll, while in the saloon Of tho lat
ter. Moran will probably recover.
"A little child of Henry Jones, Of
Elmrira, says tho Chat6eld Democrat
was terribly torn by dog, and would
doubtless have been killed if net res
cued.>.
. State Auditor. McIlrath write!
that persons settling on shcool lands ane
making improvements do so at their ow,
rsik, as the highest bidder takes tn
land, improvements and all.
The Auoka Press says that pa
per will be started in a week or two A
Elk River, Sherburne county. Mime
sofa is certainly the most prolific coun
. try in newspapers that there is on th'
, face Of the globe.
Il The Austin Register says tina
j track laying on the Austin end of tn
i Minnesota Branch Of tho Dubuque
and Sioux City railroad will commence
in tewdays: =:
E AT the reaper trial at Mankato OF
the 26th ult. but two machines wer,
0 entered-:he Johnston Sweepstake ant
9 the New Yorker. The verdict was i,
}. favor of the latter. '.''.
4 = It is said that II. J. BARNARD q
p St. Paul raised this year three bushel
!, of cherries. He has also the Dutches
q and yellow Belleaeur apples in bearing
= He had cherries from the English Nc
y relic and early Richmond trees.
, The Waseca Ne.rs says that tn
> house of NJ. Fox was burned on Mon
> day; and chat Homer Sprague, DO,
living at Homer City, had his feet GU
. off by moving machine. .:
Hon. NJ. S. Wilkinson telegraph
! from New York that the prospects TO
the completion of tho Winona and St
Peter R. r to the Minnesota Rive
! this fall arc favorable. ,,.
- The Democrats of Goodhue count,
are trying to get up bolt in the Re
publican party. It would, Of course
- DO very desirable for the Democrats
but their prospects Of success are slim
$ Tho Alexandra. Post says M,
}. Shotwell has field of seven acres o
J. corn which will b ripo this week
e ~-----A Frenchman living at Miller
D vile was killed near Chippewa by light
ming. One of his oxen Vas killed q
], the same time. n I
:. Hon. Geo. L. Becker, Presiden
!. Of the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, 0,
! Saturday received advices from London
d that all the iron necessary to complet
q the Main Line Of that road to Breckiu
ii ridse'had been shipped from England
q end, was now on: its way across the A,
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IT, The people Of Minnesota will b
pleased to learn that of the six Of tn
% "Duchess" bulls in the world, the bes
u hlood Of All the variet;ea NJ uShori