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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25
Branch Office, Philadelphia.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING,

| FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING,
Where the general business Of the Comra-
ny Is transacted. and 10 which all general
correspondence should be addressed.
DIRECTORS.
! ia. Cooke, Phila. EA Rollins. Washington.
H. Jark si.rp fn'la phil, M.nry b; Cooks "Ssn
! VIM. u. Moorhead Phila. John b. Defrees, Wash
| George +. Tyler, pha. Edward DODGE New York
j. hnckley Clark, fhila. H. c. Fahnestock, Ny.
CEr1t LIe~.
CLARENCE II. CLARK, Philadelphia, President
HENRY D: COOKE, Washington, Vice President.
| JAY COOKE, Chairman Finance and Executive COM
| EMERSON ". PEETE, phila. sec'y and Actuarv.
=; $: TURNER, Washington, Assistant Secretary.
| FRANCIS Il. SMITH, NJ. D., Medical Director
| ). EWING MEAkS, NJ. D., Assist. Med. Director.
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD.
| J. K. BARNES, surgcon-Gcneral U. S. A., Wash.
r. ). AOkWlIZ, Chief Medical Department, U. s.
D. ". BLISS, Nj. D., Washington.
SOLICITORS AND ATTORNEYS.
WM; E. CHANDLER, Washington, D. c.
GEORGE HARDING, Philade phia, Pa
This Company, National in it's character,
offers, by reason Of its Large Capital, Low
Rates Of Premium, and New Tables, the
most desirable means Of insuring life yet
presented to the public.
Tue rates Of premium, being largely re-
duced, are made as favorable TO the insur-
ers as those Of the best Mutual Companies,
and avoid all the complications and uncer-
taipties Of Notes, Dividends, and the mis-
understandings which the latter are so apt
to cause the Policy II olders
Several new and attractive tables are
now presented, which need only to be un-
derstood to prove acceptable to the public,
such as the INCOME PRODUCING POLL.
CY and RETURN PREMIUM POLICY.
In the former, the policy-holder not only
secures a life insurance, payable at death,
but will receive, if living, alter period Of
few years, a" annual income equal to ten
per cent, 40 per cent Of the gar OF his poll
cy. In the latter, the Company agrees to
return to the assured the totas amount OF fmoney
he has paid in, IN addition to the amount Of his
policy.
The attention Of persons contemplating
insuring their lives or increasing the
amount ofinsurance they already have, is
called to the special advantages offered by
the National Life Insurance Company.
Circulars, Pamphlets and full articulars
given on application to the Branch Office
Of the Company in this city, or to its Gen.
eral Agents
p~ LOCAL AGENTS ARE WANTED
in every City and Town; and applications
from competent parties for such agencies,
with suitable endorsements, should be ad-
dressed TO THE CCMPANY'S GENERAL
AGENTS ONLY, in their respective dis
tricts.
GENERAL AGENTS OF THE CO.
EiEE.
JAY COOKE CO., New York, for New York State
and Northern New Jersey.
E. W. CLARK & CO., for Pennsylvania and South
ern New Jersey.
JAY COOKE CO., Washington D. c., for Maryla
Delaware, Virginia, District Columbia, and West,
Virginia.
J. A. ELLIS CO., Chicago II inois, for Illinois Wis
consin and Iowa.
HON. STEPHEN MILLER, St. Paul, for
Minnesota.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25

A poultice Of onions, applied
morning, noon and night, for three or
four days, it is claimed, will cure .
felon, no matter how bad the case.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25

Why is stick OF candy like .
horse? Because the more you lick it
the fAster It goes. .,.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25

Many good kiss has been nip
ped in the bud by four-year-old nui'
sance bringing . light into the room.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25

[Enterol according to Act Of Congress, by Mrs
JancG Swissheln, in the year 1865 in the Office of
the Clerk of the United States District Court for the
District Of Western Pennsylvania
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calculation the first crop will more than
ray the cost Of getting the land fenced
and we'll under cultivation. In most Of
tho earlier settled counties ia the lower
part Of tho State, improved land is
worth from thirty to fifty dollars per
acre. With the railroads pushing for.
ward as they are, one can easily see
what will be the prospects of an en-
ergetic aud industrious homestead Set
tier. With capital Of scarcely more
than his hands and his health, he can,
in five Years, have farm worth as
many thousand dollars. Subsistence
ought not to cost settler over thirty
cents per day. After lie has done his
breaking, he can always, in July and
August, put up lot of hay-our
meadow hay is esteemed almos equal to
timothy.
MISCELLANEOUS.
January has been remarkably mild
throughout Minnesota, but we have had
no thaw nor dampness. The sleigbing
continues excellent, and the roads are
brewn with use.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25

-Du Chaillu is engaged to Fifth
avenue damsel.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25
NESOTA.

Railroad to the Red Rivera Dutch
Entcrprisc-Rnpid Development
Cost of Homestead Farm-The
WeatE or.
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New York clubs require an iuitia-
,ioa fee which will average $500.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-25
A LETTER FROM MRS. syyIssYlELm.
Founding Of the "Cooper Institute"

EDITORS GAzETTE.-During visit
to New York, las: summer, a gent'cman
we'll posted in city matters gave me {
history of the cell ebrated "Cooper In
stitutc." Said he:
"It is generally thought that Pete,
Cooper woke up one norain1, found
he had SO much money !,c ia rot loo :
what to DO with it aud 80 concilIed to
build an Institute, but the facts arc,
that when Peter Cooper was a young
man, and poor ore at that, ne was
talking Wit, traveller, vino Described
some institution in Paris, where poor
boys received liberal education, free
Of cost. He was greatly interested and
resolved to build such an Institute, and
donate it to the city Of New York, if
he should ever have the means. For
twenty-five years he laborcd, and saved,
with this object in view; and at the
end CT that time, felt able to accom- {
plish his purpose, and did it, at cos
of four hundred thousand d,ll:rs ju
gold. During all Of that time he and
his hclpmate worked aud lived plainly,
economical and accumulated, that poor
boys and girls might find means Of pre-
par:ng themselves for the higher walks
vt useful labor, and that poor men and
women might have a quiet reading
room, where they cen become acquaint-
ed with the current literature Of the
civilized world"
This appears 50 great wonder taat
many people are unable to believe it;
but he did this because he was a fol-
lower of Christ, and believed that He
came into the world, and lived and died
IN 1t, not only as an atonement but as an
example. He had just conception Of
Christian duty, and while thousands
who labored at his side to win money
and spend it on their own selfish wants
who said prayers and sat in cushion
ed pews, and thanked God that they
were not as other men-whilc these
thousands have lived their little lives,
and played their little games, have had
their little triumphs, have died their
little deaths, and filed their little graves,
this grand old Peter Cooper, working
in his glue factory aud saving his mon
cy, has lowered up into colossal mon
ument of Christ-llke life and labor.
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A PRESERVATION AT THE FRENCH
COURT.

The English pi esentatlon came at
last to an end, and Mr. Mason's task
began. Remembering the name Of
his first victim he succeeded, without
blundcr, in making the American
Muggins and the Third Napoleon ac-
quainted with each other. But With
the next our Minister came to a full
stop He could not remember TIE
name, and the poor man tried in vain
by stage whisper to communicate the
magic word. The Emperor waited
with that calm Indifference which is far
more aggravating IAN any expression
of impatiencc. H., waited without re-
suit, and he light have so waited an
indefinite time, for the wr3tched mau
whose introduction stopped the way
suddenly grew red in the face, and lest
all power Of articulation Jud ge Mason
saw apoplexy before him, when relief
came IN the shape Of a happy idea that
struck his diplomatic brain. Stepping
back few PAGES he exclaimed
II have the honor to introduce your
Majesty to all these good people.
They are all Americans"
This mode Of presenting, by platoon,
was now to his Majesty aforesaid ;
but accepting the situation, he with
drew a few PAGES, so as to take in the
entire line, and then began bis usual
speech on such occasions
"You have done me great compli.
ment, ladies and gentlemen, by com
ing so far to visit my court. You
come from a great country. I rcmem.
Der your country-1 was once there
myself
At this point tall, awkward New
Englander, looking at the. court thus
referred to through pair Of gold-rim'
med spectaclcr, thought it about time
to say something to relieve the general
sense of restraint and so cried out in a
very insinuatipg, soothing, though
rather nasal tone:
"And We were very glad to have yo1
among US, your Majesty"
A burly gentleman, full Of conceit
aud gorgeously decorated with media
some enthusiastic fire company had ire
sented him, indignant that any othc
than himself should presume to speak
added. in loud voice:
'Aud We hope soon to see you again
your Majesty"
The proposition, made so heartily, t
resume travels once more that had prov
en- so mean and miserable, disconcerte,
his Imperial Majesty to such an exteo
that he abruptly terminated the review
by gathering u? his sidearms and go
ing off at almost a canter.-DoS'
P1Arr, in Harper's Nagazine..
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navy ; for l remember seeing on White
Bca. Lake last summer at Glenwood a
craft Of considerable dimensions. The
aese :sed valuation of property in
Stearns county is now upwards Of two
million dollars.
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spuIlluS rails at Tue rate OF Tour nun
dred rails per yard An ordinary
hand will not split over three hundred
in day. We can assume that enough
for twenty acres could be split IN three
weeks, and that the whole cost includ-
ing timber, of fencing the twenty acres
will be sixty dollars.
The breaking and fencing then have
made the lot cost eight dollars per acre.
Let US add two dollars more per acre
for other improvements, Gloss plough
ing aud narrowing, and it has cost ten
dollars per acre. The next season W.
SOW 1t with wheat and raise twenty
bushels per acre, the average yield
Git has not been less the past two sea-
sons.) Or suppose We raise fifteen
bushels per acre, what is the wheat
worth On the frontier it is always
worth more than at the river towns.
For example, it is now worth one dollar
per bushel at Alexandria, while here
only seventy cents. At a moderate
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-03-19

"Seven of the most noted modern engi-
neering works, to contrast with the seven
wonders Of the ancient world, are the
Thames tunnel, the Great Eastern steam
ship, the Atlantic cable, the Britannia and
Niagara bridges, the Erie canal, modern
ordnance, and the Pacific railway.
Among the great projects of the age are
those for building canals, railways, tunnels,
bridges and steamers. In canals, we have
the project of one around the Falls of Mag
ara a Encouragement Of the Erie for ves-
sells of 1000 tons; the Suez, nearly complet-
ed one across the Alleghanies in Virginia;
one through the Nicaragua Lake or Pana-
ma, and one from Huron to Ontario. In
railways, we have the Pacific on the eve of
completion; the Mont Gents in rapid pro-
gress; one across the continent from Rio
Janeiro, begun; and many others of mag
nitude. OF bridges, we have those in pro-
gress across our great Western rivers; one
proposed across the East river at New
York, of 1900 feet clear span; two over the
Hudson, above and below West Point an
other across tho Straits of Messina, cover
ing the Scylla and Charibdis' with clear
spans of 1000 metres (two-thirds Of mile)
each, and with piers 700 feet high, half in
and half out of the sea, and finally, the
modern 'Pons Assinorum,' bridge project
across the Straits of Dover, l6 miles long,
in clear spans of 2 miles each, with piers Of
1000 feet depth in the water. The project
is said to be favored by Napoleon. In tun-
| nels, we have that of Mont Cents, s miles,
and Hoosic, miles in length, both in rapid
progress; one of wrought iron tubes al
London, and another at Chicago; also tun'
nels proposed under the East and Nortl
rivers at New York, under the Gauges n
Calcutta, and under the Straits of Dover"
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p.RLL-BOR.v PBOYLR.

Parents transmit their organization and
character to their children. What father or
mother is there who would not wish TO
leave his issue great estate of human vir-
tue,-in their bones and muscles, health,
strength, longevity, beauty, and in their
souls wisdom, justice, benevolence, piety,
rather than the opposite of all these? Ev-
erything must bear fruit after its kind, you
after yours. "Men do not gather grapes Of
thorns, nor figs of thistles."
Men talk of good birth, good blood. No
man honors the well-born more than /; but
who are they? In America we say they are
the sons and daughters OF the rich wealth
is nobility, its children are well-born. In
Europe we are told that they are the sons
and daughters of lords and kings; birth
from official station is nobility. o foolish
men! Ofall the children of European roy
atty in eighty years, there has not been born
| single boy or girl who in common life
would have won the smallest distinction.
Amongst the decent people of Europe kings,
OF all others, are the most ill-born. Where
do the rich families Of New England go to
in the third generation? Look over Boston
| and see. Whence come the noble talent,
the great virtue, nay, the poetry, the sci
| ence, the eloquence, the literature, that
| adorn the land? They are not rocked in
golden cradles. 1t is not royalty in Europe,
1t is not wealth in New England, which is
father and mother to the great mastery
talent which controls and urges forward
the mass of the people, with its mastery
mind and conscience, heart and soul. No!
it is the children of wholesome industry,
the children of intelligence, of morality, of
religion, who are the well-born. Virtue is
| nobility; all else is but the paint men write
its name withal. Health, strength, beauty,
they are physically well-born though
dropped anonymous in the obscurist ditch I;
still more, wisdom, integrity, philanthropy,
religIon,-theso woll-born, noble, yes,
royal, If you will, for they are the kingly
virtues of humanity, and whose has them,
though he be Graded among cattle, and laid
in the crib of an ass or OK, he only is the
best born of men! Who is there that would
not covet that royalty for himself, and still
more, achieve it for his daughter and his
son, that, when his bones are crumbling in
some obscure churchyard, in his children
| the strong and flamelike flower of manly
virtue may blossom fair, and ripen its seed,
and SOW the green earth gladsomely with
| al?-Selected.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-03-19

Come, boys, and listen few moments to
age when you must begin to think about
doing something for yourselves. The first
piece of advice have for you Is, to do every
thing well which you undertake. There is
but little danger of your being too partic-
ular in this respect. A boy who is careful
TO draw a straight line on his slate, will be
very likely to make straight line through
life. There is no position in life in which
you will not be called upon to act as exact
as possible. Step into Il jewellers shop,
and see how careful the workman must be
in finishing up the article he holds in his
hands. Visit the ship-yard, and the man
with the broad-axe must learn to hew OH a
line, or be dismissed. You think Of being
a clerk. Well, remember that mistake
there is a little less than crime. / never
saw man who was very particular about
his affairs that was not successful. How
exact is military officer in command OF a
body Of men. A clumsy sailor will never
rise to the command Of a ship.
But there is one great danger which be-
sets many young men at the present day.
| 1t is the disposition to avoid all solid i'm
provement, and take up with subjects that
| require no thought, and which serve az
mere warfare with godliness, and whose
portion will be that of the ungodly. As the
tree falleth so shall it lie. We shall reap
| what we have sown.
Let my example warn You of the fatal
error into which have fallen," said tn,
gay Sir Francis Delaval, near the end O
his life. pursue what is useful pursu,
what is usefulr' Reader, If you would no
want to make your life a curse, present ant
eternal, "pursue what is useful"
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Fowls IN oRoHARDs.-The public has
yet to learn the full advantage of keeping
poultry. Few seem to appreciate what they
may do among trees in an orchard. Let
any one try them in an orchard of quar-
ter of an acre, where they may be kept by
picket fence four or five feet high, putting
in say l25 fowls, and observe the result,
He will avoid the annoyance in the garden
OF which so many complain, while they
will work among the trees, doing Just what
Is needed, keeping the ground we'll cultivat-
ed and destroying everything that can in
jure the fruit-trees in the shape of bugs,
worms, or other insects, and lay a large
number of eggs, which are cash article,
to say nothing Of the chickens, which pay
well for raising at the present time. have
tried 1t and know 1t Is so. l have about
one hundred fowls, which have worked
admirably among my trees, keeping the
ground in good condition, keeping off the
insects, and promoting the growth of tho
orchard. / am satisfied that we have yet
to learn the full benefits which may be de-
rived from the proper management Of fowls,
and 1t il quite possible that the method /
have suggested may offer the best way of
getting our apple orchards into bearing
condition again.-E1ehange.
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IMPORTANT TO THE AFFLICTED.

DR.. DOW continues to be consulted at his Office Nos
and Endicot Street, Boston, on all diseases ola
PRIVATE OR DELICATE NATURE.
BY a long course Of study and practical experience OF
unlimited extent DR.. d. has the qualification pre-
senng the unfortunate with remedies that have never,
since he first introduced them, failed to cure the most
alarming cases Of
GoNoRRHHA AND SYPHILIS.
Beneath his treatment all the horrors Of yenereal and
impure blood, Impoeney, Scrofua, Gonorrhoa, Ulcers
pain and distress in the regions Of procreation, lnam
nation Of the Bladder and Kidneys Hydrocee, Abcesses
Humors fghtfu swengs, and the long train Of horrible
symptoms attending this class Of disease made TO be
come AS harmless as the simplest ailngs Of child.
SEMINAL WEAKNESS.
Dr. D. devoes great part Of his time to the treatment
Of those cases caused by secret and solitary habit,
which ruins the body and mind uniting the unfortunate
Individual for business society Some OF the sad and
melancholy effects produced by early habits Of youth
are Weakness Of the Back and Limbs, Dizziness Of the
Head Dimness Of ght pApitaton OF the Heart, Dyspep
sa Nervousness, Derangemept OF the digestive func-
tons symptoms Of Consumption Sc The fearful effects
on the mind are much to be dreaded loss Of memory,
confusion OF ideas depression Of spirits, evil orebodngs
aversion Of society sedistrus timdity, 6c are among
the evils produced Such persons should before contem
plating matrmony consult physician ofexperenee and
be at once restored to health and happiness.
Patients who wish TO remain under Dr. BOWS treat
ment few days weeks, will be furnished with pleas
ant rooms, and charges for board moderate.
Medicines sent to all parts of the country, with full d.
rectious use receiving description Of your cases
DR. Dow has also sale the French Capottes. warrant
ed the best preventive. Order by mall Three Tor u
and red stamp.
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Men of mark-those who can't write
their names.
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RatIr0a0s.
Rutland & Burlington and Vermont
Valley Railroads.

Rutland " burlington and Vermont
Valley Railroads.
In M wv
On and and after date, Trains will run A. follovs;
MOVING SOUTH AID FIST
Leave Burlington, 30 m, 2 As and 10 OO.pm;
Arrive at Rutland, ~ IS m, IA is and 10 u m:
Leave Rutland, IS and 30 a m, "a 20 and 8 rs d m.
Arrive at Bellows Pals, 80 Z as m, 2 3O sbopm.
Leave Bellows Falls 70 and 80 n m, and 2 IS D M.
Arrive At Brattleboro, %, so m, and 3 80 m;
MovfEo ASD WEST
Leave Brattleboro, 10 IS m, 10 and OOpm:
Arrive at bellows Falls, II IS a M 40 and s. M.
Leave Falls 20 aud II 40 m, Is aud 10 90 , m;
Arrive at Rutland, ~ IS, 10 90 M q % aud OO nj.
Leave Rutland 80, 30 a m, and q O5 p m;
Arrive at Burlington, 90, o. a m, and SPIN
TRAINS CONNECT AZ foIIoya.
At Burlington with boats on lake Champlniu and
Vermont Central and Vermont and Canada RAilrosds
for Montpelier " Abans, Rouses Point Montreal o.,
densburg and the West
At Rutland with trains for Bennington. Manchester
Troy, Albany and New York, Saratoga Springs sch,-
nectady and the West.
At Bellows Falls with trains on Cheshire Railroad for
Ftchburg, Worcester, Lowell and Boston with snlH-
Railroad for Windsor, White River Junction Wells
River, 81 JOhnsbury Newport Ilttetuu and the White
Mountains; and with Vermont Valley Railroad At Bel
lows Falls and at Bratleboro with trains via New Lon
don Northern Railroad, for Amherst Palmer, Whitman
tic, Norwich New London and New York or with Con-
necticut River Railroad for Springfield Hartford New
Haven and New York.
Passengers for the West will ind this cheap pleas
ant and expeditions route For tickets and all necessary
Information inquire at the offices on the line.
GEO. A. MERRILL, SupL
Rutland, Vt, May Is, 1868
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American and Foreign Patents.
r. H. EDDY,

SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,
Late Agent Of the T. 8. Patent Once Washington, under
the Act Of 1887.
No rs STATE Strict (0PPosrTE KiLBY STREET BOSTON
After an extensive practice ofupwards Of twenty years.
continues to Patents In the United States also in
Great Britain France and other foreign countries Cav
eats Specifications, Bonds Assignments, and all Papers
or Drawings for Patents executed reasonable terms,
with dispatch Researches made into American and For
egn works to determine the validity and utility Of Patents
ofnvenons and legal and other advice rendered in all
matters touching the Copies Of the claims Of any
Patent furnished by RENTING One Dollar. Assignments
recorded in Washington.
No Agency in the United States possesses superior
facilities for obtaining Patents or dscsrfGiniHg the
pafen liability Of inusntions.
During eight months, the subscriber in the course oil
his large practice made wiee rejected applications
SIXTEEN APPEALS, every one Of which was decided
in hi, favor by the Commissioner Of Patents.
TESTIMONIALS.
al regard Mr.. Eddy, one OF the most capable and
suocessfui practitioners, with whom have had official
intercourse.
CHARLES MASON. Commissioner Of Patents"
81 have no hesitation in assuring inventors that they
cannot employ man more competent and Trustworthy
capable putting their applications in form to
secure for them early and favorable consideration al
the Patent Once.
EDMUND BURKE, Late Commissioner OF Patents"
"Mr. r. II. Eddy has made for me THIRTEEN applca
tions in all but ONE Of which patents have been grant
proof 81 talent and aS on his part a me
all inventors apply him to their
patents they shaving the faithful
charges. JOHN TAGHART."
Boston, Jan. l, 1s6o.-1yl