The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-06-09
The Journal" il London.
A RA0Y REVIEW OF ITS CONTENTS.

What is thought Of st. Cloud
and Northern Minnesota.
HE VALUE OF Local. PAPERS.
rom the Anglo-Amerieaa Times (London)
Hay IA.
NINNEs0TA AND ITS LOCAL PRESS.
We have before asserted our belief
q the value to the emigraut Of local
,aperf from the most out-of:the way
parts of the district where he proposes
% settle, for the information which
,an DO extracted by those who know
how, IL little less than from an actual
visit, though the general features Of the
country should first be known. The
local journal does not write articles ex-
pressly to convey information, and if it
did it would fail in doing that to which
We desire to direct the attention Of emf
grants. 1t is the multitude of little
facts unconsclously communicated, pre-
judicial to the growing district from
one point; or from another telling, |
without being sensible OF the fact, Of
its rapid rise in material prosperity.
Better still, it gives truthful little
glimpses Of the state Of society, whether
harmony or dissension prevails, if the
people are ohuxch-goiug, law-abiding,
trading and enterprising; whether the
children 60 to school, the men to bust
ness, and the women to their household
work; what they buy, eat, drink, and
do; whether their streets are paved,
lighted by gas; their fields fenced,
their cattle abundant, carriage cheap,
and population increasing ;-informa'
ton on al such points can best be gath
cred from the local papers, where they
least intend to convey it. We have be-
fore us two of late date, the St. Cloud
JOURNAL, from St. Cloud, Miuuesota,
and the Alexandria Post, from Alex
andria, in the same State. St. Cloud
is town in Stearns County, on the
Mississippi, some distance above st.
Paul, and Alexandra is away west, in
Douglas county, almost as near to Fort
Garry and "President" Riell, as to St
Paul. The first item the St. Cloud
JOURNAL give, tells Of the departure
of a surveying party to run three line'
from the city for fifty miles west; tn
best to be selected, and continued t
Georgetown on the Red River, con
Meeting with the first division Of tn
St. Paul and Pacific, the work beiul
really on behalf of the Northern Paoif'
Railroad The JOURNAL condemns
"the contemplate spirit Ct marrow
meanness" which had just induced tn
Minnesota House to defeat the bill TO
the erection of Normal school at ST
Cloud, aud, as "the stupidity Of tn
action is its own severest comment
the editor, who was at loss for words
was happily relieved. News, Is nigh
be expected, is neither plentiful mol
when not local, is it fresh. It is MOI
however, the little items of intelligence
which interest US, but. the spirit Of tn
press. The people evidently take a
interest in the leading magazines Of th
States, for there are short reviews Of tn
atlantic, the Galaxy, the Rs'uerside
Our Young Folks, and others, eao'
succeeding notice being more compG
mentary than the last, and as he carrie
us along We wonder to what climax tn
editor will attain, or when the povert!!
Of language will bring him to STOP
Interm,xed with the local news ar
what printers call "pud pars," an
they fall like snowflakes ON our path q
we run down the columns. At 81
Cloud what 10 termed "Personap' has
strong smack of the personal ; for in
stance, We are told that "Csptaiu W
H. Hall and MI. o. q. Campbell, tw
, jolly boys from Kingston, rendere
their phizes visible in our Office o
Friday" This IS followed by the inte
ligence that groceries continue at PAM
prices At Boyd's. 1t is natural for .
to conclude that Boyd's is the place
buy sugar, coffee, and tea; but littl
further on crops up a paragraph whie
raises doubt :-*'Huber gives from
to- pounds Of sugar for $l.00;
, pounds Of good Rio coffee for $1.00;
', poundsof incest dried peaches for $1.00
lard, 22} cents per pound, and ever,
, thing else in proportion. Give Hube
, a trial." The reader, could soarcel
have made up his mind to accept thu
u invitation when he hears of . 'revol.
:: ton in the prices Of groceries and pr
/ visions. Down to tho bottom they g
! At Limperich's." In large letter.
:: Pickit & Abbott attract US thus
THE "REauLAToR," and our reader
must remember that al this is in whs
are called the editorial columns. 81
short time since people could only g
} Eve pounds Of sugar for one dolla
, Pickit e. Abbott put in . stock Of gr'
ceries, and Immediately Six pounds fe
! one dollar became the standard price