The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-08-11
The decks at Duluth are covered
with iron for the Northern Pacific r.
r.

with iron for the Northern Pacific h.
r.
The late James T. Brady once re-
marked that his experience among
clients convinced him that. a mans
wife is his best lawyer.
"A lady, nj reply to some guests
who praised the mutton on her table
said "Oh, yes my husband always buys
the best he is a great cpicac."
The Russian government, being
informed of NJ. Stewards approaching
visit to China, have rendered him the
palace of the Imperial Legation, At
Pekin, for a residence, while in that
city.
The harvest has commenced in
tho south Of England. The crop is re-
ported to be of excellent quality, and
the yield: abundant. Recent rains
greatly improved the crops.
10, several days huge posters ap-
peared on the walls about Wool
wlch, England, announcing a public
meeting ia favor Of woman suffrage,
but at the hour appointed the hall con-
tanned FIVE persens only, out Of a pop
ulation of $4,000 souls, this audience
comprising one boy, the hall-keeper,
and three old woman.
"A Yankee who had been Dragging
of the victories of the Revolution, was,
referred by an Englishman to the bat
tie of White Plains, at which the Amer
leans were severely beaten. The Yam
kee hesitated little, and then remark
ed that eat that battle the Americans
somehow didn't seen, take any interest
IN the fight"
Josh Billings says there are four
styles of mind:
1st. Them who knows it's so.
I'd. Them who knows it amt so.
Sd. Them who split the difference
and guess at it.
4th. Them Who don't care . darn
what way it is.
D1ED-At Snohoming, W. T., D
-E-, Of Philadelphia, in Janu-
ary last, of consumption, in the 48th
year Of his age.
God takes the good-too good on earth to stay
And leaves the bad-too bad to take away.
HIS ONLY BROTHER.
"A party Of %, left Minneapolis
on Thursday under charge of 7. B.
Walker, to survey government land
| in the district west Of Benson, the
last station on the main line st. P. &
P. R. r. Geo. B. Wright has since
started with another party:
The Farlbault Republican says
that A. Sickler, of East Prairie, sold
his stallion to Deshone of Minneapolis,
for $500; that w. R. Baldwin cut
IS acres of wheat in ST days, aud that
the new wheat weighs 63 pounds to the
bushel.
The King Of Wurtemburg is quoted
as saying, "Gernauy will be ruined BY
the war for twenty years, and emigra-
ton to America will swell to enormous
proportions" While the war exists
there will not be much emigration, for
the good reason that they cannot get
away. When it closes there will un-
doubtedly be great emigration.
In reply to the charge that Con-
gregationalism is dying out in New
England, the Congregat;onal;.s shows
that since 1881, that denomination has
IN Massachusetts, added to its force 2l3
new churches and over $4,000 mem.
bers, thus nearly doubling its member
ship in the last forty years. This is
somewhat better than the increase in
the population of the State.
Peter Cartwright, the noted Meth
odist preacher, spoke at Dubuque, Iowa
a few days ago, and paper of that city
remarks '1t WAS strange sight, aod
one We may never expect to see again,
to behold 4 man in the pulpit before
US who was eighty-six years old, had
been eighty years a citizen Of the west,
and who, sixty years ago, crossed the
Mississippi where Is now St. Louis.
He preached in the state of Illinois