The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-11-09

PERsoNAL.-Mr. James s. Mitchell, Of
the firm Of Tobey 4 Mitchell, started fer
New York on Saturday 70 purchase q stock
Of goods fer the winter trade. -
Col. ]. L. Merriam, of St. Paul, was in
the city on Monday. ''~ -:
Hon. N Richardson and Mr.. Ezra
Briggs. Of Little Falls. were i'll town on
Saturday. s.#<E*sas 58$s
Judge MoKeivy started en- Saturday to
hold term Of the District Court in Otter
Tail county. From there no will 70 to
Alexandria to try the Evansville men
charged with murder. ->..,... g.. u.
We had = coll on Saturday from Mr.. s.
A. Heard, Of Litohfield, who ad recently
been ard gone and got married, and look
ed decidedly happy in consequence.
Mr.. Chas. Buss. Of Cold Spring, also
made us a..frlendly call on Saturday.
Mr.. J. ". Darby, P. NJ. at Paynesville,
was in town on Saturday.
Rev.s s. K. Stewart, Pastor of St. Johns
church, returned on Saturday from q
lengthy trip through the Indian country,
attending the Chippewa payments.
CHANGE.-A letter from the State Com
mittee states that the series of religious
meetings which was to have been held at
this place, beginning to morrow, will not
take place. Mr.. Burnell, the clay Preach
err" has received word of the serious illuess
of his wife, and has returned to his home
in Illinois.
ANOTHER MAN. Mr.. J. r. Goodner, Of
st. Peter, writes to the St: Paul Pioneer that
the body of the murdered man found at
Morris, as reported in last weeks JOURNAL,
was not the body Of VIM. Finney. Mr..
F. is at work with his "fve mule teams''
near st. Peter, and does not feel very much
like murdered man. The inquiry re-
mains-Who was the victim of the murder
MISUNDERSTANDING y Co., are
building a blacksmith and pillow shop, 22x70.
adjoining their foundry.
Mr.. D. II. Spicer is building an addition
to his dwelling house.
An addition 10 being put to TIE school
building near the Catholic church.
Mr.. R. Corbett is building gymnasium,
on the lot opposite the Central House. It
will be 22x40, with 10-foot ceiling, and
will be rented by the Gymnastic Club. ~,
DEMOCRATIC UPsAr.-On Monday night
aparty Of Democratic politicians, comprise
ing Peter Roy, Jos. Gravel, Il. Riddle and
Sheriff Roscoe, Of Little Falls, and 3. Van
dersliu's, Of Two Rivers, went to Foster,
at Two Rivers, to hold . political meeting.
On the return home they commenced run
ming races with with man who WAS on
horseback. Their team ran away, and
struck fence, .pilling tho whole party,
and severely bruising Riddle and Wander
elius. The horses continued to run, until
one fell dead. Aoral-keep sway from
Democratic meetings.
AoKNowLEGEMEHr.-The following COM
munication has been received from Paynes-
Vile: II
To Messrs. II. G. Burbank, J. E. Hay
ward, Davis, Beal & Co., J. G. Smith and
others:
S1Rs.-At meeting Of citizens Of Pay
nesville, held Nov. let, tho following reso-
luton was passed without dissenting
voice:
Reso1ved: That the thanks of this meet
ing be and they are hereby rendered to
The citizens Of St. Cloud for tho generous
donations presented to our committee, and
We pledge ourselves to strive to see that
they be judlciously distributed.
BY order Of meeting.
JOHN PHIPPS, Chairman,