The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-05-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

The wife Of "Brick" Pomeroy, the
scalawag editor of La Crosse and New
York, on Tuesday obtained a divorce
FROM him in the Milwaukee Circuit
Court. She was awarded $40, 900 ali
mony.
-On Monday, May LIST, the law re.
pealing the whole schedule of internal
revenue taxes with few exceptions,
vent into operation. Some sixty mil.
lions Of taxes are thus swept away.
Mormon physicians are forbidden,
under penalty OF $1,000 and not lsss
than years imprisonment, to prescribs
any Of the more powerful ageots known
to the medical profession, without 6rss
explaining to the patient and bis
friends their medical properties, and
procuring the unqualified consent Of
I'll concerned.
"A Kansas hotel door bears tho fol,
lowing placsrd: This hotel il closed
on account Of =, difference between the
proprietor and The c,ok, which was set-
tied With pistols, sent the proprietor
70 the grave and the cook to tho jail"
The Scientific American. says, It
is now impossible 70 construct > bur-
.glar-proof safe. for the thief, with his
cylinders Of compressed hydrogen and
oxygen, can in few seconds burn holes
OF any size in the hardest metal Ibis
fire drill enabling him ia few minutes
70 work bis WY into the strongest safe
that was ever constructed.
The Americans have already ex-
pended over a millloa dollars O. Mis-
500.
The famous rebel irou-clad Merri-
mac is likely to prove OF some value to
the world after all. Hebrew, the
wrecker, is going to work on her in .
few days.
/ The season for sitting on circular
sawathss commenced. A msn ne.r e.
mira sat on on: tho other day, ADD they
buried both Of him in the same grave
Z "A young fellow cbopping wood
near Salem, Oregon, accidentally IN.
earthed ! pile Of gold coins, worth in
Ill 500. Most Of them bore old dates;
and they had evidently been in the
ground . long time.
"A new volume Of quite pcc1lia
interest and value is in the course of
preparation in England, on the Desert
Of the Exodus, by Mr., Z. f. Palmer,
NJ. A., Fellow of St. John's Cyllegc,
Cambridge. Mr. Palmer made a care
full exploration Of the country in the
Ordinance Surveys of Sinai, ia 1868 9,
and his work will be the most complete
account ever yet given of the Wander
ings in the Wilderness of the Children
of Israel.
Enthusiastic meetings have recent
~ been held. at Burlington in the new
Burlington and Northwest railroad,
which is projected to run along the
great divide Of Iowa, in northwest
err direction, from Burlington to some
point on the Northern Paci ic road IN
Minnesota.
--Enslaud Las LEARNED great. many
things from America. Legal codes,
monitors, sewing machines, teleeraph-
rifles, re'olvers, rocking chairs, plow-
ing, reapin2, moving, washing and
co~.miIhiog machines, sx-handles, spd
other Of our inventions she has freely
adopted. r.. g.,
1t is reported that. J,mes Gordon
Feode't has formally, made over the
Herald to his son, :vala,nk i the, entire
,p'opsrtysand good will !as. $3,oo0.Q0o.
He has taken no part in editing the
paper for come time, aud has not been
in the Nf6eesf or nearly twelve ]; mou'h>.
10 H. novs3ia his 18Th year, quite ice.
bic ana 'ste>diI, sinking. i; :I,soo,s