The St. Cloud journal., 1872-03-28
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

Your friend,
CHAs. D. KERR:
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Judge Davis has accepted the
Columbus nomination.
The Joint High Commission have
resumed their SESSIONS.
! The amount of 1862 bonds redeem.
cd to date is $ll0,909,500.
The small pox is on the increase
in New York.
Tho Emperor William celebrated
bis 18th birthday on Friday.
In England it is not permitted to
marry after IL o'clock in the day.
Tho hair-merchants are canvassiug
Iceland for chignon material.
The average depth of the Allan
tic ocean IS three miles; that of the
Pacific, four miles.
"A drunken man was drowned in
eight inches ot water in Keokuk, Iowa,
the other day.
"A nice old lady, Mrs. Mary Knapp
celebrated her Tooth birthday, at Au-
rora, ILL.,, cu the 7th inst.
The commercial policy of France does
not suit England and Spain, and they
want it changed.
The number of deaths IN PhiIadel.
pbia last week was 427, of which 95
died Of small pox.
"A Brooklyn policeman last year
pro6ted to the extent of $1,000 by be-
ing silent partner in gaming cstab-
lishmont.
Nilsson has displayed an unbe-
coming jealousy Of Miss Carey; who re-
ceives too many encores.
The Supreme Court has dimisscd
the Ku.Klux cases from South Corolina
upon the Governors plea of want of
jurisdiction.
1T has been proved that Marshal
Bazine dined with Prince Frederick
Charles of Prussia, shortly before tho
capltulation Of Metz.
-Lieuteuaut General Won Schwioitz
the German Ambassador to Austria, is
to marry Miss ay,daughter of our Min.
lister at Vienna.
Several of the tribes of Arizona
Indians have fed from their reserva-
tion, and murder and robbery in that
unhappy Territory have again commene'
ed with increased vigor.
"A dead man being found at La
Crosse, with seven stabs in his back,
the ecroner's jury brought in verdict
of "probable murder" A very eau.
tious jury.
The Union Pacifc trains crossed
the Omaha bridge on Friday, and land.
ed their passengers, &c., at Council
Bluffs, wbereat the Council Bluf6ans
are exceedingly happy.
Henry Ward Beecher supports
President Grant }oe denomination in
long editorial in the Christian Union,
and at the same time refers pleasantly
to the war in the Senate.
The Colo:ed National Labor Union
organized In the interest Of the Repub-
lican party, and numbering upwards of
800 organizations, principally in the
South, are preparing for the campaign.
In pulling down an old house near
Plain6eld, New Jersey, skeleton was
recently found walled in the cavity be-
tween the two fro places. With it
we're an old flint musket Of English
make aud two knives.
On Saturday man named Clark
at Cold springs, near Otis, Mass, by
the most foolish carelessness With a
loaded gun, shot aud killed his sister,
aged %. years,and wounded her daugh-
ter, six years old, so that amputstion
Of her arm was necessary.
-Four hundred Utah women have Pc
titioned Congress against the admission
of Utah as State. They argue that
such admission would only augment
the power of the Mormon priesthood
and perpetuate polygamy, of which
they have had sufficiently bitter ex-
perience.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
received from the Japanese Govern.
ment, through Gov. Ito, boz contain
ing set Of specimens Of new japanese
coin, to be forwarded to the United
States Mint They are of gold, and
similar in weight aud size to our twen-
ty dollar gold pieces and one dollar sill
yer pieces, together with gold end sill
yer coins Of lesser denominations.
-California has hired State tree
planter at the rate of $4,000 . year
and expenses. +~'..- ...
The French language has about
$4,000, the Spanish 10000, tho 1tal-
ian $4,000, aud the English 10000,
words. s..... ~. -. s:..sy1s>,
| The manufacturing of Etruscan
jewelry il one Of the lost arts. Jew.
clers say there is no method known to
| m o1ern soianro vhich will enable them