The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-04-25

a severe nail storm last week.
Texas papers estimate the loss of
cattle in Western Texas, the past win
ter, at 100000 head.
Tho official vote for Governor IN
Connecticut gives Jewell majority of
twenty.eig ht overall.
Gen. Sherman, Colonel Anden.
REID aud Lieutenant Grant will soon
leave Constantinoplo for tour through
Russia.
-Greco of all shades is very much
worn this season in costumes, bonnets
and gloves.
We have additional assurance that
the government will not amend its case
10 the Geneva treaty, and even doubt
VIII ether they could if they would.
The Executive Committee of the
Union League has been in session, and
resolved to support the regular Repub.
lican nominee for President.
The number of hogs packed in
the West last winter amounted tc
4,7S2,403, with an average weight o.
282 pounds.
! The Senate post Office committee
has agreed to report the postal tele.
graph bill with amendmen
Mexico continues in state of an.
archy. It is reported that Juarez wish.
es to resign the Presidency, but bis
friends will not permit it till his sue.
ccssor has been provided.
! "A British steamship with seven
hundred passengers on board ran
aground near Halifax on Saturday.
Fortunately no lives were lost.
The vessel loaded with arms for
the Cubans is at Kingston, Jamaica, and
the leaders Of the expedition are being
prosecuted.
! Professor Agassiz has succeeded in
taking the photographs of some fish
aud other marine animals in the water
The Harpers have given their
cashier, who has been employed by
them forty years, a furlough to visit
Europe, and a present of $4,000.
! Rev. Horatio Stebbins is the
Bcecher of San Francisco, CAL, and
successor to the late lamented Starr
King. fills present salary is $4,000
"A company has been formed 70
the purpose Of uniting England and
America with another telegraphic ca
bic, and large reduction of rates is
promised.
An amendment has been incorporat-
cd into the naval appropriation bill by
the Senate committee, repeating til 6
eight hour law so far as it applies
to the workshops of the various navy.
yards in this country.
Tho Prussians are certifying Metz
with enormous cannons OF steel.
Trey are also charging Strasburg, So
that instead of ninety thousand it can
contain two hundred thousand. They
are also making canal parallel With
the Rhine, and an enormous basin for
ships coming from Mannheim and
the North Sea.
Earl Russell gave notice in the
uouse Of Lords on Thus day that he
should defer until the Goth inst. the
introduction eff his motion for an a d.
dress to the crown for suspension Of
proceedings on the part of Great Bri.
tain before the Geneva tribunal until
the United States withdraws her claim
for indirect damages.
"A tornado swept over portion Of
South Carolina on Thursday night last
Tho new market house, at Columbia,
which was about frished, was blown
down. The worst damage was done in
Chester, at which place sixty two houses
were entirely destroyed by the storm
and many others seriously damaged.
"A suit was commenced 10 the Tn.
tied States Court Tuesday, against the
proprietors of the Cincinnati Evening
Star for $1,000 damages. The petit.
ton alleges that the defendants violated
the postal laws il mailing one hundred
copies of the Weekly Star to persons
not bona tide subscribers without pr
payment.
-Gambetta delivered an address Al
Havre on Friday night, in which h.
alluded to the present condition q
France, and the necessity of more def
mite form of government. lie said
the first measure to be adopted to IN
sure reform was the dissolution of tn,
present Legislative body Of France and
the election of a Republican assembly
| Authentic information has bee,
received in Washington from St. Pc.
tersburg to the effect that Catacazy'
justification OF himself has been con
sidered attentively in the council O.
the Empire. He is utterly disgraced
and has left St. Petersburg for Paris
with pension of 3 900 rubles per an
mum. This pension is 50 settled that
it will be withdrawn if Catacazy makes
any publication or gives cause for of
Tense.
A Philadelphia thief who Was car
ried to a photograph gallery to hav'
bis likeness taken, on Saturday, was 81
much averse to the operation that whel