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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-07-18

From the Pitts6ury (Pa.) Commercial.
Some twelve or fifteen years ago,
when land in the (now) outer wards of
the city was regarded as of little value,
and when those who farmed it imaein-
ed-if they ever gave the subject a
thought at all-that Pittsburg would
never grow beyond the boundaries
OF the old nine wards, a beautiful
tract of fifty acres, overlooking the
Monongahela, opposite the City Farm,
was owned by a man whose chief
characteristic was his uuyielding de-
termination never to submit to what he
might deem wrong or an imposition.
He had, on one occasion, to employ a
physician, as most men have and, the
doctor, like most other doctors, ex
pected pay for his services. He sent in
his bill to the farmer. and the farmer
refused to pay: He had made up
his mind not to pay the bill and that
was enough. The dootor brought suit.
The case was finally submitted to ar
bitrators, who cut down the bill, fixing
the amount justly due at Eve dollars.
The farmer still refused to pay-de-
clared he never would yield. TIE
doctor got stubborn too, and vowed
he would have his money. The
magistrate gave judgment against the
farmer but nevertheless, he adhered
to his purpose not to pay. An execu-
tion was issued, the property was seized
by the sheriff and advertised for sale.
The farmers mind was make up, aud
was not to be changed either by Sher-
IFS wJits or the advice or entreaties of
friends. The property was actually
sold on the execution, based on the
five dollar judgment, and of course
wss "knocked down" at a mere song.
The farmer was thus divcsted of his
title, and was eventually compelled to
surrender possession. After the sale he
was offered his property back if he
would pay the judgment and costs,
but he refused to do so. In a few
years after the farm sold for s3,4OO to
a gentlem an who kept it eight or rine
years. Then consolidation came and
it changed hands again at an enormous
advance. These purchasers held the
property until last year, when they
sold it to the Homestead Bank for the
handsome sum of 100000. This CON-
pany, within the last few days, under
their admirable system of selling lots
for homes, disposed Of over 100000
worth of this same land, and still have
over one-third Of their purchase uo-
sold !! Had the farmer been as de-
termined on holding fast to his prop
erty as he was determined on throw
ing it away he would have made
himself rich, or left handsome for
tune for his heirs.
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REALLY HARD TIMES.

One Of our subscribers, living at
Dix, illinois, says that he has heard
and read great deal about hard times
in these days, but AYERS that they do
not compare with the times Of twenty
years ago. He gives the following in
cideut as proof OF his assertion:
"ln Jefferson county, in this State,
Mr.. Coly Babcock, in 1845, wishing to
purchase two pairs of shoes, went to
bis country store, aud found that the
keeper had the shoes desired ; one pair
at ninety cents, the other seventy.five
cents. This was considered an exor-
bitant-price,; which he declined to pay,
but would 60 to St. Louis, (the head
market) This was distant 80 miles
from his residence, but he shouldered
his rifle. put some corn-dodgers and
salt in his shot bag, and started on foot,
killing birds for meat, and lying at
night by camp dres of marketers, which
were plenty at that time. Arriving at
the Mississippi at IllinoistowD, (now
east ST. Louis, he found that it would
cost him fve cents to cross the river
He was mortified to fiud that he would
then be obliged to break in upon his
shoe money, but succumbed at last,
went over to the city and made his
purchase Of two pairs of shoes at cost
of 40 and 60 cents. On returning
home, he found he had cleared sixty
cents, less the ferriage, by his trip.
"Walkiog eighty miles to save this
amount may look absurd, but dollars
we're scarce, markets distant, the land
covered with forests, labor without de.
mand, and pork worth one dollar and
fifty cents per hundred pounds" p
Prairie Farmer.
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OF BAD CROP6 IN
EUROPE.

From tie Nev York Tribune.
From Austro-Hungary comes intell1-
gence which renders it probable that
a great demand will be made upon
the wheat crop of America for this
year. In various portions of the mon
archy, the prospect of the crops has
been completely destroyed. Hungary
has been termed the granary of the
world !; the black, fertile soil of the
Banat is so we'll adapted to raising
wheat that frequently from 30 to 40
bushels Of choice wheat have been
raised to the acre. Now this region
is completely Inundated with water.
Over wide extent Of territory nothing
can be discovered but fsh-ponds and
marshes ; the eye Of the railroad trav.
eler meets with water on all sides.
More than 100000 of acres are
u0W uuUeE wafer.
Somewhat similar has been the ex.
perience of Bohemia. Toward the end
of May there we're heavy falls of rain,
accompanied with waterspouts, 50 that
the rivers EIbe, Moldau, Egar, and
Beraun overaowed their banks and iu-
undated the country with such fear
tul rapidity that in most of the flooded
districts the waters rose four and Eve
feet in minnie. Great disaster was
the result, more than 200 persons
we're drowned, and an immense num-
Der Of houlDs have been destroyed; in
some places whole villages are in ruins,
while, to use the language of an off.
cial report, "millions' worth Of prop
perty have been destroyed, whole
tracts of cultivated land have been con-
eerted into a desert aud covered with
sapd and mud to depth of from two
to three feet, in addition to the prop
erty destroyed in crops, houses, roads,
bridges, and stored goods. 1t will
not be possible to cultivate any of that
land this year, portions of it not even
in the next: and many acres will be
utterly lost for agricultural purposes,
the expenses of restoration being too
great to be borne by tho poor people"
A direct consequence of this failure OF
the markets which have supplied =
great portion of Europe with gain,
would appear to be the necessity of
drawing large supplies from other
countries. With favorable crop in
the United States, considerable ex-
portation Of grain may be required to
supply the deficiency.
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eIAiA IoIAeHteu Ny tuaV AiASA'A"A aPPie'
hension OF the past night, that she
would die without my knowing it-die
without say,ug one word to clear up
the awful mystery Of this blow, and set
the suspicious at rest for ever which
l still felt whenever my eyes fell on
the end Of the old cravat.
At last the doctor eame back.
II think you may safely clear your
mind of any doubts to. which that bit
Of stuff may have given rise," he said'
"she was, as you supposed, detained
late by her employers, and she tainted
in the work-roon They most un :
kindly let her 60 home alone, without
giving her sny stimulant, As soon as
she came to her senses again. Nothing is
more probable, under these circum'
stances, than that she should faint a
second time on her way here. A fall
on the pavement, without any friendly
arm to break it, might have produced
even worse injury than the injury we
see. l believe that the only ill usage
to which the poor g,rl was exposed was
the neglect sho met with in the work
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Total

If I had the heart to give any
thought to it, I should be inclined to
wish that the Church could afford to do
without SO many small charges for
burying poor people, to whose friends
even shillngs are of consequence. But
it is useless to complain the money
must be raised at once. The charlta.
BILE doctor-a poor man himself, or he
would not be living in our neighbor-
hood-has subscribed ten shillings
towards the expenses and the coroner,
when the inquest was over, added FIVE
more. Perhaps others may assist me.
If not, I have fortunately clothes and
furniture Of my OVID to pawn. And
I must set about it without delay !;
for the funeral is to be. tomorrow, the
thirteenth. The funeral-Mary's fun
eral 1t is we'll that the straits and
difficulties I am In, keep my mind on
the stretch. If had leisure to grieve,
where should I fad the courage to face
tomorrow? -...
1. Thank God, they did dot want me
at the inquest. The verdict given
With the doctor, the policeman, aud the
two persons from the place where she
worked, for witnesses-was Accidental
Death. The end Of the cravat was
produced, and the coroner said that it
was certainly enough to cast suspicion {:
but the jury, in. the absence Of any
positive evidence, held the doctors no.
tion that she had tainted and fallen
down, and 50 got the blow on her tenn.
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An 1NYAI1D's PLEA.
- ISL +
BY AloI CARY.
- s....st ~ :.


Summer my beautiful, beautiful Summer!
look in thy taas, and I long 80 to live;
But ah / hast thou room for an idle newcomer,
With all things to take, and with nothing to give,
The vino of thy sunshine, the dew of thy air;
And with nothing to give but the deafness and
= blindness ...,I,.
Begot In the depths Of an utter despairs
Al. If the gay harvester meant but to screen her,
The black spider sits In her low leon, and weaves
lesson Of trust to the tender.eyed cleaner
That bears in her brown arms the gold of the
s3-s ,sheaves. q --s.
Tha blue.bird that trllls her low 10y In the bushes
Provokes from the robin merrier glee;
The roso pays the sun for his MIS- with her
blushos, -
And all things pay tithes to theo--all things but
At even, the fre.aies trim with their glimmors
The wild, weedy skirts Of the field and the wood i;
At morning, those dear little yellow.winged swim
mers,
The butterflies, hasten to make their place good.
The violet alway so white and so sanity;
The cardinal, warming the frost with her blaze
The ant keeping house ut hor saudhearth quantity
Reproaches my idle and indolent ways.
When DER the high east thered morning is break
ing,
And driving the amber of starlight behind,
The land of enchantment leave, on awaking,
Is not SO enchanted as that which find.
And when the low west by the sunset is flattered,
And locust and katy-did sing up their best,
Peace comes to my thoughts, that were used to be
futtered,
Like doves when an eagles wing darkens their
nest.
The green little grasshopper, weak as we deem her,
Chirps, day in and out for the sweet right to live
And canst thou, 0, summsrl make room for q
dreamer,
With all things to take, and with nothing to give
Room only to wrap her hot cheeks in thy shadows.
And all on thy daisy-fringsa pillows to lie,
And dream of the gates of the glorious meadows,
Where never Q rose Of the roses shall die!
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ST. PAUL.

Tho names given in this column are those of tho
largest and most reliable houses in their
several lines Of business in st. Paul.
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Davenport has a girl who spells
backwards. We never thought back
wards was hard word to spell be:
fore. 49,. : !
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st. Cloud Quadrille Band.

The undersigned will furnish first-olass
music for Balls. Special attention given to
supplying private parties. with from two to
|sfve pieces, ss may be desired.
Charges reasonable.
GEO. E. FULLER.
St. Cloud, Sept. 7th, 1871.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-11-08
Mechanism OF an Egg.

Every living creature is the product
of an egg. Some are Matched within
the maternal body, and develop into
their predestined proportions after
birth, which is the beginning of exist.
ence with mammals generally. Eggs
of fishes are ordinarily incubated by so
lar warmth. Birds furnish heat neces.
sary to quicken the germ into life from
their own bodies, with few exceptions.
Whether rhinoceros, hippopota.
mus, a giraffe, an elephant or flea,
their beginning is in an egg. The germ
Of the future being is fed on the fluids
by which it is surrounded. Out of the
albumen or the white Of common pull.
let's egg, for example, are built up a
skeleton a nevous system, a heart,
lungs, brain, blood vessels, every mus.
Gle, and the elements OF each individual
feather, while the yolk is magazine of
food on which the chick is to be nour.
ished a short after it leaves the she'll.
shell. To do. that, it istaken into the body
Of the bird in the course of incubation.
Its enveloping membrane is elongated
into a tube communicating with the
stomach, through which the nutriment
is conducted to where it can be used.
When that supply is exhausted, then
the mother commences a regular sys.
tenn of nursing and feeding till grown
and matured for providing for itself.
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Johnny Bartholomew Dash.

The passage of the train FROM Reno,
yesterday morning, through the burn
ing tunnel, the other side OF the Ameri-
can Flat, will have to stand recorded as
one OF the most brilliant as well as for
tunate dashes ever made under such
circumstances. Johnny Bartholomew,
one Of the best engineers that ever
mounted locomotive, had, on this
particular occasion. happened to change
Oft with Charley Mccormick, the regu-
lar engineer of the Reno" Therefore
was the hero Of this occasion. There
was no trusty Waterman or anybody
else to give warning of the impending
danger, and the train was around the
curve and into the tunnel before the
fire could be seen. The tunnel is 65J
feet in length, and the fire, being at the
opposite end, there was little time tor
thinking or acting, and not enough for
stopping. The deep, red roaring flames
and dense, black smoke were ahead.
and it looked like attempting mad
rush through Tophet, but there was no
other way for it. The lives of the pas
sengers and all hands were in the care
of Johnny Bartholomew, and nobody
knew it better than he. His first i'm.
pulse was to reverse the engine and
whistle down brakes, but his quick con-
clusion was that wouldn't do, so with .
resolute jerk of the lever he threw her
wide open." The Reno gave an angry
snort and rushed madly forward like
freed racer with whirlwind speed right
through the fiery mass. Johnny hela
fast to the lever, closed one eye, he'd
his breath, and tried TO think OF some
prayer as he passed in his checks, ior
he imagined he could feel the hot rails
bending like lead under the wheels
and both felt and heard the blazing
timbers and other fallen distractions on
the track being dashed aside by the
trusty cow.catcher. The women pas
sengers screamed, and even the stout
est-hearted men quivered with sudden
fear as they dashed through the fierce,
hot light, but in another instant tne
terrible gauntlet was passed. and they
safely slowed down in the cool, gray
morning daylight beyond.
Dirt, stones and blazing bits OF timber
on the COW catcher, and the shower OF
burning Goals which covered the tram
showed how dangerous were the 90,
structions so safely passed, yet they IA.
rushed through SO quickly that the pam.
on the passenger coaches was not even
scorched. Johnny cannot rush an en-.
CINE through that tunnel to-day, ioI
every timber throughout its entire
length is burned out as clean as sho.
gun, and huge cavings Of earth androek
render it impossible for many days 70
Hill (Nsv.) Neacs.
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have had most beneficial results in preventing
the spread Of the distemper, and that II the
former was thoroughly used before any
symptoms of the malady appeared In stables,
which he values most highly, because Of re-
suits noticed, Is the following
Sulphur, 3 o.; poatssw nitrate, o.; pull
yerixed ginger, 8 or. pulverized dignitalis, I
OF. The dose. tablespoonful, may be given
with the food when the horse will eat, with
water, or laid upon the tongue when nourish-
ment and food are refused. The effect Is a.
most immediate; tho cough subsidies, the ca
tarrhAl indications grow less, the fever ceases
and appetite il resumed.
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A Fighting widow.

Telfair county, Ca, boasts of lady
widow of Confederate soldier-who
is very useful in small sociable row.
A pedagogue living on her land threat
ened to wailop her recently, and pretty
soon thereafter attempted to carry out
his threat. He was the worst fooled
man in the Union. The widow knocked
him down and walked over him; then
she set him upon his feet and jerked
him out of his socks; then she snatched
him baldheaded, and finally wound up
the ceremony by padding him with q
board until he had the Mysteries.
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Personal.
Ma. Stewards last words: "Love o,.
another"
EMILY FAITHFUL will never m.rr~
She will therefore be faithful un,a
death.
We are not 10 be rid of Nilsson. sb.
intends to return TO New York. AMI
stay there.
AIMEE, the sprightly opera bousa
artist, does Broadway in a floss .;ls
jacket and 100000 earrings.
In the long course of his legal pr,c.
tice, Mr.. Seward was never known N
act for man against woman.
JUDGE Curtis, of San Francisco. VI.
rewarded with an 5000 fee for his s,r.
vices in securing Laura Fairs acquittal.
A MONUMENT to Louis XIII. ia pro.
posed at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. That
monarch was one Of the original owners
of the place.
Rev. OLor OLEsoN, recently executed
at Tromsoe, Norway, committed murder
to crafty his pcnchant for rare books
and manuscripts.
FANNY FERN was not by any mean,
ambitious of post morton alteration. She
earnestly requested that her remains
should be preserved from the pryins
eyes of vulgar curiosity and idle spec.
tators.
The literary critic Of the Boston Glib
says he has sometimes thought that.
to a few clergymen, the desire to get
into the papers during life was almost
as strong as the desire to get into heaven
after DEATH"
HENRY WARD BEEcHER was nearly
buried in bouquets by the Sunday.
school children Of his church recently,
when, three thousand in number, they
called upon the popular and new silver.
welded pastor.
JAMES ANTHONY FRoUDE, says a New
York correspondent, is an example o;
gifted author without capacity to lee
ture, or even talk. Those who listen 10
his very clever discoui ses. rs written.
cannot but regret his unfortunate man.
ner Of delivery. He speaks in a ve,y
low tone, mumbles his words, articulstes
wretchedly, and has a nervous, inco
herent, halfdistraught way, that is the
opposite OF interesting.
SERGEANT BATES. who earns a frugal
living by carrying the American flag in
the most daring manner through peace
full rural neighborhoods, has sailed for
England. An Illinois man has made
bet with Bates that he cannot carry the
American colors from the Scottish Dor.
der to London without being insulted.
Bates proposes to sacrifice his vote this
fail to the interests of business.
DR.. RALru AuLIcK, son of Commodore
Aulick, died suddenly in Washington
the other day, leaving a considerable
estate, when, to the surprise of his
family, widow of the deceased put in
an appearance, with a marriage certii.
cate and will bequeathing her all the
personal property, amounting to about
$4,000. The widow is a clerk in General
Spinner's office. The Aulick family viii
endeavor to break the will, on the
ground that undue influence was used.
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CHINESE women sell for $7OOapiece in
British Columbia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-25
AN APPEAL TO THE DOUBTFUL.

Although but few days remain before the
Presidential election there arc undoubtedly. many
voters who are yet undecided how they shall vote
The Springfield Republican has clear statement Of the
political OF the addressed TO suoh 1t says
The Rep1sbtcdn-albeit not much given TO exhorting
voters the OF electiOnhas no sort OF hesa-
ton In advising to vote Horace Greeley IL has
honest COnceamens in the interest OF his cdndidaure.
II has quibbled about the weak spots IN his char
acter and record But IL has long dfd him rs one
OF the greatest OF living Am uCdns, ana ms bearing ana
uterances this canvass have only confirmed 1t IN the
opinion In these wonderful speeches OI MIS- uniting as
they do the OutspOken frankneSs of seBOOlbOy with
the ripest and brOadcSt craftsmanship it the most
striking of many proofs that Mr. Greeley has been grow
ing very rapidly in the last few yearsglOHlnS out or
the and bitter partisan into the patri0t growing
away from the httleneSScs ana crudljes the aDlnOsl
ties and eXtravagancies the petty anAietlcs and evil
associations OF New-IUTk politics, Into putef
and serencr air. IL believes him TO be not only
honest man, who loves Lis country, bnt an exceed
ngly wise aud able man, who can be safely trusted IN
highest Office IL desires to him elected, because
IL is convinced that his election WOuld install III the
White HOuseWnat Mr.. Dawes has told the country Is
not to be found there nOWte spirit and intelligence OF
reform; because IL believes that the first step toward
reforming the Civil Service is make tae One-term
principle part Of the unwTiten law OF politics as
preliminary to making it part OF the organic law OF
because il thinks the best interests VI tho cOn
try demand that the national bookkeeping, now Tor
tntruSted the pOlltlti Snail ne
ned at least, new hands; because
it wants TO the iDtOeTdnt pafJism ~ the DAY re-
buked the materiasc tendency IN our politics checked,
the great railroad and banking ana non rings Taught
that they are not yet strong enough, WITH an ihcr
money to dictate policies aud Presidents 10 the Aner-
can people; above all because 10 i'll his election
hopeful and auSpicuu5 opportunity 10 cut loose
wounds OF civil strife TO exercise passion anu hatred
and dstrust TO reconcile sccuCn WIN section ana race
with forever remove the rights of the coOred
citizen the OF party conflict aud 10 secure ut
last true peace and a reunited Union.