The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-07-11
Latte NEWS ITEMS.

/ Scarcely mill or salt block in tho
Saginaw valley is running, owing to the
strike for reduction of hours.
Ground has been broken for tho
Northern Pacific Railroad at Sancilite,
opposite San Francisco.
Deaths at Philadelphia last week
numbered 764, an increase over the
previous week of $50.
Crop reports from southern Eu.
rope arc encouraging. In France the
agricultural promise is magnificent.
According to tho last census, there
arc in the United States five millions
Of children, Of school age, who never
attend school !!
"A Mrs. Campbell, at Chicago, were
fatally poisoned by tasting a decoction
Of wcodbine leaves, which had been
prepared as a medicine for her sick
daughter.
Congressman Elliott, OF North
Carolina, has selected a boy Of his own
race to be cadet midshipman. The
other colored Congressman will make
similar selections.
The new coal mines north Of III.
maville, Ohio, took fire Wednesday at.
ternoon. There were twenty men and
one boy in the mines at the time
Nine ofthe men and the boy was smoth.
eled to death.
Queen Victoria, and tho men,
be1s of the Royal family, viewed the
picture of Bradford, the American
painter, at Windsor, on Thursday last,
and congratulated the artist on the
pleasure his work had given them.
The New York Central Railroad
suffered from conaagration at East
Albany on Saturday. A fire broke out
In the paint shop, which was soon re-
duced to ashes. Sixty loaded freight
cars, and three Of Wagner's drawing
room cars, were also burned. Losses,
1885, 900.
Tho Chicago Times states that
G. A. Morse, the West Madison street
jeweler, whose store was recently rob-
bed Of nearly everything of value in it,
has bought back from the thieves the
principal portion of tie stolen goods for
$4,000, promising not to .divulge the
names of those with whom he negotia-
ted.
Gen. Sherman and suite, while in
the Caucasus, were invited to an ele-
CANT breakfast, at which they met a
large number official personages. When
the visiting party came to leave, they
were presented with a bill for the break.
fast, including al the expenses Of every
enc who was present.
-Buda Doble, the driver OF Gold
smith Maid, publishes challenge offer.
ing to test the Maid against Bonner's
horses Dexter and 10 Elliott best three
in FIVE, with weights up and subject to
all rules, for from $4,000 to $4,000,
the race to take place at Prospect Park
or any Massachusetts, Pennsylvania OF
New York course the match to be
open for one week.
The Philadelphia North Ameri.
can says Of the Republican platform
that it has met every issue of any in
portance by which the nation has been
agitated in connection with the presi-
dental campaign, and those who CON-
plain that the declarations are vague
and general are mostly persons so
bitterly prejudiced en- particular top
les as to be unable to take states.
manlike view Of them.
-Workmen are having the path
made smooth for them, through which
they can return to their employment.
In Now York, the iron founders offer
them their places on the old terms,
with the promise of protection from
'|extrcmists" while at their work and
to and from it. In case Of injury, they
promise to continue wages and render
whatever assistance is in their power.
STRAUSS has just addressed letter
to the editor Of the leading Vienna mus.
ical journal, concerning the Boston
Jubilee, and says: "When consider
the grand effect of the fresh voices of
the chorus, the splendid orchestra, and
the mighty organ, I am forced to con-
TESS that the jubilee is a superbly i'm.
pressive enterprise. And this noble
impressiveness results not only from the
large masses Of performers, but also
from the talent and admirable precision
with which all the music is execnted y