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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

W. G. CLELAND, Esq, Of Chicago,
General Passenger Agent Of Mi.ueso
ta's popular route eastward, viz: The
P,t.sburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago and
Pennsylvania Central roads, was in St.
Paul last week. He was accompanied
by;bis SOD, f. w. Cleland, who j.
also connected with the roads mention.
ed.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

Mr.. GEO. B. WRIGHT has resigned
his position Is General Agent Of the
Land Department Of the Northern Pa.
oifo, and Mr.. j. B. Power succeeds
him.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

A BUFFALO dispatch says trsshst,
caused by the late rains, has covered
the lsshua Valley to depth Of four
teet, and carried away the south
abutmeuts Of the bridges on the Erie
side of the Isshua line.
A dispatch from Willlamsport on
Monday reported the river as eighteen
feet above low-vater mark, and still
rising.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

In its Sunday issue Of last week, the
advertisements in tho New York Her.
aid were worth $4,000 in cash. Prot.
ty good for ono day
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

TIE Sc. Paul Press is authority for
the statement that Senator Ramsey do.
olined to draw the $500 back pay,
but left it to revert to the Treasury.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

BRA1NERD.-Ths Tribune protests strong
~ against the removal Of the Northern Ps.
sifo general Offices from that o,ty to st.
Paul.........At the election on Tuesday OF
last week e. H. Bly, was elected Mayor.
Brainerd has full set Of city officers, in
Guiding six Aldermen and three Justices. =.
The editor returns thanks for lot of fre.h
lettuce. ~:.@e
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10
FIYTEEN inches of snow tell through
out Colorado on Saturday end Sunday.
THEe St. Paul Library Association
netted 5000 from Mrs. Scott Siddons'
two lectures last week, after paying her
$500.

THR propristors Of tho New York
Trsbx.s are, it is aid, contemplate
ing tho erection Of = building e9sven
stories high.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

CONNECTICUT had her State election
on Monday, and the Democrats elected
Ipgersoll, their candidate for Governor.
BY $50 majority. The Republicans
elected Congressmeu Hawley and
Stark weather, and the Senate stands
IL Republicans to 10 Democrats.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

Ma. SK1LLMAN, editor of the Red
Wing Argus, is about to remove to
Texas.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

Fresh strawberries appeared in
New York on Friday.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

The finest extracts for cooking, ct =
-.- IL. RvsDILI's.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1873-04-10

Eight pounds OF "a" sugar and twelve
pounds Of PEACHES for one dollar, st Boy d..
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COUNTY, FAIR.
GOVERNMENT SALE.

GOVERNMENT SALE.
There will be sold at public sale, 1t Depot Army
Clothing and Equipays, Fort Smelling. MINI, on
Thursday, may Is, 1873, At 10 o'clock .. N.
6229 Leather Stocks,
161 Hats,
also Blankets. Great coats, sack Coats, Trousers,
Bed Sacks Tents Also other clothing and squipags
Terms : Cash, In q. q. currency, on day OF sale.
HAMILTON LIBB ER,
apr104w CAPTAIN and 8. &. q. 8. 4.
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o. e. GARRISON,
Civil Engineer & Architect,
ST. CLOUD, MINI.

Having had twenty-five years. expert.
enc e-twelvs in Government surveying-I
ho'pe to give satisfaction in Ill branches of
Engineering.
Pine and other Lands entered and taxes
paid for Non-residents, and full descr'p-
Lien given from personal examination.
Office aud residence near the Episcopal
Churoh. - *, <}@'.@. ~ *
Maps Of stsarns County for sale.
- NOTARY PUBLIC.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
Why Damp'' is Unhealthy.

The air we breathe is full of flying ami
malcules and vegetable seeds, at its best :;
but there is no danger to health, if we
take care to keep it sweet and dry around
us:
An ordinary microscope reveals the fact
that green mould in cheese, or that which
gathers on pot of preserves when ex-
posed to air, is vegetable growth as
much as field of sweet potatoes. Min
ute as those rambling vines must be, not
to DE recognized as being anything more
than green hue, they produce seeds.
These are floated off in the atmosphere
to take root when lodged in a favorable
place for termination. But the strangest
thing about these invisible seeds with
which the air is immensely charged, is
their inhalation into the respiratory cells
OF our lungs.
1t is now fully believed by some emf
nent scientists that several forms of pull
monary disease are due to their presence
in the most delicate tissues. Irritation of
the mucous membrane of the tubes lead
ing into the lungs is speedily prOpagated
into the interior. If long continued, es-
pecially by the lOdgment of foreign mat
ter, Inflammation ensues. and matter forms
which, if person has not the ability to
eXpectorate, ulcerates from cell to cell I'M
til the whole lobe becomes involved.
An opinion prevails that spores of in
visible vegetable growths lodging on the
sensitive surface of the lining membrane
sprout and develop there, producing pull
mOnary irritation that often terminates in
a fatal consumption. By breathing pure
air in well-ventilated rooms we avoid the
risk
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
How to Cure q Cold.

One of our citizens who had been
troubled with a severe cold on the lungs,
effected his recovery in the following sim
pie manner: He boiled little boneset
and hOarhound together, and drank freely
OF the tea before going to bed. The next
day he took five pills. put one kind of
plaster on his breast, another under his
arms, and still another on his back. IN
der advice from an experienced old lady
he took all these off with an Oyster-knlfe
i'm the afternoon, and slapped on mus
tard paste instead. His mother put some
onion drafts on his feet, and gave him
lump of tar to swallow. Then he put
some hot bricks to his feet, and went to
bed. Next morning. another old lady
come in with bottle of goOse-oil, and
gave him a dose of it in a quill, and an
aunt arrived about the same time from
Bethel, with bundle of sweet fern which
she had made into tea, and gave him ev-
cry half-hour until noon, when he took Il
big dose of salts. After dinner. his wife.
who had seen fine old lady of q reat ex-
perience i'm doctoring, on Franklin street,
gave him two pills of her make, about the
size of an English walnut, and of a SINH
lar shape, and two tablespoonful of
homemade balsam to keep them down.
Then he took halfpint of hot rum at the
suggestion of an old sea Captain IN the
next house, and steamed his legs with an
alcohol bath. at this crisis two of the
neighbors arrived, who saw at once that
his blood was out of order, and gave him
a half gallon of spearmint tea, and big
dose of castor oil. Before going to bed
he took eight of a new Find of pill.
wrapped about his neck flannel soaked
in hot vinegar and salt, and had feathers
burnt on shovel in his room. Heis now
thoroughly cured, and full of gratitude:
We advise our readers to cut this out and
keep it where it can be readily found when
danger threatens.-Danbury Nei1s.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
LeprOsy.

OF all Affections in the catalogue of hui
man maladies, leprosy is the crOwner.
There are two forms of it. One is red
dening, irritable condition of the ska in
patches, a burning sensation with mealy
desquamation of tine cuticie resembling
flour, which is often seen with us. 1t
seems to be aggravated by pork. The
other begins with spOngy fastening at
the roots of the nails, and creeps up the
limb till il drops off at the joint. A
greenish pus ooZes out, gangrening as it
all over Palestine. 1t occasionally attacks
mining the framework of the features.
We saw large man in Damascus walk
ing the streets whose face was reduced to
the size of babes in consequence of all
the maxillary props being gone. The
muscles had no leverage. Poor MANNED
wrctches, victims of that incurable mala-
dy, are met with in Syria minus feet and
hands, eaten off by leprOsy, still clinging
to life and asking charity. One street is
especially assigned them in Jerusalem.
There are two institutions for their recep-
ton in Damascus, one for each sex.
Through the day they wander about
without restraint, but are required to be
home at night. Even in that shocking
condition they intermarry among them
selves. They have existed from imme-
mortal time in that country. They were
common in the days of the Savior. Still
more extraordinary, in that loathsome
state they live to an advanced old age.
The same disease has been transferred to
some of the West India Islands and New
foundland. requiring special legislation
to keep it from being propagated.-Ne'o
York Observer.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
Significant.

The omission of the royal family of
England to send representative to the
funeral of Napoleon was noticeable at the
time, especially after the warm express
sions of coincidence from the queen. 1t
now turns out that when the intention OF
the Prince of Wales to attend became
known to Lord Granville, the latter sum-
moned him to London by midnight dis
patch,-as the Liverpool Post Gays, sent
him word that he had something urgent
to say which he could not write, and then
told him he hadn't better 60 to the fune-
raj, No royal mOurner attended the fu-
neral of Louis Philippe, when he died in
England, and the precedent then estab-
lished was a good one. The prince, with
his usual good nature, assented. The
Liverpool Post tells this as what might
have happened, in a way that shows plain
ly enough that so it di,; happen. The
Lord Chamberlain of the royal household
was, therefore, the only representative of
English royalty present at the funeral,
though the Prince of Wales, Prince Ar
thur and Prince Christian visited the wild
ow and son before the funeral, and saw
the imperial remains lying in state. We
mention these things so that if any of our
readers should ever find themselves in
the position Of the Prince of Wales, they
will know better how to act :; to show
also that England, while gushing with
cheap sentiment for the dead empire, has
at least a commercial respect for the liv-
ing republic.-'Spriagtfeta (Niass.) Repub-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
Electricity i'm Colorado.

A Colorado paper says: One thing
peculiar in Colorado has not been eSpeci-
ally noted, which is the great amount of
electricity afloat. In mill and in machine
shops. where there is constant agitation,
electricity is in excess. Cattle, horses,
when they are hustled around lively they
frequently give off sparks that can be
plainly seen like sparks of fire. Some
men and their families are more charged
than others. One gentleman states that
when he sits in the EOuse with his feet on
the stove, the sparks runs along his limbs
and his hair rises. We may under
feel so well, and often like those partly in
toxicated. 1t would seem, then, we have
far less need for stimulants than people
have in the States and that those who
wish to leave Off drinking can do so with
less difficulty here than elsewhere"
For some years past efforts have been
made to render electricity an aid to agri-
culture. Batteries have been fixed, and
wires led among the roots Of plants-some
who have observed imagining good re-
suited, and others failing to appreciate
any benefit whatever. The subject has
been suffered to sleep, and we were about
giving it up altogether, when the above
attracted our attention. The results as
given are wonderful. Yet we must be
careful. The town where this occurred
is founded on temperance principles,
and the reference to s'alcoholic stimu-
lants' is suggestive. In New Jersey
they have bottled ''lightning," and it is
not at all unlikely that peculiar form of
" electric tiuid'' might produce these as
tonishing results in a prOhibitory town.
This is the more likely, as manga fellow
East has found his chair to stand on end"
after copious and repeated drinks OF
whisky, without any one supposing cleo
tricity had much to do with it.-Formey's
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08

THE London Saturday Rerieao meets the
question of spritualism squarely and fair
" as follows: ''If there is anything in
spiritualism nothing could be easier than
to demonstrate its truth. Why do we
believe, it is asked, in the revelations of
the electric telegraph? Because we sub
nit them to crucial experiments every day
and every hour of the day. Why don't
we believe in the revelations of medi-
ums? Because they always evade cru
cial experiment. Take a simple case.
President Iincoln's assassination was
known throughout America within an
hour or two after it had happened. Sub
sequent evidence, of course, confirmed
the truth of the report. If = spiritualist
had announced the event in England be-
fore it had come to us by any ordinary
means (the submarine telegraph was not
then laid DOWN, we should have been
convinced instantaneously that spiritual
lists possessed some mysterious power.
If. in fact, they possess the means of
knowing what is happening at distant
times and places. they can place the real
ity of their claims beyond all conceivable
cavil. They can prove their power fifty
times day. But any one proof would
be sunic ent. If IA single revelation We're
made, such as that of Lincoln's assassi-
nation, it would be enough. Why has no
such proof ever been given? For the sim
pie reason that the power does not exist"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
The MOhammedan Revival.

The Mohammedan revival in India has
given, and continues to give, the Govern
ment great anxiety, particularly as it de-
rives a good deal of stimulus from the re-
ductiOn of the MuSsulmans from the pO-
sitiOn of a ruling caste to one of equality
before the law, as we'll as from the w aha
bee crescentade in the beginning of the
present century. But it has been going
on actively in Turkey also, where it has
been fed by steady flow of Mussulman
immigration from the Russian territory
both on the shores Of the Caspian and of
the Black Sea. There is hardly a doubt
that the effect of conquest on the people
of the three khanates Of Central Asia will
also be a considerable intensiticatiOn of
faith, and that their subsection to the
infidel, BY restoring their lOng-Severed
communication with the rest of the Mus
srlman world, will cause a great quicken
ing of zeal through the whole OF Islam.
The tide has undoubtedly turned in Tur-
key. in spite of the growth of ''medern
the waning of the Mussulman population
of the European provinces. On the Ash
attic side there has been Il verita-
BILE revival. Within twenty-five years
mosques have been built and ra-
paired to an extent unknown for whole
century. The schools established for all
denominations have been slowly but
tic 1hSiC
has been a great diminution of drinking
and other infidel practices and great in
crease of rigidity on the part of all classes
in the Observances of the Mussulman GER
emonial. Prayers have not for a hundred
years been so numerOusly and punctually
attended, nor the Mussulman colleges so
crowded with young men. Moreover,
the foreigners who swarmed in all
branches of the public service almost
ever since the beginning of Mahmoud's
reforms, have been slowly but surely
pushed out, and their places taken by
true believers of the ancient race. 1t has
been observed. too. that the old beys and
their sons, who built up the Turkisi. En-
pire and spread the terror of the crescent
up to the walls of Vienna, begin to take
service once more in the army. In other
words, there are signs. and not a few,
that though the Orientals take our ma
chinery and rifles freely enough, they do
not take our ideas, and that the East is
still nearly as impervious to Western
thought as it was when the Romans
sought to absorb or assimilate it.-N. Y.
Nation.
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cdr. Dulcamara."

Two singular cases of superstition and
credulity have just occurred, one in DIRK
shire, i'm the north. and the other in Dor
set, in the south of England, being cumu-
latlve proof of the maxim that s. fool is
born every day." and that ''there's a fly
shire, their fiOurished, until prison doors
closed on him, a certain DR.. Dulcamara,
who turned out to be an eX-drum-majOr
of militia, but whose sounding name and
imposing presence, as we'll as his marvel
Gus cures, gave him not a little repute
among the less cultured town-fOlk. TO
him came from village, some miles dis
were complicated and stubborn to the di-
agnosis of the rustic Esculapius. The
farmer proved perfectly gullible, and the
doctor piled him for months with precious
ointments and priceless balsams and in
fallible eliXirs, ut luxury prices. He
parted with some ''elixir of life,' to him
fora matter of three pounds ten he sold
him g mamma from the Wilderness for as
much again; Oriental balms, the treas
ures of Hindoo temples, We're bestowed
upon the sufferer at the ruinOus rate of
twenty guineas the two-ounce flask. But
the farmer did not heal suspicious grew
up; the august Dulcamara, become simple
Henry Jackson, was brought up at Quar-
ter Sessions. Chemical examination OF
of life'' was colOred water, that the ORR
entail balms were mainly butter, and that
the mama was exceedingly cheap and
sweetened bread. The faith of the farm
er had cost him several hundred dollars.
and weeks of long suffering the awaken
ing was rude, but was doubtless salatary.
In the other case. that in Dorset, a patri-
archal-lookine old gentleman, who set up
i'm rural district as ''cunning man, :"
assured the bucolic father and mother of
an idiotic boy that he could cure him by
certain charms. His services being duly
engaged, he declared that the boy was
possessed of an evil spirit. which he pro-
ceeded to exercise. Obnoxious articles
were buried out of sight, the boy went
through strange manipulations, and the
charms were regularly paid for, until the
peasant couple had expended some twen-
ty pounds-a fortune for them-on the
sscunning man. The officers of the law,
not the parents, whose faith had not been
exhausted, put a stop to the extortion,
and the cunning man. is serving his six
months at hard labor. And yet there are
| noble lords who declare that the agricul-
tural population of England are far bet
| ter off without education .-ippteton' s
| To,,,uuI
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08

abroad; but the merchandise he seeks to
exchange could not be exchanged if the
public were not benefited thereby. This,
no doubt, seems trite enough; but even
speculation, so commonly denounced,
renders its service to the community.
Buying or holding merchandise for adj
vance of prices equalizes price: prevents
the excessive harvests of one year going
to reckless waste, and preserves it for
scarce years, thereby preventing famine
and scarcity.
The greed and the avarice so often
evinced by money-getters renders lofty
devotion admirable in mems eyes; it
ought to be, and is. appreciated; it offers
an excellent example to youth, and serves
to elevate the public sentiment; but,
Notwithstanding this, despised money
getting, in its normal operation, is the
most beneficent passion of mankind. 1t
has done more for the material good of
humanity than any other force that can
be neutrality-suspicious. Journal.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
Miscellaneous Selections.
OREGON.


BY JOAQUIN MILLER.
A morn in Oregon The kinsiled camp
Upon the mountain brow. that broke below
And dewy valley, snapped and famed agiow
With knots of pine Above. the peaks of snow
With urler- belts of sable forests rose
And flashed in sudden sunlight. To and fro
And far below, in lines and winding rows.
The hsrders drove their bands. and broke the
heard their shouts like sounding hunter's horn,
When 10 the clouds came driving in with morn
Toward the sea, as fleeing from the day.
The valleys filed with clouds They Law
Below. aleveled sea that reached and rolled
And broke Ike breakers of n s'ormy bay
Against the grassy single, fold on fold. ,
SO like splendid ocean, snowy white and cold
The peopled sailey lay hidden world,
The sh MS Were shouts of drowning men that
The broken crouds along the border curled.
Ana bent the grass with weighfy freight oil tide.
n savage stood in silence at my side.
Then sudden threw abaek his beaded shrouds
And stretched his hand above the clouds, and
As all the land lay dead in snowy shrouds:
Behold the sun upon silver sea OF clouds. !"
Here iiffs the land of clouds The mantlcd
Made white with everlasting snow, look down
Through mists of many canyons, and the storms
That Stretch from Autumn time until they drown
Dark-browed, through hammered clouds that
stretch and stream
<ADoNe the from snowy mOuntatr crown.
The heavens roll and all things drift or seem
10 drift about and drive like some majestic
dream.
In waning Autumn time, when purpled skies
Begin to haze and fall in Incidence below
The snowy peaks, you see black forms arise
In rolling thmder-banks above, and throw
Quick barricades about the cleaning snow.
he strife begins The battling seasons stand
Broad breast to breast. a flash Contentious
Terrific Thunders crash, and lghtnings brand
The battlements The clouds possess
the stormy land
Then clouds blow by, the swans take lofjer
flight,
The yellow blooms burst out upon the hill,
The purple camas comes rs in a night,
Tall spiked and dripping of the uews that fill
The misty valley. Sunbeams break
and spill
Their glory until the vale is fall of noon
The roses belt the streams, nor bird is still. .
The stars, rs large as lilies, meet the moon
And sing Of summer, born thus sudden, full and
= TnIn
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-08
Terrible Effects of Drought.

The devastation of a country cleared of
its forests is nowhere so well illustrated
as in some of the provinces OF the Old
World. In Sardinia and Sicily, which were
once the Sranaries of Italy. the forests
have been utterly extcrminated, and to-
day they are poor. Two thousand years
ago, as we learn from Roman history,
the Sc very lands were celebrated for their
prOductiveness, and were said to be the
most beautiful i'm the world. In $500,
Humboldt visited Venezuela, South Amer
lea, and was informed by the natives liv-
ing in the Valley of Aragua that they had
noticed with establishment that a lake
which lay in the middle of the valley had
decreased in volume every year. The
cause of this is clearly traced to the tel-
ling of great number of trees which
grew on the surrounding mountains. In
Hungary the periodical droughts are uni
versally attributed to the humiliation OF
the forests. In Cairo, Lower Egypt,
great many years ago rain fell but seldom
only once in three or four years Dut
since the time of Mohammed Ali twenty
to thirty millions of trees have been
planted and the result is now that the
people have from thirty to forty rainy
DAYS every year. An instance has recent
" been called to public attention where
in our own country there are some parts
which once received fall of five feet OF
snow in the year, but do not now have
five inches. We believe it is full time the
United States Government appointed a
National Forester" with power to re-
serve any part of the public domain sa-
cred against the ruthless destruction OF
timber, and also supplied with means to
support the planting of lands with tim
Der where none now cXisrs.-N. \. hlde-
pendent.
''RHEUMATIsM Discussed is the theme
of an editor. A neighbor suggests that he
drop the first syllable from the last word
| Il IL. La,