The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-05-14
EXAMINATION FOR PROM NOTION AT
THU UNION SCHOOL.

ExAuINATIoN FoR PROMOTION Ar
THM UNION SCHOOL.
During the last week of tho present
term, examinatio for promotion VIII be
held in the different departments of the
Union School. Pupils who fail to pass
this examination, will be- required to keep
the same grade ia which thoy now are for
the next half year. As the different de-
partments will DO examined on the work
OF the last two terms, it will be apparent
that those pupils who leave school before
the end of the term, will DO obliged to take
lower grade at the beginning Of tho next
school year than they would have been re-
quired to take had they been in regular
attendance up to the end Of tho year, and
made the required staudingin examination.
A. HAINEs, Principal.
AT the meeting of the new City Coun-
o', held at their rooms on Monday evening
last, the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
Pres!den!-J. G. Smith,
Cerk-N F. Barnes.
Assessor-Thos. Alden.
CITY Attorney-L. w. Collins.
Street Commissioner-Thos. Alden.
C'ty Surveyor-M. P. Noel.
With tho exception of Street Commits
sloner, the above officers were reelected,
having held the same offices the past year.
Thos. Alden was elected Commissioner in
place Of John Dorr, whose term had ex-
PRED.
Mr. N. Van Loon, ('old Lightning
has now three wagons and two carriages
ION tho road" If the lightning strikes
anywere within forty miles Of hero we shall
be Of the opinion that J. F. Bell, of No. 10,
has not been IN that locality.
Last week hearing Of application
for divorce between Anton Springer, OF
Two Rivers, and Magdalena Springer, who
resides in Germany, on the grounds of de-
sertion and adultery, was held before L..
A. Evans, Judge Of Probate, as referee.
Divorce granted. Oscar Tayloy attorney
for plaintiff:
AT meeting Of the local Board of Di.
rectors Of this city, of the Minnesota Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company. held on the
4th Of this month. DR.. A. E. Senkler was
elected in place of E. o. Hamliu, resigned,
and ". B. Mitchell in place of Il. c. Bur-
bank, who had also resigned. Mr.. H. T.
Dsndels was elected chairman Of the
Board.
On Tuesday evening Chief Robertson
arrested three members of the boundary
survey partey, named Waltz. Burns and
Nave, for being drunk and disorderly.
On Wednesday morning they were brought
before Justice Barnes, but on change of
venue were in the afternoon taken before
Justice Nation. After several witnesses
swore that they were drunk, and about the
same number that they were not, the Jus.
lice discharged the prisoners. The quest
ion now is "Who swore false"
In view of the adoption of the new
system Of disposing Of our dead, it has
been suggested that the hymn, verse of
which we give below, be used in celebrat-
ing the last funeral rites:
| Hark form the Gas-works comes sound
Sinner, incinerate
Ye mortals, come an view the flue,
Where ye must soon cremate.
Aud in case some poor mortal should
| be cremated, the following epitaph might
not be out of place:
''Here rests bis & 'hes on the shefbeneath,
youth to collins and to shrouda unknown;
Fair sections frowned not on his humble death,
Inciuerasien marked him for its own.
No longer seek his cinders to disclose,
| Nor draw bis fine resduum fiom this pot,
| Where they, alike impalpable, repese,
Trusting bis spirit never felt yves het''
Or this:
"Afictions sore, long time she bore,
Physicians were in vain;
| The featheJy pounds this jar surrounds,
Were once Eliza Jane"