The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-10-28
sAUK CENTRE.
sAux orxrHE, OF. q, 1878.

9Aux OxxrHE, Of. -, 1879.
IL EDITOR JouzxA1.--W With the County
fis horse racing, political lions.
building, 6c, this portion Of the county
has presented lively aspect for tho pat
two weeks III, n 4. "a sssss5.
rHxs ttconsoIlDATED' COUNTY Pair J.
held It this place for the counties Of stearns,
Pope, Todd and Dougias from want Of
public interest, money, etc, xas, in the e.
rioultural department : signal failure, and
bat for thu puraes for trotting and running,
which we're o6ered ~ the Society and were
instrumsnta1 IN idIstinx : considerable
crowd the second ma third daya. lie isir
wuSaid have bs6n : filuIs altngethss.--
6onGsxcsllent trosaip1 sasd onehy Char
III; Champ, \ s'st LAvreacs'' and q risne'
il The ,raos for horses that .nsyer, beat $50:
the horses taking the purse II: the order l
.bo,y,e best time $50. : The second bess
tro,ting was the raoe between Massison's
black stallion, .'Bullrush" and Robbins
| gray stallion Sampson" which was won
b1 Sampson best time 3:o53. Both these
horses are owned By Sank Centre parties,
and this result led to -. 49,. .
ANOTHER RACE,
which took place on the I'D inst. The
owners Of these horses thought his WAS the
better; and rs il usually the case it was
put up or shut up" and put up it was.
The first heat WA won By "6anpson," time
3loi. In the second heat, both horses got
agood sendoG and trotted about ive-eighths
Of : mile, when the driver of "Bullrush"
being 10 far behind'sot dnheartened and
concluded that if he could not reach the
SCORE first BY trotsipe around he;eoul4 do
il, ON the back stretch, and straiehtway
about.faced and went for the judges stand,
and claimed the heat because the driver Of
Sampson" chad too long 4 whip and
scared Bullrush' 30 badly he could not
troe r. But ''Sampson" was declared the
winner Of 4hsheat.nd The race time 800.
The friends Of "Bullrush" went home with
heavy hearts, but somewhat lighter in the
l.pocket,. financially speaking.
~ : THE DEMocRAcY -
| Of this 4th Representative District held
their Convention at Melrose ON the ed
inst, for the purpose of nominating can
didate for Representative. Considerable
political fp.ncier;ns was done and It wa
really Melrose ". Sank Centre. There
were two candidates in the field, N. a:
Miner, Esq, of sask Centre, and Chss. D.
Lamb, =: aGzanesI," from Aelrose:> The
lConvenAion proceeded 70 ballot fsr eandi-
IIdate md M. Lamb. having plurality Of
Votes, was declared, the nominee. The
nomination Of Mr.: Lamb il considered 4
move in favor: of Mr.. Stiles, the Re.
lpubican; nominee for the same position,
and is!ev1. 2-;ssG'.-
|, 49,. VERY useA11sFAcro8T
| to the Democracy Of the District While
- = citizen, Mr.. Lamb il honored and re-
spected, he il considered the weakest can
didate the Democracy of this District erer
no"';nated, As it now stands, should in
dependent candidates keep of the field,
Mr.. Stiles will have an easy victory.
THE KELLOGG FIGURING MILL
of this place, is being put in repair, pre-
Paratory to doing heavy amount of BUSH
ness both in custom and commercial work.
A large amount Of building has been
done here theipast fall, and Sank Centre
bids fair to yet become one Of the CONNER