The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-23
LATE NEWS ITEMS

in Wilbraham, Mass.
The Bank O. California will not
resume before Oct. LIST, if then.
The Mechanics Bank, Of Mon
treal, Canada. has suspended.
The rage for fancy clocked, EN-.
broidered and striped hosiery increas'
es every day.
Mrs. Tilton will be put on the
stand, and Mrs. Moulton will not, in
Beecher's suit against Moulton.
MIR. Beecher has returned to Peeks-
kill. His first appearance in Ply.
mouth Church will be on Oct. 3.
President Grant and family leave
Long Branch in special palace car
to-day and go direct to Colorado.
The whirligig Of time brings its
revenges, and Theodore Tilton is
| drawn as a juror in the Brooklyn
City Court.
Queen Victoria consents to be a
patron Of a temperance society on con.
dition it abandons the total-abstin.
ence principle.
"A man in Buena Vista County
Iowa, recently burned kiln of 20,'
900 brick, using hay and straw fol
fuel. He used twelve loads of hay
and four of straw.
In conjunction with the light
ming morning train, the Pennsylvania
railroad company intend in a short
time to begin running a fast evening
mail train to make the same time az
the morning trains.
About four hundred feet of the
track of the St. Louis narrow gauge
went into the Mississippi river al
Cairo Friday night, by the cavine
in of the bank about mile above thu
levee north of the city.
"A party Of women visited every
saloon in Bonaparte, Ia, on Frida.
last, and destroyed its contents
and poured all the wine and beer int,
the streets, the constabulary force be
ing unable to stop them.
The four hundredth anniversar,
of Michael Angeles birthday has bee1
for the last few weeks the great topi
of all Italy. The festivities at Flor
ence lasted three days, ending on tn
18th inst.
The banking house Of the O. M
Tyler & Co., Of Waukesha, Wis.,, clos
ed its doors Monday, and subsequent
| ly made an assignment. The imme
diate cause was the absconding o
one E. R. Hendry, who was largel.
indebted to the bank.
Two batteries, 1900 stands 0
arms and 100000 cartridges. and
party of forty men and officers il
charge, have been successfully lande'
on the Cuban coast for the insured
tionists by the Octavia. At the sam
time General Aquilera landed fro1
Jamaica.
--latest accounts from the Fl
Islands tell ofthe awful epidemic {
measles when has ragged with unaba
ed fury for the past four months.
is estimated that the disease has a
ready carried off one-third Of the pol
-ulation, and that unless checked
will in a short time entirely wipe OF
the native element.
, About 108 cars laden with t.
arrived at Quincy ILL.,, by the Ham
bal & St. Joe Railroad Sunday fro
: California. The tea was shipped d
rect from China, and is destined #
England. The cars were taken ov'
, the Quincy, Alton Il St. Louis Raj
road, which road paid as back charg'
for the freight over $4,000.
Oscar Nixdorf, an inmate of tt
Soldiers Home, Dayton, Ohio, visi
f ed the geological gardens at Cinci1
f natl Tuesday, and placed an arm i
the grizzly bears cage. The anim'
, seized him with his teeth and claw
slightly injuring the right ar1
and breaking the left arm in tv
places, and otherwise horribly lacera
, ing it. Amputation was necessary.
The banks Of the Connecticut rive
are being protected in places whe1
the current washes them away, b
covering them with mating. Th
mats are woven about two feet THO
| and sixty feet long by fifteen wide, {
underbrush, and are lowed into pos
ton, sunk so as to extend from abov
high water mark to below low waite
, mark, and covered with stones an
gravel.
1t is announced that Mr.. Bristo
has stopped the issue of 10-cent fra
tional currency. Naturally, he s.
lects this, the smallest piece of papt
. currency, for earliest displacement
It is probable that we shall ere Ion
, hear the jingle of silver dimes in con
mon use once more. A few montf
hence, if all works we'll, the little p.
per ''bits" will be seen no more.
The aeroraut had little son
years old, whom he put in the baske
and told to waita minute while h
looked to the ropes. The little son
however, drew knife cut the ropes
and went up alone. Though thi
happened in France, it is believes
that he has gone to meet Donaldson
nothing having since been heard G
him or his air-bap.