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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-23
GENEROSITY REWARDED.

The French papers tell a good story
ola true Garocte of Paris who was
found bathing illegally in the Seine
by a Jealous Sergeant de Vile. The
urchin swan like a fish, and the po'
lceman not at all. So the latter, spur.
red on by zeal for the public welfare
and by the hope of capturing the re
ward ofone franc offered for such
captures, crept into boat and tried
to nab the lad as he foated by. The
result was that over went the boat
and into the Seine the Sergeant d.
Vile. Little Grwoche dived after
brought him up, and took him drip
ping ashore. II will let you off,
gasped the grateful officer. "Indeed ?
quoth Gamocte, "but I shant let you
off: For I have saved your life, and
that is worth, by the law, 25 francs te
me. So come along, sir, to the sta
ton, and let me collect my salvage!
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A BUSINESS HAH-STORM.
Corn Husked and SheIled; Potatoes Dug,
Washed, Peeled and Mashed-A
Loud Story Well Told.

Special to the Pioneer-Press.
Monticello, Mimi, Sept. 49,
One of the most fearful hail and
wind storms I ever witnessed visited
this town about 4 o'clock Yesterday
afternoon. 1t came from the north
west, unroofng buildings, blowing
down chimneys and carrying destruc-
ton before it. One farmer came to
town this morning. He says he rode
through drifts Of hail two feet deep.
Another that the hail cut down his
corn, husked and shelled it. Also it
dug his potatoes, washed, peeled and
mashed them. I have often heard of
great hail storms, but was always in
credulous. Now I am believer.
Some of the stones were quite as big
as hens eggs. 1t is estimated that
one-third of the windows in town
were broken. The hardware and
drug stores are doing a lively busi-
ness this morning selling glass and
putty.
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No tourist who has ever sailed
from Kingston to Montreal, will soon
forget the thrilling emotions produc-
ed by the passage Of the boat over the
rapids of that majestic river. The
wild plunging of the waters approach
ed with so much dismay is speedily
viewed with feelings of pleasurable
excitement. Should the vessel strike
rock, disaster might ensue. Acct
dents have, however, been so rare in the
navigation Of a century, that no dan
ger is apprehended. The first catas-
trophe in long time happened last
month. The steamer Algeria, run
ming from Toronto, struck a ledge of
rock at the Cedar Rapids, and. :. be-
came unmanageable. All was con-
sternation among the passengers. Af-
ter remaining there all night, they
were all safely taken off the next
morning.in row boats. The wild
dashing of the waves through the
hours of darkness filled every mo-
ment with a terrible anxiety. ~
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QUEEN VICTORIA AT HOME.

The good, motherly Queen dances
in the hall Of BaImoral with her re-
tainers and household servants, makes
her own tea when out ON picnics,
spins in the cottages of her tenants,
and has herself photographed in the
gracious acts; bestows "warm flannel
petticoats" on poor old women with
her own hands, and tells US all about
it in her own book. The Prince of
Wales goes everywhere, dimes with
everybody, and drives q drag for all
the world as though he were no
greater man than the President of
the United States. The new court
dress for gentlemen is a simple half
military costume. Gaudy liveries
are going out in high places, 50 that
lackeys look less like HOLSTERS and
lizards than formerly, and I doubt
not that, long ere it is ready to fall
to pieces from sheer old age, like the
Deacon's **one-horse shay" the Royal
state coach will be remanded, Tritons
and all, to that Valhalla of old
state coaches, the first hall in Ken.
sington Museum, and the Monarchs
Of England will cease to lumber
along on wheels like to those Of Pha-
raoh's chariot, but may drive through
the streets of London, even on the
grandest state occasions. with celeri.
ty, comfort, and quiet elegance, like
other sensible well-to-do folk.-qruct
Greenwood IN the Ne,o York Times. y
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MIsCELLANEOUs.

w W. Heath & Son, leather
dealers, Boston, haze suspended.
Measles, which broke out on the
FIJI Islands some months ago, has al
ready reduced the native population
one-third, and still prevails without
sign Of abating.
The thieves who robbed the safe
of Sargent & Co., Boston, of $4,000
have returned through the mails the
entire amount, save s73.
ALI the axes and buck-saws found
In the ruins of Pompeii are of light
make, as if constructed for woman's
use. Those old ancients knew their
little business!
"A large part of Galveston, Texas,
Was under water Thursday night,
from the effect Of an unusually high
wind from the north. No great dam
age was done, but some Of the wharves
were somewhat injured and consid-
erable number of people were obliged
to vacate their houses.
"A defalcation of 100000 has
been discovered in the accounts of
the Louisville gas company. A dis
position to keep matters quiet is man
ife.ted, and all that can be learned is
that G. D. Marshall, late cashier, is
the guilty party. 1t is understood
that a settlement by which Marshall
transfers his personal and real estate
property to the gas company has been
effected. No prosecution will be
made. Marshall is well known, and
the fact of his defalcation occasions
general excitement.
Some. forty years ago Thomas
Emerson, President of the Windsor
~
CVt.) bank, was suspected Of robbing
it Of about $4,000, the loss of which
caused the institution to fail: He
was tried, found guilty, and confined
in Windsor Jail for many years. On
Thursday, Sept. 2, as Col. Harlow
was renewing an old brick oven in
his house, which was formerly -occu-
pied by the Cashier, Kttridge, he
discovered somewhere between s4O,-
900 and $4,000 of the missing mon
ey in a brick vault under the oven.
The people of Windsor now believe
the Cashier took the money instead of
Emerson.
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= MUSICAL EDAUCTION IN OUR
Schools - +: - Il

nOW IS tnls great power OF music
to be controlled and brought to bear
most directly, most: efficiently, on our
people? That nation is the best-edu.
Gated in which knowledge is most diff
fused, in which the results number.
Only SO far as any art or science be-
comes a part Of popular education can
that art or science become power,
and influence, in a land. Of the
growing desire among our people for
a higher musical education we have
many signs in the frequency of festi-
walls and choral unions and the num-
Der of musical associations. We
Americans are a conglomerate race,
made up Of the best of every people
under the sun, so transfued that the
origin of even a single family can
scarcely be traced without an ele-
ment of Celtic or Teutonic race dis
covering itself. Perhaps this is the
source ofthe musical taste so widely
spread among US as a people. We
say taste, not culture; we are not yet
a cultivated people in any true sense
AS national characteristic to be
song and music lovers belongs to the
Irish and German races rather than
to the Saxon. It is rare to find. q
German or an Irsih girl without an
ear for music. In our Western States
and centres Of population the Ger.
mans instinctively gather, in remem.
brance of the father-land, into Sang.
vereins, preserving: the songs and
musical traditions of the old land
while they welcome gladly any thing
fresh and worthy from the new. The
marvellous achievements of the school
festivals in the Music Hall in Boston
are largely due to the fine voices, the
quick perception, of the Irish, either
by birth or descent, who constitute q
majority Of the pupils in our public
schools.
No one thing has done more fol
music in the past twenty years than
its introduction as an integral part oI
of our common-school education. Ir
the large cities and suburban towns
little seems left to desire in that di'
rection. From the time children al
the age of five enter the primary
school till at the age of sixteen OF
eighteen they graduate from the high
or normal school, music is as much 8
part of their training as the multipli
cation-table and spelling-book. Tht
next generation will see what we fore
see, and reap the harvest this genera
ton is so wisely sowing.
If, as we contend, music is in ihel1
purifying and elevating, if it can dis
place and crowd out baser pleasure
by giving innocent recreation and ex
citement to a people that must b.
amused, people who must be busy
for good or for evil, we can not hav'
too much oft. It can not enter to-
largely or too deeply into the system
of common-school education.-Har
per;s Magazine for October.
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A COLORADO HAILsroRA1.

The prevalence Of terrific storms in
different parts Of the world this year
has not been satisfactorily explained.
Here IS = story told BY the Denver
Ne,us :: .'>>.v ~ ~ @;=5..,s >..s.~4s3
= = At Potter station, on the Union
Pacific Railroad, on Friday night, a
train was just pulling out from the
station when storm commenced, and
in ten seconds there was such a fury
of hail and wind that the engineer
deemed it best to stop the locomotive.
The hailstones were simply great
chunks of ice, many of them 3 and 4
inches in diameter, and of all shapes
squares, cones, cubes, &c. The
first stone that struck the train broke
a window, and the flying glass sevrely
injured a lady on the face, making q
deep cut. Five minutes afterward
there was not a whole light of glass
on the south side Of the train the
whole length Of it. The windows in
the Pullman cars were of French
plate three-eighths of an inch thick
and. double. The hail broke both
thickneeses, and tore the curtains into
shreds. The wooden shutters, too,
were smashed, and many Of the mir
rors were broken. The "decklights'
on the top of the cars were also de-
molished. The dome of the engine
was dented Is if it had been pounded
with heavy weight, and the wood
work ON tho south side of the cars
was plowed as if some one had struck it
ell over with sliding blows from a
hammer During the continuance of
this terrific fusilade, which lasted
fully twenty minutes, the excitement
and fear among the passengers ran
very high. Several ladies tainted,
and one lady, Mrs. Earle, wife of the
Superintendent Of the Mountain Di-
vision of the road, went into spasms,
from which she did not recover for
over an hour after the cessation of the
storm. Several persons sitting on
the south side of the cars were more
or less injured about the head and
face,
As soon as the storm abated a lit
tie, the mating in the cars was hung
up in front Of the windows, and the
train moved ahead, the drifted hail
stones proving an obstacle for some
miles. At the next station strips of
tin were procured and fastened over
the windows the entire length of the
train. The cars have been run into
shop for repairs, and the damage will
amount, it is estimated, to several
thousand dollars.
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! GHOST WORTH HAVING AROUN1

The Bridgeport Comm Earme,
says that city possesses wonderful
materializing medium. The story is
as follows: ut was only few weeks
ago that the person to whom we refer
became conscious of his peculiar pow.
era, but since the discovery he has
continued to exercise them and they
have rapidly developed. Thus fa1
the seances have been held in the
presence ola small party of his ac.
quaintances, in a darkened room
which, with the exception of small
table, is utterly destitute Of furniture
No believer in spiritualism had yet
attended these sittings, so that it can
not be said that any of his audience
were unduly prepared to give cred
ence to the genuineness of the mani
festation, and yet all the spectators
with whom we have conversed are
convinced that there was no collision
or trickery in the effects produced.
One of the remarkable feats perform
ed by the spirits is the bringing upon
the table a supply Of fresh tropical
flowers. The flowers exhale beau
tiful fragrance, are fresh with dew,
and of varieties which cannot be pro-
cured in this vicinity. The members
of the circle the other evening were
also sregaled with splendid cigars
dropped upon the table by spirit Wis
itors, and the medium himself was
refreshed day or two ago with a
plate of ice-cream furnished BY the
same mysterious agency. The me-
dunn can also materialize the spirits
SO that they become visible to those
in the room. The spirits also play
on musical instruments and write
messages on the wall and table, which
to the ordinary observers are mere
hieroglyphics, but to the spiritual
vision Of the medium are really intel
llgible."
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1t is seldom easy to see the hid ).
den benefaction in that which is an
apparent afliction. A boy who was
"confounding" the mosquito was told
by his pastor that t.doubtless the in
sects are made with q good end in
view, when the young scamp replied,
Il can't see it, whether it is in view
OF not. At any rate, / don't like the
end I feel"
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The PHILADELPHIA Press cor

The philadelphia Press com.
plains that children are sent to school
when too young, and deprecates the
blunder of allowing them to bring
the school home with them. It says !:
"When the doors of the schoolhouse
close in the afternoon upon the school
children they should literally close
out from them all that pertains to
school until the opening next morn
ing. A teacher should be a teacher,
not simply mere hearer Of recita.
tions. Lessons should be learned and
taught at school at home
The teacher has no right to impose up
on parents the most annoying part Q,
her work. She has no right to tax,
from the child d single moment Of tht
few hours it has out Of school, y =s55
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And Perkins, drove off with the
ikker lite-hearted leavin Bascom
dumbfounded in the door Nv the gro.
sery, gaspin with astonishment and
blind with rage. r. u 6. rz.&
= Perkins didn't stop with a barl Nv
likker. He bot . pair Nv pegged
boots for $50, and pade for em in the
same way, and a kag Nv nails, and
two scots Nv close, and calico dresses
for his wife and dawters, and a box
Nv paper collars and a neck-tie, things
he he'd never dreemed Nv hevin be-
fore, and he got so eggscited at his
success in finanseelin that he went
home drunk ez a billed owl.
But the misery Nv all this is, every
cuss within B miles, seenin Perkinses
success is doin the same thing, and an
immense volyoom Wv wat I may call
indivi!Ule currency is afoat. And
they is seriously thretnin to vote to
hev the corporashen take the stuff
for taxes! The idee NV takin money
for taxes that aint printed, and that
heznt got no President and Cashier
and Board ov Direkters! There is
sich a thing e. carryin this thing too
fur. 49,: s'*' -. =. 1'%..' ss.'':'
But prosperity continoos her stimu-
latin rain. We ishood thirty thou
sand dollars Nv our money last week,
and the bene6shal efeck is visable.
Wheat is now $12 a bushel, Ticker 81
a drink plain, and $3.50 to them ez
takes sugar in theirn, pegged boots is
$50, cotton sox $4, and town lots
we'll, any price that one chooses to
ask for EN-. The diggin Nv cellars is
going on satisfactorily, ez is enything
else that we kin pay for in our own
money. But I tremble with appre-
tensions. Wat will happen. when
they come to want the lumber and
males and glass, and other things
wich hev to come from louisville I!
That's the gost that hants me-.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
President Nv the Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
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,S-l,-rsH - -. y
SLEEP. /,

s2When to soft sleep We give ourselves away, :
And in dream as In fairy bark S. Il 8.
Drift on and on through tho enchanted dark
TO rosy ybreak little thought we pay ''tH "
To that sweet bitter world we know by day. {
We are clean quit Of it, - is lark i e, =
So high In heaven no human eye may mark
The sharp swift pinion cleaving through thegny
Till we awake, i'll fate can do noill,
The resting heart shall lsnot take up again =.
The heavy load that yet must make it bleed
For this briefspace, the loud worlds voice is still
No faintest echo of 1t brings us pain. / -,
How will it be when we shall sleep indeed9
.-- @~S-r IT B. AEdricb.
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A COMMENTARY ON PAN1cs.

of large number of sheep in the
hills back Of Mission San Jose, be-
longing to Mr.. Ashurst, but was mis-
informed as to the mode of their
death. It was not by rushing down
a precipice, but in another and most
singular way that the misfortune oc-
CURED. The sheep, to the number Of
about $500, were quietly feeding on
a hill about 3 miles east of Mission
San Jose, on Sunday afternoon, July
4, when man, who had been a
short time working for the owners of
the sheep, suddenly uttered a loud
yell, which had the effect of fr ighten-
ing the sheep. They Immediately
commenced running down hill as
fast as they could. At or near the
bottom of the hill a large patch of
poison oak was growing, and they
rushed pell-mell into it. Here their
legs got.so entangled that they could
not move. Meanwhile the others be-
hind came rushing down upon them,
until they were piled in layers, six
deep, one upon the other. Of course
the most of them were soon suffoca.
ted and dead. @ss +. s,.-.:z> 4f1.s:+:
!: One of the owners came to tht
spot within ten minutes afterward
and with the aid of a Spaniard sue
ceeded in pulling out and rescuine
about fifty head. But the number
that lost their, lives in this strang,
way was 700 in all. It is supposed
that the yell given by the hired maj
was for the purpose of startin,
| the sheep off to camp. ss IN s,ss.J$ A. h
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3 T.; The weavers of Fall river, Mass.
have voted almost unanimously to
return .toswork on the manufacturers
tefms as soon as the mills can be
opened. .s...s. 3., .s. ). . s..2
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RAG MONEY AND IT'S VALUE.

swell, bub," replied BYah, as he
finished hanging up the broom, "this
currency question bothers many be
sides you though it's clear enough to
me. You see that twenty-five cent
scrip, don't you ?" .r'
The boy remarked that he did, and
Bijah placed it on the window sill
weighted it down with a peach stone
and continued: .-:.~ !.
THAT bit Of paper is marked '2t
cents but is it twenty-five cents1 L
it anything more than a piece of pa
per-"
''I dunno,' solemnly replied thu
boy. "|.
"Has that bit of paper any real
value beyond its being a promise tt
pay?" demaned BYah.
"What paper p
"That ere twenty-6ve-"
He stopped there. Some one had
sneaked up the alley and slyly stoler
both scrip and peach stone.
"Never mind" condoled the boy
it hadn't any intrinsic value"
"It hadn't, eh ?" growled the old
janitor: 81 just want to catch thu
wolf who absorbed it p'-DetroM Fre<
Press. T.
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REAL ESTATE AGENCY.
OF.
Cooper & HinChiIW00d.
ST. CLOUD, MINI.
FOR SALE

No. IS. Corner lot, with history house.
Good well in kitchen, good barn,
and good picket fence, with fruit
trees, &C., in yard. Good location.
Will be sold cheap for cash. or ex-
changed for good land.
No. 81. Lots 4, 5 and 6, in block 40, St.
Cloud City. Good well and small
barn on premises. Good location.
Will be sold very cheap, and on
terms to suit purchaser.
No. IS. A dwelling house in lower town,
.-.. opposite the Normal School.
Good barn, we'll, etc. Will be
sold very cheap and on easy terms
No. 81. Two-story house, containing 1a
rooms. q lots, on which are fine
fruit and shade trees, good well
= cistern and barn. Very desirable
-. 81. neighborhood. Must be sold. + ;
No. .,58. I6O acres land in Benton county
good timber; 20 acres meadow or
a. nice little stream running
- through the place; 40 acres ir
s-s crop; good log house and stable
/ good well and within half mil,
s -te7a.,f Of school house, store and saw
y ~ az mill; will be sold very cheap
and on easy terms. " :, = : 's..: :
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IN SEPTEMBER.

Feathery clouds are few and fair, = -; -"
Thiatledown is on: the air, .;~.~.
Rippling sunshine on the lake,
p Wild grapes scent the sunny brake; =
Dizzy songs the crickets sing, ,@
Wild bees wander murmuring;
Butterflies float in a dream,
Over all the swallows gleam; ~
Here and yonder, high and low,
Golden-rod and sunflowers glow; - '.~
Here and there maple fushes, ~ .s,,
Sumach reddens, woodbine bushes;
Purple asters bloom and thrive, : - y y
l am glad to be alive. z =. s.s,.: ~, ! -:
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WHY MR.. lands WAS NOT REMOVED

President Grant has not only a
nice appreciation of humor, but on
occasion is apt at repartee. During
his recent vacation at Long Branch
he was called to Washington on pub
lie business, and while there was
handed for signature several commits
sions Of postmasters. There we're al
so presented to him number of pc.
titions, among them one from citizens
of Vineland, New Jersey, for the re.
moval of Mr.. Lands from the post.
mastership. MIR. L., it will be re.
membered, is the gentleman who in
an informal and impromptu manner
'.promoted'' small globe of lead into
the brain Of Mr.. Carruth, the edito,
of the Vineland paper. The Presi
dent asked,
'1s there any irregularity in Mr.
Landis's accounts
"Not any," replied the pleasant
voiced Postmaster General.
els the office well conducted ?"
"No complaint on that score.''
"Intemperate habits ?'
"Nothing of the kind charged.''
"What is the objection ?''
@'The petitioners say he is rather
obnoxious, and that a change would
be satisfactory"
"Well," replied the President, with
the slightest possible twinkle at thu
P. M. G., "he doesn't appear to have
done anything but shoot an editor
and I don't see how I can remove
him on that"
The papers remain on file in tht
archives of the republic.
GENEROSITY REWARDED.
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"A fire at p Poderdam, Prussia, last
Sunday, burned 100 buildings, and
made homeless 300 families.
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AN ARGUMENT FOR RELIGIOUS Toll
FRANCE.

The following is q characteristic in
cident in the life Of Deacon Bolles,
who was an eminent type of the age
in which he lived, for personal and
private worth, both as a man and
Christian.
When the Baptists of Hartford be-
gan to hold public services. an over
Jealous member of DR.. strong's socie-
ty called upon him and asked him if
he knew that John Bolles had started
an opposition meeting.
:"No," said he, when, where?"
"Why, at the old Court House"
"Oh yes, I know it," thu doctor
carelessly replied; "but it is not an
opposition meeting. They are Bap-
fists, to be sure, but they preach the
same doctrine that I do. You had
better 60 and hear them"
"No," said the man, II am Pres
byterian.": -<
$50 am l." rejoined DR.. Strong
"but that need not prevent US from
wishing them we'll. You had better
Co." ~ I.,...s...-. :ss.. " :.+.... .
"No," said the man with energy,
~ shan't 60 near them. Dr.. Strong,
amt you going to do something about
r. .:> @@&'= 's+s:~ = .ss:s@:&7 ..~..
"What1" ~ .=-~ = s.
'stop it, can't your :
my friend," said the Doctor, ser
iously, "John. Bolles is a. good man
and will surely 60 to heaven. Hyo.
and / get there we shall meet him
and we had better, therefore, cult
vate a pleasant acquaintance will
4 him here.''- Church Uason.s s:..asts
Il - The Gro nd nnko Iovso %1:x
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The Grand Duke Alexis, third
son Of the Emperor Of Russia. who
some years ago, owing to q secret.
marriage with lady Of the Court Of
the Empress had incurred the dis
pleasure Of his father, has. now been
divorced from his wife.