The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-06-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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~ LATE NEWS ITEMS.
The Pennsylvania miners contin-
ue to 60 to-work.
"A Worcester Il somnambulist
walked out of q second story window,
and was wide awake after striking the
ground.
Another heavy rain and hail
storm occurred at Omaha on Thurs
day, flooding the streets to the depth.
Of six inches.
The amount actually recovered
from the safe of the old man-of-war
Cumberland, was 100000 in green
backs and 100000 in gold.
The Canadian Rubber Co., at
Montreal, employing 400 females and
200 males, will onlyrun half time, ow-
ing to the dullness of the trade.
The Legislature of California
has passed a law torbidding any dis
elimination against the female teach
er in the matter Of pay. In future it
must be equal salary for equal grade.
Francis S. Street, of the Neeo
York Weekly, is the youngest million
aire in Brooklyn. He has made his
money by spending it-that is, by
liberal advertising.
Considerable damage was done to
crops and other property in Mis-
souri, and Southern Illinois last week,
by a series of severe storms Of wind,
lightning, rain and hail.
The announcement of Mrs. Sum-
ner's approaching marriage Ito a
clerk in the New York Custom house,
with quiet wedding, and a trip to
Europe" is pronounced by the Bos-
ton press entirely without foundation.
Gerard Anthoine, of Paris, wish
ing to commit suicide, and not daring
to do so, induced his little boy to
fire a pistol at his forehead in play,
and died making the little innocent a
parricide. Was there ever such brute?
Rates on western bound freights
have been advanced by both the Bal
timore & Ohio and Pennsylvania COM
panies from 6 to 30 per cent. above
the cut rates prevailing during the
railroad war.
The people Of California are now
complaining because ants, fleas, mos
qultoes and gnats are so plentiful, and
because ground-squirrels are honey
sombing the. surface Of their fields
and gardens, and eating up all their
green things.
"A letter from Jerusalem men.
tions the remarkable fact of a great
snow storm in that city on the 26th
Of March, accompanied by lightning
and thunder. On the morning ofthe
9th, the snow was foot deep in the
Holy City and on the hills around it.
1t is regarded as certain that Sec
rotary Bristow will be disappointed
in his expectations of a surplus Of
about $5,000,000 at the close of the
fiscal year, July /, and that there
will be deficiency of at least $4,000,
600, the amount of falling-of in Gus
toms receipts as compared with the
; estimates.
John Miller, Secretary of thu
Contract and Finance Company, Cen
trail Pacific Railroad, was arrested OF
a train Friday at Marysville, ano
taken to San Francisco by a specia
train. It is rumored that he is de
faulter to the amount of 100000
} The cause is said to be stock specu
lations. The Company is very ret
icent.
Connecticut still maintains it
unenviable reputation in regard t.
divorces. The whole number granted
in the State last year was 492-mor'
than in any previous year, though
the total has exceeded 400 annually
since 1863-or almost one-ninth az
: many divorces as there were marriage!
/ C,694), while in some other States
! the proportion does not exceed one il
] twenty.
During a trial in the first circuit
court at Memphis Monday one attor
ney called another liar, whereupo1
the one so addressed seized the cour
Q Bible and knocked the other dowr
:, and proceeded to administer corpora
l punishment according to the code
, The judgecalling for the deputy sher
if, the combatants were finally separ
: ated by bystanders, and the judg
8 fined them fifty dollars each, and ais
fined the deputy sheriff $25 for bein,
+ absent, but happening to remembe'
that he had sent that officer out jus
before the mill began his fine was re
mitted:
u "A telegram from Nashville, dat
q ed the 18th, says: "John Mills wa
r struck dead by lightning near Nash
! vile yesterday. Two persons wer
= knocked senseless. Four others wer
. knocked down in the city by light
= ningthis morning. A tree was blow
! down, killing a man named Williams
o in Rutherford county. Five house
in Gallatin were unroofed, and sta
o bles, dwellings, cribs, and fences lev
| e1ed at SMYRNA The roofs IF fv,