The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-11-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LII q hre at CTalgvllle, Ont,
Thursday night, four children perish.
ed. ..s. ts:.sss 3.ss.
The new constitution for Ala
bama carried by $4,000 to 10000
majority. -. /, >-...-.->
The steamship illinois sailed
last week with 80 dressed beeves for
England, a new experiment.
: A bill has passed both houses Of
the Arkansas Legislature appropriate
ing GIG. O00to the Centennial.
John Laurent has gone to France
to bring a colony from Asace and
Lorraine to Pike County, Penn.
The Hazard and Excelsior eleva.
tors were Burned At Buffalo Tuesday.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 1850.
Treasurer New has paid into the
treasury $4,000 from his own resour-
>ces, the amount stolen during his ad-
mlnistration.
Wallace Il Co., wholesale dry
goods merchants, New Orleans, have
failed. Liabilities $750,00O. Assets
one half million.
j. Kelleng, a machinist, aged
"a years, hanged himself in Balti-
more Friday, because he was unable
to obtain employment.
Mr.. Joseph Jefferson is acting in
Grip Van Winkle'' at the Princess's
Theatre in London, where he has
been enthusiastically received.
The assignment of G. B. Conant,
coal merchant, to M. Marston, was
filed on Saturday in New York. Ii
abilities $4,000, assets $4,000.
"A disaster occurred on the rail-
way between Stockholm and Malmo,
whereby sixteen cars were completely
smashed, and sixty passengers killed
or badly injured. ~.'~
King Alfonso has givena fitting
rebuke to Don Carlos by directing
that no communication shall be 70.
oeived from him except an offer Of
unconditional surrender.
Count Moltke attained his 18th
birthday recently, and the Emperor
presented him with the family order
of the Hohenzollerns, with = star and
swords, as a recognition Of the Field
Marshal's services.
"A London special states that a
telegram to ship ten thousand pounds
sterling has been placed by a gentle
man at the disposal of the church
missionary society in answer to an ap.
peal through w. NJ. Stanley for the
T christianization of Africa.
Full official returns from all the
/ counties of New York State show q
majority for Bigelow, the Democrat
! ic candidate for Secretary of State,
over Seward, Republican, Of 1882.
The temperance candidate received
| 1882 votes. The total vote of the
| State was 765,574.
Grain and other produce are ar
irving in New York in great quanti-
ties: A single firm is said to have
made advances, within three days, to
the extent of $4,000, 900, on produce
now on its way to the seaboard.
AT Ogeechee River, Ga, George
Gordon owed Tom Handy ten cents,
but insisting that the debt was but 4
nickel, rendered him that sum. This
being refused, Gordon settled by cut
ting Tom Handy's throat-and all
for FIVE cents!
The Supreme Court Of Pennsyl-
vania refused to interfere in the case
Of Westervelt, who was convicted of
completely in the Charley. Ross kid
mapping. He must therefore serve
his seven years imprisonment unless
pardoned.
They have found a petrifed
Mormon in Utah, and from the num-
Der of dents in the dead, evidently
made with a poker and Aat.iron, it
is judged that he had at least thirty
three wives.
Cotton culture, which gave some
promise Of being a success in Califor-
MIA, now appears to be a failure.
The area planted is growing less, the
quality has deteriorated, and the
want Of factories makes the culture
improbable.
| There is trouble again on the
Mexican border. An organized
band of marauders, who have made
a successful cattle-stealing expedition,
were pursued by q body of Texas
State troops. across the line into Mex
leo, where a pitched battle occurred,
the Texans getting the best Of the en-
gagement, though they were unsuc.
cessful in recovering the cattle.
The action Of Chief Justice
White in discharging Brigham Young
from alleged. contempt for disobedi-
ence to the order of Judge. Mexican,
requiring him to pay alimony to Ann
Eliza, is satisfactory to the govern
ment. 1t is the opinion of the Attor-
ney General that the woman in ques-
ton in marrying Brigham Young
violated the u. s. statutes and there
fore could not avail herself Of her
wrong.
AS illustrating the uncertainty
| of riches in San Francisco. a letter
citea tho coso of TIM 1o<o Thor... N