The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-07-15

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will not continue the fight. 5
I 1.-Two Of the notorious Marysville,
Cal., gang Of coin counterfeiters have
been arrested. 7
John Deihan ip Brooklyn was
sentenced to seven years lmprison.
ment for having beaten his wife to
death. Mild.
The floods at Lisieux, France,
have subsidized and workmen are clear
ing away the debris. Damage, 49,.
100000.
Mrs. Algernon sartoris, daughter
Of President Grant, gave birth to
boy weighing 1oa pounds, at Long |
Branch, on Sunday.
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer
Of Boston, it is thought will be hung
after all. He should be got out Of
the way after some manner.
The Beecher trial was certainly
as big trial on the newspapers as in
any other way. 1t took 1900 Of the
broad columns of the NY. Tribune to
report it.
Latest details show that former
reports Of losses by the great floods
in France were slightly exaggerated, al
| though the disaster at best is horrible
enough.
-Conkling, Of Manchester, Eng
land, has suspended. His liabilities
are large. He owes six hundred
thousand dollars to John Ranking &
Co., alone.
Abraham jackson, of Boston, was
arraigned Saturday on criminal in
dictment for forgery. He pleaded
not guilty and was remanded to jail
in default Of 100000.
The treasurer of Kings county,
New York, has paid out $26,154 as
the county's share of the Beecher-Til-
ton scandal expenses. This is exclu
Esive of the expense Of meals for the
fjurymen.
! Another lady has attained the
dignity of college Professor" Miss
Susan M. Hallowell assumes the
chair of Natural History in Welle-
sey College, Massachusetts, with SAL
ary of 81 800.
The Pittsburgh Bolt Corporation,
Thursday, made an assignment for
the benefit of its creditors. Itsliabil-
tiles are said to reach $500, 900, prob
ably more. The concern has been in
successful operation for years, but
lost heavily since the panic.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railway Company has been mulcted
in the sum of $1,000 damages by a
young lady who sued to recover that
amount for having been kissed by the
conductor while on his train.
Robbers captured the night ex-
press train from St. Louis on the
Vandalia Railroad, Thursday, shot
the engineer, and attacked the Adams
Express car, but the car was success
fully held against them.
| The wives and children of sixty
Kiowa and Camanche Indians, who
surrendered at the Staked Plains, are
to be transported to, St. Augustine,
Fla, at Government expense, where
the captives are now confined.
/ "A Kansas City special says an
immense waterspout descended on the
track Of the Kansas Pacific Railway,
near Kit Karson, Saturday, and wash
ed away 200 feet Of road and block
AIDED the North Missouri and Hanni-
bal and St. Joe roads.
The counsel for the people and
Peter B. Sweeney, one of the New
| York ring thieves, have arranged
for reduction Of his bail from three
millions to $4,000, reduction con-
coded to secure Sweeney's voluntary
appearance for trial on the so-called
ring civil suits.
| Several Presidential candidates
have come to grief recently. They
should follow the example of the pi-
GUS negro preacher, and "bow humbly
to de dispensations of a wise but un-
scrupulous Providence" The dar-
keys phraseology doubtless best inter-
prets their feelings.
i Because few patriotic Ameri-
cans in London saw fit to celebrate
our national holiday, the Standard
comes out in an abusive article as no.
ticable for the ignorance as the ill
humor Of the author, and makes all
; sorts of ridiculous assertions deroga-
tory of Americans and laudatory of
England
Mr.. John D. Wright, the Presi-
dent of the New York Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children,
has made timely and humane sug-
gestion. that places of business in
which young saleswomen are now
obliged to stand from 8 a. m. to Z D..
m. should have the humanity to pro-
vide them with seats, which they
might occupy when not otherwise en-
gagged.
"A real estate lawsuit, which
promises to rival in magnitude and
duration the celebrated suit of Mrs.
Gaines in New Orleans, is one of the
probabilities in Chicago. A strip of
land worth several millions of dollars,
on which stand the Illinois Central