The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-08-19
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

ssss S. 1919
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Il ~ Gen. Sheridan has gone to the
Pacific coast.
Immense frauds il the naval sup.
plies have been developed.
Day, Kenthafer & Co., Of Mem
phis, have failed. Liabilities $780,
600; assets $4,000. .....4. --.-
Portions of New York and New
Jersey were Saturday visited BY dis
astrous rain storms. sa." ,.
William Brong, a boy 8 years
old, was caughtsetting fire to a church
in New Haven, Ct, Sunday last.
Fifty French corporations and
trades unions will send delegates to
the Philadelphia centennial. = -.
The equalizeds valuation Of the
taxable property in Iowa, as fixed by
the State Board, is $500, 145,140.
The liabilities of Duncan, sher'
man & Co; are officially announced
at "a ,910,138; assets, $2,835,853.
-Whitelaw Reds salary as edito,
of the Neao York Tribune has recently
been increased to $12, 800 a year. =,
The steamer Hugh Martin, run
ming on the Tennessee river, explod-
ed her boiler Monday, killing three
persons.
1t is reported as doubtful wheth'
er the creditors of Holt, Sprague & Go
will receive more than Is or 20 cents
| on the dollar.
The Rockford, Rock Island. &
| St. Louis railroad was sold at auction
Monday, and bought in by the Ger
=
man bondholders:
The Government has prohibited
the sale in France of the Right Hon
Mr.. Gladstone's writings against Pa
pacy, ~,
| -Forty-one postmasters have been
removed by the postmaster general
for selling stamps for the, purpose 0
increasing their salaries. 49,, ~.
.-Drexel, Hays, & Co., Paris, hav
redeemed 100000 Of Duncan, sher
man g. Co.'S letters are arriving daily
from all parts. Of the: continent. -
Black and Currier, members Of,
late Boston shoe firm, were each sen
fenced Saturday to IA months impris
onment for fraudulent bankruptcy.
The Austrian Government ha
notified ,Turkeysof the necessity fol
more energetic measures for the sup
preston of the insurrectlon, in Herxe
govina. &c.,.
-"Only 1872 passengers" say
the New York Tribune, sailed 70
Europe from that city last Saturday
in the seven steamers that cleared o.
that day. '
&C. T. Brockway, Of Rochester
has returned from Lexington, Ky
where he purchased forty-eight hea
of Short-horn Durham stock, of til
purest blood. '.>':' $3.50
The British Government pait
91,OS0,715 for pensions last year, in
Guiding e700 to the household of tn
Princess Charlotte, who died no les
than ffty-eight years ago. =
- prominent: mo merchant of Chico
go has sued the pastor Of the Metho
dist church Of that city for 90
damages, in having excluded hin
from the communion.
&C. P. Stinde, wholesale boot an
shoe merchant Of St. Louis, filed
voluntary petition. for. bankruptc
Saturday. Liabilities given at 1884
900; assets $1sO,O00.
! Kansas is rejoicing over the lar@
est, finest crops ever produced in tn
State. All small grain is secured
and is threshing out a lar ger averag
yield than, was estimated.
The mill operatives at Fall Rive
Mass, Saturday, by $500 to 1,2Si
voted to continue their vacation tn
full 80 days. The minority wante
to resume work Tuesday,
l. Saturday President Grant ,visite
the national Sabbath school CONVEX
ton at Fairpoint, N. Y, and wa
heartily received by an. assembling
numbering 900. .~,>: h.. ..:.,.,. t..
i T. The Delaware peach-growe1
complain. Of a: most disastrous, begi,
Ling to their: season: What cost thel
to get to1market IS cents a: crate, the
are selling for 80 and 40, cents.
SHAW & Thompson iron u me,
chants and manufacturers of London
havesoompounded, with their fcredi
ors at 50cents on the dollar Thei
liabilities are estimated at $500, O0(
IA -E. J..Jafray & Co., dry COCO
dealers ofNew2 Y ork, have lost fort
Thousand dollars by the defalcationl J,
g. A. Church, the head Of their uril
bon department. =: Church has left Il
Ecity.o n9i,arsiT; nt:,E of.n e::1 ,jo:s~,
The loss by the destruction >: I
crops through recent foods and rain
will amount to about the same as til
loss by the Chicago fire; 8 in :roun
numbers, two hundred millions Of do
, lars. 2s:&' - 4.:.,'75:r- II ".'r 49, .5r.'
Mrs. Jesse. Durham, of Ladogs
| Ind. was bothered hyltha. .nossessio