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

The Mark Lane Eapress in its week.
y review Of the corn trade says the
harvest has been gathered in good or.
der. Another ten days of propitiu.
weather will about complete the work.
New samples Of wheat show a great
variety Of quality much inferior, and
in some cases very poor. The crop il
short as q whole, and large importa'
tons will be necessary. Prices gener.
ally have only been firm in Paris and
the home market, while in the pro
vincial markets Of France they have
further declined one shilling pc,
quarter, and in some places two shil,
lings. In Germany harvesting hal
gone WE'LL Prices are generally cas-
Ter. although for future delivery most
are above present rates. In Belgium
prices varied, but mostly downwards
In Holland the movement has been
decidedly downward. At St. Peters
burg prices are lower. .ss.G> Il:
The London Times says: ut is
known that we shall have to import
an unusually large quantity of wheat,
and it is equally certain that all malt,
ing barley will have to come from
abroad r..,,~.,.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

CINCINNATI, O., Sept. Willie, the
youngest son of w. C. Depauw, . we'll
known resident of New Albany, Ind, while
loading pistol last evening, shot himself
through the heart. He was alone at the
time, and when the family found him he
was lying on the floor, dead. " =
ANN ARBoR, MICH, Sept. 4.-Warren
Lewis, son Of w. 81. Lewis, proprietor Of
the Leonard House, was shooting at q
mark this afternoon, when the gun explod.
ed, blowing his right hand completely off,
The boy is 10 years old.
Still parents will continue to. per
NIT their eight or ten years. old boys
to have and handle firearms, and,
when lads are killed or manned,
charge it up to Providence instead Of
to their own criminal carelessness and
neglect. ~. j
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

FROM the conversation Of the
President it has been ascertained that
he is fully determined to recommend
such change in the management Of
Indian affairs as will enable him to
put nearly everything in connection
Herewith in the hands of army off,
Gers, even if Congress does not direct
that the Indian Bureau be turned
over to the War Department. He is
particularly anxious to hayeall goods
inspected by army officers, and all
stores and supplies issued through
the tIuartermasters and Commissaries
and all moneys to be paid through
the army paymasters. When this is
done there will be fewer complaints
with the management Of Indian af.
fairs and fewer grounds for complaint
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

p OWING to a rainfall Of n inches
within a few days great damage is
announced in the central provinces
Of Japan, farms being flooded, hous-
es and bridges demolished, and up
', wards : of s2,ooo,ooo in produce de.
stroyed. There were also q great
many lives lost. .=*s' '...:.& ga 'S:s
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

" An extensive Indian outbreak is
reported in eastern Nevada and west
ern Utah. A number Of settlers and
miners have been killed. The women
and children have been removed to ha-
VEINS Of safety. Troops and volun-
teers are going to the scene. The
military commander in San Francis
co has been asked forarms and ammu-
milton, and an order has been issued
for infantry, cavalry, and artillery to
60 at once from that city and Benicia
to eastern Nevada. The rising is at
tributed to Mormon influences.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09
THE WABASHA COUNTY MURDER.

The Lake City Leader says that
the preliminary examination at that
place of Thos. and VIM. Kelly, Ma.
honey and Mozart, charged with the
murder of O'Connor at Hyde Park,
resulted in their being committed for
trial at the next term of court.
The most important evidence
against the prisoners was that of Ma.
ria Payne, a girl who worked in Kel.
ly's family. She was in the house in
the evening, and heard all the CONVEX.
sation between VIM. Kelly and Nc
Cart, hearing the latter say that il
any man would give him $50 he
would 60 down and shoot O'Connor,
with the reply Of Kelly that he would
give him 800 if he would do it.
Mozart then loaded. the gun and
started for O'Connor's. He returned
in short time, and said he had fired
a shot into the house, through the
door, and then and there loaded his
gun a second time, saying that o. Con.
nor was on the road, and he would
60 down and meet him. He started
out, and returned, saying that he had
shot at O'Connor, and thought he
had hit him. He loaded the gun
the third time, and went out and soon
returned, hung the gun up and retir-
ed to bed, where he was arrested
with the others that night. This evil
dence was mostly confirmed by other
witnesses, and shows murder with
cool generalization. ...s19s
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

AS WAS expected, the Georgia scare
turned out to be an electioneering
dodge on the part of the Democrats.
Harris, the alleged leader of the insur-
rection among the negroes, was tried
and acquitted, the defense offering no
testimony whatever. There will
doubtless soon be another of these
"insurrections," in which from ten to
thirty negroes will be killed and one
white man wounded. That's the way
they generally turn out. 49,.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

The wholesale grocery house Of
Clifford & Lamson St. Paul has failed.
w. Lane; grocer, of Minneapolis,
has gone into voluntary bankruptcy.
VIM. L. Bowser, of the firm of Bow
ser & Butler, shoe dealers, in the
same place, has sought voluntary
bankruptcy, but Butler resists the ap-
plication and will have to show cause
before Judge Nelson, ...
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

Ar the Westervelt trial, at Phila-
delphia, Monday, a number of letters
written to Mr.. Ross, Offering to re-
turn Charley to his friends for re-
ward, were identified as being in the
handwriting Of VIM. Mosher. who
was shot at Bay Ridge, Long Island,
while robbing house.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

The Republicans of New York met
at Saratoga yesterday and nominated
a State ticket including the Hon.
Frederick w. Seward for Secretary of
State, and Gen. F. E. Spinner for
Comptroller.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

FRIDAY was rather an exciting day
at Fort Smith, Arkansas. Six muir.
derers were hung at that place that day
four whites, a negro and Choctaw
Indian. Five out of the six "embrac.
ed religion few days before their
execution,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09
CARING FOR Lost GRAIN.

The attention Of the farmers Of
Minnesota is directed to the urgent
necessity Of proce eding with the ut
most diligence, caution and care in
the work of getting their wheat ready
for the thresher, and subsequently,
for market. We wish to give re-
newed prominence to the fact that a
gill Of damp grain in q bushel will
depress its grade, and q pint will
cause it to be ranked as rejected. a
b,tshel Of damp .eheat wiill run The pros
poets Of a car load. This is theassurance
Of the most experienced handlers Of
grain in the country, and not ours.
Our farmers are entreated to heed
the caution, for it is vital and mex
orable law of the trade, and if ignor-
ed will certainly resultin disaster. :
& Make sure, then, in getting your
grain ready for threshing, that the
damp seheat Is separated from the dry,
and the product SO cared for; and
afterwards pay particular attention
to drying the damp wheat, as unless
this is done it will suffer a deprecia-
ton of from 20 to 30 per cent, if it
be not wholly spoiled. There are
many ways Of drying damp grain at:
ter it is threshed. 1t can be raked
over upon the barn floor, if a barn
floor is to be had ;or it can be spread
in the numerous lofts which are af
forded in nearly every town. in the
State, and particularly in St. Paul
and Minneapolis, where there are
many vacant storing places which
can be put to this excellent use. But
by some means which tact and energy
will devise, the dry wheat must be
threshed separately from the wet, and
kept separate from it thereafter.
Carelessness Ii in caring for grain will
from this time on, do more to depreas
its value than the elements have: al
ready done. This fact, for it is a Wit
al one, we cannot too strongly : i'm
press upon the farmers of the State.
st. Paul. Roneer-Rress.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

PArEssoN, n. J., Sept. 5-Ballotsf for the
Constitutional Amendments election in
New Jersey next Tuesday were circulated
~ the Catholic churches in this city to-day,
with Amendments !, 2, and IL crossed
ont The erased amendments prohibit ap-
preparations Of public money and lands to
private or sectarian purposes, guarantee a
system Of free public schools, and prohibit
special legislation. stfs H."
This was all done to no purpose.
The good sense Of the people prevail
ed and the amendments were all
adopted. The common school system
#of the country is too firmly establish
sen 70 be overthrown, no matter from
what quarter the attack upon # NAV
come. @*>
~ E=,5tay a.. t
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

AT Washington Tuesday night
Michael Kuhn made a remark which
did not please his wife, whereupon she
rose up, kicked him in the abdomen,
ard he curled up on the floor corpse.
Thus, as woman asserts her rights and
gets ready to vote, we see her growing
lovelier and the world purer and bet
ter.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

. The Governor, State Auditor and
State Treasurer, being a majority of
the State Board of Equalization, met
at the Auditors office, Monday, and
adjourned until next week, when they
with the Secretary Of State and the
Attorney General, will be ready to
equalize the taxes of the several coun-
%soo
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

LAST spring a great hue and cry
was raised by certain newspapers and
politicians OF. both parties for an ear
y State Convention, and in Difference
70 their clamors the Conventions were
held in July. Since then both. par
ties have been "backing and filing"
unloading their tickets and taking
on new candidates. We doubt if
either party is any better organized
to-day than it was the day after its
Convention was held. It is altogeth-
er useless TO hold a State Convention
four months before election. .-EEtr@
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

The most sensible comment yet on
the Jefferson Davis controversy is
this from the Montgomery State Jour-
nal of Alabama: "The Southern peo-
pie sympathize with Mr.. Davis in
his misfortunes, because they are a
generous people, and would sympa-
thize with the humblest unfortunate
on earth. But our people cannot,
and will not, keep open the war
wounds and arrangements on account
of Mr.. Davis or any one else. That
is plain.'
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09
ANOTHER BUrCHERY.

Authentic accounts have been re.
ceived from Clinton, Miss, Of the de.
liberate and unprovoked slaughter o.
about fifty negroes at that place by
white leaguers. A mass Republican
meeting was extensively advertised
to be held at Clinton last Saturday
and nearly three thousand persons
were in attendance. Democratic
speakers appeared and demanded q
share of the time, which in the inter
est of peace was granted them. The
first speaker, Democrat, spoke ar
hour, and was respectfully listened to
A Republican speaker followed and
before he had proceeded over five
minutes with his remarks was called
liar by some one in the crowd, ate,
which came loud talk, the drawing Of
pistols by whites and firing. Very
few Of the negroes were armed; they
had nothing to do with originating
the trouble and fought only in self
defense. Fourteen of them were kill.
ed and many more were wounded,
Three whites were killed. As if by
some preconcerted arrangement, arm
ed whites pouredin from all directions
and took possession of Clinton. Two
hundred Of these murderous wretches
came from Vicksburg, and Sunday
morning secured the country slaugh-
tering in cold blood all the negroes
they could find. 1t is estimated that
at least fifty were killed in the county
Sunday.
This was a deyil;sh and apparently
premeditated butchery, without the
slightest cause or provocation- save
that the men killed were blacks and
Republicans-and if the State author
tiles of Mississippi are unable to
bring to justice the murderers
the Government of the United States
should be called upon to take
the work in hand. We are in
favor of peace and good feeling
with the people of the South, but
it is about time to put an end to
these periodical wholesale slaughters
of peaceable negroes, and the South
ezn people need to show that their
wish for a restoration of good feeling
amounts to something more than
mere talk by ceasing to encourage
these outrages and shield their per-
petrators from arrest and conviction.
While jeff: Davis passes unmolested
through a country in which almost
every household cherishes the memo
ry OF some one or more of its men,
bers who went to an untimely grave
while putting down wicked rebel
lion Of which he was the head and
front, his own State is the scene of
one Of the most unprovoked massa-
ores of unofending men because of
their political opinions that ever dis
graced any State or people. Mr..
Davis had better hasten his return
home. He can accomplish much
more toward removing prejudices"
by converting the people of Missis-
sippi to decent and civilized behavior
than by exhibiting himself as one of
the curiosities at the county fairs in
the North. Let US have peace, but
not all on one side.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09
THE DEMOCRACY OPPOsED 10 EDu-
CATION. 81

The Hastings Union objects to the
platform Of the Repubh can party, and
thinksthe party should be defeated be-
cause s'its last plank virtually endors-
e. the. Normal Schools. = That plank
assertst that the "purity and permanen.
cy Of free institutions Of government
depend upon the universal diffusion Of
knowledge and virtue among the PEG.
ple'' and that it is the duty of the
State "not only to maintain the integ-
rity Of the common school system,
but to, do all that is needful so to in
crease its efficiency IS to secure the
blessings Of q wise and generous edu-
cation to any child within its border"
The logic Of the U5aios.'s objection is
that the Normal Schools are essential
to theuniversal diffusion of knowledge
and virtue among the people and to
the maintenance of the integrity Of
the common school system, and, we
regret to say, the Unions logic is far
in advance of its intelligence. In Or
der to attack the Republican party
it arrays itself not only against the
Normal Schools, but also against the
entire educational system Of the State,
which is intended to strengthen and
broaden the foundation upon which
all that is best in a free government
must rest. Such q course might and
doubtless would win votes in Texas
where, as soon as it came into pow
er, the Democracy proceeded to do
away with tho public schools-but in
a State like Minnesota, whose people
are sincere believers in the, value of
an education provided by the State,
it will not gain for the party which
countenances it any strength. 1t is q
significant fact that while'the Repub-
ican platform is thus outspoken in
behalf of the common school system,
the Democratic platform is silent
has not word to say in favor of the
free education of the children Of the
poor. -. ,... 7..n.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

A VERY clear notion Of the cost of
proceedings in bankruptcy can be
formed from the report Of Kenneth
G. White, Master Commissioner in
the case of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. Thus far, an expense of
nearly $4,000 has been incurred !;
the Commissioner finding that claims
to about that amount for legal serv,-
ces and accompanying et-ceteras are
quite correct. It seems like rather a
costly method, even compared with
the average of American railway man,
agement- -:
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

The bondholders of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, who have exchang-
ed.their bonds for stock, are notified
to attend an election g, Of a board Of
Directors in New York city on Sept.
20. It is understood that most Of
the old board expect to be retained in
office. - ~ :. ~ ,s''+: - - :
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

ON the motion of the counsel for
the plaintiffs, the case of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co. Us Col. King,
which came up in the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Hennepin county on
Tuesday, was continued until the
next term, which will be in March.
The ground on which the continuance
was asked was that Irwin, Stockwell
and Schumacher, material witnesses,
were out of the country.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

ANOTHER hyphenated paper. The
Duluth Msnnesotian and Herald have
been consolidated and will appear AZ
the Minnesotian-H Herald, with Edward
II. Foster proprietor, business man.
ager and local editor, and Judge E. F.
Parker editor. Mr.. Pressnell, lately
of the Herald, enters soon upon bis
duties as Receiver of the Land Office.
This leaves Duluth with two papers
quite enough for any town of it,
aizn. IL
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

: DEMOCRATS generally do not ap.
pear to be well satisfied with the nom.
nations made by the State Central
Committee TO ell vacancies on the
ticket. B0nniwell' and Rahilly are
both weak, incompetent men, little
known and where best known the
least popular. The Republican nom.
inees, Messrs. Marshall and Whit
comb, will both have easy work this
fall in being elected. .--
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

"A little boy, Charley POSTER, of
Kalmer, Olmstead county. while play
ing in wagon, fell off and was run
over, his right thigh and right arm
being broken. 1854. & ...t.@. o5> {. /.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09
TAX ABATEMENTS WITH 4 VEN
GEANCE.

Last week State Auditor Whit.
comb returned to County Auditor
Vossberg the personal property assess
ment returns of Stearns county, with
the request that the County Board of
Equalization be reconvened and the
assessments increased. As was stated
in the last number Of this paper, the re-
turns were again forwarded to the
State Auditor with the information
that the County Board did not feel
itself authorized to'make any change.
After reading the reports of the do
ings Of the Ramsey County Board Of
Equalization we begin to wish that
those returns were back that the as
sessments might be reduced in some
what the same proportion as the per-
sonal property assessments in St. Paul
have been reduced. For instance:
The st. Paul Harvester Works had
$275, 900 taken off from an assessment
of $500, 600; the Farmers and Me.
chanics Bank $4,000 from an assess
ment of $4,000; Newcomb & Co.,
$4,000 from an assessment of $780,
600; P. H. Kelly, $21,2 46 from an
assessment Of 100000; and Auer-
back, Finch & Scheaer, $4,000 from
an assessment of 100000. Woolsey
& Go. secured an abatement of $1O,-
600; Forepaugh & Tarbox, $11, 900 F.;
Braden Bros, $4,000; Peabody, Ly.
ons & Co., $4,000; Noyes, Bros. &
Cutler, $4,000; Camp & Smith,
$4,000; Hill & Acker, $13,531 Con
$25,00O; Campbell, Burbank &
Co., $4,000; Culver, Harrington &
Co., $4,000; Nicols & Dean, &c..
900; &C., &C..
AS Ramsey county was to stand as
model in this personal property as
sessment matter, we think the less
that is said about Stearns county't
assessment being too low the better
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

TIE editor of the Bloomington
Gill; Paragraph, in a brief bio
graphical sketch of a paripatetic
singing-school teacher, who had fail.
ed to pay his advertising bills, de-
scribed him as "dead-beat, and sor.
rel-topped Tyre" Prof Trimmer con.
siders his feelings and reputation in
jured to at least the amount of $751;
600, and wants the editor of the Pan.
tagraph to pass over the ducats.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09
Ida Lewis has been married and

Ida Lewis has been married and
is divorced, the Rochester Democrat
says, adding: 1--WE are not informed
as to which Of the: two was most to
blame; but it is q melancholy fact
that women whose great purpose is
to serve the public can never satisfac-
torily take care Of one particular man.
Perhaps this is not their fault; but
the fact stands for al that"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

THERE is some talk in -Massachu-
sets of sending Vice-P President Will
son to the Senate again in place of
Mr.. Boutwell,. 1t would require a
long search to find a better candi-
date. .sr.> - = .,...:,,.+
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

The Presidential discussion is en-
tirely fiat. Nobody says q word
about it, and it is doubtful if any one
who is not himself q candidate thinks
much about it. H.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09
A BLOODLESS DUEL.

Two fools still live, despite the
opportunity that was offered each
to rid the world of the other. Major
p. S. Foster, editor of the St. Louis
Journal, and Col. John N. Edwards
editor of the St. Louis Dispatch, are
the individuals referred to, and who
went to the vicinity Of Rockford,
Winnebago county, ILL.,, last satur-
day and fought a duel to "vindicate
their honor" and settle little diff
Guilty between them. The occasion of
the trouble was an article written by
Major Foster in reply to one by Col.
Edwards. The latter had been
guilty of a wholesale insult to the
women of Winnebago county (whose
people did not care to hear jeff Davis)
charging that they had in their hous-
es silver spoons and pianos stolen from
Mr.. Davis's Mississippi neighbors.
Edwards was = Confederate BUSH
whacker, and in replying to this in
sulting article Major Foster used some
pretty strong language, at which Ed
wards took offense and challenged Fus-
ter, who finally accepted. They met
early Saturday morning, with Colts
navy revolvers, and one shot was ex-
changed, neither party being hit.
Edwards demanded another shot, but
under the agreement this could only
behad by consent Of both parties. Maj.
Foster declined to try the thing over
again, as he had given Edwards sui.
ticient satisfaction and did not feel
any personal bitterness in the matter.
They finally shook hands and went
back to st. Louis. While whatever
consideration there may be in the mat
ter goes to Major Foster, who, brave
Union soldier, resented the insult of
the bushwhacking rebel to the noble
women of Illinois, yet there is not the
slightest excuse for any man for tax
ing part in duel.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

The Council of St. Paul, after find
ing Alderman Fisher guilty of two of
the charges on which ho had been
tried, by q vote of Is to 2 declared
his seat vacant.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

In Iowa one-third of the wheat
is yet in shock and unbound bun
dies, and is badly injured-in some
places entirely ruined-by the contin-
uous wet weather during harvesting.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-09-09

The estimated damage to crops by
rain in the est SC Cr'oir :. valley, il wis
consin, is 80 to 30 per cent. Of the en-
tre yield. :. . s. ...$. 81. N.