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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

Mn. GORDON. Of Minneapolis, intro
duced in the House Tuesday . bill
allowing women to vote at school
elections, and making them eligible
70 be elected a. school officers. We
presume this has nothing to do with
the election of Trustees Of Library
Associations
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27
THE FOREIGN MARKETs.

sESsSy
Tie NdrE lane Espres1 Isy,ew
Of tho grain markets the past, weak,
|ssys: '.kildsr weather gave morre
hvosahls aspect for the farmers but
some cais led e the deterioration q
samples, anddpsicss again suffered, Il.
though good and dry samples chang
ed little. Tie general averages yield
ed 6s per quarter and remain only
one shilling above last years, while
deliveries Of English are % pr cent.
below them. At Paris, inferior wheat
4. ed@1s lower. Flour h., main.
tanned it, price because better prices
obtained for wheat in some Of tho pro:
vincial markets. Mazsealles ID over.
stocked. In Belgium and holland
the market. are unchanged, AT
Hamburg the markets a.e still dull.
Inland navigation il closed by ice,
and tho ports arc open With difficulty.
At Dantzic prices arelower inabsence
Of English demand. At Petersburg
quotations are steady. In Austria
and Hungary business has been on
the smallest scale. Prices are lower
everywhere. There are hopes that
spring will revive business, but unu-
sually heavy foreign stock deter mil.
lers from purchasing and act as q
dead weight on trade, though We have
no doubt they will Ill be wanted
ahortlv."
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

TIE Hastings GaseHe says the late
Editorial Convention resolved topay;
the old railroad bonds" It appears
that the editor Of the Gazette was the
saly member Of the Convention who
LEFT the banquet in . "'blivious" con-
ditisn - to what had preceded it.
The Convention did not resolve to
pay The bonds or that they should be
paid, even to the extent Of single
dollar. They merely resolved that it
might be proper At this time to con-
sider what the State owed on those
bonds, if anything At all.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

President ELIOT, Of Harvard
College, is an advocate Of compulso-
~ elementary education, and Of an
enforced reading and writing test for
the ballot, "because although educa-
ton alone will not preserve free in.
stitutions, diafused elementary educa-
ton Is one Of the essential conditions
Of the formation of that sound M.
tional character upon which the safe
ty Of our political institutions does
absolutely depend"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

THEODORE T1IToN rashly b.
came responsible for the statement
that there were wines and Liquors in.
the car which conveyed the body Of
Vice President Wilson from New
York to Boston; and that some Of the
gentlemen who accompanied tho body
drank freely: The Committee having
the matter in charge deny emphati-
cally that there 10 any truth: in Nh.
Tilton's statement. Thsodores repu-
tation for truth and veracity is not Of
tho highest, 49,"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

WHY does Congress delay so long
in undoing the wrong that was perpe-
trated at the last session in doubling
tho rates Of postage on transient
printed matter !?
To-day's dispatches state that the
House has passed the bill restoring
the old rates.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

=. A PARTY Of miners have arrived
at Bismarck from the Black Hills.
They state that 200 men are now
ct work in the hills, and that along
Rand Creek the dipt pans out an
average of u per- hour. Other
placers are even richer. An sxpedi-
ton is fitting out at Bismarck,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

ACCORDING to the Detroit Free
Pres: "On the Sd of January Mich
igsn farmers were blowing their fields.
On the 10th of January they were
uGng crowbsrs to dig the plovs out
Of the furrows." That paper, in :
hurst Of patriotic enthusiasm, inspir-
edby Michigan weather, inquiries lis
it any wonder that We love Ameri:
"a
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

:: IT has become officially known that
the recent Reform-IndsPendent-Lib.
er>lDemocra6c Administrator Of
Wisconsin overdrew tic general fund
to the extent Of >15s, soe.47, and left
unpaid warrants amounting'to $751;
1882, 1 Reform total Of e171, 772.0o,
a. = reminder that the saw.log Of ,ex-
travagance in the Wisconsin Butter.
nuts eye does not constrain the 70
ciforousness of his howl over "Repub'
]ican waste and prodigality."
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

The House committee on appropri.
atoms will report . bill reducing the
salaries Of members Of Congress to
$500 per annum, and tho salaries
Of all civil government employees 10
por cent.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

l. The arsenal At Harper's Ferry vas
destroyed during the war BY Stone
vail Jackson army. Faulkner, who
N, int rsbefq ensrsl,s chisfofstsaf;
but il now menbar Of Congress
from Virgins, IL anxious that the
Government should rebuild the works
he helped destroy. 9 il NJ
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

The JOURNAL is prepared to give
IL pisttorm On the old Railroad
Bond question in a very few words:
Whenever the bondholders are ready
70 come in and surrender their bonds
and accept in full satisfaction thereof
tie Eve hundred thousand acres Of
inAarDal improvement lands belong
inst t, tho State; then shall these
lands be decided to the bondholders
4 such . valuation - will make them
> full equivalent for the face OF the
bonds with tho accrued interest.
Payment beyond this, or in any other
manner, We should not favor nor. do
- &Aink the State should be called
~ 10. make. One thing may be saie-
1lyaiii, that + il a. ,2uch n the pres
Ut ssnsfatiou Of Miapesptt;;ans will
ever Yote to give. i
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

The English Government has ap-
pointed 4 commission TO visit the
manufacturing centerp, aud asoer.
tain the effect of foreign tariff, and
especially Of he tariff Of the United
States, upon trade in those places.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

:s1HGthe. Kaneaa, House of Repre-
senta&ives Tuesday resolutions were
pe.ed thahking: the Republicans in
:Coaere.. for the dessat Of the bill
lrentiae amnesty to JEFF Davis, ~ =
vote of o. to1k = z. Gig. -, = ~
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

lin the United States Senate Mon
day, Mr.. Kelly, from the committee
on railroads, reported, with an amend
ment, the Senate bill to extend the
time for the construction and compile
ton of the Northern Pacific railroad.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

SPANISH diplomatists at the vari'
GUS courts have verbally informed
the Governments that after the defeat
of the Carlists which is expected in i
short time, Spain hopes to be able %
quell the Cuban ;;nsarrect;on through
increased reinfo rcements. " no foreign
complications are antiapatsd because
the United States has distinctly repu.
dated the idea Of sax.xEiing Cuba.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

TALLY one for Blaine! The Re-
publican legislative caucus Of Maine,
Wednesday evening, after nominating
delegates to the National Convention,
unanimously adopted resolutions in
favor Of Mr.. Blaine for the Presiden-
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

WHAT q remarkable instrument
the Constitution of tho United States
mu& be! Shareholders appealed to
it in behalf of their tavorite institu-
tioa; session Senators appealed to
it Is justifying them in Withdrawing
for the Union ex4eonfederatos stand
on the floors Of ConSress and appeal
20 Il ~ sustaining the doctrine Of
State Rights and now twenty-five
thousand Mormon women appeal to it
IN protection Of the practice Of poly
s.my, What wrongs are committed
in hy nan>eT. ri
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

..---E: B. Tenney, an old citizen of
81. Pau, died Friday evening Of con-
gestion Of the brain:
John o. Haven, of Big Lake,
sherburne county, raised his tirstcrop
Of Minnesota peaches last year:
The Carolina liil,, Richings-B Bernard
English Opera troupe will be in ST.
Paul and Minneapolis next week.
i" -Dakota county has SIX persons
confined in its Jail charged with
grand larceny and one with rape.
Dennis Noonan, near Waverly,
while chopping Thursday, felled a
tree, and a ten:year old son, unobserv-
ed by him until too late, was struck
by limb and instantly killed.
The Rev. Mr.. Welton is drawing
crowded houses at Albert Lea in the
revival meetings under his charge in
that city. His wife, who sings, is to
join him in his labors. :,
Two Brainerd young ladies have
asserted their leap year rights. They
have taken out marriage licenses, and
the boys are all dodging around cor:
ners now when one Of them appears.
"A. man named Patrick Murphy,
working 1t Paine g.. Co.'S lumber
camp At the Northern Pacific juno.
ton, was Instantly killed on Friday
afternoon by a tree which he was fell.
ing.
Last Sabbath q lad named Or.
vile DeKay, Of Hastings, climbed q
tree to examine a squirrels neat, when
the limb broke and he fell to the
ground, breaking his left leg above
the knee.
AT Plainview Friday, Frank
Hathaway, a young man about
twenty-one years Of age, called on
Miss Nellie Slayton, a young lady
about eighteen years of age, daughter
Of ex-sheriff Slayton, and shot hel
through the head, killing her instant
~. He then shot himself, but is moi
dead. The cause was a love affair.
He. was taken from his bed al
Plainv,ew, at midnight of Tuesday
b party Of fifty masked men, and
hung to 8 tree: Not q word was said
by the lynchers or by the victim.
On Wednesday the little tire.
yeers-old girl Of Lucius Tollman, Of
Pine county, was burned to death il
the following manner: The mother
went out Of tho house for = shor
time, ana having to leave the child
locked the door. When she CAM
back she found it lying against tn
door on the inside burned to = crisl
and dead. It , probably had bee.
playing with the fire in the: stove, ant
its clothes had caught fire. r. -
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

A IEsoLur1oN has been introduced into
The Virginia Legislature TO appropriate
$4,000 for statue to Gen. J. E. B. Stuart.
Virginia has money for a statue to
rebel Generals but none for the Gen.
tennial.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

TIE National House Of Represen.
tatives passed Tuesday, by . vote Of
TAG to 100, tho bill::appropriating ono
and 4 half million dollars to the Cen
tennial.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

The French commission have e.
lected six hundred and seventy pict-
ures by French artists, besides ono
hundred and seventy pieces Of sculpt-
ure and sixty engravings and de-
signs for the Centennial. .'' -,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27
OWING to a blunder another election

OWING. to q blunder another election
for United States Senator will have
to be held by the Legislature Of
Iowa, The vote was taken one week
sooner than the. law allows. The
Hon. Samuel J. Kirkwood will doubt.
les again be the choice Of the MAORI
.{S3i.+}S 'L-4:t&J'~! &I-'>,'. - 81, ..----
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

HAVANA newspapers caasert that
tho sugar crop Of Cuba will be 3oPer
cent les than last year, and that,
owing to the protracted drouth, the
tobacco crop in the. low country will
be almost q total failure. ,,.1 zon.i
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

I1ths Lower House of the Ohio
Legislature Friday, tho bill repeating
tbe famous Geghan law was passed by
. party vote, resolving the support Of
the Republicans with one exception,
and the opposition OF the Democrats
'1n1;d - ~ -~-..* ,.s,.,--.'..,..
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

The Cincinnati Commercial ssti-
mates that ''there have boen not less
than 80 600 murders in the Southern
States since the war. :-''',. : -
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27
',,,D.y,,.;,;s;,l1V.v rnv,vri,,.IisI,,issvII,nl11

The ninth annual Convention of
the Minnesota Editors and Psblish.
ers Aaooia Ion, held 1at st Paul
WednesdaYsof last weak, was one Of
The best attended assyell q pleasant:
5est and most businesslike meetings
the members Of the Association have
yet had. The use Of the Supreme
Court room had been offered BY Gov
ernor Pillsbury. Although some
matters presented excited considers
bic discussion, the meeting va Z
very harmonious one, .steps were H.
ken toward securing such an amend.
ment Of the exemption law ~ will
place editors and publishen on IN
equal footing with other citizens Of
the State also 4 revision Of the libel
law, and amendments to thepresent tax
law 80 faras itrsfers toths publication
Of tax lists, etc.; . committee was
appointed to prepare = scale Of mini
mum rates for foreign advertising;
and many other matters of interest
to the publishers of the State were
acted upon. Resolutions wereadopt-.
ed in favor Of an appropriation Of
$4,000 for the proper representation
of Minnesota's products and manu-.
features at the Centennial, and ex-
pressing the belief that the time had
come to consider what liability, if
any, rests upon the State in connec-
ton with the Minnesota railroad
bonds.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year:
President-Liberty Hall.
Vice Prssidents-A. ]. Underwood and
W: J. Whipple.
6ecretary-J. K. Moore.
Treasurer-D. Ramaley.
Corresponding secretary-J. F. will
Jams. 49, :,
Executive Committee Blakely, d.
P. Hall and G. w. johnson.
In the evening, at half past nine
o'clock, the editors sat down to q
magnificent banquet rendered by the
editors and publishers of the St. Paul
Roneer-h Pres and D;poteh, and pre-
pared by Col. Allen, of the Mer-
chants Hotel. The tables were re-
splendent with silver and cut glass,
and were ornamental with flowers
and fruits, pyramids, vases Of
goldfish, etc., while the bill of fare in
cluded apparently everything that
had ever been heard of or
thought Of in, the way Of
substantials and delicacies. The ed
itors were soon AL full inside" with
enough frst-class matter" left to fill
a hundred more "forms." The feast
was followed by a number Of toasts,
which were responded to by D. Blake
", of the St. Paul Roneer-R Press, the
Hon. I. Donnelly, of the Anti-M onop-
olsst, H. P. Hall, of the st. Paul Dr.
patch, G.. w. johnson Of the Mime
apolis Evening Nail, and others. 1t
was past midnight when the final ad-
journment took place. This banquet
is pronounced the finest ever given in
St. Paul. It was = generous evidence
Of goodwill on the part Of the daily
papers Of St. Paul and was fully ap-
precia ted Is such By the members Of
the Annexation, who were the guests
Of the evening, = >
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

TIE President Friday transmitted
to the House of Representatives
copies Of the correspondence between
Secretary Fish and Minister Cushing
and other foreign Ministers of the
United States. This correspondence
chiefly consists Of = rescript Of the
note to Mr. Cushing, the tone Of which
does not materially differ from that
Of that part Of the President's ma
sage relative to the Cuban question.
The much talked about circular let
ter proves to have bean = suggestion
to the powers to lend their good Off
oee, for the sake Of humanity and
civilization, in intimating to Spain
the justice Of tho attitude Of thia
government in asking that some dc.
cisive step be taken. to put = stop to
the bloody strife in Cuba. :
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

TIE Baltimore Ane.ieas observes that
nearly every prominent Journalist in this
country il IN exceptionally good andla1ye-
hearted man.
We have felt symptoms Of that
kind for . long time.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

: 81. PAUL expects to have one q
moro. lectures BY Prof Proctor, the
eminent English astronomer,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

SENATOR WINDOW presented Mon
daya large number Of petitions ask
ing an appropriation for the Fox
and Wisconsin rivers improvement.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

THs Pacific Nail bribery matter
is to be reinvestigated by the present
Democratic House, with q view to
determining what action is to be tax.
en- a. to the members now under the
reproach Of 4lleged completely. Mr..
Morzi,on, Of illinois, was the mover
IF tia raa0lnfion.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

TIE Senate has confirmed the NOM
ination of A. r. McGill - Insurance
Commissioner and Of Geo. A. Brack-
EFT q Surveyor General Of Log Of
the Second District.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27
MINNESOTA will be entitled to ten
delegates in tho National Convention,
These ought to be ten votes for Blaine.

LAST Friday was . kind Of general
clearing-out dry. Twenty-eight MUIR
dezszs were hanged in different parts
of the country.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27
Z
SENATOR MACDONALD,

40 VIC A0k'VAS VI hAo 0o2sssSo p1V
oeedings Of Friday appears the fol-
lowing in Senator Macdonald sspeech
in opposition to an appropriation
for the Centennial:
The speaker then took up the resolution
passed 1t the editorial convention, hvoring
an appropriation of $50. 900, and said that
he knew those editors ~ we'll - anybody,
because he was once aneditor himself; and
if he had been at the convention, and sur
rounded with the outside pressure of tho
centennial champions, and the inside pres
sure of grand banquet, he might also
have favored such = resolution (langhter) :
but he believed that these gentlemen had
passed their resolution without stopping to
count the cost.
There was scarcely more than ono
out of every ten of the editors pres-
ent At the Convention but was in "a
vor Of an appropriation Of not less
than $4,000 for = creditable represen-
tation Of the products, industries aud
mineral wealth Of Minnesot. At the
Centennial, and had advocated
through bis paper such IN appropria-
ton before coming to the Convention.
And they had fully counted tho cost
They had considered the matter
fairly and intelligsntly, and they
were firmly convinced that the invest
ment would be paying one for the
State. They embodied their views in
= brief resolution, which was commu-
nicated to the senaet, feeling thn to
Be one Of their privileges as citizens
and taxpayers, and Senator Macdon-
aid was the only member of that body
narrow.spirited enough to greet their
respectful communication with 4
sneering remark: "This is irresista-
blew = i.
We do not know when or where
Senator Macdonald was an editor. The
paper he edited must have bean. =
very obscure one and the time he was
in charge Of it very brief. What:
ever reputation he. may have made
certainly. did not reach beyond the
burg in which he lived his little edi-
torial life. He probably was not
long in discovering that a man whose
opinions were moulded by a. free
lunch and who relied upon his stom.
ach for his inspiration was not the
sort Of person to conduct Newspaper,
no matter how Insignificant that
newspaper might be. And about the
same time he evidently also discov-
cred that q man who was failure -
an, editor might be : success g : politi-
cal demagogue, and that he is now in 4
eongenial field there y no room for
doubt. His remarks as quoted
above, show: him to b - individual
Of much greater :brpadth Of abdomen
than intellect. and it could scarcely
BE- s1pected that be should s;.s to. An
appreciation of The honor and bene-
# Minnesota ,, would 4 derive from ,
fair representation 1t the Centenni--
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

IT IL aid that not single member Of
he Ainnesots Legislature was born in
that STATE.
It would not be an irreparable los
if some Of them had not been born ct
all.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

Tn 0re'..1 lA:.s.thl, II. Gu.
nEpie magazine in. which Bret
Hartes EARLIER productions appeared,
has been discontinued, - :
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

: Eu1naIle - tho memory Of the
:lats vs. President. Wilson were d..
1vszed Ffiday in the Senate BY Ell.
!Viee President Hamlin and Senators
Boutwell,, Cragin, Cameron, Morrill,,
Stephenson, 1ngals and others, and
ID the House by Congressman Harris,
Kelly, Knott, Clymer and others.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

:. Tar japanese ore paying oonaaes.
able attention to tho subject d T.
male education, and the Emwts In
taken IN activs part by opening .
normal sehoot far giF3s st Yeddo: ;.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

VA0 AAVseA VIVA va sAAsSAA,~y - 800 ~~~S"
ing Of the, agricultural and mineral
wealth and the productions of the in.
FAINT manufactures Of one Of the
youngest Of the States the State
of Minnesota, an unsettled and almost
unknown country during three-quar.
ters of the nations existence.
We believe it to be within bounds
to say that at least fifty persons will
20 from St. Cloud to the Centennial.
One hundred times this number will
not include all who will 60 from
Minnesota. From this some faint
idea may be formed As to how the
States to the eastward will literally
empty their populations into Philar
dAphia during the six months con-
FINANCE Of the Exhibition. OF these
myriAds and Of the visitors from
abroad, thousands will go away with
impreasions which will decide them as
"a, where in the West they shall go
With their b1ains, their na,ilas and
their capital If Minnesota wants ;
sood,y,7 share 81 tthhsse men md women
to come and help build Her up, che must
not stand in al obscure corner at the
great Centsnnial 'sniming" over her
poverty" She must stand out IN
selfcon6dent( oonspic nousneag, show
what she has done in the. WY Ofma-1
terial development and what she has
to offer. and make men appreciate;
the still greater possibilities which
wait upon the investment of skill ind
industry and capital in this2the bat
Of al the growing and prosperous.
States Of the great Northwest 10 e.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

TIE Senate on Thursday resolved
to limit the Csntsnnial appropriation
to $4,000. About one-third enough.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

THr Senate yesterday, BY vote Of
"a to Ii, resolved to repeal the Inc
briate Asylum law.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

Young Men ing and to take 's; ONCE: q ns@
line which we are furnishing with operators. Sal.
ary from $4Oto 500 . month and steady promo
ton. Particulars mailed free, Address N. ".
TELEGRAPH INSTITUTE, Jaynesville, Wiz.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-01-27

WHEAr at New York yesterday
v.s 11.s2 for No. / !; At Milwaukee,
31.07}; at St. Paul, 800; At St.
Cloud, 90 cents.