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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
MINNESOTA NEWS.

The proprietors of the town site
Of Thompson on the N. P. r. r. have
taken legal steps to have the same
vacated.
Wendell Becker, Of Saratoga,
Winona county, has sold his Touring
mill property to Chicago parties for
$4,000. =
Bernard Fuller & Go. are about
to erect a new wooden factory at
Faribault, q by 40 feet and two
stories high.
Henry Goodale, of Parker's
Prairie, is charged with incest, bis
own daughter being the victim.
Hanging is too good for the brute.
The publisher of the Austin
Transcript has been eating new pota-
toes, brought him April 18th by a
farmer Of the town of Lansing. Pref
ty good for Minnesota.
j. o. Milne, State agent of the
Patrons of Husbandry, has made an
assignment for the benefit Of his cred
itors. The amount of the assets ard
liabilities is unknown.
The Winnebago City Milling
Company, of Winnebago City, failed
Monday. Capital stock, between $780,
900 and $4,000; assets and liabilities
not yet ascertained.
About sixty families are prepar-
ing to leave Pennsylvania for the Cath
olic colony in. Swift county. They
are in good circumstances, and tenn
perance people besides-prosperity
and temperance, somehow, always do
travel together.
Last Wednesday a meeting of
the inebriate asylum board was held
at Rochester, and it was decided to
purchase what is known as the Rich
cts farm for thesite of the institution.
The price agreed on is $4,000 for
100 acres, but the arrangement was
not permanently closed.
1t does not speak we'll for the
sagacity, prudence and common Sense
of the farmers of Minnesota, that the
people of this State should he depend
ent upon the farmers of Illinois and
Missouri for considerable portion of
the pork required for consumption.
One steamboat yesterday brought up
from Galena a thousand barrels of
mess pork, and an immense quantity
of lard and smoked meats. Minneso-
ia is old enough to raise her own pork,
and she ought to do it.-P;oneer-P Press.
The damage done to the track
and bridges on the Southern Mime.
sofa railroad by the recent floods is
estimated at $4,000. It is urged
very strongly that to preserve the
road from constant trouble it will be
necessary to raise the road-bed for
some twenty miles through Root river
valley to a level that will be above
that Of an ordinary food. This will
be an expensive work, but, it is claim.
ed, will be cheaper in the end than to
rebuild the road every spring, as is
now necessary.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
CHARLEY ROSS.

PHILADELPHIA. April 25.-Wester.
welt, in prison for completely in the
Charley Ross abduction, has been
visited by the widow of Mosher, the
abductor, and entreated to give some
clue as to the whereabouts of the
boy. He earnestly declared that he
knew nothing ofthe matter. He
went into the conspiracy in hopes of
securing a part Of. the reward, but
had no direct part in the abduc-
ton.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The Toronto (Canada) Mail,
speaking of President Grants veto of
the salary bill, says "In standing be-
tween the mob and the office he has
done work which entitlesi him to
credit and we are confident that even
were he a candidate for President
again his veto would not lose him
vote, and perhaps, might gain him
some. A manly dignity is always to
be respected" =
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

w. II. GRANT and F. <. Brosseau,
two we'll known citizens of st Paul,
have been arrested by the U. s. Mar
shall and will be taken to Washington
City to answer to an indictment found
against them III the Supreme Court Of
the District of Columbia for pine
land f0rgeries.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
A. >ho,,k IN >S>1.>l-

AT about 10 o'clock Thursday
morning two men entered the bank at
Baxter Springs, Ark. presented pis.
tolls at the cashiers head, robbed the
safe of $4,000, and escaped into the
Indian Territory. Officers and a
number of citizens are in close pursuit
of the robbers.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The United States is not the only
country whose books show the balance
of trade to be against her. In 1876
the imports of Great Britain exceed
ed in value the exports by over $780,
600, 900 and for the past ten years
the average excess of imports over
exports has been $3.50, 600, 900 per
year.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
THE coNsoImAT10N BACK-sEr.

Quitea serious hitch has taken place
in the proposed consolidation of the
St. Paul and Minneapolis morning
papers. Certain parties in Mime
apolis who were opposed to the Dual
City movement, quietly Friday
bought up a $40, 900 chattle mortgage
against the Tribune, and then claimed
possession. Both parties held their
ground, and no Tribune was issued
for several ldays, and in the mean
time the "forms'' of the paper were
spirited away. The P;oneer-Ress
folks obtained temporary injunction
which gave them entire possession, and
the forms were returned and the
Tribune appeared Tuesday as usual.
Mr.. Driscoll has offered the dissat-
isfed parties the two Minneapolis pa.
pers for $4,000, or tho associated
press franchise Of the Tribune, in six
months from now, for $50, 900, 50 that
Minneapolis can haye two papers or a
morning paper exclusively its own, just
as It may prefer. Neither proposition
has as yet, been accepted, Both are
exceedingly liberal and if Mime
apolis thinks it can support = first
class paper as it should be supported,
a thing It has never yet done, it had
better accept one of these PROPOSE
The latter proposition has been &C.
cepted and the difficulty settled.
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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
The latter proposition has been &C:
cepted and the difficulty settled.

The House Appropriation Com.
mittee has adopted the post office bill
which provided that the free delivery
system shall not be introduced in
cities of less than 10000. 1t adopts
a new system Of compensation for
mail service, by space instead of
weight, and virtually cuts off the
present fast mail trains, the maxim
nm Of speed being fixed at 80 miles
per hour.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The House Committee on Terri.
tories has agreed to report favorably
upon the Senate bill for the admission
of New Mexico. The only import
ant amendment provides that the elec-
ton for the adoption ola State con-
stitution shall not be earlier than
June, 1877. The Senate provided
not later than January.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

ACCORDING to q statistical table
recently published, the St. Paul post
Office takes in 500, 167.16 per year
and expends $21, 487.64, while the
Minneapolis office, with only $780,,
982.82 receipts expends $22,01S.26.
Why should the Office which takes in
the less amount be the more expensive
t0run?
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

A PARTY of Black Hills miners
was attacked by Indians about fifty
miles from Custer, April 10Th, and
but few escaped. The wagons Of a
Yankton party were found at the en-
trance to Buffalo Gap, about two
weeks ago, the stock gone and no signs
Of human being. The wagon covers
had been shot to pieces. Parties who
90 to the Black Hills run q great
deal Of risk on very slim induce
naeuts,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The United States Supreme Court
Monday affirmed the decision of the
Court of Claims in the long-contested
Arkansas Hot Springs case, which
declared the springs properly a gov
ernm.cnt reserv alton.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The Senate has made 142 amend
ments to the various Appropriation
bills now pending, and now the House
Committee on Appropriations has not
only secured a wholesale non-concur-
renee in them by the House without
a word of explanation, but has de-
clined to ask for a Committee of
Conference on the disagreeing votes.
There is every prospect of a dead
lock between the two houses.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The Minneapolis MaI remarks /:
Theodore Tilton, after lecturing and
insulting eight Minnesota audiences,
has gone into Iowa to kill himself.
His impudence shuts out a second
engagement in any town or state"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
KANSAS. .sPRHG wEATHER.

TOPEKA, KS, April "a:
A hail storm passed over this coun-
ty Saturday afternoon, a mile wide
and extending several miles south,
which destroyed alt:the orchards and
wheat crop. Not a single leaf bud or
blossom on the trees is left. A large
number of cattle were killed. In
places the hail was eight inches deep
and the size of hens eggs. Wagon
loads could be scraped up this morn.
ing, SO hours after it fell.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

j. j. GREEN, editor of the LIE Sueur
Sentinel, acknowledges the receipt of
q package Of garden seeds from Con.
pressman Strait. That is one of the
ways Republican Congressman haveof
corrupting Democratic editors.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The St Paul Dispatch has been
sold to Ramaley & Cunningham, the
well-known job printing house Of that
city. Mr.. Ramaley was one of the
founders Of the Dispatch, and will
make successful publisher.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The dramatic critic of the Chicago
Tribune, in. i. review in Sundays. pa
per, wrote "admirable," but the types
brought it.. out "'abominable." Two
people were mad that day-the critic
and the victim Of the abominable
typographical error.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

"A cable dispatch from London
announces that Lord Lyttleton has
committed suicide.
The Rev. F. F. Rea, of Durham,
Conn.,, has been expelled by his
Congregational church for drunken
ness.
The Peoria Presbytery has refus-
ed to admit to fellowship the Rev.
John S. Glendenning, of Jersey City
scandal notoriety.
Holman, the father of Soft
Money, was the first Congressman to
make application for silver at the Of
flee of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
Mayor stokely, of Philadelphia,
has sworn in $50 men Of the special
centennial guard. The guard is d.
vided into three companies, under the
general command of Col. Clay.
The wheat-operating firm of Lin
blom; SCHNEIDER & Co., of Milwaukee,
suspended payment Monday under
the depressing effect of the failure of
the City National Bank of Chicago.
Complaints are made by the Gen.
tiles in and about Salt Lake City
that the Mormon police arrest them
upon trlAing charges, exact oppressive
bail, and levy outrageous court fees.
Henry Ward Beecher preached
Sunday in two churches in Boston.
The persons comprising his audience
were admitted by means of tickets
previously dispensed, and many
thousands were denied entrance for
lack of room.
In is rumored that the revolu-
tionists were badly defeated near
Monterey the other day, and large
cavalry force has been sent from
Matamoras to assist them. General
Diaz is conscriptlng Mexicans to in
crease his force.
The Ballou manufacturing com.
pany and the firm of Geo. G.. Ballou
q Son, Of Woonsocket, Rhode Island,
have made an assignment. Their in
debtedness exceeds 81 900, 900 liabil-
tiles probably exceed the assets from
$4,000 to 100000.
"A Halifax dispatch of the 21st
says: The schooner Katie, Capt.
Ferristal, which left Port Mulgrave
on the I'd inst. for Boston with 66 pas
sengers, has been given up by the peo-
pie of the former place as lost. 1t is
thought she foundered in the gale
which occurred three or four days at.
ter her departure.
The house of the Rev. D. G.
Lothrop, of Amherst, Mass, accused
Of brutality to his family and general
meanness, was mobbed Monday night
by about 200 town boys and students.
Mrs. Lothrop was sick and alone in
the house, and is now in a critical
condition from the shock to her nerves.
Orders have been issued to the
commanding officer at Fl. Laramie
to as far as possible project travellers
between that point and Custer City.
His force is inadequate to the task
other than as occasional scouting par.
ties. Serious trouble is anticipat-
ed from the rowing small bands of
Indians, who will not attack large,
well-armed parties.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The bill transferring the Indian
Bureau to the War Department pass.
ed the House Friday by an unex-
pectedly large majority, the vote
standing 139 yeas to 81 nays. This
vote would seem to indicate that the
peace policy is not held in very high
esteem by the members.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

BELKNAP, in tho impeachment
proceedings, makes the statement that
he resigned the Office of Secretary Of
War on the Implied promise Of ely
mer, Chairman of the investigating
committee, that if this was done the
matter would be dropped and no steps
taken toward exposure or impeach-
ment, and that he resigned in order
to shield his wife from the pain and
hupiliation of a public scandal.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

SENATOR MCMILLAN has been ap-
pointed a member of the committee
to investigate the late election in Mis-
sissippi, in place Of Senator Oglesby,
excused,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

4 WRITER in !Scribner't Monthly,
who has deyoted to tie subject much
time and research. says the proper
way to spell Williams name il
Shakspere.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

ABR1Er but comprehensive platform
on which to run their next President
is offered by the New York San, and
il as follows:
/. The Constitution of the United States,
including all the Amendments.
IL. The Eighth Commandment Of the
Decaloxue.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The Senate has finally passed a
bill to permit Minnie Sherman Fitch
to receive the diamonds, presented by
tho Shah of Egypt at her wedding
nearly two years ago, without paying
the $40, 600 duty on them.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

DE Witt Talmageis learning to
play the co;;ncet. He has reached the
belief that he will be called upon to
blow the last trump, and he wants to
beiq good practice: --Gh'cago Times.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
WILBUR THOMPSON

Would announce to thepeople of St. Cloud
that he will return to the city about April
18th, prepared to do all kinds Of W. rk in
the line of
Painting Graining, Glazing, &C.,
in the best style, at material reduc-
ton from former prices.
Orders may be be left at the Central
House, inch 80
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

A POWERFUL effort is mas :ngg in
Massachusetts, to put Richard H.
Dana, Jr., at the head Of the delega:
ton to Cincinnati, And it has sue
ceeed.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

BLAINE gets all Of the California
delegation but one. Bristow claims
q majority of the Massachusetts, dele
cation, Richard II. Dana, Jr., head
lug the list from that State.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The Connecticut delegation to the
National Republican Convention IA
vor the nomination of Postmaster
General Jewell, and will present his
name To the convention.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The House committee will report
hvorabiy the Senate bill to extend
the time eight years for the compile
ton of the Northern Pacific railway.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
THE pRlcs1DrNr.s SALARY.

1t is pretty hard to see how Con-
gressmen will be able, with any sort
Of decency, 70 pass, over the Presi-
dents veto, the bill reducing the
salary Of the Executive to $25, 900 =
year. The President calls attention
to the fact that when the salary was
originally fixed at the sum named,
the United States contained but three
million souls, and the country was
impoverished and without commerce
or manufactures. At that time Con-
gressmen received IS per day for the
session, or about $720 per year. Since
then Congressmen have increased
their own salary to $1,000 per year,
but say that the President shall re-
ceive no more now than he did whom
quite as good men as they were re-
ceivine but 800 per year. The in
justice Of this is manifest. II the
President of this nation cannot. be
paid more in 1877 than he could
when: our population was less than
one-twelhh what it is now, and when
the responsibilities of the Office were
much less and the purchasing power
of the money in which his salary was
paid much greater, then certainly
members of Congress have no right
to demand or receive more than IS
per day while they are in session.
The truth is that the salaries as they
now stand are none too high. Pay
men fair compensation for the Ia.
bois and responsibilities imposed up
on them, and then hold them to q
strict accountability in every respect.
salaries almost furnish a
justification for rascality.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

PRESIDENT GRANT states that he
will not favor any candidate for
nomination, either by word, deed, or
intimation, against any other Repub-
lican candidate"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The English House of Commons,
BY . vote of 239 to 152, yesterday
rejected a bill to give women the
right of suffrage.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

"A Walter press from the London
Times will be exhibited in the British
department Of the Centennial.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
FOR SALE.

DWELLING HOUSE AND LOT
on Percy avenue, between Lake and Nor.
gan streets. Has good well, cistern. and
outbuildings. For particulars apply at
Hills Photograph Gallery.
St. Cloud, March !, 1875. If
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
A COMPLETE vINDICATION.

Mr.. Blaine took the floor of
the House Monday and made
a thorough and comprehensive reply
to the charges which had been made
against him, sustaining himself with
letters from the different persons sup
posed to have the most intimate
knowledge concerning the facts in
volved in the different charges. He
produced conclusive testimony to
show that he had not received $64,-
900 or any other money or thing Of
value from the Union Pacific Com
pany, directly or indirectly ; that he
had sold no bond to or received any
profit from the Atlantic and Pacific or:
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad Company; and that instead
Of receiving bonds of the Little Rock
and Fort Smith Road as eratuity,
he had paid the full market price for,
such bonds of that. road as he held.
and instead of making a fortune out
of the company he had lost over $780,
600 from his investment in it's bonds.
In conclusion he said
I am now, Mr.. Speaker, in the fourteenth
year of not inactive service in this hail.
I have taken and havegiven blows. Ihave
no doubt said many things in the heat of
debate which would now gladly recall. I
have no doubt given votes which, in fuller
light, I would gladly change; but I have
never: done anything in my public career
tor which I could be put to the fainteet
blush in any presence, or for which /
cannot answer to my constituents, my con-
science, and the great Searcher: Of Hearts.
His speech was regarded as com
Eplete vindication, even by the Demo.
Gratis; Mr.. Lamar, the leader Of the
Southern wing Of the party, saying
that Mr.. Blaine's reply to the charg-
es upon him was unanswerable."
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27
Thursday, April az, 1915.

WHEAT at New York yesterday
was $1.3O@1.34 for No. L; At Mil
waukee, $3.50; at St. Paul, $1,000
1.O2.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

ANOTHER newspaper consolidation.
The Madelia Times has purchased the
Record and merged the two papers
into one.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

The first boat, the Savanna, got
through Lake Pepin Friday, reach.
ing St. Paul Saturday.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

MCKEE, of St. Louis crooked fame,
has been sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment and to pay fine Of &c.,
OM.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-04-27

LITERARY NOTICES.
The Ecleot;o for May contains the
conclusion Of the Rev. James Mar
tineau's paper on "Modern Material
ism It's Attitude towards Theolo-
gy," which is attracting SO much at
tention both in this country and in
England. Another important paper
is that on "The Catholic Peril in
America" by Mr.. Francis E.. Abbott.
The remaining contents of the mum.
Der are "Alphonse de Lamartine;"
First Impressions Of South Africa"
by Lady Barker; "Modern British
Poetry" by w. M. Rossetti; "Hu-
NOR" ITO Mainly ('M'Aymez);"
civilian Goodwin: His Friends and
Contemporaries" "Any Poet to his
Mistress" "The Life and Labo1 of
Francis Deak," and additional chap
ters Of "Her Dearest Foe," by Mr..
Alexander. The number also con-
tains a portrait of President Andrew
D. White, of Cornell University, and
a brief editorial sketch of his life.
E. R. Pelton, publisher, New York.
In the May number Of Scr;bner,
Col. Etting, Of the Committee on the
Restoration Of Independence Hall,
discusses the ''Portraiture of William
Penn" From the forthcoming Bry.
ant History of the United States, an
entertaining passage is published con-
corning 'The True Pocahontas.'
The College Series is continued with
a paper on Bowdoin College, contain
ing "reminiscences of Hawthorne,
Longtellow, and other distinguished
men. A series Of papers, giving an
account of recent American and for
eign experiments in Incorporation" is
begun in this number. Among the
other papers are Bret Harte's and
Edward Everett Hale's serials an
illustrated sketch Of John Gutenberg,
''The DeFoe Family in America" a
Canadian story, 1.-THE Wedding at
Ogden Farm ;" Double Crimes and
One-sided Laws" iby DR.. Holland,
etc.
The numbers Of LiHelTs Loving Age
for the weeks ending April 18th and
22d contain "The Hebrew Woman $"
"What She Came Through; = "The
Myth Of Demeter and Persephone,
Part II )" The Life and Labors of
Francis Deak, 1s03-1876;" "Tbe
Far of St. Nicodeme ;" "A Glimpse
of the Korea )" "servia;" "some As.
poets Of Friendship" principal
Tulloch on Spiritual Evolution ;"
"The Hurricanes ;" little Bobby, a
Sketch in Paris -" Humor y "Heli-
goland;" "Art Needlework," and 9TH
er valuable articles, together with So.
lect poetry and miscellany. Littell
d Gay, publishers, Boston, Mass.
With its May number, St. Nicho-
las begins new serial story, "The
Cat and the Countess" translated
from the French by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, and illustrated with silhouet-
tes by Hopkins. Among the miscell-
anecus attractions are Mrs. ELEPHANTS
second paper on "Windsor Castle !"
Susan Coolidge's "Talk with Girls"
on "Ready for Europe" and the two
beautiful poems, "The. Palace of
: Gondoforus" and "Snsw Flakes"
The stories Of "Clough's Top-Knot"
and 'The Dotterels' Luck are excel
lent; and the rhyme of 1.-THE King
Of the Hobbledyeoblins," with its
fantastic picture, is a feature in itself.
Mrs. Diaz contributes a May-Day
play; Marion Harland has another
"Little House-Keeper's Page,' with a
fine illustration; and the department
for every Little Folks" is occupied
with a charming poem, "The Fate of
a Gingerbread Man." with little
pictures by M. Woolf: