The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-04

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sT.CLoUD, MINNESOTA
W. B. MITCHELL, EDITOR
Thursday, May 4. 1879.
WHEArat New York yesterday
VA. $1.26@1.2s for No. 1 +; at Mil
waukee, 500: at St. Paul $1,000
1.O2.
TIE national debt was reduced
e2,7s1,1S1 during the month Of
April.
TIE Centennial opens next We'd
nesday At noon, but in anything but
\ complete condition.
QUEEN VICTORIA has issued = |
proclamation assuming her new title
of Empress of India"
Dox PEDRO is to have no official
fuss from Congress; only = series Of
complimentary resolutions.
The general revenue fund Of the
State is overdrawn $75,817, leaving
in the treasury sos, 779.S6.
ARKANSAS does not instruct, but
her delegates are understood to be in
favor Of Morton for President.
The seventeenth annual conference
Of the Methodist Episcopal church
Of America assembled at Baltimore
Monday.
IT has been unanimously decided
by the Commissioners to close not on
~ the buildings, but the grounds of
tho centennial on Sundays.
TIE New York Democratic State
Convention Thursday adopted resolu-
tions favoring the nomination of Gov
eznor T,lden for the Presidency.
AN opinion has been given by At.
torney General Wilson to the effect
that the 1nebriate Asylum funds al
ready collected are available for pur-
chasing land and erecting asylum
buildings.
Window, the Boston forger, was
released yesterday by the British au-
thorities, the governments of the two
countries not being able to agree
with regard to his extraditlon.
Dispatches received this afternoon
state that the British government will
hold Winslow ten days longer, to
await a reply to the latest British
note.
E. B. WAsHBURN, Minister to
Paris, declines to be longer considered
a candidate for the Republican nom
ination for Governor Of Illinois. It
is thought that this course is taken
with view 10 strengthen,nghis chan
ces for the Presidency.
The House of Representatives has
repented of its spasm Of decency, and
Monday, by vote of 126 to 1866
less than two-th1rds voting in the af:
frmative-refused to order investi-
cations by its committees to be made
with open doors.
BISHOP SIMPSON, of Philadelphia,
is announced as another candidate for
the Republican nomination for the
Presidency. Doubtful. The Bishop,
like an influential editor, can do more
good in the position he now occupies
than in the Presidents chair.
The President has concluded not to
deviate from the rule which has long
existed-not to part even temporari-
~ with the custody of original pa
pers in any Of the departments. Con.
gressional committees can have cop.
les, or can examine the originals in
the departments.
In letter to the Chicago Tribune
from the Centennial, occurs the fol-
lowing: while all parts of the
country are represented, it is noticea-
bic that the West has = very small
and disp roport,onate exhibit. From
Mnnesota there Is 'othing.' How
proud we-all ought to be of our last
Legislaturel
MINNEAPOLIS claims to be entitled
to name the next Republican candi-
date for Congress on the ground
that the denomination of a member
Is conceded by party usage, and Col.
King declines to seek q denomination.
II Is said that, in Difference to this
claim. Gen. Averill will not be can
didato.
That well-kaown and prominent
Democrat, Ex-Governor Seymour, of
New York, does not believe the Dem
ocrats have gained the confidence of
the nation- and savs nlain1v that thew