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The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

Although somewhat behindhanc
in certain departments, the Centen.
NAL Exhibition will be more nearly
ready on the opening day than any
Of the worlds fairs that have preced.
ed it. Many Of the foreign exhibits
are complete in all their parts, and
the few that are bchindhand are moi
the finest. Our own extraordinary
energy within the few weeks past
and the services of the Commission
haye been notably effective in the
general preparations. Altogether il
is quite certain that while opening
day may not fulfill all the prom
Uses Of hope, it will present in gen
eral the grandest exhibition the world
has yet seen.-N. Y. Tribune.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The Boston Common Council has
appropriated SIS, 900 for the purchase
of bronze medallions Of the signers of
the Declaration of Independence to be
placed in Faneuil Hall.
London correspondents UNDER
stand that the reason why the Queen
did not read her own speech at the
opening Of Parliament was that she i.
now unable to read without glasses,
and it was thought that the sight Of
the sovereign in spectacles would look
a little unmajestic.
-Beecher had an ova ton Thurs.
day night at the Brooklyn Academy
of Music, where he lectured in aid Of
disabled soldiers. Some $4,000
were raised, of which he himself sub.
scribed $500. II never earned SO
much money in so short time" said
Beecher, as he picked up his soft hat
and made his way through the admir-.
ing crowd. The house was crammed
with the beauty and fashion of Brook
lvn.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

Mote an example. yea, two o.
them. When Mr.. Blaine made bis
recent statement Mr.. Bristow sent
him a note heartily congratulating
him on his triumphant defence.
Again, when the enemies Of Mr.. Nor
ton the other day were trying to poach
about the Treasury. Department fol
materials Of charges against him, Mr..
Bristow refused to have any docu-
ments examined unless IN the pres
ence Of Mr.. Morton or his friends.
This is the comfy which is due be.
tween highminded statesmen. And
yet there are men who seem to think
that they are serving the interests Of
Mr.. Bristow by pouring out the Bit
terest abuse on Mr.. Blaine. It is
conduct most unfair in itself, to Rep
blicanism and treacherous to Mr..
Bristow.-Bastop Journal.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

w. II. GRANT and F. <. Brosseau,
Of st. Paul, who were taken to Wash.
ington to answer to m Indictment
found against them for fraudulent
transactions in halfbreed scrip, have
been released on $40, 900 bail, their
cases being continued until the 10Th
of ,lnpe, Both have returned to St.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The Supreme Court of the United
States has decided that the present
land grant railroad companies are
not liable for the old Minnesota
State railroad bonds. The suit was
commenced by Selah Chamberlain,
aren't for the St. Paul e. Sioux City
road, and the railroad came out vic.
forioue.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11
OUR MINNESOTA CLIMATE.

A correspondent of the Savannah N.v.
having written to the editor to ask what
crops can best be raised in Georgia, re-
ceived the reply: "Cotton and chills. but
principally chills. Cotton, has to be cult
waited, but chilli arc volunteer and stav all
the year round"
Read that Minnesotians and stop
hankering after the land If the olive
and myrtle.
Where the rage Of the vulture the love Of the tur
tie,
Now sink into sorrow now madden to crime"
This is world of compensations,
and if you will have the lights Of per
petual summer you must take i'm.
paired vitality and a diseased liver
along with them. -, =
We were talking to a householder
the other day, who makes it bis bust.
ness to buy horses in Kansas, Illinois,
etc., and bring them up to this State
to sell and he surprised US with the
statement that we could raise fine,
horses in Minnesota than in any 9th.
er part of the west.
He said our horses were heavie,
for their height, sounder and with
more vitality than the horses of The
region south Of us.
The truth is, there can not be full
vital force in diseased system; and
it is a we'll known fact that the butch.
ers of Chicago rarely kill an OK or 8
hog whose liver is not diseased.
Our grasses are the finest in the
west. When it is remembered thai
Vermont and northern New York
with climates similar to our own, ar
the great dairy regions of the Unitet
States, it becomes evident that tn,
time is not far distant when MINNIE
sofa butter and cheese will be quotet
in eastern markets as Minnesotl
wheat is now quoted. Already .
Minnesota farmer has taken the frs
premium in the Union for cheese
making.
| To he sure our winters are col,
and long what then? They com
pei US to build warmer houses; the,
force us to the enjoyment of hom
delights; they drive US to thrift ant
foresight; they induce us to read an,
think they lead us to social inter
course. Who would exchange al
this to be a lank, sallow, slab-sided
sickly, whisky-drinking, tobacco
chewing, malarial, lounglng lout o
the land of perpetual flowers,-wher
they are too lazy to cultivate a gal
den?
Willing hands and intelligen
minds can make Minnesota an earth
lily paradise and with liberal educa
tional advantages our children vii
be the brightest, clearest-headed, mos
vigorous and most intelligent of tn
sons of the Union.-Anti. MonopoI,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

A TORNADO at Chicago Saturday
destroyed large section of the
Michigan Southern depot, burying
twelve men in the ruins, and did &C.
rious damage to churches, hotels,
public buildings and residences.
About 1900 square feet of roofing
was lifted bodily from the county
hospital, and a volume of water
poured in through the opening upon
the cots Of the patients. The same
storm passed over most of the State
of Illinois and part Of Indiana,
doing great damage to buildings and
other property, and delaying farming
oDeratiens.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

IT is said that fully one.half Of the
testimony taken by the Congressional
investigating committees is 80 worth.
less that it is cancelled and suppress
Cd. But the expense Of procuring
the witnesses who give this worth
less testimony is not "canceled or
suppressed" The people are called
on, Just the same, to foot the bills.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

ANEW railway company, the St.
Paul and Dakota, has been organized
with H. Thompson, President, G. 8.
Hamilton, Secretary; and Gen. Bish-
op, General Manager. A contract is
to be let at once for grading from
near Worthington, on the St. Paul
and Sioux City road, to LuVerne, on
the way to Sioux Falls.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

MARVIN II. BoyEn Of Wisconsin, for
10 many years connected with the anti
capital punishment cause of our country,
i-to open public canvass of Connecticut
during The ensuing week, having in view
he total abolition Of the death penalty be.
fore the Legislature, which is now in ses'
sion, shall have adjourned its labors.
Mr.. Bovee's plan may be very
beantifal in theory, but it does not
work we'll in practice. It has been
kiad in Minnesota for four or FIVE
yi 70 the general disgust of the
people, but. - feel bound to add, 80
tho very great !eet'daotion Of MUIR
dDrorr.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The Centennial Exposition wa.
formally opened yesterday, 10000
persons being present. The invoca-
ton was by Bishop Simpson the
presentation speech by Gov. Hawley,
President of the commission; and
the opening address BY President
Grant. Everything passed of salts
6ctorilv.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

TIE Centennial Commission has
decided to take no action in regard to
the sale Of beer and wine on the Elk.
position grounds, and, therefore, not
to disturb the privileges already sold
by the Finance Board. There is q
statute which prohibits the sale of
liquors on Paramount Park, and par
ties who may desire to prosecute those
who cell can do 20.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The French deputies who affirm
that the workmen coming to the Cen.
tennial will devote their time to
studying politics, doubtless fear that
the artisans will acquire pernicious
notions regarding standing armie e.
and popular education. These dis
trustful Deputies sadly need political
education themselves.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

THE Supreme Court Monday ad-
journed until October, without rem
dering a decision in the celebrated
granger cases, involving the rights of
State to regulate the rates of fare
and freights on railroads. The judy
e. probably want to "go home and
think about it,"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

Mr.. j. NJ. MoMAsrERs, senior ed.
itor Of the Lake City Leader, has re
covered sufficiently from bis long i'll
ness to be able to start on 4 trip to
the East. We hope that the change
may prove beneficial to his health.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The report of the committee in
schenck's case will probably exoner-
ate him from any intentional guilt
in the Emma Mine affair, but will
not be as favorable as it might have
been had the report been made up
before these letters were put in.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

A DELEGATION of women, white
and black, appeared before the Dis.
trict Commission at Washington Sat.
urday, advocating a law creating
woman-suffrage in the District. A
member Of the Commission asked the
delegation whether they would sub
NIT the question to the women Of
the District. The woman Chair
man Of the delegation said that they
would not, as they would not at first
trust women, because they are IN.
der the domination of their male rel.
atives.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The application for the pardon of
Mckee has been received by tho
President and turned over to the At
torney General, who has sent it to
District Attorney Dyer, at ST. Louis,
for examination and report.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

i: ANNA D1cK1NsoN made her debut
at::Boston Monday< evening as an,ac-
tress. :,She;hadsa large house and a
hearty welcome, but it is pretty dis
tinctly limited that she did not create
any decided sensation; in other
words, that her first appearance was
scarcely the success that had been
anticipated.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

! IT has been decided by the Su-
Preme Court Of this State. in a case
from Winona, that the authorities of
a city haye the right to prohibit the
erection Of wooden awnings, the posts
which support these awnings beng
considered an obstruction.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The bill for the admission of New
Mexico as state will not, it is said,
be brought up in the House this ses
sion, but will be postponed by its
managers until winter. It ought to
be indefinitely postponed.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

TIE argument in the Belknap i'm
parchment case was concluded Mon
day. The Senate notified both par
ties that they need not come again
until sent for, and further considers
ton of the case was postponed until
next Monday.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

CHECKS on the treasury will now
be paid in silver, If desired. This will
wipe out the premium on silver and
put as much of the coin afoat as
the public want.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

GEORGIA sends thirteen white and
nine colored delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention, and they are d.
vided ~ follows: Blaine, 8; Bristow,
s.; Morton, 5; Conkling, 3.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

MIR. TAYLOR, of Chicago, has pur.
chased forty thousand acres Of land
from the St. Paul end Sioux City
Railroad Company, on either side of
the State line, in Minnesota and Iowa.
He undertakes to place at least fifty
families per year on the land for the
five years next coming, and proceeds
at once to open Offices in Chicago and
elsewhere for the sale of the lands.
He contemplates also selling them 10
london.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The pigeon shooting match between
Captain Bogardus and the English
man Price, for the championship of
the world, resulted in a score of 81
for the American and ~ for his op-
t,OnAnk ''' -
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

A DETERMINED warfare between
the great leading Eastern railroads is
apparent, and not likely soon to ter
inmate. Passage tariffs are already
reduced on the Grand Trunk Rail.
way and others must follow. The
people can afford to look on quietly
and enjoy cheap riding.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The Tilden sentiment is on the in
crease among the Democracy of this
State. 1t would not be at all sur
prising to see Tilden delegation sent
to St. Louis by the Minnesota State
Convention.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The grand jury in the criminal
branch of the United States court
at New York Tuesday presented thirty
indictments, the majority Of which.
it is understood, were against whisky
men of high standing.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

M. r. Wilcox, of Hutchinson, il
the father Of three pairs Of twins:
The people Of 6ibley county, appre.
CHATTING the situation, have elected
him Clerk Of the Court. - -
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

SAYS the New York Tribune con.
corning the secret political investiga-
taons at Washington: NEARLY all
the successful Investigations Of Con-
gress have been helped directly
and indirectly by publicity.
Star Chamber practice is obnox.
ious to our free institutions, and has
always failed Of its object when At
tempted in this country"
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

DON PEDRO spent Sunday in
Washington sightseeing; visited
both houses of Congress Monday,
and afterwards called on President
Grant.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

Mr.. T11DEN is perhaps the wealth
lest of the various candidates named
for the Presidency. He is said to be
worth $5,0O0,000, and is a bachelor
at that. :. .;-,.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

" THE French and German Cousuls
were killed y BY. the Turks in q riot
between tho Christians and Turks at
Solonfca.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

FARMER" TAYLOR, ex-Democrat-
io Reform Governor Of Wisconsin,
used to use State postage stamps to
send electioneering documents around
the State.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

AT Sacramento, CAL, last week,
the Grand Jury indicted one of its
own members for gambling.
Cardinal McCloskey is SO ill at
Seton Hall, South Orange, N. j., that
no one is permitted to see him.
All officers who left the Spanish
army and joined the fortunes of Don
Carlos have been amnestied.
Piper, the Boston child murder
er, has confessed the murder of Ma
bel Young and Miss Landegran.
Florence and Alice Tilton have
Joined DR.. Storrs' Church. Florence
declined a letter of dismissal from
Plymouth.
The wPenitentiary bill passed
by the Mississippi Legislatu re leases
the convicts four years to responsible
parties, and will greatly reduce taxes.
"A riot by striking ]aborers oc.
Cured at Chicago Monday, in which
several shots were exchanged with
the police, some Of which took ef.
feet.
The SPECIAL committee on levees
of the Mississippi have recommend
ed the appropriation of $4,172,00O
for the necessary construction and re.
pairs.
Gen. Grant, Secretary Chandler,
and some family friends went fishing
down the Potomac last Saturday, and
Blackburn wants to ha We it investi.
gated.
The Peoria Presbytery refuses to
admi t Glendenning as member, with
only two dissenting voic es, and or.
ders the church at Henry, Ill.,, to
ship him.
-Pesach M. Rubensteiu, under
sentence of death for the murder @.
Sarah Alexander, last winter, died
Tuesday morning in his cell in the
Brooklyn Jail.
The wind Monday blew a train
from t! track on the Illinois Central
railroad, near Nation, seriously in.
juring several persons, and among
them the Hon. Peter Doyle, Secretary
of State of Wisconsin.
"A dispatch from San Francisco
announces the arrival in that city of a
gentleman having in his possession
the head of Chavez, the bandit, for
which the Governor of California has
offered a reward of So, 900.
Speaker Kerr's physicians have
expressed the opinion that he ought,
in justice to himself, to throw off en-
tirely the latbors Of offfivial life for
the rest Of this session, and his friends
are looking for his resignation at an
early day.
George E. schoolley, a money.
clerk of the Adams Express Com.
pany at Nashville, Tenn, who all
seconded with $4,000 belonging to
the Company, was arrested at Hamil-
ton, Ont, Saturday. The prisoner
confessed and promised to refund the
money. He consented to return with
out awaiting extradition.
The amount of silver in the
Treasury Department at the time of
the passage Of the Specie Resumption
act, which according to the recent
directions of the Secretary of the
Treasury, will be used in ordinary
Government disbursements, is about
$2,500,000.
MIR. Ben. Perley Poore thinks
that "Secretary Bristow resembles
President jackson in many respects,
one being his quick temper and en-
phatic language when excited, but it
is soon over, and he never chariehes
reeentments."
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11
To Breeders of Horse Stock.

HAVE the fine young Vermont Nor
l gan stallion, YOUNG MORRILL,,
which will stand at my barn, in this CITY,
for limited number of mares during the
present season. He was sired by the
Archer Morrill,, we'll known a. the petter
of Minnesota Chief. As for STYLE and step
he cannot be excelled by any horse in the
State; he stands l5} hands high, and
weighs 1850 pounds.
n. VAN LOON.
St. Cloud, April II, 1876. tjy1
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

In Canada, the course of the
British Government in the Winslow
case is regarded untavorably. 1t
is intimated by the Toronto Globe
that England is bent on coercing us
into making another treaty. The
Canadians are blameless in this mat.
tor, and ought not to be deprived OF
the privileges Of the treaty clause
through the Home Governments oh.
stinacy. They mightju dicjously pro
pose treaty for themselves and in.
sist upon Great Britain ratifyinq it.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

Mr.. THOMAS HoYNE NJ onday as
sumed his duties as Mayor of Chica-
go and better things are promised for
that bummer-a@icted city, although
Colvin has not yet vacated the May
or's Office.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The criminal trial of Gen. Belknap
in the courts at Washington will pro-
badly be postponed until fall on &C
count of the pressure Of court bust.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The House has again refused to
order the Investigations by its COM
mites to be made with open doors
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

The rowing and boat clubs o.
Dublin university have organized q
joint representative crew of four to
tCke part in the contest At Philadel.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

IT is estimated that at least %, 900
persons from European countries will
visit the Centennial. At least a doz-
en- excursions have been arranged for
BY one tourist.frm, including one
party of $50 from Italy and one of
100 from France and Belgium.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

Mr.. BEHCHER lectures every even
ing this week, his engagements being
At Washington and Baltimore and in
Pennsvlvania.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

'GHE London Tine. will .be repre-
sented at the Centennial BY txo Cor
respondents, an Englishra. and On
American.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

TIE old Declaration Of Indepen.
dence has been sent to Philadelphia,
where the military will receive it.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

"A SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) dispatch
says that the failure Of Harvey,
Arnold & Co., of the North Adams
print works referred to on the fourth
page of this weeks paper, is even
more disastrous than at first appeared.
The liabilities. it is thought, will rise
over rather than fall below $780,.
600, and not less than 10000 men,
women and children, in the six mills,
are thrown out of work.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

.,:-Fnends Of Grace Greenwood say
that she Will soon institute proceedings
for 3 divorce from her worthless hus-
band,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

THERE is very little said, by eth
er party, as to candidates for Wise.
President.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

One of the effects, says the Wash.
ington Chronicle, Of breaking up the
whisky-rings Of the country has been
q large increase in Internal Revenue
receipts. For the month of April
the incease has been over So, SOC, 600
al compared with the same month
last year, which can be attributed Ia
no other cause than the faithfulnes,
and vigilance which now mark the
collections of this revenue.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

'THE following are the prices for
roand:trip Centennial tickets from St.
Paul.; r, .>.
81. Paul to Philadelphia and return $54.'
81. Paul to New York and return, $3.50
a. Paul to Philadelphia, via New York
and return. $500, commencing May
and clsaing Oct. 81, 1876. Good for 60
Aaga.
There 10 no reduction in the fare
from s.. Cloud to St. Paul.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11
FOR SALE.

DWELLING. HOUSE -ANDLOY
on Percy avenue, between Lake and Nor
gan streets. Has good well, cistern and
outbuildings. For particulars apply, at
Hills Photograph Gallery ; p i
JOSEPH HILL.
St. Cloud, March l, 1875. T. 4 #,
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.

The Kxtradition Treaty with Englsnd-
s.lAttlo Johnny Davenport'a' Testimo-
ny-Blaine, BFlstow and Morton-More
Silver. " 80
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-05-11

SPEAKER KERR has written a let
ter declining a denomination for Con-
grese.