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UBptrnLioAW CONVENTION.
Second Congressional District.
The Republican elector* of the Second Congresslon
al Distik: of Miunesota arc requestsd to elect Dele
gates to the Republican District Convention to be
held in St. Paul onTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST,
1'cr the purpose of placing in nomination' a candidate
for Cougreu, to be supported by the Republicans at
the ensuing election.
The following is the apportionment of each county
and is based upon the Republican rote of the last
general election as castforthe Chitf Justic-, Hon.
C. 0. Ripley, each county having one delegate at
large, also one for each two hundred andfiftyRe
publican votes and one for each major fraction thcro
oi.
Anoka 2 Meeker 8
Ronton 1
Carlton..... 1
Carver 4
Cass 1
Crow Win? 1
Chisago..
Dakota™
Douglas 3
Goodhue 6
Grant 1
Hennepin 8
Isanti 2
Kandiyohi 2
Kanabec 1
Lake 1
Mauomin 1
McLeod... 2
Mllle Lac 1
Monongalia 2
Morrison 1
Otter Tail 2
Pino 2
Pope 7
Kaursey 2
Sherburne 3
Stearns 1
St. Louis 1
Todd 2
•vabashaw 0
Washington..., 3
Wright 8
By order ef the Committees.
A. B. STIOKNET,
Chairman.
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All Republicans In the District, irrespective ofpast
differences, are urgently invited to join in assisting
to make tbe Convention harmonious itnd the party
.united and successful.
T. M. METCALF,
Chairman.
MR. MOORE'S APOLOGY.
Mr. Moore appears this week in a
leogtLy communication, glaringin italics
and mighty in the law, laboring to. de
fend himself and Major Taylor from
the charges that have been made
against them in connection with tbe
hotel bonus. Although professing
great indignation at what has been
said, he carefully avoids any reply to
the principal charge against himself,
Til.: that of vacillation as a man forwould
the aake of profit as an attorney. In
the City Clerk's office, duly filed, is a
petition to tho Common Council, read
ing as follows:
"We, the undersigned, eitizens and busi
ness men of the City of St. Cloud,
ask thai your honorable body extend to the
project (the 'erection of a substantial
first-class hotel within the corporate
limits') such liberal encouragement, in the
shape of a donation or otherwise, as will
secure its immediate construction for allaccordance
of which your petitioners will ever pray,
In a list of over one hundred and fif
ty names appended to this petition,
there stands, tbe thirty-eighth signa
ture, the name of
WSL S. MOORE.
In conformity with this request from
Mr. Moore and othor tax-payers of the
city, and with the official request of
Mayor Taylor, the City Council offer
ed a bonus, of* $12,500 in bonds forfavored
the erection oi such a hotel as MrMoore
Moore specified. This was Mr. Moore's
position Juno 11th. Five days after
wards, the. Mayor called, a special meet
ing of the Council and returned the
resolution for correction, In this
message of June 16th (which waa sent
in, signature and'all, injlie handwrit
of Mr. Moore I)i. "$£'[jfrpjhi rjfcjeclfod
merely to the wording of tha r^aolution,
and suggested wherein it oould be
changed so as to meet his approval.
This waa Mr. Moore's position June
16th. On the 18th, Mayor Taylor
wrotetoMr. Moore asking his "opin
ion" on the amended resolution, assur
ing him that "his (Moore's) opinion
would have great weight with him
(Taylor.)" On the 22d, Mr. Moore
replied, in tho "opinion" published, in
part, in his article. Iu this ho states
that (prior to the 20th) he had been re
tained to resist the granting of tho
bonus he had, nine days before, asked
for. We charged Mr. Moore with
petitioning the Council for that which,
so soon afterwards, he pronounced
"illegal" and an "abuse and perversion
of the taxing power." Mr. Moore
persistently evades this charge, for he
cinnot meet it.
Mr. Moore devotes the most of hisCounoilman,
space to arguing against what nobody
maintains—the right of bonuses, of
any kind, in the abstract. But as a
nutter Ofpolicy, bonuses are an admit
ted necessity. It is a form by which a
corporation or oounty can pay, in thesary
future, for a present benefit. When,
Mr. Moore rigned that petition, he
know as, much about the bonus as
he did on the 22d of June. The offer
of the franchises of the Minneapolis
ad St. Cloud railroad, for which Mc
Moore argues so lustily, carries with it
a bonus of the bonds of St. Cloud to the
amount of $100,000! and the further
sum of $7,000, to be reimbursed those
cltiiens who secured the charter! This
ii just as "illegal" as the other but
I tstf$ff Moore nowoero says so. And what
a would the St. Claud and Minneapolis
lilroad charter be worth but for the
"bonus" of swamp lands given it by the
State What would the Northern Pa
cific itself be good for without the
"boons" of 47,000,000 acres ol Gov
ernment land, gifen it against the
oinvest protest of thousands of tax
payers who had an interest in vhese
lands, which area part of the common
revenue? What railroads would we
have in Minnesota but ft the lib-
icral land-grant "bonuses."
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The city of
St. Paul ha# given its bonds, to the
amount of hundreds ot thousands of
dollars,toaid in building railroads,
bridges, &c, and as a result it is themay
most prosperous city in the State. St.
Cloud gave $5,000 in, bonds to t"e Nor
mal Scbool-^in w4fc*it has aet. one
cent of pecutihr/: tttefrdet end over
which it his not tnxf^fghfcsi control.
Why was not this also "illegalT" But
who does not consider the investment a
profitable one The oity gave $8,000.
and private citizens gave $6,000 more,
to a Company to build a toll bridge
across the Mississippi. Wasn't this
"illegal," too but has not the bridge
been worth to the city many times the
amount ot the gift—without which the
bridge would not. have been built
While this may be all wrong in princi
ple! it is necessary and profitable in
policy end, from what we have shown,
Mr. Moore is not the man to stickle at
tbe sacrifice of principle to policy—
when thu inducements are sufficient.
Sir. Moore's article is BO lengthy
that we cannot refer to ail that he says,
nor is it necessary. Wo have shown,
from hia own record, his inexcusable
vacillation) and also how useless
was bin labored argument on tho
abreferred
stract legality of bonuses. (It will be
seen that the decisions he quot.'s are all
based on railroad bonuses.) But wo
will notice a fear points.
Mr. Mcoro lashes himself into a
state ol virtuous indignution, and
atessarily
tempts to create a oheap article of pub
lic sentiment, because his "opinion" was
returned by the Oounxl. Mayor Taylor
seems to have been seized with the
same idea at precisely the same time
(isn't it curious how these two individ
uals always dangle from the same pin
hook and pours hi3 lacerated feelings
into print over tho sacrifice of Right to
Mammon! This is as shallow as all
their subterfuges havo been. Mr.
Moore's "opinion" did not come
to the Council as the remonstrance oi
"citizens and tax-payers." It had been
requested by Riayor Taylor, for his own
personal benefit and information, and
was, by him, sent to the Council, as a
kind of apology for his veto of a boons
ho had recommended to be granted.
Mr. Moore saemed to prefer to operate
through the Mayor, a3 offering the most
hope of success. In view of these
facts, and of others less creditable, well
known to eitizens generally, the send
ing in of this opinion was an insult to
the Council, and that body properly so
resented it. Mr. Moore's flourish abont
"the citizen being warned from the
doors of the Council''1 is only a little
piecj ot grandiloquent flapdoodle.
The Council, in declining to accept
the opinion of Mr. Moore, probably
had in mind the fact that if they should
receive and file it, Mr. Moore's bill to a
nice little amount "for legal services"
doubtless follow at the next
meeting, endorsed by the Mayor.
An attempt is made by Mr. Moore
to show that the Special Act of 1869Mayor's
only contemplated a loan—not a bonus
but we submit that he utterlyTaih. The
act authorized the city to issue bonds
to the amount ot not more than $20,
000, "tn aid in the building of a hotel"
in this city, said bonds to be issued "in
with such conditions as
may be adopted by the Common Coun
cil of said city." Acting upon this
authority, the Couuoil, by resolution,
provided for a vote of the people upon
"a proposition for a bonus of $12,500
in bonds," and the people, by a vote of
273 to 53, expressed themselves in
favor of the bonus. A loan was notof
mentioned or thonght of. Mr. Taylor
was then a candidate for Mayor and
the bonus, and we presume Mr.
did likewise. He most certain
ly did not display his present energy
in opposing it.
Mr. Moore refers to the fact that in
1869 the offer of tho bonus did -riot se
cure the building of a hotel. True
but this was principally because of de
fects in the form of the offer—defeoty
remedied in the preieht instance. I
is not always that what is most needed
is easiest obtained. Even in St. Paul,
a bonus of $35,000 in cash was requir
ed to seoure the erection of tho "Met
ropolitan," nothwithstanding the great
apparent want for such a hotel.
On referring to our books, we find
that the "snug littlo sum1' for advertis
ing the former bonus was just $16.62}
cents. While this might be sufficient
to cause a complete change of opinion
with members of the legal fraternity, it
is not "snug" enough to very materially
affect a newspaper editor
As to the great speculation which Mr.
Moore charges was involved in this proj
ect Every citizon in the place was urg
ed to take stock—the more the better—
and tho choice of Directors lay wholly
with the stockholders. Many business
men preferred giving bonuses to taking
shares. One of the stockholders—and a
by-the-way—asked to betion
allowed, when it was expected that a
bonus of $16,000 would be obtained
from the city, to change his $1000 in
stock to a $500 gift, cash, but other
stockholders objected, as it was neces
to obtain as many subscriptions as
possible in order raise the required
amount of funds.
Mr. Moore's onslaught upon the
eight members o" the City Council
who voted for the bonus will excite on
ly ridicule here, where all the partioa I
are known. In denouncing them as
"bad men" because he was so charged,
he presents the dignified spectacle
of a man making mouths at somebody be
cause somebody else called him names.
For Mr. Moore's benefit, we republish
the analysis of the vote by which the
resolution was passed over tho Mayor's
veto and by which his opinion was re
turned
C. Brldgman, manufacturer and dealer in lumber
H. C. Burbank, government, and Hudson Bay Co.
transportation contractor.
L. Clark, of Davis Clark, dealers in floor, feed
and grain.
W. Powell,of C. F. W. Powell, hardware mer
chants.
C. Schnlton, druggist and apothecary.
J. O. Smith,Cashier of the Bank of St. Cloud.
T. Smith, merchant.
P. Smith, of Smith & Vole, contractors and builders
C. D. Kerr, of the law firm of nays A Korr,
KOB.
h. Robbers, proprietor of Montana Saloon.
It may be that Aid. Robbers is more
"honest" than his felbw members. If
so, we congratulate him. He can claim
to be one among ten thousand. But it
be possiolo^barely possible—that
the tact that a billiard room was to
be$5,000
fitted up in the new hotel had some
weight with the aldermanic opinion of
.the proprietor of the Montana Saloon..
As to Mr. 'Moore's hesitancy about
being "too rcspeetib?6" we have noth
ing to say. We have no quarrel with
a man's private morals. Individuals
who are seriously affected in this man
ner we always considered as more prop
erly falling within the province of the
olergy than tbe press.
Without regard to how much ethers
might feel disposed to comment on tho
Council's condensation of condolence
and business, we do not see bow Mr.
Moore can criticise, as his favorite Al
derman (the proprietor of the Montana
Saloon) voted for the resolutions he
quotes, and his coadjutor, the Mayor,
approved thi-m. His references to-the
deceased Alderman's "orphan" children
would be much more affecting if thero
wero any and we are in somewhat of a
••ii TJ-
^tKSSUaSRQ
quandry to tell low such children
would be orphans while the widow, also
to, was stijljiving. .But Mr.
Mooro probably has an "opinion" that
will be equal to this as to all other emer
gencies.
**»As thoir Actions and interests have
been so closely linked, Mr. Mcoro nec
appears as an apologist for
Mayor Taylor as well as for himself.
Ho neglected however to state some
little facts*concerning his friend's action
toward the bonus, which omissions wc
now cheerfully hasten to supply. The
first is the Mayor's letter of June 11th
to the Council:
I have called you to this special meeting,
at the request of the officers of an asso
ciation of our citizens, organized for
thehybrid
purpose of securing the building of a ho
tel in this city, to enable a committee of
said organization to lay. the matter before
your body, with a'Yiew of obtaining nia
teriwl aid from the city in tbe furtherance of
tho enterprise. The undertaking is
onepartment
that commends itself to the judgment of
our best citizens, and I recommend to you
MBBBAL ACTION in their behalf.
Respectfully submitted.
OSCAR TAYLOR, Mayor.
A more unqualified endorsement, or
direct recommendation for a bonus,
could not be asked from a city official,
especially when it is remembered that
the Mayor and everybody else knew
that the committee would ask for a gift
of $16,000.
Five days afterwards, Mayor Taylor
returned the resolution, with a letter in
the handwriting of Jfm. JS. Moore.
In this he merely points out objections
to the wording of the resolution, and
says:
"So much importance is attached to the
matter by our citizens, that I have deemed
it proper to call your attention thereto be
fore I take action upon the Resolution, as
1 am advised the parties in interest can
obviate the objections hereinbefore sug
gested, and the Resolution be then amend
ed by you as you may see fit."
This letter was either originally writ
ten by Mr. Moore, who signed the
name, or was copied by
him before being sent to the Council.
On this point there is evidence enough
to remove all doubt, and to prove that
Mayor Taylor and Mr. Moore were then
acting in collusion to prevent tho issue
of bonds., in any shape, for a hotel.
The "objections suggested" were
"obviafred" by the hotel committee,
and the amended resolution submitted
to the Mayor before being presented to
the Council. He pledged his signature.
On the 22d he returned this resolution,
which he had examined and approved,
without his signature, in direct violation
his verbal pledge. By this time
His Honor had discovered that there
was "no authority of law warranting the
issue of the bonds that the bonds, if
issued, «would be of no validity and
that "thej resolution recited as facts
what did not appear of record as true''
—such "facts" inoluding changes speci
ally designated by the Mayor in his
previous letter.
—We have merely given, as briefly
as|niay be, the facts in this case, all of
which are of public record. They, with
Others, may briefly be summed up as
follOWS:. ft-g. I
Wm. 3- Moore petitioned^ the Couu
oil to give the bonus offered the Hotel
Company his professional services and
said he would take stock, if able. Nine
days afterwards ho admitted that,
for a fee, ho had sacrificed
his principles to an opposing in
terest. It was, with him, merely a
matter of business.
Mayor Taylor urged tbe Council to
give the bonus pledged bis signature to
the amended resolution then vetoed
it. He can offer, and has attempted to
offer, no reason for this flagrant viola
tion of pledges and direlection of duty
which could do otherwise than add toage
the disgrace which already attaches to
his action. The Council, in deference
to the almost unanimous wishes of the
community, promptly passed the resolu
over bis veto, and declined the
presumptuous, unasked-for opinion ol
the Mayor's personal attorney The
wordy protests of these individuals are
but subterfuges to cover their own hu
miliation, and the letter of the Mayor,
in which be whines over his severe
treatment at the'bands of the Council,
betrays a lack of spirit truly pitiable.
They- both have everything to gain by
maintaining a discreet silence, trusting
to the charity of the community and
to the forgetfulness which they may
hope Will come with time.
AFFAIRS in Europe have been look
ing decidedly s~|ually during the put
week. Spain expressed a desire to
have for her kingPnnce Leopold of Ho
heoBollera. France immediately pre
pared for war, and notified Prusi* that
if Leopold was permitted to be king of*
Spain hostilities would be commenced
forthwith. Prussia replied that it had
nothing to do with Hohenzollern, and
should not' interiero in the matter.
Austria plead for peace. The other
great European powers began to take
sides France became more active in
collecting troops everybody wasexcited,
and the Bourse ditto when, by yester
day's dispatches, we are told that Leo
pold refuses to be king anyhow^ So,
that trouble Is probably over with.
SWITZLER, of Missouri, who failed
to obtain a seat in tho House of Repre
sentatives, for which ho was contesting,
was allowed by that body, on the 7th,should
for expenses. This iai nothing
less than part of a system of .public
robbery which has been carried on
much too long. Let contestants pay
their own expenses, and the' time7of
Congress will be less tiken up with
case* having no foundation, in right,
and the publio treasury will be many
thousands of dollars better off.
THE Wabasha Herald oalls upon the
"ins" of the Republican party to nom
inate Gen. AveriU for Cbugrees/ as. a
compromise candidate,':'and that the
^fouts,'? whoatein the majority, will
Wly and eleet him: It says:
"lie is a good man, a true man. Youas
'ins' piofessed to wish him well last 'fall,
and claim mat you wore dreadfully anx
ious to make him Governor, last fall. If
you were sincere ia your protestations
then, prove yourselves so, by assisting
him to the Congressional nomination."
ia. —fcer'
THE dogma of tho infallibility of the
Pope is to be officially declared on the
lTlbinst
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LETTER FROM MRS.
HELM.
J. 0.
NORMAL SCHOOLS.
EEITOR JOURNAL.—While attending
the examination of your Normal
School, I was highly gratified by find
ing that one at least of tho physical
scionces had been successfully studied
by tho primary department, and hope
this is but the infancy ot a system of
education which will leave ab
stractions for more advanced years, and
load children through the paths of
knowledge which present objects ap
pealing to their senses. I was still
more pleased to find they had no recita
tion in ."Mental Arithmetic," that
which professes to unite tho phys
ical and abstract, and gives us a result
of as much practical utility as a Chinese
puzzle. The performances of this de
left nothing to fear for them,
except that some of the brighter chil
dren would be victims of a prematurely
matured brain. Of these I should name
Paul West, Willie Aldcn, Warren
Hamiis, Frank Montgomery, Nellie
Moore, Louisa Owen, Jennie Powell
and Clara Tobey. There are others in
the class just as bright as these, who
have thicker necks iu proportion to
their heads, who may keep up four or
five studies without injury, but a deli
cate or precocious child should never
have more than two. Every scholar
in this department, with few excep.
tions, acquitted himself or herself well,
but I was especially pleased with the
manner in which Edwin Vincent,
Charles Metzroth, Sam Gilman, Frank
Wilson and Charles Hoyt spoke out.
Vincent especially is 'self-possessed as
well as modest in his manner, has a fine
physique, and ought to grow up a first
olass citizen. Of the girls, Mary Gall
inault perhaps deserves most credit as
haviBg overcomo most difficulties. But
if any one wantstoknow all who did
well in this department, they can read
the catalogue, and there is only one
boy and two girls on it who did not
have their lessons so well that their
teacher must have been proud of them.
I shall not give their names this time,
and hope that next year tbey too will
deserve praise.
When the Arithmetic olass of the
Intermediate Department came up, 1
thought, for a while, wc were to have a
general muddle of words in lieu of the
characters which properly express arith
metical ideas but the scholars got
leave to usa the blackboard enough to
convince most people present that they
really knew.something about the scionee
of numbers, even if they, like most
sensible students, tailed to transmute it
into words, words, words. I shall be
glad to see that "good time a coming"
when "Mental Arithmetic" will bo
universally known as the impudent
humbug it is. I never hear a verbal
recitation in mathematics without
thiuking of the poor slave who said to
his angry* master, "Now, Mars, if you
whippy, whippy—and if preachy,
preachy—but no whippy and preachy
too,".
If a teacher wants a pupil to show
what he knows about figures let him
use figures if what he knows about
words, let him use words, but from the
conglomeration of both which univer
sally places the, pupil in a most disad
vantageous light and mystifies or exas
perates' all listeners, may tho good Lord
deliver us! All tho classes did well,
and I agree with your reporter in award
ing much praise to both teachers and
pupils, and in.believing this school to
be fully up to the requirements of the
but I ask leave to suggest that
ton years will change'the present stand
ard of Normal Schools. We are
hewing out anew road to universal edu
cation, and the line lies through a dense
forest of difficulties. The work ot
building up one consolidated nation out
of the-heterogenous materials contribut
ed by so many different people, is one
whioh requires skill and patience.
Our education in years gone by has
been found to lack system and method.
In supplying this lack, there is immi
nent danger that we shall go to the
opposite extreme and get too much
system.
Tho method of teaching bears to
general education the relation of a scaf
foldtoa building. It is of no impor
tance except to facilitate the work, and
never should be mistaken for the work.
The, foundation of the whole structure
is the District School, and in my mind
there are grave doubts whether the
method taught in Normal Schools is
quite applicable to these institutions.
It may be In the case of children who
go year after year, and in all graded
schools, but the teacher who under
takes to apply it iu a school whore
there are scholars of all degrees of ad
vancement, must be an exception if he
does not expend most of his time in
getting np the scaffold. Moreover as
cash and every branch is absolutely in
exhaustible, in one lifetime, the idea of
thoroughness may easily be carried into
narrowness. In adapting our Common
Schools t) tho wants of common people,
of those who can or will only send
their ohildren to cchool four months of
as many years, the aim of tho State
be. to give as much practical
knowledge as possible in the time de
voted to study. To do this, metaphys
ics should be lefttothe colleges and
theological seminaries. For instance
in.Common Schools, English grammar
should be taught as tbe art ot speak
ing and writing the English language
with propriety, and for this purposo be
put into its simplest form. Metaphysi
cal disquisitions on the philosophy of
language are very interesting and suita
ble for advanced scholars, but a majori
ty"of the children of a State have no
timetoeater upon the study.
Every schollar should be taught as far
possibletopronounce words distinct
ly, buttodo this it is not necessary be
should analyze every word and give all
its elementary sounds. A German may
speak English just as intelligently as an
Englishman, and never master the
Shiboleths of the language and great
cara should bu taken that too much
time be not devoted to this exercise,
Then again, the habit of mutual
criticism is of questionable 'propriety.
It might bo well for persons who expect
to make their way in tho world by dint
of selfassortion, but is sid training for
embryo gentlemen and ladies. Tho
young man or woman who ctaxts out in
life thinking it meritorioustonote and
correct every verbal error of all and
sundry persons with whom he or she
may converse, would very soon bo voted
a nuisance, and left outside of all civil
ized society. Is it well in educating
teachers to induct them into a train
of thought and action whioh, it not
totally left behind when leaving the
schoolroom, must lead them at every
turn to violate the universally recog
nized rules of good breeding? Is it
well to learn what must be so complete
ly unlearned before the student is fit
for comfortable intercourse with his
fellow men
Moreover, let me question whether
the opinions of pupils, delivered as
truisms, on subjects about which the
most advanced thinkers have failed to
agree, are the most appropriate vehicles
for conveying their knowledg ol theIRON,
rules of Rhetoric. To my mind the
plan of examining the Rhetoric class
was a mistake, as it did not give the
pupils an opportunity of showing
whether they had boon studying that
art or reading essays ou Imagination,
Sublimity, Beauty, &c, &c. The class
did as well as possible while ignoring
the subject on hand.
In Geography, the text book appears
to be behind the age, and teachers had
failed, by verbal instruction, to correct
the long standing error which desig
nates the Great American Basin as a
desert. That mountain-fenced field is
now acknowledged to be not only the
mineral treasure house of our end of
the continent, but its garden and pas
ture land awaiting the cultivator to
groan under a wealth of vegetation sur
passing that of California herself.
JANE G, SWISSHELM.
THE President has signed the act
for the improvement of water communi
cation between the Mississippi river
and Lake Michigan by the Wisconsin
and Fox rivers. The friends of this
work can now throw up their bats and
shout, for they are, figuratively speak
ing, "out of the woods." It is believed
that this improvement will be of decid
ed benefit to the farmers of Minnesota,
in giving them cheap trnsportation
for their surplus grain.
THE latest news from Red River is
to the effect that the Legislative As
sembly of Awiniboia had accepted the
Manitoba act, proposed by Canada, and
would enter the Dominion on the terms
specified. It is believed that amnesty
to all concerned in the rebellion, includ
ing Riel, will bo granted by the British
government. This will be an amicable
settlement of the difficulties.
ONE of our country exchanges has a
"poick" who numbers his weekly effu
sions, so that he miy not forget when
he started, we presume. The last was
"Song XXVIII.," and told all about
tho sun, whioh "renosoent burns,"
about the "rosoid skies," etc. It isn't
often that poetry embodies so much
valuable information.
THERE are already nine applicants
for the appointment of State Superin
tendent ot Public Instruction. As Mr.
Dunnell, the present incumbent, will
probably npt resign until he leaves to
take his seat in Congress on the 4th of
next March, these gentlemen will have
quite a season of anxiety.
ONE of the two colored boys who
applied for admission to West Point,
James Wm. Smith, passed the neces
sary, and specially severe, examination.
Be has donned a cadet's uniform.
Forty-seven white boys failed.
HON. D. S. NORTON, U. S. Senator
from this State, is lying very low
iaPungent,
Washington. No hopes are entertained
ot his recovery.
MINNESOTA NlSWS.
—The population of Winona is 7,-reader.
000.
—The house of Miss Abby Munson,
.at Lake City, was burned on the 4th.
Insured for $1,500, its full value.
—The Senate has passed the bill
making a grant of lands for the improve
ment of the harbor uc Duluth.
—Daniel Caswell, of Le Boy, aoiden
tally shot himself on Sunday, the
charge passing near his heart.
—A little child was killed at Wino
na, on Saturday, by the falling of a pile
of lumber.
—The Red Wing Republican says a
boy named August Hanson had two
fingers taken off in Hill's planing mill.
—A man named Lewis Ohlson was
drowned in the Mississippi, near Min
neapolis, on Saturday last, while bath
ing.
—The town of Minnesota Lake has
voted $13,000 in bends to aid in con
structing the Minnesota Northwestern
R. R.
—Mr. H. Nutler, of Jo Daviess town,
in Martin oounty, says the Blue Eeith
Post, has discussed coal on his farm.
We hope he will make bis discovery
stick.
—The Winona Republican tells of a
Methodist preacher from Janesville,
Wis., E. W. Kirkham, who appeared
in the streets of that place in a derang
ed condition. He had $1,800 in cish
with him. Ho had been in the saloons
considerably daring the day, and inperformance
response to the inquiry why he drank
so much beer, replied that "it was a
new drink to him, and he rather liked
it." His friends have been notified of his
condition.
—Capt.'MeKenney, of the Chat
field Democrat, appears to be "living in
clover" these times. In last week's
issue he returned thanks to tbe proprie
tor of anew Baloon for "frequent fa
vors," and in this week's to another in
dividual for a "keg of splendid beer."
There is work in Chatficld for a Good
Templars Lodge, aud a missionary
would not needtospatter much, eith
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C. IT. & O W E I
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AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, &c, &c.
Also, a full stock of
PLOWS,
From the manufactory of Laraway, Perin & Co., Minneapolis, which we will war
rant in every particular.
We manufacture allkinds of
Tin, Copper, and Sheet-Iron Ware,
Which we will guarantee to sell at as low prices as any store in the State.
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We are now prepared to offer the Amer
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—The Rochester Post gives an ac
count of the capture of Charles Ketch
am, a hor.-c thief, by Constable Mc
Lard A farmer named A. R.
Austin and his brother-in-law, D.
Ehler, of Grand Meadow, Mower ooun
ty, got into a altercation, when Ehler
stabbed Austin, it is believed fatally
A child of J. V. Mathews was
bit by a rattlesnake, but whisky cured
it The preliminary survey of the
Lake Pepin and Ooaaha lilvray has
been commenced. Tbe City Council
of Rochester appropriated $200 towards
the surveys, and othor towns along the
route have done likewise. (Isn't this
an "illegal use of the people's money
and should not the Mayor veto the
resolution
-—The Blue Earth Port tells of a
brace of couples near that place who
were married not long since. In a
week or so afterwards they discovered
that they had failed to securj licenses,
and were only "half-marriei." One
couple immediately secured the noces
sary document, and went through the
again. But the other fe
male vowed that if sin was not already
married, she would not be was deaf
to all entreaties the minister "unmar
ried" them and the lite wife re
turned to her pjicnta.
—The body of a child, whose head
bad been crushed in a few houra after
its birth, was found in an old trunk in the
American House, at St. Paul, on Tues
day. The trunk had been brought
there on Saturday, by a worn in named
Carrie Anderson, for whom the police
are now looking. In the trunk werr
aeveral letters written at St. Paul by
Jamea Ewen, and directed to this wo
man at Carver.
it a
Tho Beat Store lm V*
PIONEEK HARDWARE STORE.
STEEL, NAILS, GLASS, &C.
We keep constantly on hand a good assortment of
A S I S TOOLS,
consisting of
BELLOWS, PETER WRIGHT'S ANVILS, VISES,
DRILLS, &c.
ZBTTSS-rUTT E O & O O S OTOVES,
Among which are the COSMOPOLITAN, HOME TREASURE, PROTECTOR, fto.
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THE GOOD TIME COMB.—The patent so
long held by Wheeler & Wilson for the four
motion feed sewing machine, has at last
expired, and an extension has been refus
ed. The day has gone by when a machine
costing but from $15 to $30 ean be sold
at from $60 to $125. We see that the
American Shuttle Sewing Machine Compa
ny, of Detroit, are first in the field with a
machine embodying all the best features of
the more costly article, and while their
machines are in every particular, as per
fect in their adaption to all classes of
work as the Wheeler & Wilson, Grever ft
Baker, and Singer, they are now disposing
of them at prices ranging from $25 to $40.
This is certainly an immense reduction,
and its* effects are already to be seen in the
large orders received, and the large ship
ments made daily by the American Shuttle
Sowing MachineCompany, 115 Bates street,
Detroit.
Mr. Jacob Clason is the General Agent
for Iowa and Minnesota. Send him stamp
for circular and sample work. He wants
live agents everywhere. Extra induce
ments offered. Address Jacob Clason,
West Unien, Iowa.
MORTGAOBSALE.—WHEREbyoGeorge
ASDEFAULT HAS
been made in the conditions a certain mort
gage executed and delivered Leopold
Kind. Mortgagor, to Michael O'Conntr, Mortgagee
dated Jane 16th, A. D. 1860, and recorded in the
office of the Register of Deed*forStearna county,
Minnesota, on the 12th day of July, A. D. 1S00, at
S o'clock M.,in Book "D," of Mortgagee an pages 209,
and 300, given to seccre the payment of a certain
promissory note executed and delivered by the said
Oeorge Leopold Kind, mortgagee, payable to the
order of said Michael OTJonner, mortgagor, bearing
e»en date with said mortgage, for the stun of One
HundredandFifty dollars with Interest, payable one
year from date, andon which noteand mortgage there
is claimed to be doe, and Is due, at the date hereof.
One Hundred and Sixty-one and 85-100 Dollars, and
no action or preceding having been instituted at law
or otherwise to recover the debt so secured by said
mortgage or any part thereof: 4*m
Therefore notice is hereby giventhat by virtue of the
powerofgalecontained in said mortgage,and pursuant
to ths statute in such cases made and provided, said
mortgage will be foreclosed bythesale of the mortgag
ed premises,towit: The south-half of the south-west
quarter, thenorth-west quarter.of the south-west quar
ter and the south-west quarter of tbe north-wast
quarter of section No. Jour, (4,) in township number
one hundred and twenty-five, (125,) range thirty
three. (33,) West, and situated in Stearns county
in the State of Minnesota, or so much thereof as
may be necessary, at public vendue, by the Sheriff
of said Stearns county, at tbe front door of the
Court House, In the city of Saint Cloud, in asdd
Stearns: county, upon the 27ta DAT OF AUGUST,
A. D, 1870, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the* day,
to satisfy the amount which shall then be due on said
note and mortgage, the costs af foreclosure and the
farther sum of Twenty-five dollars in said mortgage
covenanted and agreed to bepaid as an attorney fee
in case of the foreclosure thereof, in additiontoaU
sums and costs allowed in that behalf by law.
THOS. O. ALDEN,
Sheriff of Stearns Co., Minnesota.
MICHAEL CCONNF.R, Mortgagee.
L. W. Counts, Att'y.
Dated July 13th. A. D. 1170. Julyl4-7w
—The Owatonna Journal says a,
drove of some seven hundred sheep,
destined for Minnesota markets, pasted
through that place on Saturday last.
They came from near Quiccy, 111......
Lowthft Howe's agricultural imple
ment worka are being le-bnjlt.
NEW G-OODS
Farm ana freight Wagons.
lAjght S in "W"a.flfons
a JElugrfpicB.
Scott. Henn & Swenson,
Having bought the
St.r Cloud Wagon Factory,
Are prepared to maketo ordernd will
keep on hand a good assortment of
Wagons, Buggies, &c,
Theattention of
Farmers and Freighters
Wanting Wagons this spring is called to
onr atoek.
None but tM*
Very Beat material
Ia need in onr work.
^Especialattention paid to
XUe a
fttR SPRING AND SUMMER OF 1870
A MAMMOTH STOCK iY
G-oods,
Clothing,
Hats and Caps,
AJT I A S O N S
The attention of the
LADIES
Is invited to my Elegant Stock of
DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS, HOSIERY, GLOVES,
WHITE GOODS, PARASOLS, &c, &c.
Or E 1ST
N E E
Will find a Full Line of Choice
READY-MADE CLOTHING, CLOTHS, CASSIMERES
FURNISHING GOODS, HATS, CAPS,&c.,&c.
This Stock is the LARGEST in this part of the State, and bought at the LOWEST
PRICKS Goods hare yet reached.
All are invited to Call and Examine Goods.
A. RICHARDSON.
Broker'sBlock. Burbank's Old Stand, St. Cloud.Minn.
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MINNESOTA
MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
H. II. SIBI.EY,
THUS. COCHtt ART, Jr
J. MARC MARTIN,
O. A. MOW PORT,
President.
Vice-President.
Secretary.
Treasurer.
Med. Examiner.
STEWART M.
Issues all kinds of Policies.
Divides all Profits annu
ally among the
Insured.
Declares absolutely non
forfeited Dividends.
Has deposited
$100,000
With State Treasurer to
SECURE POLICY-HOLDERS.
INVESTSALL ITS FUNDS ITHOME.
USPS CAPITAL Iff THE STATE.
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HOME OFFICE, St. Paul.
LOCAL HOARD O TRUSTJEKS FO
SAINT CLOUD.
H. C. BURBANK, E. 0. HAMLIN,
W. B. MITCHELL, WILLIAM POWEBL
J. E. WEST,
Agent at St. Cloud.
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Velof*. Address, NATHANIEL HAY FAIB, Brook
j».N. Y. n21
GETTING MARRIED.'..,-
BSSATS FOR YOUNG MEN, on the delights of
Hon, end tbe propriety or impropriety of getting
Married, with sanitaryforthose who feel unfitted
matrimonial happiness. Sent free, in sealed en-
W 4 1HWARD ASSOCIATION, Box
P, Philadelphia, Pa.
Sligh Difference.
"To tux Orricxss or THS UMION Fsra: Tfaonndei
signed, your Special Committee on Sewing Machines
It was agreed, by the Agents repre
senting tbe two competing Machines, to render to
Committee, in writing, the peculiar POINTS on
which. they based their claim of superiority, anJ
in testing the machines, each point wsstobe tsfcen
•eparatelr, and after a fair trial, adjudged to tho!»»'
of onr ability. Bach Agent presented bis claims in
due form. For the Wilcox A Oibbs Machine, THIBTY
nVB distinct claims were made for its superiority,
ALL of which, on a thorough and impartial trial, were
sustained. For the competing DOUBLE-THREAD A a*
chine, but TEIC were presented, TWO of which w«r»
sustained.—{Sieueo.T .8. D. TircM»,I.. C. CHAM.
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