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VT. I E EDITOR.
Thursday, May 8, 1873,
arUKHAU AVSKIL ON HAL.
A BILL.
Gen. Johu T. Averill, Member at
Congress Irom this District, having
been quite*8f verely censured by the St
Paul Press for his vote on the iaoieaav
oi bnluv bill, tod specially wiled oo
bj th«t paper to give to the pubho the
tenons which influenced him ia sup
porting the measure, replies in a letter
to the Press which is most certainly
manly and straightforward aod able,aod
makes points which are not very easily
answered. He attempts neither to
evade nor to shift the responsibility
for bis aetioo. Bo says, point-blank,
that he "voted for the bill, simply be
cause he believed it to be right aud
just, and for no other reason whatever,
aod was governed by no influence of
any kind, ezoept the dictates of his
own conscience and judgment." 11 ode
nies having been compelled to vote for
it in order to secure the passage of the
railroad land.grant extension aot, whiob
was of such vital interest to the people
of his district. He supported it whol
ly on its merits, and says ''no one can
do him so gross an injury as to repre
sent him capable of shirking the re
sponsibility for his conduct behind a
dishonorable subterfuge."
He proceeds to correct a popular mis«
apprehension as to the actual inorease
of pay being 85,000 for the session, or
$2,500 per year. The franking privil
ege was abolished by the last Congress,
thus entailing npon members an addi
tional expense of from ¥500 to 91,000
per year eaoh, lor oorrespondenoe, and
for the distribution of the many tons
of documents, which is well
known to be a part of their duties.—
Again, the aot increasing the compen
sation, abolishes all allowance for mile
age and stationery. In the case of
members and senators from Minnesota
these items have amounted to
about SI,000 per year. Add postage,
say from 9500 to 81,000
per annum, and in reality, members ol
Congress liviog at remote distances
from the capital receive but little more,
and some of them not so muoh under
the new, as under tbe old law. The
members from Minnesota will not re
ceive actually more than abuut 81,000
per year, or $2,000 per session addition
al
It seems, he says, to be almost uni
versally ooooeded in view of the large
ly increased cost of living at Washing
ton, which has more than doubled in tor
last few years, that justice and eoutd
policy demanded that the salaries ot
the President, and tbe Heada of Dt
partme ts, the Judges of the Supreme
Court and the members oi Congress
should be increased.
Qeo. Averill then discusses the "back
pay" feature of the bill, as he has
gamries
as applied to the future Congrsss, and
that if the 42d Congress had voted
only to increase tbe salaries of the mem
bers o! tbe 43d Congress oo wrong
would have been charged. "Surely if
it was right for the 42d Congress to in
crease the pay of the members of the
43d it oould njt have been wrong for
any well founded reason, to increase
the pay of its own members." Oo this
be. makes a strong point "The very
gTOuod, or one of the grounds, upon
which tbe increase of salary is justified
at all, is that members had found by
experience that the old salary was in
sufficient tu pay the necessary expen
ses of living at Washington, and that
member* having their families with
them bad been compel ed to draw upon
their private incomes or borrow money
to pay their expenses incurred in the
discharge of their public duties. It is
certain that no one can apply these
reasons with any more force to the suo
ceiding Congress than to the one then
eitting and making the law. I for one
should have regarded it as a piece of
meanness to have voted for myself, as
member oi the 43d Congress, an in
orease ot pay whioh I was unwilling to
aocord to the 125 out-going mem
bers, who certainly wero nut less de
serving. Such an act would, in my
view, have been a piece ot self-stultifi
oatioo. It would have been asking
the members of the 42d Congress to de
clare, by a record upon the pubho stat
utes, that they were not the peers of
those ot the 43d, and that their services
were of less value."
He says that increase of salary,
whether by Congress or by State Legs
latnres, has invariably been retroactive,
and challenges any person to produce
a single instance to the cootiary in the
whole history ol the country.
He then disposes of another objec
tion thus "But I am told by the press
that when I was elected the compensa
tion of members had been fixed at 85,
000 per year, and that when I accepted
seat in Congress it was with 'the im
plied contract' that this was to be my
pay. Were the argument good for
anything, I might retort that the frank
ing privilege, abolished by the last
Congress, was also a part ot the con
tract, and that at least I was entitled to
have the loss made good. But tbe ar
gument is without force or merit, it
might as well be maintained that be
cause the salaries of the present Judges
of the Supreme Court of Minnesota
were $2,000 when they accepted office,
that fact constitutes an implied" contract,
binding on them for their whole seven
yean. In the same manner and to the
same extent that the member of Con
gress is bound by such an implied con
tract, all officerrof the government aro
bound to return an iocrease made in
their salaries by law, during their term
of office."
Ia ooocludtng, he reiterates bis state
ment that he recorded bis vote for this
measure without reservation or restraint
and adds: "With tbe pay of $5,000
per annum, less the allowance for mile
age and stationery, and with an addi-
•f
Th.
tional burden caused by the abolition
of the franking privilege, none but the
rich ean afford to go to Congress, un
less thoy go for some purpose other
than to perform an honest duty. The
direct tendenoy of such a policy is to
•brow the government into tbo hands
of rioh capitalists, and utterly torbid a
poor man from entering Congress,
though he be the peer of any rich man
iu the country in point of mental abil
ity aod worth."
Even those who may differ with Gen.
Averill as to the advisability of the pas
sage of this bill, must, en reading his
letter, give him oredit for having been
honeat in his eonviotlons as to the jus.
tioe of its provisions. And he is cer
tainly deserving of honor for the man
liness witb whioh he assumes all the re
sponsibility attaohing to his course. He
believed and still believes he was right,
and having given his reasons, leaves
the result to the sober, eandid consid
eration ot his constituents.
E POLITICAL POT, AND "WHAT
IT eOMAHJ
As the'warm weather approaches, the
political pot begins to simmer, and can
didates for the different State offices
pop one after another to the surface.
As to whether Gov- Austin will be a
oandidate for a reoouiioatioo ie un
certain, He himself has not Wholly de
cided as to what his purposes are in
that direction. Gov. Armstrong, of
Olmsted county, is a candidate and a
strong one. .The Hennepin county Re
publicans have buried the hatchet,
smoked the pipe of peace, and united
on Wm. D. Washburuo, of Minneapo
lis, as their candidate, and pulling to
gether will be able to exert no little in
fluence in the Convention. Gen. Edg
erton, the present Railroad Commission
er, and Capt. C. K. Davis, ot St. Paul,
have been mentioned.
For Lieutenant Governor, Capt.
Baito, of this county, is generally very
favorably spoken ot. J. Q. Farmer, of
Fillmore county, and Speaker Hall, of
Hennepin ooanty,have also beoa named.
Of course, the nomination of Lieuten
ant Governor will be made to hinge
very considerably on the nomination
for Governor, and there will be combi
nations innumerable.
The eandidates tor State Treasurer,
thus far, are 1 W. Dike, the present
incumbent Mons Grinager, of Free
uoro county, and 9. Irgtns, ef Austin.
The latter are both Scandinavians.
It seems to be generally eooseded
that Gen. Jennison will be renomina
ted for Secretary of State, and he ought
to be.
For Attorney General Hon. If. W.
Billson, of Dnluih Hon. Geo. P. W
son, of Winona, and Capt. C.
St. Paul, are iu th^
been named by fri-jnda
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From Kansas comes a fearful record
for May A St. Louis dispatch of the
5th inst. says
"Advices from Cloud county, Kansas,
mention another feartul storm by which a
number of lives were lost and ranch prop
erty destroyed. The roof of the house of
Mr. Snyder was blown off.and himself.wife,
and five children and a ^rm laborer were
buried in the snow and frown to death
A few miles from Snyder's house another
family, named Ulrioher, shared similar
fate, all having been froien to death.
Oo last Thursday poor Nebraska was
visited by a terrible tornado, involving
los* ot life and property. The
particulars are given elsewhere.
A Chicago paper says that in that
city on Saturday forenoon it was cold
enough to snow, but before noen clear
ed off warm and pleasant.
We shall be surprised at nothing we
hear from these outside States, except
that they have enjoyable spring weath
er. A surprise of this kind does not
seem at all probable for 1873.
A ACCIDIEHT.
On Sunday afternoon tbe iron bridge
at Dixon, 111., gave way while crowded
with people gathered to witness a bap
tismal service, and a hundred persons
were plunged into the river. Up to
the latest reports forty-two bodies had
been recovered, aod it was believed
twelve or thirteen were still the river.
Quite a number of persons were severe
ly injured
OUR readers will find on the first
page of this issue a vigorous article on
the Indian question from the pen of
Mrs. J. G. Swisshelm. She tells some
plaiaejrutha, and tells them in a forci
ble way. She (jives the secret of Indi
an civilization and reform in one word
—work. It the Indians do not choose
to work let them starve. Tbe govern
ment has no right to take the money
of industrious white people to support
these Sioux, and Snakes, and Piutes,
and Modoes in idleness and to provide
them with the means for butchering
these same white citizens.
A N now comes the St. Paul Pio
neer with a new dress and another col
umn added to each page. We don't
want any better paper than the Pioneer,
and we wouldn't know where to find
one if we did. We hope a constantly
increasing business may compel it to
enlarge again.
CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE died in New
York yesterday morning,of apoplexy.
He was 65 years of age.
Ex-Gov. JAMBS L. ORR, U. S. Min
ister to Russia, died in St. Peters
burg on Monday night.
BSv-^—
STOKES has beeu denied anew trial.
O NE dead euro thing—Old Betz.
CROP AND FRUI RKPORTS
—Wheat is so badly winter-killed in
some parts of Porter Co., Ind., that
farmers are plowing the ground for
some other orop.
—The Rensselaer, Ind., Union says
that pear and peach trees in that local
ity have been badly winter-killed in
many instances. Cherry buds do net
seem to have suffered and it is thought
that apples are sound.
—The Alado, 111., Record hears of
damage lone to fruit trees and vines in
that locality by the extreme cold weath
er of last winter. Peach troes have
suffered the most, and small fruit se
verely, especially grape vines.
—Many of the farmers in nekton
Co., Wis., say that the Into variable
weather has been severe on winter
wheat. Some fields are being plowed
up this spring.
—The Houston, Texas, Telegraph
says that the late frost killed most of
the cotton along the Brazos river, and
it will have to be "planted ever."
Not muoh damage was done to the
oorn.
—The St. Joseph, Mich., Herald
says that while grapes have suffered
very severely at Sandusky and other
plaoea so as to be almost a total failure,
at St, Joseph they are in fine order,
and present as fine a prospect for good
crop as was ever known at this season
of the year.
—The Jonesboro, Tenn Herald and
Tribune says that the prospect for a
good wheat orop is muoh better than
the farmers were expeoting to see at
this season. A considerable amount
was frozen out last winter, bnt the
warm days have started what was left
in the ground to growing.
—There is a growing despondency,
or seems to be, among farmers and eth
ers, says the Springfield, O., Republic,
as to the season's work, whioh need not
be from all reports. It is true tbe sea
son is very late and but little spring
work done yet, but the case is not des
perate. Five or six weeks remain yet
during which corn ground can be
prepared and planted, and much will
be, beyond a doubt. Oats will probably
be a short orop, bnt for fall planted
crops, wheat, rye, and barley, the pros
pect is most brilliant aad promising,
this weather being just the sort needed
aad calculated to do them good. A
least, advices received daily by our ma
chine men irom their agents and tbe
testimony of our own farmers, *i
without excepWoB, is totbr
The ^ruit clop is not
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j' safely be counted on.
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MORE OF J'HB BAHJB S
It does really seem as though, out
side of Minnesota, »priog was never to
oouie. In last week's isona we gave
statements, irom tbe months of their
own people, aa to the winter weather
that was prevailing in April in a haif
dozen or more States, East, West aod
South. May does not seem to have
bettered matters in tbe 1-ast Ou list
Saturday a dispatch from Maine told of
how they were getting along there
"Snow at Portland this morning."
A the award of Indian contracts in
New fork on last Friday, St. Paul
fared pretty well. Mr. P. H. Kelly is
to deliver at Milk Agency, Montana,
2,U0U,000 pounds flour, at W.70
aod at Yankton, D. T., 2,687,600 lbs.
of flour, at $3.17. Mr, A. H.
Wilder was given the contract for all
transportation on the Missouri river,
at special monthly rates per hundred
pounds.
LOUISIANA is still in a sea of troubles
On Sunday a posse of Metropolitans
took possession of St. Martinsville—
That night two of them were danger
ously wounded, one of whom has
since died. The citizens' forces, es
timated at from 300 to 400 men, have
two pieces of artillery and are preparing
tor action. Bloody times are anticipa
ted.
SUGGESTIONS having been made as
to the'advisability—and indeed necessi
ty—of employing blood-hounds against
the Modoes, as was done in the Sem
inole war, some tenderly-constituted
persons are sadly shocked by the "bar
barity" ef the idea Fudge I Us
blood-hounds, nitro-glycerine. thunder
and lightning, or anything else that
will rid the world of the red devils and
save the lives of soldiers and settlers.
ON Tuesday morning, a fare broke
out in a drug stere in Trenton, La.,
and, rapidly spreading in all directions,
destroyed the entire business part of
the rewn, excepting one store. Loss
$300,000 insaranoe $150,000, mostly
in New Orleans companies.
AFTER full and due deliberation the
examining committee have pronounced
Geo. Francis Train a sane being.—
Whereupon the District Attorney of
New York proposes to prosecute him
for being concerned in the publication
of Woodhull & Claflin's obsoene pa
per.
E St. Paul Journal says Senator
Ramsey has refused to take the Con
gressional back pay, but has turned it
over to the government, holding Treas
urer Spinner's receipt to show for it.
OAKES AMES was attacked by paral
ysis at his home in Boston en Mon
day evening, and at last accounts was
still unconscious. But slight hopes
are entertained of his recovery. is
sixty-nine years of age.
JAMES BROOKS, Member of Con
cress from New York City, died in
Washington on Wednesday of last
week. He bad been dangerously sick
for some time.
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so oad a con-
it as represented, v. nearly as we
can come at it. Having been but lit
little warm weather thus fur, buds have
been kept back so as te be safe, and we
hear of few or rlo trees in blossom. Our
agriculturists must keep a stiff upper
lip and put their best foot forward.
A COHRISPONDlNT-of the Minneap
olis Timet, writing from Sioux City,
Iowa, April 25th remarks: "I came
to thio city yesterday through a driv
ing snow storm. Before leaving Min
neapolis I wa« lead to expect that I
would find green grass and singing
birds on the banks ot the Big Muddy,
but inatead ef that I discover no farther
evidences of approaching warm weather
than I left behind in Minnesota. In
deed, vegetation is behind that of the
Minnesota valley, aod yesterday, on
my way hither, I passed through rail
way cuts filled with snow drifted high
er than the tops of tho cars."
Tttm MODOC*.
Wo Raw Denaomatratlaai Had* XI
tfeer Side.
SAN FRANOISOO, May 4.—There
have been no new demonstrations
against the Modoes, or of the Modoos
against the troops.
N YORK, May 4.—The Herald's
lava bed special of the 1st inst says
nothing will be done at present. The
omcers are awaiting the arrival of the
Fourth Infantry, 500 strong, {from
Little Book, who are expected about
the 17th inst. The correspondent at
tributes the great loss of lift im tho
fight of the 36th to tho desertion of
Company Q., Twelfth Infantry, and
some few of the artillery who, when
ordered by Capt. Thomas to fall back
and hold a bluff in the rear of the
troops to cover the retreat, continued
to fall back until they reaohed earn p.
The Modoes in the meantime scoured
the position they were to bold. It is
said only twenty-three Modoos were en
gaged, and that only two were killed
and two badly wounded.
Lieutenant Egan will probably leave
for San Francisco in a few days.
Batteries A and will work the
mortars, in tbe future.
Generals Davis and Hardie are on
the field also Gen. Sohofield'a artist,
sent to take views of the lava bed.
SALT A E May 4.—Application
has been made te the commander of
Camp Douglas for two companies of
troops to protect the settlers iu the
San Pete valley in sonthern Utah.
The Indians are menacing, and the set
tlers are greatly alarmed. General
Morrow, oemmander of the troops at
Camp Douglass, is seriously ill.
VNFOBTUITATK X1BBASKA.
A I 'WIND AHD
STORSS HA 1ST
Farmers think the storm will throw
them baok abont three weeks with their
work.
—From the National Publishing
Company, Chicago, we have ^received
specimen pages of a new book Boon to
be issued, "Behind the Scenes in
Washington." It will give grsphie
aooount of the Credit Mebiler in reliti
gation, the Congressional rings, politi
cal intrigues, workings of the lobbies,
etc. showing how the public money is
squandered, how votes are obtained,
etc with sketches of the leading Sen
ators, Congressmen, government offi
cials, etc., and an aoourate description
of the splendid public buildings of the
Federal capital.
—"AH for Love or, The Outlaw's
Bride," is the title of Miss Elian A
Dupuy's new novel to be published iu
a few days by T. Peterson Bros.,
Philadelphia, Pa. It is a graphic story
of the Corsioan life, in whioh the wild
passions of that tameless raoe aro viv
idly depieted. The magnificent cav
erns described in its) pages actually ex
ist in thatjisland, and they have been
used as places ot concealment by the
unfortunates banned by the blood ven
geance whieb ia the enrse of that gem
of the Mediterranean. The story itself
is deeply interesting from the first page
to tho hut. Miss Dupuy is one of the
most successful of Ameriean writers.
"All for Love," will be issued in a
large duodecimo volume, and sold by
all booksellers at the low price of 91.75
in cloth, or $1.50 in paper eovers, or
copies will be sent by mail, to any ad
dress, post paid, by the publishers, eft
receipt of the prioe of the work in a
letter to them.
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A DISPATCH from Fargo, D. T., says
track laying on the Northern Pacific
railroad was commenced oo Monday by
Munston and Shaw, on the Dakota di
vision. The station house at Fourth
Siding, D. was destroyed by fire
Monday afternoon. Cause accidental.
m*
HE public d«bt statement shows a
reduction during April of $2,247,485.
The amount of legal tenders outstand
ing is $1,148,963 in excess of the
$356,000,000, claimed by some to be
the legal limit.
R. J. E CHRISTIE has taken
charge of the Caledonia Journal, Mr.
C. has had considerable experienoe in
the business, and will make a live pa
per.
TiM£S are getting a little easier in
Chioago, although money there is still
in demand at 1J to 2 per cent, per
month. A still further easing up is
looked for.
A N excursion train was thrown off the
traok near Princeton, Ind., on the New
Albany and Chioago railroad, on Mon
day. About forty persons ware seri
ously injured, and some will die.
em
HAI
a a ad JCrop*
Jured.
In-
LINO'JLR, May L—One of the heav
iest "storms ot wind of the season oo
•".rred here yesterday, acoompaoied by
a cold rain.
The oattle stables of Mr. Mo
Call, a dairy men, were blown down np
on forty cows, killing two and iojuring
several. The Brooks House was moved
from its foundation, and but for prop
ping would have blown over. The*
livery stable of Wm. Hyatt was dam
aged, and tbe roof of tbe oapitol build
ing injured so that the Court had to
adjourn. Fences and loose material
were generally blown about.
PLATTSMOUTH, May 1. -There is a
severe storm ragiog all over Nebraska.
The wheat crop is damaged on account
of hail. The storm last evening was
most disastrous up Wanbio Valley and
throagh Sanders oouoty. Tho farmers
feel despondent on account of the late
ness of the season. No plowing has
been done for the planting of corn as
yet.
S O A W I
—Mr. Joseph Bates nod family, ot
Austin, leave in a few days for Califor
nia.
jj —Tho law firm of Hnddloston
Pringlo, of Hastings, have removed to
St. Paul.
—Rev. H. I. Parker, of Austin, has
gone to San Franoisoo and taken oharge
of a churoh there.
—•Largo numbers of immigrants
are ooming from Wisconsin to this
State.
—Mr. Lud wig Sober man, of Gotten
berg, Iowa, is about to start a German
paper in Maukato.
—James T. A very, of Morris, has
made an assignment to C. D. Strong, of
St. Paul.
—The widow of General Halleok,
who has been residing at Faribault,
for some timepast, has removed to Cal
ifornia.
—The Wright County Times says
winter wheat never looked better at
this time of year in Maple Lake than it
does now.
A young girl soarcs fourteen, in
Forest City, eloped last week with a
ohap named Joe Taylor. The sheriff is
on their traok.
—About 500 men went to work this
week on the extension of tbe Winona
& St. Peter road to Kaiopeska in Da
kota Territory.
—At Waseoa on Monday evening,
John Campbell wis struck on tho bead
by Patrick Burns, and seriously, if not
fatally, injured.
—Two thousand dollars in gold was
the nice little inheritance that came to
Mr. George Bainly, tho other day from
serosa the ocean.—Rochester Post,
A correspondent from the town of
Bridgewater informs tbe Faribault Re
publican that two-thirds of the winter
wheat in that seotion is winter killed.
—Maj. Gen. Canby, lately killed by
the Modoos, will be remembered by
many old settlers as a quiet, gentle
manly officer, who was stationed at
Fort Snelling during 1856-7.
—The Willmar Republican says that
two little sens of Andrew Eriekeon
went fishing en Grass Lake their boat
filled'with water aad swamped, and
both were drowned.
—The large saw mill ef the Pine
City Lumber Company, at Pino City,
was entirely consumed by fire at noon
oo Monday. The mill was valued at
$30,000 and is a total-loss.
A farmer named L. Gard, near
Glenooe, committed suicide on Friday
by outting his throat. Ho had been
despondent of late and had remarked
to several that he had lived long
enough.
A wind storm in Minneapo'is on
Thursday blew down the north wall of
Bond's new hotel. Two of tbo work
men were buried alive in the ruins,
and narrowly escaped death. They
were seriously injured.
—O. Melvin, who came from New
York a couple of months ago and es
tablished himself in St. Paul as a
contractor and builder, decamped last
week leaving his creditors out oi pock
et to a considerable amount.
—On Saturday afternoon, Mr.
Simpson, a wealthy lumber dealer in
Winooa, sprang from his bagey and
horsewhipped his wife most brutally in
the street. They have not lived to*
gather for some time.
—On Saturday, at Albert Lea, a foot
raoe of one hundred yards, between F.
W. Stone, of Albert Lea, and Herman
Gilbert, of Wadena, Iowa, for $1,000,
came off, and was won by Gilbert
time, I I seconds. About two thous
and dollars changed hands.
—On Saturday the town of Homer,
in Winona county, had another fatal
shooting affair—one brother, John
Baldwin, shooting his brother Philand
er. Vive shots were exehsnged. The
eause of the trouble was a criminal in
timacy between Philander and his
brother's wife.
—J. K. Kcpner, Esq., of Quincy,
made a oontraot to get 800,000 willow
cuttings for the St. Paul & Pacific rail,
road, this spring. Mr. Kepner has his
oontraot nearlj filled Geo. W.
Bunoe and Mark Holmes left Roches
ter, Tuesday, for the new town of Mar
shall, where they will engage in husi
oeas.—Rochester Record.
—Russell, of the Brainerd Tribune,
has some strange visitors. One of
them, Mr. W. II. Chamberlain, "laid
two eggs" on his editorial table the
other day. The St, Paul Pioneer wry
properly suggests that Russell o»vght to
be expelled from tbe Editorial Associa
tion for allowing suob carryings on in
his sanotum.
DELINQUENT A LIS-TS. We
still believe tbe plan proponed by tbe
editorial convention to divide the print
ing between all the printers* tbe best,
thereby giving the public advertising
tbe benefit of the largest possible circu
lation without increased cost, aod do
me away with all chance for difficulty
or hard feeling—an arrangement whioh
we have oo doubt would ho most wel
come to oounty auditors* Bnt we sup
pose those papers that are just now re
ceiving it all, will insist upon tbe dog
in the manger policy notil the Legis
lature, disgusted with the interminable
oounty quarrels, will wipe from the
^statutes all laws relating to the publica
\\tn of delinquent tax lists.—St. Peter
Tribune,
—By a private letter from Washing
ton oounty, Nebraska, dated the 15th
of April, we learn -hat on that day it
rained, hailed and mowed, and then
went to freezing. The writer said he
was afraid that the severe cold would
ruin his wheat which was just begin
ning to come op nicely. Those de
luded people who emigrate to Nebras
ka, under the impression that it is
sort of paradise, don't want to forget
their overcoats and mittens.— Willmar
Republican,
DOWN O THE PRICES
AT WEST
SIGN of TheFLAG
NEW SPRING GOODS
We have JUST RECEIVED 50 pieces New Prints, 20
pieces Bleached Cotton and a large assortment of Dry Goods.
Alo a car load of
aROCERIES
and now make extra low quotations for the remaining twelve
days of our FORCED SALES.
m*Y»We can't and don't want to boy goods without money, but can afford to, and
will sell cheaper than those that buy on credit.
J9» WesT SEE THESE PRICES: -«i -ei
"A" Sugar 81bs fo $100
New Dried Peaches 131bsfor 1 00
New Dried Apples 1 lbs for 1 0 0
Babbit's Saleratus lOcts.
Extract of Lemon 10 cts.
Canned Peaches :17icts!
Best Prints
Coats'Thread 4 spools for .........
Summer Goods
a.eareeeei
St. Cloud, Minn., April 3 th„ 18J3.
—-A Teasel whioh arrived at Queens*
tewn on Tuesday, reports in latitude
23° 37' north, longitude 41° west,
passing a large Ameriean ship on fire,
apparently abandoned. Name not as
certained.
—Argument was heard on Thursday
before the Secretary of the Interior in
behalf of the St. Paul & Paoifio rail
read and the Northern Pacific railroad.
The point in controversy was, whioh
company is entitled to a large tract of
land at tbe crossing of the two roadv.
—There is talk of fraud in tho In
dian supply contracts at New York.
O- S. Dawson, according to the Tri
bune, says he offered to furnish the
whole amount of beef wanted for the
Indian agencies at $462,357 less than
the contract priee made last evening,
aad that his bid was ostensibly rejeoted
on a technicality, bnt really because of
Indian ring influence.
—The New York Tribune has this:
From the report made to the Constitu
tional Commission it appears that the
*gK"K»t« of State, town, oounty, and
eity indebtedness in the State of New
York has reaohed the astonishing snm
of $235,000,000. The annual interest
of this aum, excluding entirely the
burdens of national debt and extrava
gance, most be fully equal to all oth
er legitimate expenses of town, oounty,
State, and oity government. It is
clear that with prices of grain, oattle.
and-farm products established by the
cost of growing them oo the more fer
tile lands ot the West, such taxation ss
now rests upon tbe farmers of this
State eannot be permanently endured
Yet there seems nowhere to be any
moTcmtnt tho diieotion of economy.
Uto
These prices are good until farther notice.
S E E I E A
W. MERCER'S
J'ESW'ErLIR/ir E S A iTSIEHIIMIIEIETT.
another lot of
ELGIN & WALTHAM WATCHES in 6,4, 3,2oz. Cases
Also IOO Patterns in I and 8 day Clocks.
A profusion of very pretty new styles in
in a S a «Se
ApDcy of lim Sewing & Knitting Made
AND MILWAUKEE FiKE & BURGLAR PROOF SOLS-
1.ATBS STKMFB ITEMS.
—Gen. Grant [pent Sunday in Chi
essjo.
—The Indianapolis Journal appeals
to Congress to make suitable provision
for the widow of Gen. Canby, that of
ficer having died poor,
S E E I S O I & O O
SAINT CLOUD
^OTJ3tfT)TVY: &MAOHI25TE S O
Manufacturers and dealers in
S O E S O W S A N A I N E
JnSTWarerooms and shops on Washington Avenue, north of the Central House.
-.'.
RUSSELL'S
Grocery Store!
Removed
to
Bell's Block.
.. 11 cts.
..25 cts.
At Cost.
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Reliance Works,
Mn.WATJKEE,.WIS.
Edward P. Allis & Co.*4
FOUNDRYMEN,
MACHINISTS.
Mill Builders,
AND
Manufacturers of Superior
STEAM ENGINES
French Burr Mill Stones.
Oast Iron, Water and G&ss
PIPE!
Everything in our line tirade -and
sold. Illustrated Catalogue of Machine ry,
120 pages, sent free on application.
aprltm
SBKDS, PUAWTS, TREKS.—PRSEPAID
BY SIAll..
'JBatsl»lialM4 I S
Blanks.
We keep constantly on band, printed
from new tj pe on the best paper, tbe fol
lowing blanks—
DEEDS.
Warranty,
Quit-claim,
Mortgage,
Chattel Mortgage.
DI8TRICT COUET
Summons,
Notices of Trial,
Notes of Issue,
Executions.
Powers of Attorney
JUSTICE COURT
Summons,
Subpoenas.
TOWN BLANKS.
Orders, with stubs—loose, or bound in
books of 60 and 100.
Order of Saperriaors laying out a new
road.
Release of Damages by Owners of Land.
Notice of laying oat of roads (for public
posting.
Affidavits to be attached to all Bill (for
town or county use.)
Bond of Town Treasurer.
Constable.
Justice of the Peace:
Notice of election to Town Office.
Oath of Office of Town Officers.
Notice to District Clerk of Election oi
Justice of the Peace.
Notice ot Election of Constable.
teW Orders from the country, for any
quautiiy, filled at low prices.
Jg£* Blanks of any kind printed to or
der on short notioe.
Address
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Dealers in all kinds of
SHELF AND HEAVY
HARDWARE,
Iron, Nails, Class,
BLACKSMITH TOOLS,
Agricultural Implements,
GENUINE
M0UNE PLOWS.
MINNEAPOLIS PLOWS.
My new priced descriptive Catalogue of
Choice Flower and Garden Seeds, 26 eorta
of either for $1 new and choice varieties
of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs,
Evergreeas, Roses, Grapes, Lilies, Small
Fruits, House and Border Plants and
Bulbs one year grafted Fruit Trees for
mailing Fruit Steeks of all kinds H«dge
Plants, &e. the most complete assortment
in the country, will be sent gratis to any
plain address, with P. O. box. Traw Cape
Co* Cranberry for upland or lowland. The undersigned will furnish first-class
JS per 1000 $1 per 100 prepaid by maiL music for Balls. Special attention given to
Trade list to dealers. Seeds o* Commis- supplying private parties, with from two to
sion. Ageata wanted. pieoee, aa may be desired.
TIN, COPPER & SHEET-IRON WARE.
Burbank & Powell's Block, St. Gefmain
street.
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St. Cloud Quadrille Band
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SU Cloud, Sept, 7th, 1871.
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Dealers in
HARDWARE. STOVES,
TINWARE,
Agricultural Implements,
NAILS, CLASS, &C.
Agents for the Celebrated
Furst & Bradley Plow.
Also, for
Jewett & Root's Stoves
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Fairbanks Standard Scales
TIX, COPPER & SHEET-IS0X WARE,
Of all kinds, manufaciured by the best
workmen in the State.
Corner St. Germain street and Richmond
avenue,
ST. CLOUD. MINN.
J. W. MEiZROTH
Has remove his
Clothing Store,
OPPOSITE THE CKNTBAL HOCSK.
I MEZROTH'S IS THE PLACE.
A large stock of th eflnest
CASSIMERES,
Gent's
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and all kinds
Furnishing Goods
always on hand.
METZROTH S IS THE PLACE I
GENTLEMEN1 S SUITS
made at
E I O I S
inthelatest
NEW YORK LONDON AND PARIS STYLE
FURNITURE
SPICER & CARLISLE.
Rooms on St. Germain 'st.,
opposite the Catholic church.
St. Cloud
12-T
Farm for Sale.
THE
undersigned offerp for sale a good
farm of 160 acres, on the north and of
Maibe Praire, about
FOURTEEN MILES FROM ST. CLOUD.
Sixty acres are timber, the balance prai
rie an. I meadow, and the whole enclosed
with a good fence thirty acres being under
caltiration- On the premises is a
GOOD COMFORTABLE HOUSE
with stables, granary and storehouse two
good wells, and other improvements. This
farm is directly on the main road from 8t.
Cloud to Forest City, and will be sold
cheap. Inquire at this office, or of
J. S. DAM,
On the premises.
IB YOU WANT SOME OF
BEST LANDS
fcTEARNS COUNTY,
CHEAP RATES,
Address
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Post Office Box 2234,
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