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'•'Ai-fi. $f\£lomI $onri(aL ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA W. B. MITCHELL, EDITOR. Thursday, August 26, 1875. REPUBLICAN TICKET. STATU TICKET. For Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, JAMES GILFILLAN. For Governor, J. S. PILLSBURY. For Lieutenant Governor, J. B. WAKEFIELD. For Secretary of State, JOHN S, IRGENS. For State Treasurer, WM. PF^ENDER. For State Auditor, O. P. WHITCOMB. For Attorney- General, GEO. P. WILSON. For Clerk of the Supreme Court, S. H. NICHOLS. For Railroad Commissioner, W. R. MARSHALL. STKARKS COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, MATHIAS GANS. For Register of Deeds, JOHN ZAPP. For Sheriff, J. H. DENNIS. For County Attorney, L. W. COLLINS. For Judge of Probate, D.B.8EARLE. For County Surveyor, M. P. NOEL. For Coroner, H. P. BENNETT. mf WHEAT in Milwaukee yesterday $1.28* for No. 1 in New York, S1.44@1.47. THE Red Wing Republican defines it thus: "Ineligible: not able to be elected." KING ALFONSO, of Spain, is to be married to the oldest daughter of the Duke De Montpenaier, Shake, Al.! REPORTS from different counties in the State give the wheat yield at from 20 to 38 bushels per acre, and thefree quality is No. 1. s» s» a» THE grand Greenback Convention at Detroit yesterday was a failure. Seats had been provided for ten thous and people, and only six hundred were occupied. THE Department of Agriculture reports the highest average condition of spring wheat to be in Minnesota and Wisconsin—93 per cent.—and the lowest in Nebraska—60 per cent. AFTER Moody and Sankey have got through with Brooklyn, Wash ington and Chicago, mightn't they be persuaded to see what they could do with St. Paul and Minneapolis? But perhaps they think ljfe is too short THE St Cloud Press complains that it is THE JOURNAL which made it necessary for Mr. Oilman to be de clared ineligible or else to suffer a de feat at the polls. Not altogether cor rect THE JOURNAL has merely thrown a little light, at various times, on Mr. G/s official record—and if Mr. G.'s offici al record will not stand the light we are not to blame. A a meeting of the Republican State Central Committee, held at St. Paul yesterday, the resignation of C. A. Gilman, as candidate for Railroad Commissioner, was accepted, and ex Governor W. R. Marshall was nomi nated in his stead. The nomination is an acceptable one. Gov. having been, a member of the late Board of Railroad Commissioners and under standing the duties of the position. ., GEN. M. D. FLOWER, Adjutant General of Minnesota and State Claim Agent has sent in his resignation to Governor Davis, to take effect No vember 1st, and the resignation has been accepted. He intends devoting hu entire time hereafter to his steam boating business. Gen. Flower has been an honest faithful and courteous officer, and his many friends through out the State will wish him success in bis business undertakings. W E regret to see by the lastnumber of the Duluth Herald that Mr. M. C. .Russell has severed his connection with that paper. Mr. R. started out to give the people of Duluth a paper the same size as THE JOURNAL, and although using the "patent insides" found the expense to be too great, and he now abandons the enterprise as "a total failure." The promises of rapport and partronage given him when he went there have been illy re deemed, and at the end of less than three months Mr. Russell finds him self minus several hundred dollars: We are sorry for this for there is not an editor in the State whose vim, experience and perseverance better entitle him to success. He has not yet decided where his new field of la bor will be. The Herald, reduced in size, will be continued by Capt T. H. Pressnell. NEXT to the St Cloud Press the S Paul Pioneer-Press feels saddest over the sudden and melancholy "taking off" of Mr. Chas. A. Gil man. The next day after the ndmi nations were made, it raised a tri umphant shout, claiming that "the Convention seemed to make it its business to single out for its honor the men who had been conspicuous friends of Ramsey." Although at the tail of the ticket, Gilman was the biggest Ramseyite in the puddle, and bis lopping off in the present summa ry manner, at the imperative demand of an indignant people, lets the edit ors of the Pioneer-Pressdown with a suddenness that is exceedingly disa greeable to them. They feel almost as bad as when Ramsey was found to "ineligible" to a third term- .1KFFKKSON DAVIS. The ex-President of the ex-Con* federacy has written to the sensation al Secretary of the Winnebago Coun ty, 111., Agricultural Society, from whom he had received andacceptedan invitation to deliver an address at the annual meeting of the Association in September, a very sensible and cour teous letter, giving the reason which had impelled him to telegraph his revocation of his previous acceptance. This reason was a sufficient one—that he was not wanted. The objects which had induced him, he says, to accept the invitation had been that person al intercourse might remove prejudi ces that he might confer with the Patrons of Husbandry concerning the obtaining of better means of transpor tation for the products of the soil via the Mississippi river and that he might see in its cultivated dress a country known to him as a trackless wilderness. The Association was thus quietly relieved by Mr. Davis himself from the unpleasant dilemma into which it had been drawn by its Secretary. Among the other gushings contained in the letters of this official is the fol lowing "We sincerely wish to show the country and the world our pur pose and determination to reinstate talent and statesmanship wherever re cognized, and smother forever preju dice and animosity that are now ever and anon rekindled for political ends." He also assured Mr. Davis that the compensation for his address, $500, was $400 greater than that paid Senator Carpenter, Senator Schurz, Gov. Beveridge and other distinguish ed men of the North. Some of the Southern papers be come very wrothy over the matter and denounce in bitter terms the peo ple of Winnebago county who did not care to hear Mr. Davis. One of them, however, makes the sensible observation that "he would preserve his reputation better by avoiding pub lic notoriety altogether." This is very true. Jefferson Davis has been exceedingly leniently dealt with by the people of a country he has done so much to wrong and injure. He is to come and go where he pleases, and, if there are those who want to hear him, to speak where he pleases —North or South—but his appear ance in public can do no possible good. It is no argument against desire on the part of the people of the North for reconciliation and good feeling with the people of the South that they do not want, in the most prominent position at their public gatherings, the man who is responsi ble largely for the Rebellion and al most wholly for the atrocious cruelty which was connected with it. They are willing to forgive and forget much, but when Mr. Davis is put forward as a teacher the limit is reached. It is not that he was a rebel—and he is yet an unrepentant rebel—but that he made war brutal that he did every thing to increase and .nothing to les sen the misery and suffering of the men who fell into his power that he was vindictive and merciless. It will be better for all concerned that he pass the remainder of his days in quiet and unobtrusiveness, thankful for the privilege of doing so. Later revelations make it appear that this is not to be. A number of other agricultural societies had sent invitations to Mr. Davis after he had agreed to go to Winnebasjo county and before the protest from the peo ple there caused him to withdraw that acceptance) which invitations are nowpublished in the Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal. The folly which originated with Mr. Secretary Kimball seems to have become a mania. It is proba ble that one or more of these invita tions will be accepted. THE S Paul Pioneer-Press thinks it strange that THE JOURNAL should feel any gratification over the with drawal of C. A. Gilman. There is nothing strange about it If this pa per entertained any feeling of malice toward Mr. G. it would much prefer to see him remain a candidate and be most terribly beaten, as he certainly would be. But, Charley is pot the worst fellow living, by any manner of means. He has many good quali ties, but he has been keeping very bad company for some years past and has got into bad ways. THE JOURNAL has strong hope of his ultimate ref ormation, and will at all times be ready to do anything in its power to bring about so desirable a result Indeed, it would go much farther than that—it would be even willing to undertake a little evangelistic work with the editors of the Pioneer-Press. THE Red Wing Republican starts out on its nineteenth year one of the oldest, best and most influential papers in the State. It defines Its position thus Party organizations being necessary to accomplish political ends, the Republican stands by the Republican organization. But bad, corrupt or disreputable men area burden whichfidelityto party purity and healthfulnens requires us to unload and re fuse to carry. SUIT has been brought by the United States, against Jonathan E. Fletcher, a former Indian Agent, and his bondsmen, J. C. Burbank, Geo. Culver, John FarringtonandG. W. Farrington, for $7,101.48, wTtlt six percent interest from Qctobfr 1, 1857, and costs. Fletcher is dead and gone, but his bondsmen are alive and responsible. THE banquet tendered tho officers of the American squadron in that harbor by the corporation of South ampton, was given Tuesday, night. Thirty American officers were pres ent Speeches wars made all around. Their folks were glad to see our* folks and our folks were clad to be seen.: .•,„-,-.,_, ..^^JU •,,,.—. THE Governor has appointed Capt. H. A. Castle, of S Paul, Adjutant. General to fill the unexpired term of Gen'. Flower resigned A good Be* lection. EFFECTS OF HARD TIMESIN THE EAST Says the New York Tribune of Auguatl9th: "Since May 1 an un usually large number of foreclosure suits have been instituted against per sons failing to pay interest on their real estate mortgages in this city and Brooklyn. The number of defaulters is especially large in Brooklyn, and* it is feared by real estate brokers, the number will be still larger in this city Nov. 1, when the. next semi-an nual interest is due. A gentleman against whom a foreclosure suit had been instituted, said to pur reporter: "Let them have the property. I do not want to throw any more good money after bad money. What is the use of continuing to pay' interest on property which we cannot sell for nearly half. its cost There are others like myself, and while there is no chance of selling anything,, it will be impossible for a great many of us to continue topay the interest. When ever the real estate market revives we will be able again to take care of Our mortgages." The class of proper ty thus brought under the hammer by foreclosure is among the best in the city." fi m£ «,. .: DONALDSON. A bottle was found washed ashore at Port Hope Mich., Tuesday morn ing containing the following: ~v "Over Lake Michigan, at 8 p. m. of the evening of starting I About thirty miles from Chicago. .About 3,000 feet high. [A gale coming from the northeast. The. bal loon is getting out of order—the gas escap ing fast. Can't remain up much longer. Will surely land in the lake. Fearful storm! [Signed] DONALDSON* The writing is well preserved. THE Central House, one of the old est buildings in S Paul, was partial' ly destroyed by fire Saturday night On Monday, the 3d of September, 1849, the first Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota convened in the "Central House," the building answering the double purpose of cap itol and hotel.' Oh the first floor of the main building Was the office of the secretary of the territory and rep resentative chamber, and in the sec ond story was the library and coun cil chamber. As the flag was runare,served up the staff in front of the house, a number of Indians sat on a rocky bluff, near the river, and gazed with interest upon the scene. im tii. THE Forest Register, a Democratic sheet in Mississippi, keeps,at the head of its columns, the following "A white man in a white man's place. A black man in a black man's place. Each accordingtothe 'eternalfitnessof things.'" If, in the disposition of affairs in the South, there had been anything like a proper observance of the "eter nal fitness of things," the place at which a good many white men would have found themselves would have been at the end of a piece of Govern ment rope, and the editor of the Reg ister would scarcely have been among the neglected ones. .., ..?: THE American rifle team arrived home Saturday from its victorious tour abroad, and had' an enthusiastic reception, which was supplement ed by one of a more formal character Monday. As the nation shares in the glory of the successes, won by the team, it is proposed that the people of the wholej country unite, through voluntary subscriptions, in the pur chase of a suitable testimonial to be presented these champion pluggers of the bull's eye. THE otherday theRev. Mr. Mantha, of Minneapolis, while cleaning out a desk, laid an envelope .con taining $50 on a table his little two-years' old son, by way of assisting his father in the cleaning up opera tion, threw the envelope into thewaste basket and the Rev. Mr. M., bringing his labors to a close, emptied the con tents of the basket into the stove. Preachers never swear, of course, but when this divine learned what he had done he thought in dashes for awhile. WHEN the Republican party went out of power in' Texas some three years ago, it turned over to Democ racy 2,067 public schools,, with 5,626 teachers and 127,572 pupils. What has been the result? To-day, there are but 562 public schools in the State, with a corresponding reduc tion in the number of teachers and pupils. Yet the Democratic party pretends to believe in popular educa tion. R.B. LANGDON, of Minneapolis, has brought suit for $9,425.29 against John W. Pence, of the same place, based on some Nevada mining opera tions into .which Langdon claims to have: been inveigled by Pence by false representations. An attachment has been levied on the Pence Opera House and Center Block in Minne apolis. A.NEW party, the National Union, was born at Boston Saturday. Gen. N. P. Banks is the President it wants and L. G. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, for Vice-President Gen. B. sent a let ter saying he was not a candidate for President didn't want to stand in the way of reform Ac., Ac. THE United States Minister at Stockholm, which the same it is C. C. Andrews, states that 30,000 pupils study horticulture or forest culture in the common schools of Sweden. "P. B. WALKER is a liar, and he knows it," is what the editor of the Rush City Post remarks concerning the editor of the Taylors' Falls Jowr "nal. This style of comment appears to be getting epidemic. M»S. LINCOLN has so far recovered that she will soon leave Bellevue Hos pital, where she has been under treat ment for some, time. .Whether the cure is permanent and she Js again wholly of sound mind remains to be seen. ~r-~ LITERARY NOTICES. —The Galaxy for September is one of the freshest and strongest numbers we have ever seen of this spirited magazine. Mr. Albert Rhodes, who is never dull, presents a very readable paper upon French plays and play wrights. Under the title of "A Pe-threshing culiar Princess," Mr. Junius Henri Browne presents a sketch of that beauti fill, brilliant, naughty bundle of contradictions, Madame Ratazzi, a granddaughter of Lucien Bonaparte, whose salons in Paris are still so pop lar." Mr. Tennyson's new drama is ably reviewed by the graceful pen of Henry James, Jr. Mr. John Codman contributes a sketch of the Mormons, and the mines, natural, scenery, and resources of Utah, an extract from which is given on our first page. Mr. Richard Grant White offers his opin ion upon the subject of spelling, and the spelling of the future, which of course is original and emphatic as usual. General Sherman's Memoirs are reviewed by an unknown author. There are stories, poetryand the usual departments. —Seribner opens with an article on "Chicago," embellished with over thirty engravings. Col. Waring's "Vacation" series concludes with a jaunt to Guernsey and Sark. Other illustrated articles are: "The Cross of Cadmon," more of "The Mysterious Island and two chapters of Dr. Holland's "Story of Sevenoaks." Mr. Stedman's critical papers are continu ed with a study of "Minor Victorian Poets." The article in the number which will doubtless attract the most attention is "A study of Shakespeare's Portraits," by William Page, the ar tist There are various other prose contributions of merit and the verse is good. —On one of the first pages of St. Nicholas for September is Rachel Ppmeroy's cheery little poem of "Three Times One," and there axe other dainty compositions, in rhyme. Of descriptive. articles,. the' number bins a full installment, bringing to together for us in one article a collec tion of birds whose plumage is entire ly white giving us in another an ac count of "Some Queer Dishes,"which in Oriental countries and in still a third, as a companion sketch, a description and picture of a pecul iar Mesopotamian boat which will open the children's eyes in wonder. There is also a full budget of stories, the serials gaining in interest and ex citement as they approach their con clusions. —The Atlantic Monthly for Septem ber opens with an article full of In formation as to the "Practice and Patronage of French Art." This is followed by a powerful chapter of Mr. James's "Roderick Hudson," and then comes the second of Mrs. Kem ble's budgets of curious and delight ful reminiscence, "Old Woman's Gos sip:" Perhaps the article which will excite most attention is Colonel War njjgfs careful study of "Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns"— the first of a series on this important topic but Joseph Wharton's elabor ate paper on "National Self-Protec tion" also appeals to a large number of readers. Mr. Horace E. Scudder writes very freshly and wisely of Noah Webster, and Miss Jewett con tributes a humorous sketch.of "Deep raven Cronies." Oliver Wendell Holmes gives to J. F. Clarke's "Ex otics" the tribute of a bright and characteristic review. —With marvelous rapidity the publishers of the Aldine recovered from the effects of the disastrous fire of last June, and the August number of this beautiful art journal appears only ten days behind time and quite up in merit to any of its predecessors The opening engraving of the number, "A Mother of Egypt," has the .full power of steel. "Maximilian's Tower, Suabia," "The Nunnery of Ottilia* berg, Alsace," and "The Dole of St. Peter,, Bohemian Wald," are in con tinaation of the series of "Picturesque Europe." "Pictures in the Fire" and "The Music Lesson" are both full page, the- first with a marked re semblance of Pauline Lucca, and the second with more than a suspicion of Nilsson and two other stars in the musical firmament The other illus trations are "Early Sorrow "Wasn ington Taking Command" at Cam bridge "Patience" and "The Unbid den Guest" The letter press includes a number of prose articles of interest, and descriptive and other verse. ii I i£3! GOVER NOR DAVIS has appointed J. C. Wise, of Mankato, Warren Smith, of Graham Lake, and Chas. C. Whitman, of S Paul, a committee to investigate and report to that office their connclusions with regard to certain matters pertaining to the grasshoppers and their ravages in this State—a history of their incur sions into Minnesota-at various times their origin the time of their arri val and departure the time when they deposit their eggs, the manner of deposit and the time of hatching the character of land where eggs are de posited the best- practical means for their destruction what if any grains or vegetables are exempt from their ravages] acreage ravaged by them in 1875, and the money amount of dam age done to what extent and ^specif ically) where they have deposited their eggs this year and such other useful information si may be brought to their knowledge. The commission will expire October 1st, 1875 I AT the Utica races Saturday Lulu lost the laurels she had so unexpect edly won at Saratoga. Goldsmith Maid, took three straight heats— 2:18f, 247^r2:ioV Lulu came in third each time, American Girl being second. .., ....-, TttE net earnings of the Chicago Northwestern railway for the year ending May 31 were $1,365,167.53. '-.'.a^-w'r^r^^ nn **.'**•. THE GRAND TOTAL. The harvest in this State may now be deemed completed, so far as con cerns the cutting and securing of small grain in shock, while no incon siderable progress has been made in many localities in stacking and from the field. If the pres ent favorable weather shall continue ten days longer, the most beautiful crops with which Minnesota has ever been blessed will have been safely gathered. The result of the threshing thus far, instead of disappointing the sanguine hopes based upon the luxuri ant straw, which so often occurs, justi fies the highest estimate made of the average yield. We should not be greatly surprised if the entire wheat crop of 1865 shall show an average of 19, oreven 20, bushelsper acre—while the reported yields of barley and oats seem so extravagant that we. should hesitate to credit them if it. were not for .their uniform and concurrent character. The conjunction of heavy crops, good prices, fair weather and cheap and abundant harvest help, places the farmers of Minnesota onthe high road to prosperity. In all these respects, except the last, the season of 1875 thus far resembles that of 1865. The year last named gave us a warm May and September, while the three inter vening summer months were cool, like those of the present year, which fol lowed a heated term in May. If a warm September, free from early frost, shall complete the resemblance, a bountiful corn crop will crown the year's abundance. Assuming such good fortune, and adhering to our conservative estimate of about 18 bushels as the wheat average, we present the following estimate of the,Mr. amount and value of the agricultural products of Minnesota for 1875 Wheat Oats Corn Barley Rye Potatoes P»y Bushels-' 83,000,000 at 90 eta. 16,400,000 at 40 cts. 8,MO 0Q0 at SO cts. 900,000 at 75 cts. 78£00.at 50 cts. 3,000,000 at 60 cts. 950,000 tons at S6 29,700,000 6,560,000 4,470,000 675,000 1,800,000 6,700,000 Miscellaneous products andprofit on dairy products, wool, Ac Total Talue What the effect upon the of Minnesota will be of this to her circulating medium 1,200,000 $50,143,250 business addition of this amount of money,-or even two-thirds of it, it requires no prophet to predict. —St. Paul Pioneer^Prm. MARXIST PROSPECTS ABROAD. The London Times, of Saturday, in its commercial column, says: "The grain market is inactive, but previ ous prices are obtained for wheat. It seems to be the opinion that the pri ces of wheat will be maintained this season. This has sustained the mar ket in spite of the heavy arrivals of foreign wheat The British wheat so far brought to market has not been of good quality. There is not much that is new to report about the condi tion of the trade abroad. The yield will be fully three per cent,below former yields, but.with old stocks to draw[j on, there ..can be '. nothing ap proaching a scarcity, and a moderate advance in.last season's prices is like ly to secure us an abundance." The Mark Lane Express of Satur day, in its weekly review of the grain markets, says: "The wheat crop in Great Britain has been gathered in much better order than was expected. Prices generally yielded 1 and 2 shillings—in some cases 2 and 3 shillings. The new samples look well in comparison with those of last year, with a less average and diminished yield. The Paris market also.felt the beneficial effects of the weather, the price of flours having declined two shillings per sack. In many parts of France the harvests have been gath ered, but in no section will they be in anywiselike lastyear's. Accounts from the continent differ somewhat, but all agree to the fact that violent local storms, with, unusually large hail stones, doing immense damage, have .visited France, Belgium and Holland. Prices are but little changed in the continent, and generally in the Ger many markets are firm. Official reports show that the wheat crops in Austria and Hungary have fallen off in quantity and quality, and will not yield more than 5,500, 000 quintals^ ....,'•' F, W. BIRD, of Massachusetts, well known as a shrewd and practical ob server of current events and a vigor ous writer, says in a letter to the New York Tribune: "Forty-odd years of business experience have taught me that there is no safe basis for curren cy but coin, no stability for business but in a currency redeemable in coin that the present system is disgraceful to the Government, dishonoring to the country,- and an indescribable curse to the business community, and especially to the laboring classes." —i LATEST and most reliable figures from the North Carolina election' show that the Republicans carried the State by a majority of over 15, 000 on the popular vote, giving a Republican gain of about 30,000 over the vote of last year. THE decrease in immigration for the year ending June 30, 1875, isnose stated by the National Statistical Bureau at 86,000. ,' —Minnesota in every report of her harvest which has appeared, has been ranked A No. 1. She is one of the greatest of the wheat growing States, but this year she presents virtually the single exception of raising a crop decidedly above the average. In Kansas and Missouri the 'hoppers have destroyed enough grain to bring their crops, as a whole, below the av erage Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana have had the flood California's yield will be considerably below'an aver age.—Milwaukee Wisconsin. —H. F. Demming, of Nevada, MoWer county, was thrown'l from his seat on a reaper Saturday and had bis head and one band badly cut MINNESOTA NEWS. LATE NEWS ITVMS •—Minneapolis hat been investing in street cars. —In Meeker county there are 19,791 acres of lakes to 381,587 of land. —A saw in Thompson's mill at Hastings relieved John Keyesof three fingers of one hand. —An iron bridge is to be built across the Zumbro, at New Haven, Olmsted county. —Messrs. Bonner, Wheeler and Tallon, of Winona, have bought the elevator at Waseca. —The corner-stone of the new Swede college at S Peter was laid Thursday of last week. —Three-card monte men are reap ing a rich harvest at and in the vi cinity of Minneapolis. —Flax has been-raised quite large ly in Washington county. The yield from 800 acres is 10,000 bushels. —Gen. Mead figures up the total cost to N. P. Company, by the Brain erd bridge disaster, to be $57,000. —Houston county claims a centen arian. His name is Walker, he is 108 years old, and resides at Cale donia. He is a Scotchman by birth. —John Mockerhern, living near Delano, Wright county, had his left leg almost entirely cut off and theand flesh of the right leg cut to the bone by a reaper. —Charles Clifton, the Minneapolis forger who escaped from States prison last August, has been recaptured at Springfield, 111., and brought back to Stillwater. —Letters have been received from C. G. Griswold, who is now in •California, stating that he will soon return to St. Paul to resume bis resi dence in that cityv & —Knudt O. Solberg, a Norwegian farmer of Kenyon, Rice county, fell in front of a reaper, was run over and mangled so fearfully that he lived but a few hours. —The body of Michael O'Connor, of Hyde Park, Wabasha county, was found dead on the morning of the 22d. Foul play was suspected and an inquest was to be held. -^-On Sunday afternoon during the absence of Mr. Nathan. Bennett and wife, ofTivoli, Blue Earth county, the house caught fire and was entire ly consumed with all the contents. —Burglars broke into the shanty of Bridget NcKenney, a poor woman at Hastings, and took $98 which she had drawn from the bank the day be fore—the slowly-accumulated earn ings of many months. —The Duluth Tribune learns that it is among the probabilities that the newproprietors of the Northern Pacific railroad will call on Jay Cook to take charge of the financial management of their road, Rf?r4 fire at Minneapolis Thursday morning destroyed the saw mill of Bray, Richards & Co. It is sup posed the fire was caused by a spark from the engine lodging in the fuel room. Loss $22,000 insurance $12, 000. —A little daughter of A. M. Do lanj of Leavenworth, Brown county, was recently badly burned, by her clothes taking fire. Her garments were literally burned to ashes on her back. She is not expected to live: —A call is out for a meeting of the Democratic-Republican State Central Committee at the Merchants hotel, St. Paul, on Wednesday, September 1st, for the purpose of consultation on matters pertaining to the fall campaign. —While Alice, a little daughter of the Rev. Mr. Winsor, pastor of the M. E. church at Red Wing, was left alone for a few minutes, her clothes 'caught fire from the stove and before assistance could be rendered she was so badly burned that she died the same evening. v—Monday in the suburbs of Austin three men attacked, knocked down and dragged into the brush a stran ger, and robbed him of fifty dollars, leaving him unconscious: The robbers have all been arrested and are 'nowted in jail'.1 The money was recovered. —AtRush ford, Monday, a. man named Milo Bathwick, whUejthgaged in putting an iron roof oh Talentine & Tew*s large flour mill, fell to the ground, a distance of 40 feet, and was instantly killed. He was un married, and aged 25. .i -r-Saturday morning police officers at St. Paul had their suspicions arous ed by the horrible smell emanating from a trunk at the Superior depot. Feeling satisfied that it contained the corpse of some murdered wife or hus band, they finally opened it, and found it to,be full of—Liiuburger cheese. —The ten-years'-old daughter of A. D. Leet of Rochester, while playing with two other girls in an unfinished building, fell from the second to the first floor—a distance of seven or eight feet—and struck on her head. She was picked up in an insensible conditiou, the blood running from her and ears, but is*now doing well. —The Rev...H, P. Welton, of Has tings, has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Presbyterian church at that point His object is to engage in the evangelistic work, to which he is earnestly called by many of -the pas tors and churches of the State. —The Governor has pardoned Geo. W. Staley, sentenced in 1867 to the State'prison for life for being con cerned in the robbery and murder of a farmer named Ableitner, of Dover. He'was but 19 years old at the time and is believed to have been the tool of a hard case named Edwards, who escaped. —There were 742,000^)00 cigars and 468,000,000 cigarettes smoked in ^France last year—twenty cigars and wMMiiiT '^iiiil^^^^^&^^ij^^..'^^^i^^_ ... —There were three mercantile failure in Canada Friday. —The indictments for whisky fraud already exceed seventy in num ber. 0 —Hog cholera prevails to a con siderable extent in Morgan county, Illinois. —The first bale of new cotton ar rived at Memphis Saturday night from Arkansas. —Revised official census returns of Wisconsin show the population of the State to be 1,236,690. —George Reeves, an extensive coal dealer of Newark, N. J., has failed. Liabilities,-$40,000. —The Albion Mills, at Conshocton, Pa., were totally burned Saturday morning. Loss $250,000. —James R. Doolittle is to take the place of Jeff. Davis as orator of the Winnebago county (111.") fair. —Abram Symons of Pine Hill, New York, killed his daughter last Saturday and then committed suicide. —So-so! Mexico has three sloops of-war. en route for the Rio Grande, eh? Chance for some fun down there. —Shroeder, the Baltimore ballon ist, has been engaged by Barnum, will be the next sacrifice to aero nautic advertising.? -l »v^-& —The New York and New Eng land papers continue to chronicle' numerous suicides. What is the mat ter with folks, anyhow —Who started that story about the late Andrew Johnson's $365,000 life insurance? It's the first his family have heard of it, anyhow. fanfaUa, of Rome,, says the late Emperor Ferdinand, of Austria, left by his will to the pope $6,000,000, which has already beens paid., kkFffrff Lf-jW -i .—The Agricultural Bureau gives 18,000,000 as the total of beeves steers and oxen in the country, almost all of them coming yearly to the shambles. iv —In a baby farming house at Rochester, N. Y» the keeper admits that three of the children brought there to nurse, within five weeks, have died. —The "foot and mouth" disease has broken out with great violence in Dorsetshire, England, where 12,000 animals are down with it The dis temper is spreading rapidly. —Catley & Bondley, two mer chants, who absconded from Balti more in July last, after swindling, as alleged, their creditors out of $100, 000, were arrested in Canada Friday. —-A "banquet was given Friday evening in Southampton, FJng., to the officers of the American naval squadron. It was largely attended by distinguished officers of Her Majes ty's service, and was a brilliant affair/ -rThe best information received concerning the alleged negro insur in Georgia is that it is/ a scare for political effect The dispatches re ceived at Washington furnish no proof of any intention to massacre, —The entire family of Thuriow Weed, of New York, were prostrated by the use of a copper tea kettle, Which had been cleaned with oxalic acid, and had a narrow escape from death, particularly Weed himself, but are now all recovered. —It is reported that Turkey has accepted the friendly offices of the foreign powers in securing a restora tion of peace in the northwestern provinces. The Turkish expeditions from Kleck have turned the moun tain defile and effected a junction wiftx tfrei force from the interior. —A daring robbery was committed Friday night, on the Melapedia road, Canada.' A passenger ou the stage, when near Assemetguagen, presented a revolver at the driver's head, or dering him to stop. He then compel led the driver to cut the mail bag and jump off, when the robber drove off with the stage. —Col. Anthony, under the careful, nursing of his heroic sister, celebra the 100th day of his wounding, by dressing himself and taking a walk. Hitherto the dressing has all been applied to his wound. It takes two relays of two persons to compress the subclavian artery for the reduc 4 2 0 --^ThVrecent faibirerf^il England reach the enormous sum of one hun dred and ten millions of dollars, which exceeds the failures in the United States during the past six months by upwards of thirty mil lions of dollars. It is not believed that England has yet reached the end of her financial troubles. —Lottery agencies flourish in Yan keedom. The police of Boston a few days since made a descent and arrest ed a number of dealers. The busi ness has been carried on in a sly way, so that half the newspapers were as? tonished to hear of its existence. The shrewd Puritans always were famous for trying their" luck —Black Hills Gordon, who been at large on his parole, Saturday surrendered himself' at Omaha, and then attempted to escape. He was, however, captured and lock ed up in the military guard-house. Gordon's lawyer has had Gen. Rug gles, the adjutant general of the depart ment of the Platte, arrested for false imprisonment —The^Yankton (Dakota) Jounal% of the 19th, has a long account of the. operations and arrest of one Al onzo Hawkins, and. the chase after L. E. Johnson, charged with exten sive forgeries in Waseca county, Minnesota. Hawkins is held to await requisition'. from the governor of Minnesota. The rogues played a very fine game at Yankton, and came very near victimising' some of the merchants tf that city. Wi d^k:^9^^BMSn\ Jr til CLOTHING! 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