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ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA
W. B. MITCHELL, EDITOB.
Thursday September 2,1875.
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REPUBDCAN TICKET.
STATIC I
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 a IBGENS.
For State Treasurer,
WM. PFJENDER,
For State Auditor,
O. P. WHITCOMB.
For Attorney General,
GEO. P. WILSON.
For Clerk of the Supreme Court,
S. H. NICHOL8.
For Railroad Commissioner,
W. R. MARSHALL.
S E A N S COUNTY I E
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.SEARLE.
For County Surveyor,
M. P. NOEL.
For Coroner,
H. P. BENNETT.
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THE public debt was
585,049 August.
reduced $1,-
WHEAT in Milwaukee yesterday
was $1.20J for No. 1 in New York
$144@14o for No. 1.
ACCORDING to the books of State
Treasurer Dike the State treasury is
in funds to the amount of $282,986.13.
THE taking of testimony in the im
peachment case of Alderman Fisher,
S Paul, concluded Tuesday. The
case is to be argued to-morrow.
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THE call is published for an Anti
Monopolist State Convention to bewere
held at Owatonna September 22d.
Stearns county will be entitled to
delegates.
THE Liberal Democrat, of Madison,
the leading Norwegian paper of Wis
consin, has changed hands and will
hereafter be a Republican paper.
The attempt to Democratize the Nor
wegians of Wisconsin has been given
np as a bad job.
THE most important case to be
tried before the Court of Common
Pleas of Hennepin county, which
opens next week, is that of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Co. vs W. S. King,
to recover $125,000 alleged to have
been paid King.
THE Democratic State Central
Committee which met in St. Paul
yesterday nominated W. F. Bonni
well, of Hutchinson, for Railroad
Commissioner, vice J. W. Sencerbox
resigned, and P. H. Rahilly, of Wa
basha, for State Auditor, vice M.
Doran-resigned.
THE President has appointed the
following Receivers of Public Moneys
of Minnesota land offices Thomas
H. Pressnell, Duluth, vice J. K.say
Knowlton George B. Folsom, Tay
lor's Falls, vice Oscar Roos Soren
Listoe, Alexandria,vice L. K.Aaker
Paul C. Sletten, Detroit, vice Reuben
Reynolds.
A REPORT has been made by Com*
mismoner of Statistics Solberg con*
cerning the ravages of the grasshop
pers in twenty-eight counties in Min
nesota this year. He estimates that
the loss of wheat amounts to 2,646,*
802 bushels of oats, 1,816,733
bushels of corn, 738,405 bushels.
The whole number of acres of which
the crops were destroyed or injured
is 326,681.
A CORRESPONDENT of the
York Am, writing from Essex, Iowa,
asks the editor to put him on the
track of getting, on real estate worth
lour times the sum as security, $1,000
of the money that is lying idle in
New York City, whereupon the edi
torsays:
"We cannot do anything to help oar
correspondent. He should knowthat there
has never been a time, even in the greatest
activity and prosperity, when people in.
New York would be ready to lend money
on Iowa land and now, when business is
dead and confidence destroyed, they are
less ready than ever.. The rffcn who has
United States bonds to pawn, or first-rate
bonds or stocks of any other sort, can bor
row money here at a very low rate of inter
est, provided he will agree to return it the
day it i» called for but it never was more
difficult than now to borrow on long terms
or on security that cannot instantly be sold
and its worth realized.
THE iVess is devoured with curiosi
ty, it says, to see how this paper will
"take the elevating of Gov. Mar
shall's name upon the State ticket."
Well, how do yon like it, as far as
you have seen? Gov. Marshall is a
gentleman esteemed throughout the
State for his integrity, ability and
public services. There are few men
in Minnesota against whom less
could be said or who have a stronger
hold upon. the confidence of the peo
ple. He made a good Governor and
he will make a good Railroad Com*
musioner. THE JOURNAL did not
approve of everything he did while
Governor and did not hesitatetosay
so. But that is no reason why it can
not give him its hearty support in the
present canvass. Everybody doesn't
feel so badly about matters and
things in general as does our melan
choly friend, McClure, whose physic
al indisposition—which still contin*
ties despite a persistent use of the us
ual remedy—fills him with bitterness
and discontent and clouds his editori
al productions."
TIIK O A S
As everything pertaining to the
affairs of the St. Paul and Pacific
Railway and its uncompleted branch
es is of special interest to the people
of this part of the State, we publish in
full the Pioneer-Prm* report of what
President Becker says concerning the
results, present and probable, of the
late conference in New York betweea
the officers and directors of the road
and a committee representing the
bondholders. The immediate out
come of that conference is scarcely
what the first reports of it had led
people to expect. From what Gen.
Becker says and from what we learn
privately from other reliable sources
we take it that the piece of road be
tween Glyndon, on the St. Cloud and
St. Vincent branch, and Breckinridge,
on the Main Line, will certainly be
finished this season, and that the
Brainerd branch may probably be
built before the close of 1875. The
long gap between Melrose and Glyn
don will probably remain as it now is
for some time to come.
W O O E STORM
Monday evening a severe storm
swept over the State, in some places
swelling to the violence of a tornado
and doing much damage. At Min
neapolis two partially completed
dwelling houses were converted into
kindling wood the large warehouse
of the Harvester Works was demol
ished and some machinery damaged
five bams were wrecked and several
animals were killed. The loss foots
up from #12,000 to $15,000.
At St Paul several bvildings were
damaged, culverts and bridges were
washed away, and cellars were inun
dated, but the loss is not very great
At Belle Plaine the walla of the
new Catholic church were leveled
the roof of the Baptist church was
lifted of, and with one side of the
building carried fifteen or tweaty
rods and dashedtopieces and ether
buildings, including a' brick block,
were damaged. The loss
isfiom$5,-and
000 to $7,000. Many wheat stacks
were scattered over the prairie.
In almost all localities grain in the
stack as well as in the shock was in
jured,
At Hudson, Wis., several persons
severely injrred. Wheat is re
ported badly grown.
HEAVY ~I.UfH«S.
Last Thursday the Bank of Cali
fornia, at San Francisco, suspended
after a ton of over $1,400,000. An
examination of the affairs of the bank
show that its management had been
most reckless. The cause of the fail
ure was speculating in mining stocks.
The excitement in San Francisco was
intense. Friday two other banks, the
Merchants Exchange, and the Na
tional Gold Bank and Trust Compa
ny, closed their doors, but both are
said to be in a sound condition and
will reopen soon. The liabilities of
the Bank of California are given at
$19,000,000 assess $7,000,000. On
Friday afternoon Ralston, the Presi
dent of the bank, went to a bathing
house, stripped "and went into the
water. Soon afterwards he was seen
straggling, some two hundred yards
from the wharf, in a drowning condi
tion. He was taken to shore, but
without signs of life, and on the arri
val of a physician was found to be
dead. It is believed that he commit
ted suicide, alihoogh the physicans
he might have died of apoplexy.
The Directors of the bank had that
afternoon requested his resignation as
President and Director, which had
been handed in. -i
Sterling, Ahrens '& Co., of Balti
more, saidtobe the largest sugar im
porting house tite United States,
suspended Thursday. Liabilities,
$3,236,031 assets, $3,339,963. The
failure is said to have been caused
by the general depression of business
and the shrinkage in value of coffee
and sugar, of which the firm have
large stocks.
Juan, DeMier fe Co., dealers io
soap and flour, New York, suspended
Friday, with liabilities reaching near
ly half a million dollars. Their
is attributed to a disastrous
fall in hides, of which they were car
rying a large stock.
Newfailu'-e
Monday the larp publishing house
of Lee & Shepard, Boston, failed, car
rying with it the New York house [of
Lee, Shepard & Dillingham. The
main house lost $100,000 by the Bos
ton fire, from the effects of which they
have not been able to recover. Their
liabilities are about $600,000, and
they expect to be able to pay fifty
cents op the dollar. The liabilities of
the New York house are $150,000 and
will be paid in full.
Adams, Wholesale dealer in men's
furnishing goods,, suspended Monday.
Liabilities unknown.
R. 'OvBrown, Of Montreal, suspend
ed Monday, with $200,000 liabilities.
THE Louisville Couf^-Jow-nal
says that "the average American vot
er is a purchasable wretch without
intelligence, without patriotism and
without honor,",. This-is a paper pu]b
Kahed where they roll up. Democrat
ic majorities in the neighborhood Jo?"
fifty thousand.
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THERE seemstobe danger tntt?tpa
United Slates,wiU he thinly represent.,
ed at the Ceutennial Exposition. Not
one half the applications for space
have yet been made that will be re
quiredtofillthe assigned limits. Sev
eral of the States are scarcely repre
sented at all.. Upon the abundance
and variety of this display depend
alike the success of this exposition,
and the prospect for some years io
come of an increased trade in our
products, arts, and manufactures.
f-* •'tava'' i'-'" ~'-''L'
-.—Two thousand men were thrown
out of employment Saturday, evening
with the closing for the season of a
number of saw mills as Ottawa, .Can
ada.
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N N E S O A S A I N CHOP
C. F. Solberg, Commissioner of
Statistics, has prepared for publica
tion a statement of the acreage in
wheat, oats and corn in the several
counties of Minnesota in 1875. The
number of acres in wheat are 1,762,
327 in oats, 439,425 in corn, 364,
733. The Commissioner says: "Re
garding the production of wheat and
oats in 1875, it may safely be said
that neither the aggregate nor theing
average yield per acre- was ever so
large since Minnesota became one of
the great graingrowing States of the
Union, or since the cultivated area
became so. extensive as. to require a
generally favorable season to pro
duce a good average yield fosv the
whole State. Including area ravaged
by grasshoppers, the average yield for
the State will not be less than 18
bushels per acre of wheat, and our
farmers will have a surplus,.after the
deduction of wheat for flour and forwhat
next spring's sowing, of about twenty
four millions bushels of wheat to con
vert into cash. The grasshopper
damages will be equal in amount to
perhaps 8 or 9 per cent of our actual
surplus—certainly not more than 9
per cent
"The oat crop may reach sixteen
millions of bushels, the largest by 3}
millions ever produced in the
State.
"The increase in the acreage of
corn in 1875 is unusually large, 109,
678 acres, while in wheat the in
crease is only 81,205 and in oats 56,
490 acres. Data are yet lacking up
on which to base a reliable estimate
of the corn crop."
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O O S E S O A
The Mark Lane Express, reviewing
the grain markets and crops of the
past week, says: he continuance
of fine weather has enabled farmers
to secure a large amount of produce
Lifinecondition. The more, however,•
that is seen of the new crop, the more
complaints are made of both quality
yield. This is also the ease in
France. Holland and Hamburg re
port that the samples are of the high
est excellence. Prices in Great Brit
ain are reported unsettled. The mar
kets in several places show a decline
of one and two shillings. In France
the reduction is- about the same.
Flour at Paris hasbeensteady, though
wheat has given way on account of
free offerings. A general average of
the markets for the past week shows
an advance of Is 3d, and it may be a
month before prices will have found
their level. As a rule harvest pros
pects on the continent are good. The
gathering of crops is going on Well,
and prices have given way slightly.
In Belgium, Holland and Germany
the potato crop has suffered much in
jury from rain and the disease/'
O A TBS.
The Pioneer-Press warns farmers,
in regard to the threshing of wetted
grain, to separate the wet from the
dry bundles, and thresh the former
separately, particularly if there is in
it the slightest indications of sprout
ing. As great damage is likely to oc
cur from negligent threshing as from
careless and delayed harvesting.
Twenty kernels of sprouted wheat in
a bushel will rank the whole load as
No. 2 or 3*and depreciate the price
from 15 to 20 per cent. The grade
of wheat is determined by the small
quantity of poor, wheat found in it,
and not by the body of good wheat
preponderating. There should be no
failure to observe this caution. I
will nake a difference of from one to
ten millions of dollars in the amount'
of money received for wheat in this
State this fall.
THE Rush City Post says that the
frost of Saturday night killed all the
cranberries in Chisago, Pine and
Burnett counties making a loss of
nearly $50,000. "The crop would
have been ready for picking in about
ten days. jf^&diHjroj
A3 THE result of a column editorial
on the subject of the suicide of the
President of the Bank of California,
the Chicago Tribune has arrived at
the conclusion that "with Kalston's
death will terminate nis enterprises,
public and private.^ Very likely.
Such things sometimes do.
IN the case of Chas.IS: Parkhurst
of Iowa, whose arrest at Minneapolis
for Iforgery is reported in our State
news column', Gov. Davis has refus
edtogrant a warrant of extradition,
on the ground of informality in the
taking Of the testimony on which the
'equitioa was based.
HE ^numbers ofLitfeffs Living, Age
for August 2ls^ and 28th contain
'''Balloons and Voyages in the Air
"Lticretia Borgia "Wind Myths:
"A jrfonjh in a Japanese Farmhouse:
"A Chapter of University History
"Prof. Cairnes ^"T,he Swine-herd of
GadaW* "An Hysterical Fair
"The Newest African Project,'' and
"The Late Bishop Thrilwall,"
with installments of "Fated to"
S an
the usual choice poetry andraisedla
•*id-te:rt*p. sus etftfsJta moi
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THE Republic Magafcine (Washing
ton, D.C.) for September has been
received. Its opening article, '.'Can
the Nation trust the Democratic par
ty?" clearly indicates that there* has
been no change in Democracy,' that
what it was' prior to the war, during
its prosecution, and throughout the
period of reconstruction^ it is to-day.
"Taking a Census," presents'the ap
proved systems adopted by several
States. "Education in Alabama
'New State ConBtilHtions "Punic
Faith "Taxes pajd by National
Banks" 'jThe New) National tafe,f
are cWefluly prepared,
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contain
much of general interest
.. a-i tttaji
—-Considerable damage was done by
the rain storm Thursday I in Nebras
ka. /•.
E ST. PAWL A N A 1
Results of the Recent Negot-atlons te
Maw York—The Conclusion* Reached
SaiUfaotory to All Parties, and the
Prospects Bright For the Com.
plettom of she Branches.
The return of Gen. George L.
Becker, president of the St Paul &
Pacific railroad, from New York yes
terday, enables the Pioneer-Press to
furnish authentic information in re-HIS
gardtothe results of the recent meet
in New York of the officers and
directors of the St. Paul A Pacific
railroad company and the bondhold
ers of that road, between whom it isat
known an unfortunate misunderstand
ing has existed for the past couple of
years. Though the facts elicited
At the meeting in New York of
the directors of the St Paul & Paci
fic road, and the representatives
ofital
the foreign bondholders and stock
holders, an arrangement was Tmani
mously agreed upon, subject only id a
ratification by a meeting of the bond
holders to be held at Amsterdam,
within sixty days from the signing
of the agreement, which was on the
13th of August' The terms of this
arrangement are nottobe made pub
lic until after they have been con
sidered by the meeting alluded to.
They are, however, eminently fair
and just to all- the parties concerned,
and they will undoubtedly be ratified,
in Amsterdam. If. the agreement is
confirmed, it will of course terminate
the litigation between the First Di
vision Company and its bonded cred
itors, and the contestants will be in-.
vitedtocordially unite in carrying
out all the enterprises in which they
are mutually engaged.
With reference to the extension of
the St. Paul & Pacific, no definite in
formation can as yet be obtained on
that extremely interesting branch of
the subject It is probable that the
mortgages on the road wrfl havetobe
foreclosed, but the forclosure will be
without contest, and it is believed
that a speedy conclusion will bereach
ed in this particular.
While nothing has yet been said
about the completion of any of theFrom
extensions, it is reasonable to sup
pose that the satisfactory results of
the negotiations already accomplished,
will lead to an early resumption of
work on the line, and that the roads
will be completed. Though the origi
nal system may in some respects be
modified, the change will undoubted
ly provetobe as advantageous to the
general public as the road itself.
It will be seen from the foregoing
meagre outline of what has been con
summated by the high contracting
parties, that, there is a remarkable
probability that the St. Paul & Pa-RALSTON
cific road has. now safely passed an
important crisis in its affairs, and that
it is actually in better condition than
it has been for several years. The
parties in interest are heartily to be
congratulated upon the happy out
come of their previous differences of
opinion, and of the substantial con
vergence of all diverse elements to
wards a common end, which is the
completion of all the roads, and the
consequent development of the: mag
nificent and fertile belt of country
which it opens up to the world. The
people of the whole State of Minneso
ta have even greater reason to felici
tate themselves upon the auspicious
era which is dawning upon them,
and which promisestobring the vast
northwestern sections info closer rela
tionship with the more populous por
tions of the State, and thus afford
a relieftothose frontier settlements/
which is so imperatively necessary to
their prosperity and well beinj*—r
St. Paul Pumeer-Press, Aug, 28.
-r-Jesse S. Long, the noted short
horn cattle breeder, hung himself on
^is farm,_ twelve miles south of New
ton, Jasper county, Iowa, Sunday
night He had 100 cattle at Des
Moines to be sold at the big short
horn sale on Wednesday. His de
cease did not stop the sale. He hadduring
been low-spirited for. sometime,andprosper?og,
was closing up his business.
—The greatest physical feat of the
century was performed Wednesday
night, when Captain—why »re the
swimmers of the age all Captains
Matthew Webb swam the English
Channel from Dover to Calais, 21}
miles. He startei from the chalky
cliffs of Dover Wednesday afternoon
with a strong stroke of twentytothe
minute. He seems to have maintain
ed this stroke for nearly the whole
distance. This feat isja, marvel. It
must have required muscles of iron
and sinews of steel. The swimmer
had to meet cross-currents, chopping
seas, winds, and tides. There is nowas
more difficult strait to cross in thetbe
world. It is said that the tide car
ried him 4 miles out of his way. I
so, he must have swum over 25 miles.
While there were boats near him all
the while, he seems to have not left
the water for a second between the
cliffs of England and the sloping
shores of France.
—Luhrwas beaten at Springfield,
Mass., Friday by American Girl, in
three straight heats. Best time,
2:22.
R0LST0N, THE MONEY
KINGI1
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
HIS DARIM1 IN THE STOCK MAKE
ET.
VON ttCBWrttTCi.K OV I1VKO
BA..'Jr..'OH,B ADVENT IN 'FKKCO.
Having been a steamboat clerk on
the Mississippi, and steamship agent
Panama, about 1854 he went, to
San Francisco as cashier for Garrison
fc Fretz, proprietors, of the Nicaragua
steamship line. He was a keen-wit-
from Gen. Becker are rather meagre led, money-making young man, and
and scarcely warrant the high hopes
and enthusiastic expectations of an
almost immediate resumption of work,
raised a week or two ago by exag
gerated and unauthorized reports of
occurred in New York, they are
still of a highly encouraging charac
ter. In other words, there are sub
stantial grounds for the confident be
lief that all differences of opinion, at
least, have been happily reconciled,
and that in the future all parties in
terested in the welfare and develop
ment of the St Paul & Pacific rail-)
road and its branches, will work to
gether towards a common purpose,
and this accomplished, there are no
fears but that the ultimate results
will be generally satisfactory.
soon had amassed enough to embark
in business as a banker,—junior part
ner in the firm of Fret/ & Ralston,
which old Californians yet remember.
The firm was prosperous under his
management, and subsequently con
tinued its prosperous career as Dono
hue, Ralston & Co. In 1864 Ral
ston took active steps for
THE ESTABLISHMENT OP E yOKS^EE
BANX,
that should (as for ten years it' did)dreds
control the entire business of the Pa
cific Coast, by organizing the Bank
of California. Such was^his address
and such the prestige he had already
acquired that the $2,500,000 capital
stock was soon all subscribed for, and
the bank with the largest capital of
any financial institution on the coast
began business. The heaviest capi
talists were miners the heaviest cap
was needed for the development
of the mines. It was the era• of the
deepening of shafts in the Washoe
region and of the improved and ex-Ralston's
pensive stamp-mills, and ore-reduc
tion works. Ralston extended ad to
several of the mines bought for the
bank controlling interests in a num
ber used the capital of the bank in
developing the mines, and
]CAiEAS7r.rXE.
'..' -.
Within a year after its organization
the capital stock of. the bank was in
creasedto$5,000,000, and subscribeis
to the $2,500,000 aditional stock
were charged a bonus of 25 per cent
for the privilege of taking the stock,
to be paid up in full. At that rate,
such had been the success of Ralston's
management in developing the Neva
da and other mines, the* entire two
and a half millions were quickly ta
ken, and before the dose of the year
the stock of the bank was quoted at
140, with no sellers.
SHASON IS RALSTON 3 HBOTEG&
About this time it wasftat Wil
liam Sharon, who had.lost everything
in disastrous mining speculations,
was, by Ralston, placed in charge of
the interests of the bank at Virginia
City, more especially of its interests
in the famous Yellow Jacket mine.
Chat time dates the. colossal for
tune of Senator Sharon, who within
one year after his appointment as
agent of the bank by Ralston had
made $800,000. And from that time
did Sharon become ihe firm ally of
Ralston in the tremendous specula
tion upon which the latter soon enter
ed.. With $5,000,000 paid-up capital
at his command (for though only
Cashier, from the outset Ralston di
rected the affairs of the bank,") and
with the.prestige of the extraordinary
"strikes" made in the Nevada mine
operations, ..'-.:.
W/DENED TBE ITE .D OF HIS OP
ERATIONS.
Stock-gambling had.already attained
tremendous proportions on the coast.
With the enormous capital at li'son
command, Ralston embanked in it, on
the theory that five millions could
any time beat a hundred thousand, a
half-million, Or a million even and
it did. He could sell short, could
tighten the money market, and squeeze
holders of stocks to bear down the
price and rake in the margins.
could then declare dividends and oth
erwise bull the stocks and unload.
The bank was naturally made the de
pository of the mines it aided in de-large
veloping. Perceiving the immense
power it Wielded, operators of course
cultivated its good offices by placing
their accounts there. Business men
who wanted the support. of the im-hand,
mense financial power, hastened to
also place their deposits with the
bank, and soon ihe deposit account
of the bank was the largest in the
United States. It has been tremen
dously exaggerated, but probably for
the year preceding the suspension it
averaged $10,000 000td $12,00.0,000,
which, with the paid-up capital, made
the aggregate fund at Ralston's dis
posal from $15,000,000 to $17,000,
000, in gold.
THE PERSONAL CAREER OF EALKrON
tiiis ten years of the bank's
seems like a page frotn
some Oriental roirance. His prince
ly place was luxuriousan the extreme.
It was at Belmont some tweaty miles
from San Francisco. The house was
large ecough to accomodate 200
guests, giving each party a room
with servants equal to -the occasion
The hospitality. was profuse. AH
strangers from Evirope^ajd'fromall
parIs of the county, were sought o)ut
and made recipients of nis gorgeous
hospitality. He left San Francisco
every afternoon after the close of bus
iness wuhten,twenty, or more guests
and, with a coach drawn by tojir
horses driven by himself over a hard,
smooth road built for the purpose, he
able by relays of horses, to make
distance in the 'same1 'time with
the railroad. Other coaches followed
according to the number of visitors.
This house was always, thronged With
guests, who were able to witness dur
ing their stay hospitality that was as
unbounded as it was magnificent and
costly. He was not, However,' alone
in this matter. The other proprie
tors of the bank, though not perhaps
so conspicuous, lived in almost an
equally costly manner. As they be
came richer every year,' so their
families grew older and less content-
ed with the splendor around them.
Consequently they packed offtoEu
rope, and for several years the wealth
of the Bank of California has. been
represented in Europe by the fami
lies of its owners, and their lavish ex
penditures have successfully rivaled
those of the richest Princes of the
Orient-
Withal, Ralston was was most
punctilious in all that pertained to
business. He entertained like a
Pjr5nee, but he
AT i'ND^D TQ BUS N«TS8 L-.iE iJ VET
iE3T OFFiCJ DRTJDOJS.
Though his house were filled ith
company, he retired promptly at 11
o'clock every night, rose at 7, took a
bath, and had his valet rub him
down as they do prizefighters in train
ing held the ribbons himself while
he drovetothe city, 16 miles, which
he did, (with a relay of horses on the
route), with his four-in-hand, in the
time made by the train on the Sangold
Jose Railroad. Arrived at his ele
gant private parlors at the bank, he
dispatched business with a marvelous
precision, accuracy and mastery of de
tails. He was daily beset by hun
of visitors—people with proj
ects which they wanted him to pro
mote people who wanted to share
in his projects, who sought his ad
vice as to investments and, of
course, innumerable borrowers.
disposed of all rapidly, but not one
did he dismiss without a hearing, and
many a poor devil did he set on theSeryia
high road to fortune by extending to
bim his all-powerful indorsement
and support. His office-boy made a
fortune by operating on Ralston's ad
vice. Miss upon a time
mistress (he was a man
who was vain of the reputation of a
gallant, though rea^y never half as
dissolute as has been charged), made
$20,000 by a single operation in
stocks on his advice. The lady is an
actress well known in Chicago, and
now a resident of San Francisco.
He was in truth
A MAN OF WONDERFUL EXECUTIVE ABIL-
J* .».-.. r-.'c
and comprehensive grasp of mind
daring with all the daring of the ex
perienced, gambler geaerous with
the magnificence of one who makes
money easily, and unbounded, confi
dence in his ability to go on making
money ad infinitum.
I N N E S O A N E W S
—Harvesting implements to the
value of $110,000 have been pur
chased in Rice county alone this sea
son.
—At Kasson this season $56,360
worth of agricultural machinery has
been sold, not including plows, wagons,
drags, etc.
—A little son of the editor of the
Northfield Standard, while footing
with an old pistol, bored a hole
through his left hand.
—Two men escaped from the
bert. Lea jail on the 30th by cutting
the bars of the windows. They were
subsequently recaptured.
---The steamer Monitoba of
Merchants International line on the
Red River, was seized Tuesday by the
Sheriff on account of the stockholders
in Manitoba.
—The Western Avenue bridge, so
called, at Minneapolis, tumbled down
Tuesday. At least $2,000 will be
requiredtoput it in shape again.
—Dr? C. A, Hewitt has been sued
by ^ohn Lynd for mal-practice, in
haying, in 1868, amputated, "without
proper reason or necessity'* Lynd's
injured Jby the explosion of a
gun: womx) m* ion fo
—Cr. W. Rockwood, of Owatonna,
two years ag$ bought a single Italian
bee for $5, and now, as the produc
tion of that single bee he has eighteen'
hives, and will have 800 pounds of
honey this se ason.
a rr-Albert Scbram, of New Ulm, a
boy about fifteen years old, had his
hand caught in the cylinder of a
threshing machine, and before the
machinery could be stopped the arm
was crushedtothe elbow.
LATJE NKWB ITEM S
—Charley Ross's father still search
es for his missing'boy.
—Joseph Jefferson win appear in
London on Nov. 2 in ffip Fb» Wtn~
hie.
—Washington City wasfloodedby
a*rainstorm Monday, doing immense
damage.
—Mr. and Mrs. Sartoris and child
and Jesse Grant sailed Saturday for
Europe.
—The late Franco-German war
has caused in Germany a surplus of a
million of women.
—Fifty thousand dollars worth of
crooked whisky was seized at San
Francisco Monday.
—The Liberal Republican Conven
tion, of New York State, will be held
in Albany, Sept. 22d.
—Four millions of government
will be sold by the sub-treasury
at New York in September.
—The foot and mouth disease is
spreading among cattle in Cumber
land and Aberdeenshire, England.
—Josephus Savy, the New- Jersey
State Treasurer, has been arrested,
charged with embezzling $200,000.
—The San Francisco board of su
pervisors refused to pass resolutions
of respect to the memory of Ralston.
-—The Turkish insurrection is
spreading rapidly. Montenegro and
are actively preparing for
war.
—The trial of Wm. Westervilt, in
dicted as a party to the abduction of
Charley Ross, was begun at Philadel
phia Monday. 3
—The English polar expedition
has been, heard of at West Green
land, where it arrived after a pleas
ant passage.
A Cowing :& Co., of Seneca
Falls, N. Y., one of the largest manu
facturing firms in the United States,
have made an assignment,
—Col. Edward W. Longstreet of
the suspended firm of Longstreet &
Dennison, Syracuse, N. Y., committed
suicide Saturday night
—Church, late head of the ribbon
department of Jaffray & Co., New
York, who absconded with $40,000,
has been arrested in Montreal,
—The Tripolitans finally made
suitable apology for the indignities
heaped upon the American Consul,
and the U. S. war vessels left them.
—San Fransisco will shortly ship
to the Mikado of Japan a state car
riage valued at $3,000, four horses
worth $25,000, and harness costing
$1,500.
—The Hon. J. Russell Jones, late
United States Minister to Belgium,
says that, .while his salary was $8,
000 a year,it never cost him less than
$20,000 a yeartolive in Brussels.
—Judge Shipman has confirmed
the recent sale of the property and
of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company and^ their pur
chase by the committee representing
the bondholders.
Al-franchises
—Col. Hatlem Huntington, one of
the oldest and most highly esteemed
settlers of Faribault county, died on
the 24th, in the 76th: year of hjswood,
age.
thethe
—A painter named McLaughlin,
at Rochester, by the slipping of his
ladder, fell a distance of thirty feet,
Thursday, injured himself so that it is
believed he cannot live.
—The Faribault Democrat says
that although some dozen horse
thieves have been captured in Rice
cxmntyV'there are still enough left at
to keep things lively.
--^Charles N. Parkhurst, nephew
of the President of the First Nation
al Bank of Cedar Rapids, la.,
wastance
arrested at Minneapolis Friday night
on a charge of committing an $18
000 forgery on his uncle's bank.
—Sunday noon a map named Pe
ter Wagner, 48 years.of age and a
,-German.by forth, wa? found hang
ing by the neck, in a barn belonging
to the St. Paul city, hospital, quite
dead.,.Whisky and tyighted affections.
—As the passenger train bound
West was leaving the depot at-Eyota,
A mau snatched a roll of bills from a
passenger^jmd passed' .them to his
"pal." ibpth jumped the /train and
had not been heard ?f at last accounts.1
f-r-Eben Mayall, formerly of S
Paul,, committed suicide at Denver,
Col., by shooting--himself. He was a
brother of Samuel- and James Mayall,
of St. Paul. Financial troubles and
poor' health induced the commission
of the act..
—Peter Beheug, lately a merchant
a. Red Wing, was arrested in that
city last Saturday evening, on charge
of forging the name of Davet Frei
muth, his father-in-law, in indorse
ment of a sixty-days note he gave to
Auerbach, Finch & Scheffer, of S
Paul, in, June lait,for$491.46.
—Jessie York, domestic in the
family of E. W. Bausmer, of Hazle
Wis., attempted to kindle a
fire with kerosene on Friday even
ing. An explosion occurred, killing
girl and setting fire to the house.
—Misgovernment and chronic dull
trade have caused the banks in Lima
to suspend specie payments for four
months. The Government sanctions
this step, which in a country with the
vast resources of Peru oughttobe im
possible in time of peace.
—Judge Blaisdell, of Fall River,
Mass., has no "bowels of mercy" for
Sunday liquor sellers. He gaveJ ames
Oliver,at whosesaloon several young
men got drunk on Sunday, a fine of
$300, besides three months' imprison
ment
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—On the body of Stanislaus Mor
rell, who was struck by lightning at
Clay, Mo., the other day, were found
the delicately-traced outlines of a
tree near which he was struck, every
limb and leaf being imaged in fine
red lines on the skin.
—Since the year 1800 England
has .waged forty-nine wars France,
thirty-eight' Russia, twenty-two
Austria, twelve Prussia, gight and
in spite of all the peace societies and
international conventions they all ap
pear aniwuaforanother. •. si
—The .huge, propeller, "Persian,''
plying between Chicago and Buffalo,
was burned Saturday morning on
Lake Erie.. No lives were lost, but
67,000 bushels, of grain were baked
before their time. The vessel was
valued at $125,000, and is said not
to have been insured.
—In a duel at Waco, Texas, last
Sunday night, in the dark, at a dis
of four feet,, weapons six-shoot
ers, between Charles Connyx and J.
ML Turner, three shots werefiredandprenusetfoF.'
Turner was killed, and Connyx badly
wounded. The duel came from a
trivial quarrel.
—A few mornings ago George M,
Bedford, of Paris, Ky.i called to his
colored,servant Georgetoknow about
a horee that had been ridden. The
boy was saucy and stubborn, and Mr.
B. got a shotgun and fired in the air
to scare him, whiohnot having the
desired effect, he shot at the boy, the
load taking,effect in hisi shoulder._
—Grasshoppers are stripping blades
of corn in Louderdale, Calbert, and
Alcorn Counties, Ala., and have al
ready devastated many fields. The
farmers are spreading straw over the
wheat stubble and driving them from
the fields successfully: by burning
them up.
---Mrs. Mary E, Rankin, colored,
died at Brooklyn on Sunday. She
was 116 years of age—probably. the
oldest woman in America, if not in
the world. She enjoyed good health,
was naturally cheerful and industri
ous, was an early riser and a hard
worker,
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HOTEL F^Qt^SAUE.
I ofterforsale, at a great bargain, the
SAUK VALLEY HOUSE.
with furniture, etc. This is one of thp moat
located hotels in the city andis in
Thi is one of the most
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good condition for the accommodation of
farmers and travelers. Inquire on the)
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St. Cloud, June 17th0375. 3m.
offer for «*Ie v^ry cheap »ad|bn| ?fav©r
aMe terms the
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no-called, at Maine I*rairie, .Stearns county.
There are/oile hundred and sixty acres of
land over eighty acres fenced and fifty
acres broken] with plenty of meadow land
and woodland good story and a-half frame
house, with outbuildings, etc.
Is a Yeiy Desirable Piece of Property.
Or, I will rent the farm on favorable
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te^m mimm
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For Toons Indies (and Children,
222 Madison Avenue, Kew York.
WILL B180PJBN SEPTEMBER 2$ 18»6.
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HATS and CAPS,
and everything in the line ot GENTS WEAR, considering
quality and make, cheaper than elsewhere. My stock is
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in all departments. We solicit TOOT inspection.
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KINGSFORD'S
AND
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it TPor 43, I^tt-ajoi4ia*y-.
MANUFACTURED BY
T. HNGSFOBD & SON,
Vb.9 S a he W
GIVES A BEAUTTFUI. FINISH TO THE IJN
en and the difference In cost between it and com
mon starch is scarcely half a cent for ordinifry
washing Ask your grocer for it.
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or a in a a I a
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Is the original—Established in 1848. And pre
serves its reputation as PUKEB, STRONGER and
MOKE E A TE than any other article ol
the kind offeredj either of the same
name or with other titles.
ETEVENSOW MACADAM, (Ph. the highest
chemical authority of Europe, carefully analyzed
this Corn Starch, and says'it is a most exec Ik r, I ar
ticle of diet and its chemical and feeding properties
are fully eqnal to the best arrow root.
Directions for making Paddings, Custards, &c., ac
company each package.
or S a by all First-Claas
ESTABLISHED IN 1856.
CITT
DRUG STORE.
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(Successor to Splcer Carlisle,)
Manufacturer of and Wholesale and Retail
^*5^ dealer|n
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SignottinBtyBmlBedMcadtSl. Germain
street. '^'i^
Dealer in
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
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Brushes, Perfumery &c.,
ix 5
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OIL AND LAMPS.
Physicians' prescriptions carefully com
pounded, and orders answered with care
and dispatch.
Farmers and PKysieiansfixm the country
to»B find our stock of Medicines complete,
warranted genuine, and of the best quality.
S. MAKLATT.
washinrton Avenue. St. Cloud
•au-./ v* »pinw IU wQiarj
faimwiner. Try them. They wui
family maftldae composed of
barks, roots and seeds in selea
Ute combination with Iron, aad
contain barely eaongn spirits
to presetr* tbem. Tbey hare
been triedtorrears and thou
sands have testified to theirmer
its—none have complained.
lal will conrluoe
epUcal,ttiattueT are. by'
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nw the b*«tmedicine ever offer*
ed to suffering humanity.
For Sale by DrnggUta generally.
Prepared by
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For Sale in St. Cloud by
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