The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-04-10

June; but that the locks are only 10
feet long. 1t is great mistake that the
locks are not large enough to pass
boats Of a proper size, so that
we could have regular line of steam
boat packets, running between GSeen
Bay and Saint Paul, without breaking
bulk.
eg~ An honest Dutchman in train
ing up his son in the way he should go,
exercised him in Bible les
sons. On one OF these occasions he
asked:
''Who was dat vat would not shleep
NIT Botipher's wife,"
"Shoseph."
"Vell vat vas de reason he would not
shleep NIT her''
"Don't know-but shopose he vas not
shleepy."
E~ In the spring of 1926, the first
steamboat of the season arrived at fort
Smelling on the Cd day Of March, we
are informed.
SuIcIpE.-Dr. Sewell Brown, of Sea-
brook, N. H., committed suicide, by
hanging himself, in his stable, on the
morning Of Sunday, the Sd of March
Cause unknown.
* We hardly expect the arrival of
another mail, until by steamboat.
60 The actual distance by air line,
from Saint Paul to Prairie du Chen, is
only 100 miles!
q A chemist in New York has just
invented substitute for tobacco. 1t is
made Of guano, and will doubtless soon
supersede the weed, as it is just as mas
ty, and good deal cheaper.
sa- One of the courts of Alabama
has been trying to solve, for the last
fortneight, the birth and parentage of a
little darkey, who has fallen heir to
quite an estate. Like Mungo Park,
they are endeavoring to discover 'sthe
source of the Niger" but whether they
will succeed is still problematical.
SUBSTITUTION oE TMIEF.-The other
day an Indian came into the jeweler
shop of Mr.. Spicer, on Roberts street,
Saint Paul, and while there, stole a
watch. Mr.. Spicer followed him up
street, to Mr.. Fuller's store and collared
him, and seeing no one to assist, left
the Indian standing by the side of Mr.
Fuller's store, while ne went inside to
get some one to hel him search the
body of the Indian Returning in two or
three minutes. he found an Indian
standing in the same spot, in the same
attitude he had left the thief in; his
blanket philosophicaily folded around
him; but he was another Indian, who
had taken the place Of the thief during
Spicer's absence-while the thief HIM
self, slipped around the house and fed.
eI~ The Indians say the first water
melon they ever saw was rolled acct
dentalIy into one of their summer hous-
es by some person; the melon rolled
across the earth-hoor; the Indians, not
knowing what it was, took it to be some
animal that had come for some revenge
full purpose, and some took to climb
ing; others endeavored to hide them
selves in the summer houses. The Joke
was SO good, that they still talk and
laugh about ''the watermelon fright"
p. p.
TIE SAINT ANTHONY FIRE.-On Sum
day last, fire broke out in the village
Of Saint Anthony, in the dry prairie
grass, and burnt over several squares,
where buildings ,ciH be.
e On Monday morning last, the at
tention of the villagers of Saint Paul,
was attracted by the lamentation of
squaw, singing the Dacota death dirge,
as she was crossing to our town in a
canoe with an Indian and another scuaw.
She was bewailing the death Of "Rat-
teri" her brother, an old Indian who
was in Saint Paul the day before,
where he obtained whiskey, and this
morning was found dead in his lodge.
THE WEATHER-The rain continued
with occasional intervals. from our last
publication uutil Wednesday morning;
when the cold increased little, but the
weather continued cloudy, the river
constantly rising. Thursday evening,
DR.. CARL came over from Saltwater
with news of the Indian massacre at the
head of Apple river; cloudy, and high
winds during the night and the same on
Friday morning; but soon clearing Off
At thirteen minutes and four seconds af
ter ten o'clock A. M. the whole field Of
ice in the river, from Capt. Wakefeld's
down to the bend, as far as we can see
from town, moved off slowly, sweeping
down the young trees that covered the
small island just below Raspberry ISL
and piling up large winrow of ice,
crowded upon the north shore in the
bend of the river below Trout brook,
where the whole floating mass was
brought to a stand still, after moving a
distance Of IIS feet inches and quar-
ter, in 81 minutes and 3 seconds; still
remaining unbroken above Saint Paul;
but, as Sucker would say, "seeming