The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-11-28
LOCAL AFFAIRS.


To Accommodate our issue Of the Pioneer, TO
the arrival and departure of the mails, we shall
have TO issue little earlier than our date, during
the close of navigation; and il viii hereafter be
indispensable 10 have all communications and ad-
vertIsemcn,s for the Pioneer sent in as early as
the Monday preceding each issue.
PsIcHs IN ST.. PAUL-.Fiour sells al from
IS 80 TO So 90 per barrel; buck wheat flour at
a GO per hundred; potatoes at 90 ceuts; pork +,
clear mess, at SIS 90 per barrel; and beef and
pork, fresh, at cents per pound. So we can
hardly endorse the second line Of Hoods coupIet
sob. God. that bread should be so dear, d,
And flesh and blood so cheap
There was not much change Of weather since
our last publication, until Friday morning, when
it became much warmer. On Saturday, the morn
ing sun burnt away the clouds, and we enjoyed
day balmy and delightful as if ii had been fresh
P'ncked irou, the quivering heart Ct fresh slain
Indian Summer. Not vestige remained of WIN
Ter, the dreary aocks Of honting ice hasten-
ing, like wild geese down the river, to lave in the
sunny South
There was a narrow escape from FIRE, last
Friday morning, at the lower end of our village,
the fire originating from badly constructed brick
hue; and Friday night, bin Of charc AL in
the blacksmith shop Of Mr. TAYLOR at the
upper end Of town, took fire and was consumed,
without damage TO the building; which was for
tunately constructed of brick, made by our towns
man. Daniel F. Brawley, at moderate price;
and beng, a. he says in his advertisement, the
cheapest, warmest and best material there i. for
building. t~ ..t.....
People Of our town--recolicct. the scarcity of
waicr-not i reservoir, (although an ample reser-
voir Of the best water, might be had in the very
heart Of town, at very small expense, and is in
dispensable, even more so than any addition TO
The number Of our public buiidings,) not fire
company or FIRE engine, any apparatus 10 eA,in-
guish fire, save VIVA, every person has at hand.
Remember your hazard, and Increase your eau
ton. Every building in town ought 10 be insured
besides. ,F
Last Tuesday morning. {abou. one week after the
engine Of the saw mill at the Lower Landing was
in OPERATION the boilers Of the new saw mill Of
WATSON & Barnes, at the Upper Landing, Sam,
Paul, was heated up, and the engine in motion,
and The saw ripping into the heart of pine log with
strokes so rapid, yon could clearly sec only two
strokes, the first and las, in cutting board The
eye could no, follow the motion of the saw, but
cond barely discern 6iar where il was fiymg up
and down. 1859
"liCMsLE CONE TuMBLE Down SEVEN
PAIss Or STSIRs.D--We have read Of old
Pamam's ride down the prccipice a, Stony POINT,
on horseback, and have seen some rough riding in
over bitches and stone walls, and Of their steeple
chases. where they ride through swamps and over
1--WE barred gates, or every one by the nearest
course he can, in s'eeple chase, Of perhaps thirty
miles; but we do not know Of any riding to COM
pare with tina, of Sergeant FindIey, Of tile U. S.
Dragons, AT Fort Smelling. Our readers know Of
those successive flights Of wooden stairs, leading
down from the end Of Bench street, by Mr.. Ran
dall's store, 10 the Lower Steamboat Landing.
Sergeant FindIey, who was down from the fort,
rode his horse, pel nell down all those flights Of
stairs. to Dir. Randa's store door, aud then took
the horse back up the stairs. by the same way he
came down, without injury to horse or rider. The
horse mast have been perfectly sober.
Worrhippers at Mr.. Neill's church. will be glad
TO learn that the building is to be pinsered immc
dia'ely, and will. IN a few days, be made very
comfortable for those whose conscicnces arc 10,
rather tender. Nw