The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1850-10-31

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Snolle,t for aims, he gave hial, through mistake,
guinea The poor fellow, on perceiving it, hob |
bled after hun TO return it; on which Snioet re-
turned il to him with another guinea as reward
for his honesty, exclalmlng at the same time,
''What lodging honesty has taken up with"
sEGoNoMY.--A Dutch farmer down on the
Mohawk had just built a new barn, and while the
operation of Singing was going on, he one day
mounted TO the roof TO overlook operations, and
soon discovered what he sagely considered great
piece Of extravaganza in the workmen and that
was, that while they drove but one nail in the
small shingles, they invariably put two in the wide
ones. Mynheer said nothing, but while the boss
and hands were at dinner, he went cut TO the
barn. Ratchet ia hand, ard split all the ride shin
/ gies
| Jockey at fair, who had bargained with
counryman for horse that happened to have
bald face, observed to the latter he looked pale
/ in the face. "Yes," said the counryman, ''and if
you had looked througha halter as long as he has
yeu would be pale IN the face too. .
A Mr. Baby, Treasurer of the Western Dis
=. .rict of Upper Canada, has absconded with
$4,000 of Queen Vicioria's money. This is one
of the worst Of Queen Nic's battles.
J. PANORAMA OF A JOURNEY TO HEAVEN.
A novelty in the way of panoramas, is soon to be
ready Tor exhibition in n. Representing The
events related in Bunyan's Pilgrims Progress.
The Central Vermont Railway Company ST
beating up for recruits from Montreal to proceed
to Boston and hear the Swedish Nightingale; :. the
charge TO Boston and TO Montreal again, including
concert ticket, is only Sl5. The inducements
thus offered, have served to secure eonsidera-
bic party.
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Thunder Bay Island, on the 9Th inst. No lives
lost. Part Of the cargo saved.
New OLA Flenchman obtained twenty
quarts Of lamp oil from seventeen bushels of
reaches.
PIGEON Roosr.-There is an immense pig
geon roost about mile and Il half northwest of
this village, where millions of pigeons do nightly
congregate, whose roaring is as the noise of many
waters, and is heard at 4 great distance. Scores
of sportsmen visit the grounds nightly with clubs
and guns, and bear away hundreds of dozens OF
the feathered bpeds the rewards Of victory and
evidences OF their prowess.-[ Rayenna, (Ohlo)
Star.
Our OF HIS LAT1TCDE.--An alligator meas :
urng five feet six inches III length, lately cap
tured ia the Scota river, about three miles below
Columbus.
Observation-Disclosures, the fend ncarnate,
who recently attempted 10 destroy his wife by
throwing her into Il WELL was tried in Ashtabsla
County and convicted. lie was sentenced to the
penitentiary for years, the extent of the law
for the crime of which he Convicted Cleve-
land Herald.
The steamer Mustang. says the St. Louis Union
of the 18th inst, bound up the Missouri river,
with full cargo, ran against snag and sunk on
the 18th inst., parting about mdshlps. She Will
! prove total loss. Partially insured Cargo con-
sisted of groceries and dry goods; loss on these is
, heavy. A hat-boat, belonging to the steamer
. Kansas, and laden with corn, also suak ii about
l the same time.
MURDER IN DRACUr.--Y esterday forenoon
a man named Ryan, in the employ OF Sir. Plyinp-
ton, Il farmer IN Dracat, was shot dead by per-
son whose name have not learned. 1t appears
e that some men were ont cunning, aud were tres
passing on Pympton's land. Ryan went TO warn
them oil, when one Of them elibcratcy shot him
; dead. The murderer is known, and the officer.
5 are after him Boston Herald.
Acc1pENT Ar CilURcH.-The vestibule oil
Stuyvesant Church fell on Sunday morning last
and some fifteen OF twenty persons, mostly te-
Y males, Were thrown into the cellar. Great alarm
aud anxiety prevailed for time, bat il was founc
that no was seriously injured, except son o
Dr. Morris, whose head was badly cut by the
: faIl.-[N. Y. Eve. Post, sth
: GALENA BUsINEss.--The Jefersonan of the
18th nst asserts that the above city, with popu
: iaton of between 1000 and 5000 does three time
9 as much business as any town OF lis sue IN thu
u United States For example: IL furnishes large
portion Of Wisconsin and Iowa and the whole o
n Minnesota and the region north, with market
= 1t has the natural advantages Of soil and position
# but wants the the artificial ones of an ambition
+ and busting population The Jelersonian say
ar that they have only to lrGhs up TO outstrip evel
d Chicago.
Not only is the above enconum upon the bust
20 ness of Galena true, but the half is not told.
$ AFoRTUvATE MrNER.-We yesterday con
lie versed with gentleman, Just down from tn
e mines, who gave Us account of the good for
= tune of IA man named Joilson. He had been i
:" the mines but three days in ALL and will retur
le home with the largest pile ever taken out i
the same length of time. He commenced wor
> on the south branch of the middle Fork of Feath
err River, digging upward from the base Of tn
= mountain, when. the second day, he came t
+ rock, around which the river had formed a
10 eddy, and by O'Clock next day, he had got on
d sixty pounds Of gold, without washing panfu
K The Jumps were from 50 to $500 lie then sol
10 out his claim for SIS 900, and packed his dus
!, upon mule, and started for this city. He wi
~ probably reach here in day or two. This is u,
=. doubtedly the best days work done in Cali
y fornia The truth of the story is vouched for, a
our informant himself saw the gold San Fran
cisco Herald.
E His luck is literally "oae in ten thousand
n NAvrGATrNG THE ArR.--We yesterday eS
y amined new invention, which promises to real
ID ize tie hitherto visionary antcipations of sue
Y. cessful and practical navigation of the air. Tn
4 invention is new application of the principle {
flying machine, which has already attracte
the attention and received the appreciation
J. many eminent scientific in this country.
is believed that the feasibility of air navigation ha
T. been indisputaby demonstrated, and that by th
OIL machine space can be annihilated with rapidt
W second only to the Magnetic Telegraph The in
I" ventor, Mr.. John Iaggart, of Charlestown, Mas:
has expended much time and labor in perfectin
5, his improvement, and purposes exhibiting lis &C
3 ton BY an ascension from this city, which viii,
Of in short time. The machine may be examine
i. at Ounlap's Hotel, 1876 Fulton st.--lN. Y. Tril
l. DREADFUL SHIPwREcK.-The ship Rosa
linda, Capt. Timpson, which sailed from Quebe
/ about the 25th day of August for Liverpool, o