The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-01-29
MINNESOTA AFFAIRS.

The NAME OF OUR TowN.-f 10 amazing
that journal Of as much sense AZ the Chicago
Journal, cannot learn, after SO long time, that
The name Of our town Is ST. Paul and not Saint
Pauis. In the present financial condition Of 81.
Paul, it may well be said, that she who steals its
purse, steals trash but he who fche, from il its
good name, (dees far worse.)
THAT SrREAM-Whatis the reason we eau
| not have ,hs stream that runs down through the
upper end oftown, taken down through channel
| to be made fur il. through the whole length Of
town, say down Fourth street, large reservoir
being made, say at Court House square! Then
there viii be something to encourage the forma-
ton Of Fire companies aud Hook and Ladder
companies.
TAKE CARE OF Yovs AsHEG-Any man
who keeps fire in St. Paul, Of course has to
take up hot ashes; and more than half the fires
occur by setting away hot ashes in wooden ves-
sells You can 60 TO a timer and get large
sheet iron ash seutile made, for dollar aud a
half. or you can get 200 or 500 brick and make
an ash house, taking one Of the large fiat rocks,
that are excavated on Bench street, for founda-
ton, and the bricks for walls; then make good
wooden roof. The whole expense would be little,
the security great and the economy would douby
pay the expense, the FIRST year; for it would cna-
bic every weman who keeps house in town, to
make oil the soap wanted in the family for wash.
ing and for all other purposes. It is miserable
thing to be "out of soap" as"E
THEM PIcs.-Whas pigs! Why those killed
by Joseph Haskell, Esq, Of Washington County
few days since, weighing 4l0, All and Al;
each.--Can't raise pork in Minnesota.
/ AWFUL CoLD.-Whsn the mercury CONCEALED
in our thermometers, At 40 degrees below zero
we thought it was cold enough; although our PEG,
pls being full Of blood and vigsr, were out all the
time, seaming. chopPing, sawins,-aIl sorts o.
work. But Goshen, Indiana, beats US SO bad 60,
cold weather, that We must give it up. The
thermometer at Goshen on the l7th Dec, wa.
quoted at l2o degrees below zero At Goshen
they doubtless have in use Mermometrical lamp,
to keep mercury from freezing. Hero is where
4 Goshen has the advantage Of st. Paul. If the
quicksilver. would not freeze in our thermometers
st. Paul would beat Goshen's hind legs off. Al
frcezin; 'bet you two to one.'' ..
! HoLE-IS-rHE-DAY. "A Dubuque pape
says
"IIolc- in-,he- Day. the head chief Of the Chip
] pewas, recently killed another Indian, in
drunken brawi, near Wa,ab, Minnesota Terri
tory
How easy it is to get lie on the wing! The
progeny Of yigii's winged "Fama, - j, innumera
bic. Some presses are always manufacturing
"msn in buckram." The truth, is that Hole in
Day had fuss with another Indian, beth o
them being drunk, and was cut with knife.
The way news travels nowadays, is abou
this: The frst newspaper report will be announced
thus .. ..,. .. .... .
! "BLoopr INDIAN MAssAcRE!-ln a figh
which occurred last week at Watab, be-
tween those hostile nations Of Indians, the Win
nebag goes and Chippewas, Hole in-,he-Day, tn,
celcbra,ed Chippewa chief, son Of the celebrated
old chief, Hole-n-the-Day, SC, who was ga,
brave as Julius Cesnr," was killed"
The next week, the same paper will announce
I'VE learn that Hole-in-,he-Day, who was re
ported to be killed, last week is still suryivn,
his wounds BY the next issue Of the paper,
! will perhaps turn out, that Mechanically, wa
not in any fight at all; but that Ssre-Toes,
Sioux hunter, had fight with black bear, on
killed him after a severe contest. BY that time
the paper announcing an Indian war and the deaf
Of HoIe-in-the- Day, has travelled into the states
news nohgers pick i. up there, and distort j, in,
every possible shape; one paper announcing tn
locality of the occurrence to be in Minnesota
another in Iowa, another in Oregon, and anothe
copying from memory, announces that the 'fa
nous chief, Burnt. hole-ia-a blanket, made day
lish, shine through the sisseton cheftain, Plank
Road If journalists would be more careful /
learn automatically and publish literal truth
the reading public would learn to regard ncwspa
pers as something more reliable than periodical
fc,ious. Some paper will perhaps copy part o
this paragraph as news from Minnesota. r..s.
i CoLD--At Franconia, N. H., they have ha,
the Mercury down at "a below zero. We usss
TO consider "tha Notch" a sort Of an,hesis to tn,
hottest place we read Of We beat the Notch
rather; but they have wind and cold together
while our cold 10 as still and calm as moonligh
summer night. The N. Y. Sun, commenting
,beologically upon the cold weather, says,
"The intense Of cold is as terrible as the in
tense Of heat; and as regards our own private
feeling on the subject, we would as lief be eter.
nally refrigerated as cternaily broiIed. A freez
ing Satan. with breath like a wiry-edged nor
wester, n pitchfork Of ice and domain below ze-
70. is not at all preferable TO the popular demon
snortng fame, armed with three prongs at weld
ing heat, and residing in the midst Of perpetua
!. pyro,echnics.
! THE LAST or NAPoLKoN's MARSHALL
Marshal Souit, at The last accounts 10 dead
He is nearly ninety years Of age. HIS rapa-
city in appropriating the treasures Of art con-
tanned in the converts and monasteries Of Spain
at the time Of its invasion by Bonaparte, surpas-
sed even his military achievements. As robber