The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1852-09-16

! NEwPoRr.-fney seem to have been having d
lively time at this f.moss bathing pldce-"as live
Is as old cheese First some men who had IN
formed the authorities of violation of the Liquor
Law by the Ocean House, pelted with rotten
eggs. Nexta fracas takes place between South c,ner
and an Irish waiter. The facts said b. these:
At this same Ocean House waiter attempted take
Il dish from Southerner. who serving himself
and friends from 1t, at the dinner table Suidav.-
The gentleman refusing to give it up and the waiter
persisng in taking the former struck him in the face
with caSe-knIfe, il is sait--cuting him severely
The waiter dismissed by the landlord, but rein
stated the threat OF a portion of the walters to
leave There no farther difficulty until the next
morning, when a band OF walters approached tn
Souherner's chair, evidently for dstu hiacc upoa
which he drew pistols, and threatening shoot who
ever came near him, kept the waiters-al Itish--at
bay, until joined by several friends, when REGULAR
knock down comm enced, and the waters cXpel-
led. Great excitement OF course, prevailed amoag
the ladies al the table. After the walters were eX-
PEELED, the gentleman--so saws the rcport-was IN
gently requested to leave with his family, as there
every chance for another attack which must have
ended in great bloodshcd. He left Monday, ac-
companicd by fifty friends, and hundreds o.
Souheners (rcpoit says who could not leave with
him. determined to leave on Tuesday. --lMo. Dem.
/ Niagara correspondent 81 the Springfield Repub-
lean gives the following of the recovery of
the body of Miss Skinner, who committed suicide. BY
Jumping INTO the Niagara river, just above the Falls
She had Invested herself Of all her clothes and let
ter left, saying the people would never her
again. regarded this report of the thousand
Roo:baCks, manufactured to order in such places, for
the purpose of putting money into the purses OF the
people around. But this proved to be fiction, for
in the presence Of an hundred people, she fised
for in the eddy close by Table Rock, for full hour
yesterday morning. During this hour, the sight was
horrible t. behold, the body appearing be tossed up
by some invisible power below, discovering to the
crowd her head and shoulders, with her long tressos
streaming around them, while again il drawn I'M
der from sight She soon appeared with her limbs
up, some other portion of her body, aad after de-
sariblnJ iew momenta.y gyramons, to be tossed
again and again, like cork ont Of the water Ropes
thrown long time with nooses, but she clulcd
all such efforts, for, by the time ropes were thrown
Cor her, she under water and distant two rods
from the shore. where boats cannot live an instant
Finally, she thrown at by sturgeon spear, and
brought to shore. She was terribly mancled nor
would she be recognized b, any who had known
her.
REMARKABL PHENONESoN NEARMAnIsox
GA.--A most remarkable electrical phenomenon was
seen az the plantation OF Charles J. Baldwin, Esd
about FIVE miles from this place, on Tuesday, jane
9Th, 1852 MIR. Baldwin was standing on his porch
when Immediately, after pretty flash of light
ming, he observed ball of fire sixty or seventy
yards from him. The ball, when FIRST seem was about
foot IN diameter. 1t instantly began TO expand.
throwing OF beautiful Scintati0ns: and cOnu,Ied to
scintiIlatc until became twelve feet in diane
ter when it disappeared. Mr.. Is. SAYS il was the
most beautiful sight ne ever behed. His family both
white and black, who it. very much fright
ened, but he was apparently much interested ;
feel no alarm. He has examined his where it
appeared and observed no i1ns of injury. It must
have been visible for time, say fifty sixty
Dads, the negroes in the house and gave the
alarm and retained before it Disappeared. Augusta
Con.
DIsTREssING AND SINGULAR CALAMITY.-Thc
Kendall county Courier mentions a most distressing
calamity, which occurred on the 9th inst, near Oswe-
go, by which two boys, aged ten and eleven sons Of
West and Mr.. Gagwin, lost their lives. They
went out to play among Young cattle, taking with
them rope end of which, each tied around his
body, in slipping knot, in order to the cattle
over 1t and trip them down. While engaged in their
sport, large steer in going the rope accidentally
caught over his horn, and being frightened, ran off
dragging the unfortunate boys after him. whipping
them against fence and around its corners. When
the rope, the waist Of said be SO compres
sed that it only for inches in circumference and
the other about six. Both have since died
MONUMENT TO AARON BURR.--The Princeton
Wing says that a neat and plain monument of marb,.
has been erected the Of Aaron Burr lately
The inscription is 'sAaron Burr born February G,h.
1856, died September 18th 1895. A Colonel in the
army of the Revolution. Vice President of the Uni
ted States from 1901 to IS05.'