The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-12
NEWS ITEMS.

at Georgetown, Mass. on the 0Utn ult. SeVc-
raj towns i'll the north part Of Essex county
were largely represented Maj. Ben PEELEY
PooRE and others addressed the assemblage.
The Philadelphia Ledger states that de-
post was mlde at the mint on Saturday last,
of about five thousand dollars worth of melt
ed gold taken from the recently raised wreck
of the unfortunate steamer Erie, which was
burnt and sunk on Lake Erie some thirteen
years ago There was found mixed in with
the melted money, part of an old German lock,
the materials of which were in a pretty good
state of preservation.
President PIERCE approved of the most ex-
pcns!yc plan for furnishing Washington city
with water, the estimate being S2,30O,OOO,
but which, in the way that the work has been
commenced, will cost over $5,OOO,OOO.
The National Lltehigencer understands that
an entcrprising German is about to secure
patent for his discovery of flax, or its equiva-
lent, in fifteen different kinds of common weeds
The discovery is to be turned to account in
the manufacture of numerous articles of which
flax is the principal, but especially in the man.
! ufacturc Of paper, which is matter of deep
interest just now to the publishing world, the
scarcity of rags being great embarrassment
to business.
Mr.. BRAGG, the newly elected Governor
of North Carolina, Oh his return from the
canvass Of the western counties, when within
few miles Of Asheville by which his life was
placed in imminent danger. His horse bee ming
frightened ran away, and in his efforts to stop
him, Mr. BRAGG was thrown upon the ground
and run over by the buggy. He received some
severe bruises, but was able to 60 on his way
home.
The corner stone of the New York Asylum
for Idiots was laid with appropriate cercmo-
MES, at Syracuse, on Friday, Sept. 8, at IL
clock, A. M. The address was delivered by
Hon. JOHN c. SPENCER. This is the first
building erected in the United States for the
education Of idiots.
A negro in Philadelphia who goes by the
name of the Irish Niger" has confessed that
he murdered colorcd man, named Francis
TuMBLEsoN, some Il years ago. He has been
examined, and now awaits his trial.
Fires are raging in the Lake George Noun
tains having advanced nearly to SnERRILLs
Lake House. Great alarm is rife in that Vi
cinity.
The track of the Milwaukee and Mississippi
Railroad has sunk about eight feet where the
road runs on the marsh land between Second
and Third Lakes, about eight miles from Mad
ison, Wisconsin. The track lies six feet un-
der water for space of about 14O rods.
A paper at Athens, Greece says that the
Greek Government has selected marble block
in the Parthenon for the monument of GEO.
WASHINGTON, now being raised in the city
named. 1t is to bear the following inscription
"TO GEORGE WASHINGTON, the heroic general
the highminded citizen, the founder of modern
freedom, the land of SOLoN, THEMIsTOCLEs and
PERIcLEs, the birthplace of ancient freedom
dedicates this old marble as a sign of reverence
and admiration"
An anthracite coal burning locomotive has
been running for fortnight upon the Will
mineton and Baltimore Railroad. 1t con-
sumes only $500 worth of coal per day The
woodworking engine, whose place it takes,
consumed $2f.0O worth per day. The rcla-
tive value of wood and coal, however, is very
different there from their value in New York
or Boston.
The italian Opera season at Castle Garden
is fast drawing to an Improbable close. It is
said that $4,000 will not cover MAX MAHEr-
zEK'S losses. BURTON and his Chamber street
The business at the other establishments is
only sO-soish.
The Jones County Agricultural Society of
Iowa, among other sapient resolutions, has re-
solved that the inability of wife to make
bread is sufficient ground for divorce.
Hon. GEO. p MARSH has returned to his
home in Burlington, Vermont, after five
years absence as United States Minister resi-
dent ut Constantinope.
California is adding the grape to its culture,
and 1t is soon expected to excel Cincinnati in
the manufacture of wine.
Inc davenport Gazette says that good prog
ress is making in the blasting of tie rocks in the
Upper Rapids, and in a few days the barrier
to nav cation would he removed.
There was in the treasury of the United
States, the 23th ult.. 225G55s 5S 10.