The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-18
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Four of the members of the Missouri Legis-
lature are "in bad fix" being pledged to vote
with the majority; but no party has majority
Solitude and society are the two great mag
nets which attract mankind-and both have
exclusive claims to merit, and both have their
vOtaries.
The market intelligence says hops are going
up. We are glad to hear it, as this is deci
dedly step in the right direction.
Some malicious persons assert that the let
tiers NJ. D., which are placed after physicians
names, means "Money Down."
The kidnappers of SOLOMON NoRrHRUp-
ALEX. MERRILL and JOSEPH RUssEL1-were
indicted at Ballston on Friday, but they will
not be tried till October or December.
The Peoples Line of steamboats, on the
Hudson now charge one dollar for passage tC
New York, instead Of fifty cents as heretofore
On and after the 1st of October, the circu
lation of foreign bank notes below $40 will bt
prohibited in the State of Ohio, by law
passed last winter.
The employees at the Springfield armory
have subscribed $500 for a piece of plate te
be presented to Col RIPLEY, the late military
superintendent, as mark of personal esteem
The cod-fshery, according to the report Of
the schooner alabama, at Princetown, has
been fairly remunerative this season. Most
of the vessels on the Banks had done we'll, and
those which were about to depart for the
southern side of the Banks.
The St. Johns, N. B., diving company, who
have been employed in searching for sunker
treasure along the Nova Scotia coast, have
met with good success, and are now engaged
in raising pig iron from the wreck of Her Ma
jesty's ship Tribune, lost off Herring Cove in
1898.
Judge SroRRs has refused to grant an in
junction to restrain the select men and town
agent of Hartford, Conn.,, for violating the
act for the suppression of intemperance, by
furnishing to, or selling spurious liquors thro
a town agent.
The New York Journal of Commerce says
that in place of the recent motor in the Erics,
son, q pair of approved and very economical
boilers are to be put in, and that the work will
be done in about eight weeks, when she will
take her place amongst our steamers.
Chicago is fast peopling the Illinois Peni-
Tertiary Nineteen prisoners, convicted at the
present term of the Court, are awaiting trans
portation to Alton, and the Jail is crowded
with persons charged with offences against the
law.
All the stores and shops in the village OF
Suncook, n. H., ten miles from Concord, az
in number,) were burned down on Thursday
last. For business establishment, except the
factory, was left. The woods adjoining were
burning furiOusly.
The Journal Of Commerce says the assessors
returns, just sent in, show an enormous increase
in the valuation both of real and personal
property in New York. during the past year,
amounting on real estate to eighty-seven mil
lion of dollars, over and above the assessment
OF last year. The comparison is shown as fol-
lows The total assessment returned for 1853,
was $4Ol ,366,796 ditto for 1854, S4S8, OOO,-
600.
Mr.. FRANCIS B. HABERsHAM, one of the as
sistant editors Of the Courier and Enquirer,
died at his residence in Brooklyn on Friday
asst. His disease was the typhoid fever.
We understand, says the Troy Times, that
the loss of the Mechanics Mutual Insurance
Co., by the late fire, amounts to Sc, 900; and
that the assessment on the premium notes
will amount to 30 per cent.
The Cedar Rapids Era tells of cucumber
1t has seen. that grew four feet long in ten
days from the falling of the blossom.
The loss by the Milwaukee fire Is now fully
estimated at 1882 600, on which an insurance
was effected to the amount of $233,OOO.
According to the ordinary chronology, we
are in the year of tie W RID 1862.
Miss LvcY STONE aboa: to b. married to
rich gentleman in Cincinnati.