The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-02
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Sweet potatoes promise large yield in the
neighborhood of Norfolk.
The Rev. JESSE w. Hume, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church, Tallahassee, Florida, is
dead.
The corn fields in the lower counties of
Virginia and N orth Carolina give evidence OF
a large yield.
Rev. G. S. DOB, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church at Holly Springs, Mississippi, has
been elected President of the West Tennessee
College.
w. YOUNG was shot and badly wounded in
Dinwiddie county, Va, last Friday, by THoM-
AS SLAUGHTER.
A State mass convention of all opposed to
the Nebraska bill is to be held at Springfield,
ILL.,, on the 9Th of October.
The great industrial and agricultural exhi-
bition at Quebec, opened on the 18th ult.-
The exhition building covers twenty-four acres
Of ground.
A woman has been elected constable in
Perry county, Illinois.
SAMUEL JACKSON, wealthy merchant of
Providence, r. L. is dead.
The Norfolk Herald complains of the high
prices Of marketing.
The pattern shop of LYMAN KINsLEY in
Canton, Mass, was destroyed by fire, the 18th.
Loss $4,000.
The Syracuse Chronicle says that extensive
preparations are being made for the celebration
of the Jerry rescue on the lst of October.
WILLIAM A. HOWARD, an anti Nebraska
Wing, of Detroit, was nominated by Wing
Congressional Convention at Ann Harbor,
Michigan.
The floating debt of Spain is S33,000,000.
In Newburyport, Mass, on Monday, a gen.
tleman was arraigned and fined Sc 80 for kis-
sing buxum Irish lass without permission.
Four runaway slaves from Loudoun county,
Va, bound n orth, were arrested in Washing
ton county, Md, last week.
The glue house attached to Parsely's distil-
lcry, at Wilmington, n. G., was consumed on
Sunday night.
The Hebrew Society in Washington have
rented private house on the Island, in which
to hold their NEE 'ings.
Yellow fever is said to be gradually increas-
ing at New Orleans, and the deaths in the
Charity Hospital average about thrirty-three
per day.
Reducing wheat to -four, the quantity re-
ceived at Albany, N. Y, this year, is less
than last year by l,l27,3OO bbls.
In some parts of Missouri cattle are dying
of "dry murrain," caused by want Of proper
grazing and water.
Judge Sharkey was the orator at the laying
of corner stone of Masonic Hall, at War
renton, Miss
GEORGE N. DEXTER has been elected Presi-
dent of the Vermont Central Railroad, in
place Of EDWARD CRANE.
Lieut.. JOSEPH C. WALSH, and Surgeons
GEO. TERRnL and CHARLES F. B. GILIIou,
have rendered their designations to the Secre-
tary Of the Navy. -',~
Accounts from North Mississippi state that
in many sections the cotton crop will not yield
more than 500 pounds to the acre.
The York County (Pa) Agricultural Fair
has been postponed, and will be held on the
18th, 18th, and 18th of October.
The Richmond and Danville WAY Railroad
is now finished to within IA miles of Halifax
Court House.
The church of Rev. Mr. GulIiver, at Nor
wich Ct, was entirely destroyed by FIRE on
Monday.
The Albany alias says thai 0. W. BEARDs-
LEY has succeeded in making beautiful paper
out of bass wood.
JOHN P. R1vEs, A. NJ, has been selected as
President of the Wesleyan Female College in
the city of jackson, Miss.
CORNELIUS Skinner, Esq, q valuable CHI
zen of Frederick County, Nd, died on
Wednesday; he fell from his house, and was
injured, in consequence Of being attacked by
paralysis. I