The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-25
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
A barn of Mr.. Harmon, about mile from
Ashtabula harbor, was burned with its con-
tents on Sunday evening 18th inst. 1t was
the work of an incendiary. Loss calculated at
$500.
There are in the United States 40,564 ply
sicians, 19l surgeons, 6,l39 apothecarics, As
chemists, 1928 dentists, 10 occulists and so
patent medicine makers.
A crazy woman who escaped from the Utica
Lunatic Asylum four years since, was lately
6und in the woods near Green Bay.
The boiler of the steam engine in the plan
ing Mill of Lyon, Curtis & Co., of Bridgeport,
burst on Friday morning last, without any ap-
parent cause. The building was considerably
damaged.
The Boston Evening Telegraph of the 4th
inst. says" A friend reminds us that ID years
ago to-day, October 4, 1874, most of the Rail-
roads leading into this city were so blocked up
with snow as to render the passage extremely
difficult
1t is contemplated, it is said by Army Off
GERS, to send considerable force, consisting of
infantry, light artillery and dragons, to the
West next spring, to enter on a regular cam
paign against the Pawnees and Sioux Indians,
for the many depredations they have lately
committed.
The brewers in Albany have resolved to ad-
vance the price of beer 81 per Dbl. 1t went
into operation on Monday last. The rates FIX
cd upon are s. for draft ale, Sc for bottling
ale and porter, net This advance is caused
by the high prices now paid for barley and
hops.
A son of Jacob Berringer the Postmaster
at Cape Vincent, New York, was arrested on
Saturday last, by Col North, Special Mail
Agent, on a charge of being engaged in rob-
bling the mail between Rome and Cape Vim
cent He was held to bail to answer to the
charge.
Mr.. Carey, Sunday School Agent at st.
Louis says that 1000 Sunday Schools have
been organized in Missouri, and parts of Hi
nois and Iowa, in the last nine years. There
are also between GOO and 700 established in
Texas.
The Rev. C. F. Martin and wife and Mr.. L.
S. Murad, Missionaries under the care of the
American Missionary Association, sailed for
their missions among the Copts in Egypt, on
Wednesday.
The Washington Sentinel of Tuesday no
tees the prevalence Of much cholera morbus
and dysentery. A black man after eating
fresh fish for disner, was taken with cramps
and died before night
The last advices from Bennaire are to the
effect that salt there is very scarce. For car
goes, indeed, none is to be had. At Curacao,
too, the article is equally scarce. The Excel
sior, at New Haven, had to wait twenty-five
days for cargo.
The st. Louis Republican of Thursday says
there are very few boats that arrive from New
Orleans but have yellow fever on board, and
we have always noticed this season, says the
Republican, that instead of the passengers, it
is the officers and crew that are attacked and
die with it.
The Vermont Mercury says that during the
past week gold has been washed from the sand
Of stream in Plymouth, and the yield of the
washing has been 50 considerable as to render
it probable that profitable business may be
made of Il.
Barnum, it is said, proposes to hold Ma
tional Baby Show at his Museum in New York
next month. a'.
John R. Stephens, of Hornellsville, New
York, has obtained a judgement against the
Buffalo and New York City Railroad of some
thing like $1,000, for damages in running
across his farm without paying any compen-
sation therefor, or even procuring the right of
way. .1t +
A Telegraph Wagon" is in use in the
Army in Turkey. 1t is formed of large coil
Of gntta percha covered copper wire, attached
to q selfacting pillow. which buries the wire o
few inches below the surface of the ground
On changing quarters, the wire is dug up and
used again.
Rev. Josiah w. Canning, of Gill, Massa-
chusetts, for many years the respected and use
full pastor of the Congregational Church in
that place, committed suicide on Wednesday
morning, by drowning himself. He was in q
state of mental arrangement. His age was
above 20.