The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-08-01
NEWS ITEMS.

county, I2S miles from Chicago. 1t is thought that
the whole road will be completed on or before Oct
LIST, 1855
The ''scoteh Giant living on the Mineral Point
road, died at Lapore Ind, on the 18th. He sup
posed to have had fit.
The Harlem Railroad Company have resolved to
recognize the over issues of stock made by KYLE
They thus assume abou, $500 shares.
The Alton Telegraph learns that there are but seven
miles of rail to be laid on the Chicago and Missis-
sippi Railroad to Connect that city with Chicago,
and this gap will be closed the present week.
in the 1-t Congressional district in Iowa, the Free
Democrats have Withdrawn their candidate, and
adopted that of the Wings, r. l.. Is. CLARKE.
A committee of the Common Council of Detroit,
appointed ascertain the mortality Of that city, re-
J, TT the total number Of inlcrmcnts 20! Jme to be
2lO. From the lst tn 22l Of July inclusive, 1873
The committee state that the average number OF
deaths from cholera, during July, has been II per
day.
! The work on the Mineral Point RAILROAD, meeting
The Illinois Central at Warren, has been stopped
1t has been understood that the ScHUYLERs we're
building the road, and their difficulties may be at
tributcd its suspension.
The Alton Telegraph announces the arrival in that
city Of three murderers Of Mr.. Story, whose SEN
tence was committed, by Gov. MArTEsoN, from hang,
Ing to imprisonment.
CLARK MILLS. the designer of the National Mon
umen, has received an order for the equestrian statue
Of Gen. JACKSON, to be placed i'll jackson Square,
New Orleans. He is to receive SIS, 900 for it.
The New York Tribune furnishes table Of divi-
dcnts that were to be disbursed in that city on the
Ist inst They amount t. 81, i33,627.
r.nu I a,en, Ulnce dong an unneasu "u,',tcss.
Nearly sixty pa,cnts-or alb ut tcu each day-have
been issued within week. The whole number OF
new cases decided will probably exceed three thou
sand for the past year.
D., The New York Erenng Post says The state OF
the prospects of the growing cropo cereals through
out Europe is very promising of plentiful harvest.
The Yield of the coming harvest i'll Europe is OF par
amount Importance, t,anscending all the possible
events of the Eastern war; as upon twill depend the
state of the money markets in London nnd Paris d.
reclly. The stock in all the European markets is
very low.
The San Francisco Herald mentions a stick of Or
egon fir timber recently presented Com MARTYR
the marine reporter, which in the original tree must
i have been l2i feet high, and only eight inches IN
! diameter the base. 1t is perfectly straight, and
d tuers regularly. The Comma lores friends intend
" erecting it signal pole.
The Supreme Court OF Holland has just decided a
case commenced in 1870, respecting the boundary be-
(. tween two connnnes. This suit has been in litiga
ton only $50 years.
The Buffalo Republican states that DEAN RICH
MoSp, Esq, the Vice President Of the Central Rail
road Com oany, has sold certain real estate to tina
{ corporation, be used for the purpose of depot
for the snug little sum of S25O,OOO.
a The French going to try their hands at ;
worlds fair, we'll as a worlds war. The exhibi
ton is to be under the auspices of the French Gov
!. ernment, and is to in May next. 1t is Il
include the industry and fine arts Of all nations, TO
the collection and exhibition of which the libe
! raj arrangements have been made
Is The Saratoga Sentinel says the number Of arrival
e there amount to eight hundred or thousand day.
, Galveston papers of the l ith report that hrg
=. BODY of Indians from Mexico marching into b
II interior of Texas, unopposed by efficient Troops
Great alarm existed, and the people were complain
ing of Gen. SMITH, and circulating petitions for hi
t. removal. and the appointment of Gen. HARVEY t
ID the chief command
=, The Council Bluffs Bugle says any person may 6
!, over t. Nebraska, make claim in the territory
Il, the Onahas, build and improve his place, by pawn
ri to the Indian chief for his tribe dollars for cac
ic claim. This, besides doing the half starved Indian
d. much good, will insure safety, and "secure clair
n worth a thousand the day you secure it,
L Mr.. LEE, of Cincinnati, who has kept recor
Of the heat for twenty years, says that Thursday wa
y the hottest day within that time. His thermomete
has hing in the place and never before g
&c above 90. On Thursday it was SO.
ID There will be no less than five Gubernatoral car
to didate in Maine at the State election. There wi
ID be the ''Wilt Cat" a"Morrill Squad ''Hunker,
vi a"Whig,' 'sLiquor Law and ''know Nothing
=, a. candidates.
n MIR. FoREN was shot by his own son, willie in
tn state OF IntoNication, few days ago, near Spring
X field, Mo.
'c- AT Cincinnati, boy who was amusin himself h
nc shooting off fire ackers, seeing an empty whshe
ID barrel on the sidewalk, put lighted cracker in +;
~ and stopped the bung hole. Singular as it NAV a,
pear, the osion Of the cracker forced out the hea
las uf The barrel and broke the buys leg.
he The Massachu cts Wing State Convention is
I've held on the 10th August.