The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-30
NEWS ITEMS.


NEWS ITEMS.
The Norwalk Gazette learns that Noah
LEE, who has been somewhat extensively en-
gagged in counterfeiting in the vicinity of Nor
walk, has turned States evidence, and implica-
ted a number of persons, heretofore of high
moral and social position, in his operations
LEE, before his arrest, was respectable far
mcr near Norwalk.
The advices received from the vine districts
Of France are deplorable, and in several the
vintages will be totally inadequate to the Or
binary consumption. The price of wine was
therefore augmcnting.
ID. LIrrLEJoHN has been re-nominated for
the Assembly by the Wings of the First As
sembly District Of Oswego County, New
York.
Rev. f. LEAvIrr, son of Judge LEAvIrr, of
Steubenville, Ohio, is about embarking for
India as missionary of the Presbyterian
Church.
The Indiana State Journal establishment
has been sold to a company, under whose
management it will be conducted as hereto
fore.
The New York Herald says advices have
been received by our Government from our
Minister to the effect that the new Ministers
have agreed on terms for the sale of Cuba, and
that both England and France had acquiesced
in the transfer
A French paper mentions a remarkable
cure of Cholera, effected by ipecacuanna, ad-
ministered like snuff After one pinch the
patient sneezed so long that violent reaction
took place, heat returned to the surface, and
the man got well.
Counterfeit fives on the Oneida Bank, N.
Y, threes on the Citizens Bank of Ogdens-
burg, and fives on the Oneida Bank of Madi-
son county, n. Y, are in circulation.
1t is reported that Grisi and Mario are dis
satisfied with Mr.. Hackett, or with something
elsc, and threaten to 60 back again to Eng
land.
The Trey Wing says that the fund for the
relief of the needy sufferers by the late fire,
amounts to abou: $4,000.
The married men of the New York Cricket
Club have beaten the single members. A
poor, miserable old bachelor says be isn't sur
prised at it; "they probably got their hands in
by beating their wives"
The New York Central Railroad has been
carrying flour this season to the extent of It's
capacity. The increase of freights for Au-
gust, "a over the same month in '53, was
$46,e e9 AZ.
Among the new inventions lately patented,
at Washington, is new brick-kiln, which it
is expected will effect such saving in fuel,
and in the waste by unbaked and overburnt
brick as to reduce the cost of manufacture to
to two-thirds.
PAT. HALL, late partner of LOLA MoNrEz,
is reported as having returned to Cleve-
land.
Crime is frightfully on the increase in New
York. JOHN GRAHAM, a contractor, was muir
uCICu vi AAuAcuoy hiSAV, ~ OAS 1SSiucuCc Oh
Eighth Avenue, by a man named BARNEY
MCGEE, and two other Irishmen. The MUIR
der was caused by some difficulty in money
matters. The murderers dragged GRAHAM to
an alley way and ripped out his bowels. Mrs.
GRAHAM was badly injured in trying to save
her husband.
One WILLIAM EDWARDS, an American aged
about forty, has been arrested in Milwaukee
for committing series of burglaries in that
place. Property to the value of $4,000 was
found at his house which he had stolen.
The boquets recently flung to Madame
GRrs1 on the night of her benefit in London,
prior to her departure for this country, when
collected together, covered the floor Of the
green room and were piled up half way to the
ceiling.
Cox. SEYMOUR refused to grant pardon
10 the brooklyn Excise Commissioner who
was convicted oe granting license contrary to
law.
The supply Of paper is so inadequate to the
demand in. England, that old newspapers are
used over again, the ink being extracted by
chemical process, and the paper reduced to
pulp.