The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-31
. NEWS ITEMS

Of" hard PAM a, Rutaod, Vermont, some fifteen
feet below the surface, where he have reposed
for centuries. On being laid upon the grass he soon
revived, and hoped of, to give the worms and bugs
Of the nineteenth century specimen Of anede luvian
skill in &c Swapping them up.''
modern Psychologist notices the extraordinary
fact, that at the dinner table every time crooks
his elbow his mouth opens.
In New York, on Monday,a Dominick y Conner
touched lighted cigar the tube of gun which he
supposed not loaded. when it off, the bull
let passing through wall, the street, through
the boards of an oyster stan and through knee
pan Of a boy named VIM. Nichols, and lodging in the
other kneepan. 1t is thought both the young mans
legs will have to be amputated.
Every day strengthens the opinion, says the New
York Day Book, that the merchants Of that city will
vote, in the coming election, for Hoatic Seymour
They look upon this election one a which they
have more than ordinary interest, and entirely
disconnected with national politics, They will not
vote the Wing ticket, will they vote for Bronson,
when by so doing they hazard the election Of Sey-
mour.
cargo Of northern ice arrived at Savannah on
Monday, just the supply in that city about
hausted.
The Mayor Of New Orleans recommends the i,nn,e-
date establishment Of paid fire department in that
city.
Robert Schuyler is said to be Aourshing finely in
Paris.
The Cleveland Herald says of the cholera in that
city during the summer &c The intermcnts in this
Of July, August and September, numbered about 500.
Of these 2lS were in the city, Woodland and West
Side Cemeteries; and the remainder in the Catholic
CeEetery.''
DR.. Hart, who escaped from Kenosha short time
since, and was re-captured by the Sheriff of Rock
county, again made his escape from the officer who
had him in charge, on Tuesday last. The officer
had got his prisoner far as Ekhorn when the doc
tor left.
The Vermont Mercury says that during the ra..
week gold has been washed fun the sand Of stream
in Plymouth.
Thos. H. Noble, of the clerks in the Bank Of
America, Chicago, has mystcrousIy disappeared, and
one account for his prolonged absence. There
is no known reason why he should absent himself;
and it is feared he has been murdered.
General Adoniram Chandler, of New York, we'll
known in political life, and as Commissary General,
died in New York City Saturday, 2lst inst, aged
81 years.
The Millertes have fixed on the 10th of May,
1855, as the day when the world will positively come
to an end, aud postponement on account of the
weather. :.
The Menomonees got their annuity of $4,000 at
Shawnee Lake last week.
Mr.. Charles L. Feischman, formerly u S Con-
sui at Stuttgart. afterwards employed in the Patent
Office at Washington, and lately appointed Com.
missioner for the State Of New York at the Exhibi-
ton TO take place next year in Paris, has just started
in hat city weekly journal in the English language
called the American
The late rains west Of the mountains have produc-
ed sudden and very welcome rise in the Ohio river
and Il is supposed that Monday last the water be
tween Wheeling and Cincinnati was seven or eight
feet deep. OF course navigation is resumed, and an
active business will immediately ensue.
The War Taxes now imposed directly upon the
British people, and paid in hard cash, amount fifty
millions Of dollars annually. This is about equal to
government on its revenue duties.
In front ola fine dwelling in Marlboro MASS
there are six majestic elms, which the keep
insured against injury from lightning fire in tn
sum of $4,000.
There were 543 deaths from yellow fever in New
Orleans in September.
II is computed that there will be twenty-one thou
sand miles Of railroad in the United States on the Is
uJanary next.
A lady at North Bridgewater, Mass, who though
she had poetca talent, wrote some lines to a part
Of friends who emigratng to the west, the frs
stanxa of which reads thus
Farewell, dear friends who've gone off west!
May you with plenty Ger be blessed.
And your prospects there be brighter
49, Than it in North Brdgewater.