The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-09-23
NEWS ITEMS.

picture of the forward decks of the North
River steamers as they are filled with emf
grants, avering that the stately steamers
present "a spectacle of mingled indccency, con-
straint, exposure to disease and positive ago
ny, which well might make murderer blush
for his relationship to mankind"
Mr.. SMITH, a stock drover residing near
Ithaca, was killed near Cancstco on the n. Y.
4 Erie Railroad this morning. He was on
the top Of car in the cattle express train
bound east, and when passing under the bridge
which crosses the road at that place, was
struck by it on the back Of the head, killing
him instantly. His remains were left at Owe
go to be conveyed to his residence.
The Belfast QrclandD Mercury says the cx-
tent to which the sale of Indian meal is car
ried on through the rural districts seems really
wonderful. AT one steam mill the average
quantity turned out for the past couple Of
months, exceeds fifty tons per week.
A little son of MINOR w. Redo, of Louis
vile, was burned to death on Friday evening.
A black girl undertook to drive the mosqui-
toes out of the bar, and in doing so set it on
fire. Thinking she could extinguish the flames
herself, she did not give an ALARM and the bed
clothes burned so rapidly as to cause the death
of the child.
The fires in the great forests at the North
and West, have "played hob" with the deni-
zens of the wilderness. Bears, squirrels, deer,
ETC., all have their Businesses destroyed and
from the whirling flames, which traverse so
swiftly mountain, valley, and glade, they have
no refuge but to fly to the precincts of human
habitation.
Recently, near Peru, Ind, bull was struck
by locomotive, the collision causing both an
imal and iron horse to fly the track. A young
gentleman, just from college, who was in the
cars at the time, says that from the large guam
tity of vegetable matter in different stages OF
digestion, which exuded from the orifces made
through the cuticle and sub-membranous It's
sues surrounding the viscera Of the bovine
quadruped, it was his opinion that he 1.-THE bully
was seriously. If not fatally, killed.
Miss JENNIE BEAR. beautiful and highly
respectable young lady. of Bristol, Wayne CO.,
Ohio, hung bcrselfto cherry tree, with a
chain, on Saturday last. She was disappoint-
ed in love affair.
The Hon. JOIN BLACK, for many years a
member of the United States Senate. from the
State of Mississippi. and late of Louisiana,
died in Winchester, Va, on the 10Th ult.
The Ohio Female College, at College Hill,
took fire in the roof, from defective aue, it is
| supposed. The flames made their appearance
about seven o'clock Sunday morning, and slow.
ly progressed downward from the roof to the
basement. The pianos. about o dozen in num-
ber were saved.
STEPHEN r. SMITH, lately shot in the back
of the head, at Cincinnati, in letter to thu
Commercial of that city, concludes as follows
81 remain, sir, yours, with the ball still in m.
headw .r..
T Jo,,x TICKER WILLIAMS, Of Port Hope, c
W.. one of the wealtbiest men in Canada, com
mitted suicide on Saturday afternoon, the 9tl
inst, by shooting himself with pistol in hi
own garden.
! A magnificent cathedral is about being erect
ed in Washington by the Methodists. 1t
5 to be one of the most costly and elegantly in
ished church edi6ces on the continent. Rev
: HExRx SLlcER superintends the finances, AM
: the cosuer stone will be laid on the 238 day .
: October Bext.
: CnAs. I. LEWIS, the Democratic candidat
i who has just been elected TO Congress from
the Kanawha district, Of Virginia, is tailor