The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-08-02
NEWS ITEMS.

sand head, passed through EdWardSvillc, Hi
nois, on Saturday last. They are from the
State of Tennessee, and are to be wintered in
Missouri, till next spring, when they will be
driven to Salt Lake.
A destructive fire tool, place in Detroit on
Thursday. consuming the Sash Factory of Mr.
Phillips. the Pcnn>ular Hotel, and several
other horses. Total loss from $4,000 to Sl2-
900, some two-thirds OF which is covered by
Insurance. The fire was the work Of 4 gang
of burglars now committing nightly depreLa-
tons in that city.
The vessel known as the GREET Republic,
bought by y. b. PALMER, for $3.50, is to
be Immediately rebuilt at Greenpont, by Mr..
SNEDEN. She will have but three decks and
three masts, instead Of four as first built, and
will be capable of carrying from 5000 to
$500 tons. The cost Of rebuilding will be be
tween 100000 and $125CGO She will be
employed in the China trade, under her origin
al name.
The Woodstock (Vt.) Tenth Legion says that
that vicinity was visited on the 9th ult. by one
of the heaviest rains that has occurred there
for the last thirty years. Cellars were flled
with water in some places two feet deep gar
dens destroyed fences swept OFF, and the crops
seriously injured. In the lower part of the
county the water courses were all ovcriiowpd
and in some instances not only the crops, but
the soil Of the best lands was entirely washed
away.
The rigging OF the Emitted States ship Penn
sy'ra,a having been on her some seventeen
years, is said TO be so rotten that it is no UNI
sual occurrence for large pieces Of it to fall
from alnff. tn the danger OF those on hoard
Her SparS are in the same condition.
Mr. BURGESS, of the publishing house Of
Messrs. BURGESS & SrRTNGER, died in New
York on the 22d ult. Mr.. L. :. THOMPSON
comedian, died at Brooklyn on the evening of
the 22d ult. The Rev. CHARLES Fox. died at
Uam,ramcl1, near Detroit, on the 2:th ult
The cholera has broken out with violence
among the laborers at the suspension bridge.
Niagara Falls, and the work has been tempo
rariy abandoned. About forty deaths had
occurred.
SULLIVAN, cltas 1IUXFoED, arrested in New
Orleans on the requistion of Gov. WAsHBURN
charged with the murdcrous assault on RIClI-
ARD III. DANA, Jr., has arrived in Boston. He
waived his examination, and bail was fixed at
$1,000, in default of which he was committed.
It is understood that the Senate have ap-
pointed Committee of Investigation to ascer-
tain how the Reciprocity Treaty was obtained
by the New York Times.
Mr.. w. SPANGLE, residing about ten miles
south of Jcrscyvillc, ILL.,, committed suicide on
Monday last, in a fit of insanity, by shooting
himself with a gun, in the region Of the
heart. He was man about forty years of
age, and had been but a short time from the
Lunatic Asylum at Jacksonville.
A correspondent Of the Washington IsteNi-
gencer states that the daily number of dcser
lions from the Z. s. Army and Navy, is be-
coming alarming.
Elder RICHARD WILLARD, one of the Nor
nor Saints, died recently in Utah, leaving
twenty ,lisconsolate widows to mourn their IT.
reparable loss.
The compositors charged with conspiracy to
ininre the business of the Philadelphia Regis
ter, have been held in 5000 to ans1G the
charge of conspiracy, and in $500 to Keep the
peace.
The subscriptions at the South for the
widow of BACHELOR. killed at the slave affair
at Boston, amount to $1,000.
1t is stated that more than seventy cattle
have recently died at Montpelier, Vermont,
and vicinity, from the effect Of being bitten by
q mad dog.
\ large mail ba.-, cut open and r.ned of its
cont .nts was ionnd in the canal near IIarpers
Ferry. Va, on the 9Th inst.
Al Providence, on the 9Th inst, 1900 gal
ions of liquor were seized, under the liquor law
of Rhode Island.
Senator SEWARD is in Saratoga, acting as
counsel in the great railroad spike case, on
trial there before ex-ClauceilOr WALwoRTII.
referee.
The Old custom Of publishing the bans, be-
tween persons intending to commit matrmOny,
is to be discontinued in Connecticut, after the
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