The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-17
News Items.


Sunday morning, 9th inst, after services had com.
menced in the Catholic Church, at Erie, Pa, the
gallery being crowded OF the Bishop being
there, it gave way and the whole fell on the crowd
below. Several persons taken out badly injured
has since died, and two or three others cannot
live.
There has been quite change in the weather,
from the mild and balmy, to the stormy and tempest
uous, since Moneay's issue. Yesterday it rancd in
cessantly all day. gaddcni"g the hearts Of all engay
cd in the lumber trade.
telcgraphic report from New York announces
that the Spanish Government refuses to make the
reparation in the Black Warrior case which was de-
handed by Mr.. Soule.
The New York Sunday Times says that the sscor-
onaon Of art" as Mr.. Barnum fclicitousy expressed
the opening. came off with great eclat the 4h inst
There great cont, between the failure of ast
summer and The present success. The fsst was an
arstocratic Wall street alfair-the second was one
for the people. The addresses were of a very high
order of excellence, and, published in the Times,
from stenosraphic notes, read very well. Judge
Campbell WAS classical, Horace Greeley was pract-
cal, O'GOrman was Oratorical, Ward Beecher was
funny, Counsellor Marsh poctica, and Chaplin
eloquent. President Barnum-if he is a Snowman
beat the speech of ex-President Sedgewck, "a law
yer, author and of literary family besides,) as de-
| liveted last summer, three to one.
Samuel Thmston was killed by lightning at West
Point, Ky, last week.
Mosquitoes have appeared in New Orleans for the
season.
little son Of Wm Balluc, was accidentally killed
near Mill Creek Hundred last week.
boy named Coye, aged II, has been drowned in
Newark.
Christian Long, German, was found dead in his
bed at Newark.
Detroit, with population of Thirty five thousand,
has night police.
During April there arrived at Boston 679 vessels
Over one hund, ed colored persons have arrived at
Norfolk for Liberia.
The steamer Massachusetts, left Norfolk on Wedncs.
day. on trial "trip.
Since the Ward trial, pistols and bowie knives at
Louisville are called "Kentucky statutes."
The first locomotive built in Ken'uck, was placed
o" the railroad landing in Covington, last week.
Col S. Nj. ID. Clark, who served under Commo
dore Porter, in the frga,e Es er at Valparaiso, died
at West Patton Rouge, La, few days ago.
There was much excitement in New ALBANY. Ind
ana, on Sunday evening, in consequence of the arr
val OF Matt r. Ward in that city. A committee was
about to invite Ward to leave the place.
The journeymen harness -makers of Rochester are
on strike for an advance Of wages, demanding an
increase of IL IL per cent on former rates.
The number of deaths for the week, ending Nav
LIST, in Pittsburgh was sixteen, eleven males and five
females.
Sidney Bailey was brought on rcquisition from
Georgia to CharIestown, on charge of stealing ten
slaves.
A woman in Brandywinc village, Delaware, while
lalori"y under attack of deIirum tremcns, few
days since, seized gun and shot two children of ono
of her neghbors, inurng them severely. 1t is hoped
however, they will recover.
The Rhode Island Legislature has granted to Nj.
Gouraud, charter to build one or more ocean steam
ers, on new plan and gigantic scale. lie proposes
have them thousand feet in Iens land propelled BY
engines of five thousand horse power.
The Savannah Republican Of the 1st May, gives
the particulars OF fatal ARRAY at that place, between
Mr.. Austin Green, and Nj. Walker, the Town Mar.
shall, which resulted in the death of the former 1t
appears that Austin rioious, and the Marshal at.
tempted 10 arrest him. In the attempt, Green drew
his revnlypr and fre,l u,,o, W.,lL ~. =.
the latter becoming exasperated, drew his own pistol
and shot Green, the ball entering his breast. He
walked some thirty yards and Immediately expired
lie leaves wife and three children
Mr.. Hiram Hutchinson, President of the Bank If
Hamburg, South Carolina, has g ven 5000 to the
South Carolina College, for the purpose of founding
a scholarship 10 aid in the education Of indyen,
young Of meni.
Polish physician at KnaG,t has made curious
and important discovery cfa species of camera, or
optical telegraph, by which perfect reconnaissance
could he effected at ncrcdtabIe distance. 1t can
be used on horseback.
NJ Anderson, young white man, was convicted
OF petty larceny, in Mercer Co., KY, few DAVIS ago.
and sentenced to be whipped publicly on his bare
back. kentucky ought to remove this relic of bar
barism from her statues.
brute, in the shape Of man, was sent to the
work-house, in Louisville, for whipping an infant
child few weeks old. His wife testified. on the
trial, that he caused the death of former child,
having actually whipped only three days before its
death,
Olive leaves have been used successfully in the
worst cases of fever and ague. They made into
a decoction-say Two handfuls boiled in a quart of