The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-11-17
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
The Washington Star says the Commissioner o
the General Land Office has decided that entrie
made under the Graduation Law of the 4th of Au
gust last not ssssnabIe until after the patents ma
have been issued. So there can be not speculation il
entries made under that law. A warrantee deed fo
such lands before the patent has been issued will b
worthless.
writer in Frazer's Magazine says that about 81
years have elapsed since DR.. Bearlsy first SOUNDED
tho praises Of cod liver OIL but scarcely dozen year.
have elapsed since it fairly tested. Scepticisu
slowly made way to conviction. and he who, few
years ago, would have passed for quack who should
have pretended to cure consumption, il now counte
"anced everywhere by the most eminent practitioner.
in the land.
The Ledger gives list of salaries paid annual,
under the consolidated government Of Philadelphia
amounting to $644,25o. Ofthis aggregate $47s 100
goes to the police.
Ten thousand dollars have been raised in Eng Ian l.
20 do honor to Lieut.. Belot who lost his life in the
search for Sir John Franklin. At the Greenwich
Hospital, granite obesk is to be erected for g.
500, and the rest Of the money be equally disr,bu
ted among his Eve sisters.
The late carpenter of the Arctic, Mr.. Bailey, has
published card in the New York Tribune, reflect.
ing somewhat upon Capt. Luce. far that he in.
directly charges him with iuefhciency from first to
last.
The oyster trade of New York City is stated by the
Herald at S5.OO0,O 900 or S6,0OO,OO0 per annum.-
About fifteen hundred boats are engaged in the trade.
The "oyster Epidemic restricted the business lit
tie, but it is again reviving.
An Irishman being in a church where the collec.
ton apparatus rssemhed election boxes, on its being
handed 10 him. Whispered N the carriers ear that
he was not na.uaIi.ed, and could not vote.
The Cleveland Herald mentions among the sdistin-
guished guests At the Weddeli House in that city,
Lady Murray, one Of the maids of Honor to Her Ma
jesty Queen Victoria.
Virginian has beaten the Yankees at their own
game. John J. RolIow, Of Fredericksburg. Virginia,
has invented machine which will husk and shell
corn at one operation. The ear in the husk is put in
its mouth, and in the twinklng Of an eye the corn
falls at one point, the cob and husk coming out at the
other. l capacity 10 about four hundred barrels per
day.
Steps are being taken by the allies for stopping
the indirect traffic with Russia through the Prussiau
ports.
There were 4ze deaths in New York last week
20 Of cholera.
A Know Nothing daily is soon to be started Il
Washington.
The Grand Jury at Bangor has refused 10 indie
ihe Persons charged with being engaged in the ou.
Sage on the Catholic Priest At Ellsworth.
The steamer Michigan which was sent on a fool.
GRAND, to find about the reported murder Of
ships crew by the Mormons at Beaver Island, ha.
returned 10 Milwaukee without SUCCESS. The whole
story il q hoax.
- The Board Of Aldermen Of Boston have ordered
that the names Of all foreigners must be stricken fou
the voting list registry, unless the themselves
come up and produce their naturalization papers.
The Catholic case at Covington. Kentucky, ha,
been decided. The Court granted the injunction re
strsining the Bishop from finishing the school hous.
"a the church property. the ground tina. the schoo
y ast part Of the church according to i. custom,
snd cages. -, )
q. r. Puenam & Co., the model publishers Of Gle
> aans. hooks, have arranged their late pecuniary en-
harrassments, and are going on with their business
- ssdsl. Thsy announce new works. by Washing
.sea.Iryiag. Baxard Taylor. Melville and Miss War
ser, soon. So y 's'5 $50 80 |
A new treaty kas lAhly been entered i"to betwee'
Ia Unised St.tes ande he Domiaican Government
which, Il il aadesstood. psos;dss Tor full recogn
s;,. Il that Island By the Amerissn Government
tina, .he Amricans are to be allowed to hold and cu
av.ss lsnd and ~ork mines in that country "i'h0"
being .as..iissd. 49,.
An o. weighing ASA pounds is on exhibi''0" ia
Troy, N. Y.