The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-05-02
Miscellaneous Items.


ton County, Ala. A slight examination disclosed
rich vein Of ore, which on being tested, yielded 20
per cent of pure lead. The vein was supposed be
very extensive, and is favorably located for work.
ing.
The cost of all the railways now being constructed
in the Canadian Provinces is estimated at 800, 900,
900. The money chiefly from England, on
municipal debtentures and Government stocks.
When the Sandwich Islands annexed to tn e
United States the members of Congress from tina I
part of the Union will travel about 1000 miles to get
to Washington.
The farmers in some of the southern counties Of
Iowa. have been obliged to have recourse poison,
to destroy wild geese, which have become dest re
tive to wheat fields.
All British and French vessels will now soon he
shut of all Russian ports, and in great
from the Black Sea. Freights will be high, and
neutral bottoms will command high rates. Ii is a
good time for the vessels of the United States.
Rev. Clement Lewis, Presbyterian clergyman in
Disco, Onondago county, n Y, and for man, years
member Of the Syracuse Prebyery, has been ex-
sterial brethren
Russia has prohibited all further expectation OF
grain from her Black Sea ports. Linseed, butter
and wool not yet prohibited. Turkey has also
just put out total prohibition of all grain exporta-
ton from every part Of the empire.
SMARr.-In one Of her recent lectures, Rev. An
toinette Brown said "whoever would make mark
in the world must make his mark, not the mark
of another. 1t is noble for goose to hiss like
a goose, than to make miserable imitation Of II
nightengaIe''
Prolific OLD AGF--An old man by the name
of Joseph Camp, living in Campbell county, Georgia
recently died at the advanced age of II years. After
his DEATH his children, grand children and great
grandchildren were enumerated, and were found to
consist OF 22J. But the most remarkable crcun,-
stance was, that the youngest # the whole group was
his own child.
V5-The Secretary Of the Cicimati Chamber Of
Commerce, SAYS that i, is a statistical fact that one
fifth of the sugar and nolasses used in the United
States, is disposed of in the markets of Cincinnati
tG-'I believe the jury have been inocuIated with
stnpidity,' said a lawyer.
s'That may be- said his opponent, '.lut the
bar of opinion that You had it in a natural
way"
0j-M. BodiscO, the Russian minister, lately de-
ceased at Washington, has left large foltme set
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3J5-In Boston on Monday night, Lyman Coombs
fell asleep tainted while feeding one of Geason's
fast cylinder presses He fell upon the press, and
one OF his arms was drawn IN by the cylinder TIL 1t
was crushed to pieces, and stopped the press. The
the poor lenw's crushed limb.