The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-13

other, floating upon the top OF some water,
a perfect plant, unfolded and expanded
There is more Of the strange and wonderful
in these two unobtrusive plants, than of any
other on exhibition. Both are specimens of
the Anistatico hierochuntinn or Rose of Jeri-
cho. This plant is a native Of the desert
plains of Arabia, and in the form Of the with
cred specimen, is blown about the arid sands
for years. until it happens to strike moist
place, when it takes root, expands its leaves,
as exhibited in the second specimen, and
terminates. The plants exhibited were
brought from Calcutta by Doctor Watts,
and presented to the Society. We are in
formed that until last evening, they have
been in the dried condition above described,
for twenty-three years.
C. John Gillard, Of Boston, quarreled
with his wife on Wednesday night, and stab
bed her in the neck with such severity that
her life is dispaired Of
IL Three desperate recruits named
Swift, Orr and Johnston killed one of the
sentinels at tho Jefferson Barracks, Mo-, a
few days ago. They were attempting to es
cape while he attempted to detain them
They are under arrest, and will doubtless be
tried by a court martial and shot.
* Five persons, one of them a female
were drowned in the Delaware river at Pond
Eddy, by the sinking of a boat, on Tuesday
morning
DEATH OF U. S. JUDGE.--The Dubuque
papers announce the death, from Typhoid
fever, of the Hon. John j. Dyer, U. S. Dis
trict Judge for the Northern District Of Iowa.
He died while on visit with his family in
Virginia.
TX Marshal Radetzki, the veteran Aus
trian General, has just completed the 50th
anniversary of his promotion to the grade Of
General. He is eigthy-nine years Of age,
and has served seventy-one years. In reply
to an autograph letter from the Emperor
Francis Joseph, congratulating him on the
restoration Of his health, the old General has
requested to be allowed to retire from the
army.
IL The various Catholic Churches in
the city of Buffalo, were closed on the 29tn
ult, and the priests with their congregations
attended at St. Joseph's Cathedral, the day
having been set apart to take up subscriptions
to aid in paying for the building. An admit
lance fee was charged.
BRrNe OUT YOUR DEAr.-How the blood
has run cold in reading Of tho yellow fever
which many years since visited Philadelphia
All through the deserted streets the stiffness
of the grave was only interrupted by the
hoarse cry of drivers Of the burial carts
"Bring out your Dead n-"Bring out your
Dead!" Similar to that is now stricken
Norfolk. A correspondent of the Baltimore
American, says:
"a common spectacle in the streets is a
cart laden with collins, which are deposited
at some convenient street corner, and remov-
ed thence by the undertakers as occasion de-
mands. Three or four of these collins often
stand together. The dead are Immediately
taken out of the houses and placad upon the
sidewalks; strip of parchment, inscribed
with the name, age and date of the decease
Of the victim, being nailed upon the lid oil
each coffin. A duplicate of this parchment
record is preserved. The bodies Of the dead
are conveyed away by carts, which traverse
the streets at stated intervals"
WIN. OGDEN NILES, Washington City, pro-
poses to reprint Niles Registea, fifty volumes
complete, commencing with the work in
September, 1911, and closing with the life
of its founder and editor, Kezekiah Niles, in
September, 1886. The character Of the
Register is so widely and well known that
we need not expatiate upon them. 1t was
in its day the best American weekly, and is
still an invaluable record for the historian,
statesman and politician. The entire fifty
volumes will be afforded (bound) to subscr-
bers for $40 So or less than half the origi-
nal cost. Subscriptions by mail are So
icited.
The ruins of ancient Carthage are to
be commemorated in the Washington Monu-
ment, for it appears that beautiful block Of
marble from the ruins Of Carthage, for the
Washington Monument, has been presented
by Mr.. David P. Hear, son Of the lat, Con
sui. The block is Of varegated-red and
white-narble, and was cut from one of the
columns of the temple CT Esculapius.
The k5any Kniekerho;Ilr, a dnoll joker of a
paper, is responsible for the following dry
Dig y
The Register says that since the Hindoo
meeting, the people of Rochester have be-
come aroused" No wonder. Why didn't
TIE delegates pay their bills before they left!
~ A slave girl, Clarissa by name, has
oeen convicted on her own confession, at
forkVliie, S. c., Of poisining her masters
daughter, and sentenced to be hung; che also
confesses to having poisoned the children Of
two Of her former owners. =,
~ Thomas Downing, colored, rich and
respectable, was ordered out of one of tho
sixth avenue railroad cars in New York h.
cause he was colored. He refused to 60 when
the conductor tried to put him out, but Down.
ing stuck to his seat and had his ride ont