The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-10-20


ing So, 600 lbs, and condensers, weighing
$4,000 lbs.s are nearly all completed; the
pistons, piston rods, pillow block, caps and
cupolas, weigh about $4,000 lbs. The com
position stern pieces, couplings and sheaye
blocks are all under way. The propeller.
weighin about $4,000 HIS, will be cast in q
few weeks. The valves are all finished,
IF the ship is LAUGHED by the LIST of Octo-
Der, her boilers will be at once put in her,
and they viii commence to put her machine
ry in. Messrs. P. & M. caltulate to have her
in working order, ready for steam, in about
four months after she reaches the water--N.
Y. Herald ~ go $50, e11sfI
IL A water-spout occurred at Massling,
Germany, Sept. S. Bridges mills and houses
were destroyed by it-and some eighty per-
sons killed. Forty were drowned;
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* The Wing Committee Of Brooklyn,
N. Y. go to 81, refused to unite with the
Republicans. The N. Y. Tribune says 23out
Of the 90 were Hindoos-17 out and out u
man men. 1t adds: 500 aa =
We shall hear Of more of these yirtuous
and inflexible Wings who .can't go Fusion''
before November. In every instance the
nearer may be assured that those who so de-
clare were either Silver Grays in 1865
or Know Nothings last fall-generally both.
The earlier and bitterer their hostility to the
Wing party, the more profuse will be their
crocodile tears over its grave. But how can
they deceive anybody2 M
EE The population of Paris may be
considered, with the environs, as 1900, 200.
OF these an average of 10000 receive aid
and food from the administration of Assis-
taace Publique. Besides this average, must
be counted the following special cases: $500
octogenarians, 1900 septuagenarians, ], 400
blind persons, and 600 paralytics. In the
hospitals are 63,237 beds, of which 1888
are for civil occupants, and 16699 for sol
diers., From 1904 to 1922 the annual num-
Der Of admissions was about 10000 in 1889
it was $4,000, and in 1860 $1,000, and the
hospitals refused about 80 applicants day,
g E Montpelier, the home Of Madison,
in Virginia, which twice since his death has
changed hands It SIG per ae1e, recently
brought $35 per acre. Montpelier d lsFge
estate containing HOO acres. sss Z
E Mrs. Fitzpatrick, who was triedlast
week in Cincinnati, for shooting VIVA. Lang.
tree, was acquitted by the Jury. 8, 4a
e. The. receipts of the Ohio State
Fair, which closed on Friday week, reached
$4,000, and this, with the ST., OO0contributed
by the citizens of Columbus, will make the
total of near $4,000. This is between one
and two thousand dollars better than last
year.
EE Peter B. Manchester, who figured
as Banker in Cincinnati, failed there, and
fed, has been arrested in San Francisco, on
a charge of forgery, while in business in the
former city, under a requisition from the
Governor of Ohio. asa6
e. There are now in Georgia between
fifty and sixty cotton factories, conducted in
the most skillful and successful manner, with
all the appliance in the way Of machinery,
that can be found in the same kind of estab-
lishments in New England.
Il Mr.. Soule, in reply to an invitation
to lecture in Boston, writes:
/" Allow me to say that nothing would gra-
tify me more than to have it in my power to
comply with your wish, and with the kind
fofv fv~sn
is, of all others, that which would be most
proud to address on any subject, and espe-
cially on that Of SZavey. But having returned
vote myself to its labors exclusively, would
not think of leaving here in the very heart
of the business season, and of thus diverting
myself from pursuits which cannot but claim
the whole time, and command my undivided
attention"
Yale College, according to the Banner, is
GIT of instructors, Al.
E London Punch is the funniest fell
low a-going. His definition of Matter and
Mind is unique: II.
"What is matter2 Never mind. What
is mind2 No,matter."
Go it, Punch. Is
EE Benjamin Bird, aged seventy years.;
was married at the Roman Catholic Church,
Cincinnati, to Miss Julia Chat, a buxom
widow of thirty. So the old Bird was
caught at last by CHAT.
e -Four thousand dollars have been
raised in st. Louis for the relief of the Nor-
folk sufferers.
EE E. P. McGinty editor of the Nash
vile, Tenn, True Wing, died of brain fever
on the 21st.
~ Anybody who supposes that locking
a girl in a back room viii prevent her from
knowing what love means, might as well I'M
fiertake to keep Strawberries from blushinS
IN June by whispering in their ears ABOUT
the snow we hrd last winter.
Ea- Mr.. Wilkeson, late OF the BufAie
Renublic. has entered upon his duties ~ ed-
itor of the Albany Evening Journal.