Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-09-04

ZOth, anu organized Dy appointing ~ L. DaI.
ton to the Chair, and O. c. Gibbs, Secy.
The following resolutions were introduced
and adopted:
Resolved 1st, That we, the Republicans of
Kaposia presinct, fully endorse the principles
of the platform laid down by the Territorial
Republican Convention, held at St. Paul, the
25th ultmo and that We recognize In them the
true principles of Government 9.gusftr
Resolved 2nd That the nomination Of VIM.
r. Marshall, as Delegate to Congress, a man
in whose capabilty and integrity we have the
fullest confidence, meets our cordial approval,
and that we will do all in our power to secure
his election.
Resolved 3rd, That S. M. Cook, O. c.
Gibbs, DR.. p. Barton, Elias Cope and Horace
Bromley be appointed delegates to the County
Republican Convention, to be held at Cars,
OH Saturday. the lst of Sept. next, with power
to fill vacancies if there should be any in the
delegation.
Resolved 4th, That our delegates to the
| County Convention be instructed to support
none but men known to be true and tried friends
to the Republican movements, as candidates
for Legislative and county offices.
Resolved 9Th, That the Secretary of this
meeting be requested to forward copy of the
proceedings of this meeting to the Minnesotian
and Times for publication.
Adjourned sine die. .I.t "oh
DIR. P. BARTON, Chairman.
@. C. GIBBS, Sec'y. '
| A TAIL FOUNDED ON FAcrs.-An English
paper makes mention of boy at NTiddlesbo-
rougll-on- Tees, who is provided with tail that
some monkeys might be proud Of. He has a
perfect caudal appendage four or five inches in
length it springs from the vertebrae of the os
sacrum not the os coccygis, as does the tail of
any animal. which is Il continuation Of the spi
among the faculty, who have had a consultation
whether it would be proper to take it off; but
as upon examination it is found to possess the
properties of limb, having bone, muscle, feel
child, it is feared the operation might endanger
the child's life by affecting the spinal cord
The possessor Of this narrative" is about four
months old and in the possession of fine health.
CARRIER PIGEONS AND THE TELEGRApH.-
Many Of the readers of the newspapers, says
the Philadelphia Ledger, who wake up in the
morning and find a column of European news,
by telegraph, ready for their pcrusal, in the
morning paper, the steamer having arrived on
ly the midnight before, do Lot know the labor
and the enterprise which are involved to pro-
cure this early transmission of the steamers
news. The associated PRESS have an agent
for the arrival of the New York steamers at the
Sandy Hook lighthouse. He has fifty carrier
pigeons, which are trained for the purpose of
conveying news from the steamships to the
shore. A man in an open boat, in all kinds
of weather, drops alongside of the steamer as
she bears directly upon Sandy Hook. The
news is thrown over in water-tight can, and
the news being taken out, a single sheet is af-
fixed to the birds leg. The man then gives
the signal to the bird, which raises his wings
and away he goes, with all his power of loco
motion, in straight line for the office, going a
distance Of three or four miles in as many min
utes; and, popping in at the window, is re-
ceved by the agent, who transmits the ntelli-
gence over the wires to New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and thence to St
Louis, New Orleans, and all parts Of the coun-
try, so that the news is frequently received over
a large part of the United States and published
before the steamer leaves the quarantine.
WATERMELON JUIcE.-A correspondent copies
the following, which originally appeared in the
Prairie Farmer, and sends it with his own en-
dorsement. Keep this till the melon season:
l endeavor to raise good watermelon patch.
They are a healthy and delightful fruit. l cult
waite the Icing variety plant early in May, and
again toward the close of the month, SO that they
may come in succession. When they commence
ripening, we commence cutting and using them
freely during the hot weather. When the weather
becomes cool in September, we Jring quantity
of them into the house, split them open, with a
spoon scrape out the pulp into cnllender, and
strain the juice into vessels.
We boil it in an iron vessel to syrup, then put
in apples or peaches like making applc-butter,
and boil slowly until the fruit is well cooked
then spice to the taste, and we have something
that most people prefer to applc-butter or any
KIND OF preserves. Or the syrup may be boiled
without fruit down to molasses. which will he as
fine as the sugar house molasses. We have made
IN single autumn as much ten gallons of
the apple-butter (f so may call it) and molas-
SEES, which kept in a fine condition until May
american Agriculturists
a NICE QUEsrIoN.-San,. you'll get it for
hooking that turkey las, night. Mas'r knows
it" Pompcy. 81 didn't hook it, Warn't de,
turkey mas'rs? WELL amt mas'rs? Well. |
eat the turkey, didn't 1! Well amt the turkey
part o me7 Mas'r amt got so much turkey, but
amt he got more nggers l tell you de turkey
only change places"
AN ARcUMESr.-A young lady being adj
dressed by gentleman much older than her.
self, observed to him, the only objection she
had to a union with him, was the probability of
his dying before her, and leaving her to the
sorrows of widowhood. To which he made the
following ingenious and delicate complimentary
reply: blessed is the man who has virtuous
wife, for the number of his days shall be doub-
led"
HAsrY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CAL
liornia, short time since, after the performance
at circus was over, young girl, yet in her
panalettes, went behind the curtain, when the
ring-master said to her, 4" Why don't you mar
ry!' "1would i'll could" said she. He replied,
:" I'll marry you this evening"" He fulfilled
his agreement, and the next morning their mar
riage was published.
HURRAH FOR WILLIAM NJ RICE The
only Rice man we have seen in this vicinity,
says he shall vote for William NJ Rice--that