The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1855-07-28

Y1f IOSpttdi OOcCpu, lOT attendance OF
sick to May IT, 1855. $685..
Both ordered paid.
AID. Mobiles moved to take up Aid. Caves
resolution relative to salary OF City Clerk.
Carried.
Aid. Mobiles offered the following resolution:
ResoLued, That the Clerk of the Board of AL
dcrmen be allowed a salary of $500, for the
current year.
Which was read and laid over. .s
On motion of Aid. BAIL the Council ad-
journed. ~ e4 aff
GEO. L. BECKER, President.
SHERMAN HoUau, Clerk. .. .
BUFFALO, july 20.
The second State Committees of this State,
Wing and Republican, have issued calls for q
Convention on the same day at Syracuse, Sep
TENDER rs, doubtless with view of disbanding
the Wing and forming Republican party.
NEW YORK, July ls.
Yesterday the proprietor of Terror Hall, in
Brooklyn, was tried before Judge Smith for
selling foreign liquors. The defendant was
convicted for misdemeanor and fined $50. The
seized liquors were forfeited,
rs An interesting discovery has been made
in France with regard to emigrating fruit trees.
Instead of making use of graft slip is
taken-from an apple tree for example-and
planted in a potato, so that a couple of inches
of the slip remains visible. 1t soon takes root,
developes itself, and finally becomes hand
some tree, bearing fine fruit. This method is
due to Bohemian.
rs There were 4S7 deaths in the city Of
New York for the week ending the l4th, Of
which 376 were of children under ten years of
age. During the same time, there were only
Sc in Boston.
gs- Religion is very beautiful-in heath or
sickness, in wealth or poverty. We can never
enter the sick chomber of the good. but soft mu-
sic seems to float on the air, and the burden of
the song, "Lo peace is here"
FIRE!--We regret to learn, that on the 18th
inst. that a Starch Factory, together with the
Foundry connected with Nanny Il Co.'S Reap
was destroyed by fire at Rockford.
A MoNsTRosIrY.-Dr. Boerstler, of ancas-
ter, Pa. describes very remarkable case Of
monstrous birth, in which the child, or rather
children, had two wellformed upper extremi
ties and heads. but we're united in one body
and lower extremities. Strange as it may up
pear, this double child survived its unfortunate
birth five weeks, one portion dying several
hours before the other breathed its last.
BALTIMORE, July 19.
The Maryland State Convention of the A
mcrcan party to nominate a Comptroller of
the Treasury. met here this A. NJ, aud nominal
ted VIM. A. Pumell Comptroller and Daniel
l.. McHeile, Lottery Commissioner, on the frs;
ballot. The Philadelphia platform was endors-
Ell and the candidates waited upon. They &C.
cepted the nominations. Proceedings were
harmonious.
UNPRoFEssIoNAL CAPERs.--The Warden of the
Bellevue Hospital. near New York, has COM
planned Of several of the Doctors of the Institu-
ton to the Governors, alleging that they quar-
relied with each other in the nurses room, and
that one of them struck the nurse and called
her name that decent woman would not
like to have applied to her.
DINNER TO MINISTER DODGE.-Lord Howden.
the British Minister at Madrid, gave Mr. Dodge
grand banquet at the Spanish capital
u.s. At Saratoga Springs a rocket on the
evening of the 4tb, passed through crowd of
spectators. setting fire to a lady S dress, and
tearing off portions of the clothing of VIM.
Appleton, Of Boston.
HA>bsoME PREM1tM.--1t is stated in the Lon.
ion Publishers Circular that be sum of $1,000
of the propi;;etors Of the Times, for the discov.
cry Of new material ;'cr making paper. is like
ly to be claimed by Mr.. Watts, who has pre-
duced an admirable article out of wood shay
ings and bran, and obtained patent for it.
BACK ACTION SPANKER-Mr. Elphalet
Stubs, live Yankee from Connecticut, ex-
hibited at the Museum, his Patent Back.ac~
ton Spanker," which, on being attached to a
baby of any age, watches over it like mother;
makes it hush when it becomes naughty.
obliges it to desist from swallowing thimbles,
three-cent pieces pins. or any other food un-
suited to its stomach ;-cOmpels it to go to
sleep when it doesn't want to; and if somewhat
~ SSSS ehnC ~ hCCpS iIS udtlus tue eu~
gar bowl and jam pots besides making it keep
its face clean; and all by the power of its Back
action. - ~ ~ noes
~ Avarice-the accumulation of wealth
for its own sake, brings with it its own punish
ment. in the drying up of every tie with which
the charities of life are bound, and in the con-
version of the heart into a substance "harder
than the neither mill.stone''
PLEAD GUnrY.--Theadore f. Deniston ar
rested recently for robbing the Chicago Post
Office was arraigned before the U. S. Court in
that city on Friday, on an indictment for that
crime and plead guilty, but sentence was de-
ferred. - q ,..,-
's@+ --- BUFFALO, July 20.
The second State Committees of this State,
Wing and Republican, have issued calls for
Convention on the same day at Syracuse, Sep
TENDER g. doubtless with view of disbanding
OF the Wing and forming Republican party.
g~ The United States Bank is to wind up
its affairs on the goth of September, fourteen
years from the time of the expiration of in
charter. The record of this fact brings back