The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-05
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS
The New York Evening Post says, that stores in
Chambers street and the neighborhood that last wear
rented for $4,000 per annum, are now offered for
$1,000.
At the last dates from indianapolis, the redemp-
ton of Indiana free bank notes was going on at the
rate of 100000 day.
The Patent Office Report states, that since the lst
OF january last, 1000 patents have been issued and
that the whole number for the year will reach near
1900
The believers in the spirit rappng phenomena in
the United States support eleven newspapers. They
estimate their numbers at 200, 900.
The recent foreign papers brought news of the
death of the celebrated and phanthropc Lord Dud
ley Stuart, of England. He died at Stockholm.
Mr. s. II. Wales, editor of the Scientific Ameri-
can, has been unanimously elected Honorary Vice
President of the London Society of Arts. This in
stituon numbers among its members nearly all of the
most distinguished savans of Europe. Its honor Of
Vice President has seldom been conferred upon an
American citizen.
Large granite monument in memory OF Benjamin
Franklin, has lately been'erected at Mount Auburn
by Thomas Doves, of Cambridge, at his private ex-
pense.
At Columbus, Mississippi, as a young man, the
son Of Judge Whitfield, was converting with young
lady in ball room, another young man whose name
was Joseph Nash, caught him by the hair of the
head and cut his throat, killing him instantly.
A large portion of the citizens of Cincinnati have
resolved TO resist the payment of taxes personal
property, IN consequence of some constructions put
upon the law by the Auditor of the State and which
he appears determined to enforce.
' The executors of the late Daniel Webster report
the debts Of the deceased at Sl35, 23O, and the
charges of administration at $500; his real estate,
on which there; cncumbrances to the amount of
$50 600, is appraised 35. 500, and the personal
$2s,522.:. go 90; $50 -.-.a
james H. Conklin, convicted at New Haven, in
August, 1853, Of attempt to obtain money from
~ Government by fraudulent pension claims, and who
sentenced to the State Prison for term of two
years, has been pardoned by President Pierce.
. Michael Prouse, n soldier of the Revolution, died
nj Chippewa, Wayne county, New York, the 9th
ult., los years of age.
Look out for the Sos on the birmingham Bank,
, Mass Vignette, mkmaid, sitting with a bucket
in her lap, COWS in the distance, large X and
goddess with the American flag, surrounded by three
cherubs at the right end Of the bill
Santa Anna, having failed in getting reliable
Frenrhmen in San Francisco to put down insurrec-
ton with Mexico, has turned his attention Swift
erIand, and is about to raise, according to report,
5000 Swiss, to be employed in his service. The
ruler who depends upon mercenaries, and not upon
active citizens, to keep down insurrecton, must be
near the end Of his official career.
Rev. Dr. Bond, editor of the New York Christian
Advocate, in noticing the opposition the appropri-
atons of Missionary money to the preachers laboring
in the slaveholding conference of the Methodist
Church, says-ssWe have seen strange things in the
lapse of threescore years and ten but this cars the
climax of the marvellous; and though not a
prophet, we venture to predict that mischief is now
brewing in the Characterization, commissions, and
descriptions, such have never witnessed be-
fore. .,...
~. A worthy French barber in Cincinnati, named
Ferrier, who has been in very moderate crcum-
stances, mas, Dy tue Cneatn VI AoNs
fallen heir to an estate worth from $4,000 to
500, OO0..
lampoon against Moses has been found by an
investigator Of hyerogyphics, among some papyrus
beft by the Egyptian priests A divine Of Boston
somewhat noted for his eccentricity, has recently
called Moses fllibuster.
Five prOpelIers, with three thousand tons of goods
for Detroit, are frozen Eastat Cleveland. The pro-
8 pser Baltic attempted to break passage through,
but returned discouraged, reporting solid ice as far as
% could be seen. ~ 'as-4 r. hoe - q . ,e..a.
.ThsEy sndata DID Age Of the 25h ult. says that
. at wedding supper Of Mr.: Wyatt Berry,a few days
before, large number or guests assembled at the
houspof 1T b Esapp, and partook Of the hospital
tiles prepared for the occasion. Unfortunately some
malicious person mixed in the viands prepared, "a
poisonous drug, which, proved fatal to Mr.. Stapp,
s7abd severely affected all who partook Of the supper
: The Middetown (Conn) News states that the
Connecticut silver mines have been sold for $685.,
Ooo, I'D capitalists hsylaml. who are preparing to
send out strong ffce 81 miners to prosecute the
business cp grand scale; T. the opinion Of geoo-
ogiss the works ara valuable and thew will now be