The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-12-06

yesterday noon lO4,787 bushels of wheat
have been shipped from this port" That
will do for one day.
CLOSE VoTING.-The whole number Of
names on the voting list in Pawtucket, Mas
sachusetts, was six hundred and fifty. Of
these, 63S voted. Of the twelve who did
not vote, one was in New York, one in Penn
sylyania, one in Jail, one very sick; and two
paired off.
A DICTIONARY CHAINED.-ln the town
records of Boston, England, under the date
of 1878, the following resolution is found
" That dictionarye shall be brought for the
scollors of the free schoole and the same
booke to be tyed in a cheyne, and set upon
deske in the scoole whereunto any scOl-
lor may have access, as occasion shall serve
An INvIrATIoN.-A correspondent writes
from London of Mr.. Preston Brooks
would visit London, have an idea that his
re ,eption would equal that given to lIaynau
by Bayclay 4 Perkins draymen."
PRorEsrANIsM IN FRANcE.-A French cor
respondent of the Christian Advocate csti-
mates that the Protestants in France num-
Der about two millions, or one-eighteenth of
the population The official census makes
the Protestants only about 100000 to &c.
100000 Catholics, and "A, 900 Israelites.
JOHN VAN buren, lost a box of cigars
with the editor of the New York Times on
the vote of Undertook. John bet that
Undertook would give Buchanan a hundred
majority over Fremont, in place of which,
it gave Fremont 1876 majority over Blu
chanan. -
THE Parkersbnrgh Gazette states that
swarms of emigrants from various sections
of Virginia, are daily passing through that
place and other points along the border, on
their way to the Far West, in quest of rich
lands, free schools and low taxes.
IL Mr. Micham, of East Wheeling
Ohio, has exhumed from his vineyard HUI
man skeleton ten feet and nine inches long
Its jaws and teeth were almost as large as
those of horse.
IL Major John II. Eaton, who is just
dead in Washington city, has represented
Tennessee in the United States Senate, and
was President Jackson's first Secretary Of
War. He married the widow of Pursel
Timberlake. The Discrimination of the wives
of other Cabinet officers to call upon her
produced dissolution of the Cabinet, send
ing Mr.. Van Buren, to England and Mr.. Ea-
ton to Spain.
e NJ. CADET, founder of the Icarian
Community, at Nauvoo, Illinois. died at St
Louis on the 9th inst, of an attack of Apo
plexy. M. CADETS name has been brought
prominently before the public within the
past four or five years, in connection with
his socialistic enterprise. The age of NJ
CADET was about GO years, In him the Com
munited loses it's main stay.
e. 1t is stated on statistical informa-
ton that for four years previous to 1852
there were six hundred murders in San
Francisco, and for the year ending in 1855
there were five hundred murders in the
same city. Within the past six years there
have been five thousand murders in Califor
MIA.
:~Wm. Wilson, Alderman-elect of New
York, has been held for trial in the sum OF
$4,000, being charged with melting persons
to commit assault and battery upon voters
going to the polls, and also with participat,
ing himself in the melee.
e. Darling Beam, convicted at Fair
field, S. c., of negro stealing, has been SEN
fenced to be hung on the first Friday in
March next.
e Great excitement has been produc-
ed in Detroit by the discovery that Ger
man has been using hols Sc meat in the manu-.
facture of sausages.
e. The New Orleans Bulletin of Nov
10th chronicles genuine, old-fashioned
hoar-frost in that city on the day previous.
e. According to the Portland Adver
tiser, there are five thousand pers lis in that
city who believe in spiritualism," or who
are investigating the subject.
gs~ On the Both ult. Mr.. VIM. Pierce. O
Madison, Ga, undertook to fog his negro
but the slave split his masters head open
instantly fed, and has not yet been cap
turered:
e. By order of Judge Lynch, two
young men have been hogged for horse-steal
ing in Omaha City, Nebraska.
e. Mr.. Quinby, of St. townsville, N
Y, has sold this year more than 10000
pounds of honey, principally produced by hi
own bees.
e. Samuel Swartout, Esq, formerly
the collector of New York, is lying very low
and but faint hopes are entertained of hi
recovery.
~ Miss Ann Jay, daughter of job,
Jay, died in New York on the 18th inst.
aged IS years. She was born in France
Aug. Ii, 1888. 5a sa -lef
! ESMr. Edwin C. Nichols, of Coventry
/ R. l., shot panther in the woods near tina
town, which weighed 100 pounds and wa.
seven feet long. The monster escaped abou
! three years ago from amenagerie.