The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-10-18
NEWS ITEMS.

TH The New York Tribune, speaking
of aged clergymen, says :-"Father Sawyer,
of Maine, as he is commonly called although
a hundred years and several months old, it
appears is not the oldest clergyman in New
England. The Manchester On. H. Ameri-
can reports that the Rev. Laban Ainsworth,
senior pastor of the Congregational Church
in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, is now in his
one hundred and third year. He is the old
est graduate of Dartmouth College, and
probably the oldest clergyman in the coun-
try"
& We learn, says the New York Mir
ror, that a distinguished Southern gentle
man, now in this city, called upon Mr.. John
Thompson, the banker, a day or two since,
to negotiate some Virginia State bonds. In
the course of conversation the seller of the
bonds threw out some threats of dissolution.
" How" said the banker, " if you are going
to dissolve the Union, III not take your bonds
at 20 cents on the dollar, but if you remain
true to the Union, your bonds will sell about
par" il ati
e A correspondent of the Paris Fig
arc, writing from Baden Baden gives a
graphic account of the principal amusement
of that worldwide celebrated watering place
which is gambling. The bank has this year
suffered very severely, and is loser to the
amount of $4,000, as also the bank at Slut
gard. 1t was at Baden Baden that Madame
Sontag and her husband had sufficient bad
luck to lose the large fortune she possessed
before becoming the Countess Rossi. The
excitement round the table is said to be
something fright(ul, and every new blow the
bank receives is received with rounds OF
frantic applause.
E& On Saturday afternoon, the Goth
ult', two oxen belonging to Nathan B. Alb
bolt, of Andover, Me-, were killed by light
ming. He sent young man named George
Meaps to drive his cattle from the field to
the barn. On the way up, the oxen, fo:u
in number, were fol owing each other, when
the lightning running on the ground a dis
lance of twenty feet, Frustrated them all
and killed the first and third. Mears was
very one of the oxen killed. and thinks he
was taken up from the ground something
like four feet, by the shock.
e A woman in South Bend, Indiana,
is now in custody for taking off the scalp,
and cutting the throat of her infant. The
fact that her husband has been absent in Ca
lifornia for several years, suggested the mo-
tive for the horrid crime.
u We are informed, says the Fond
du Lac Union, that the Chicago, st. Paul
& Fond du Lac Railroad Company have made
purchase of iron at Pittsburgh sufficient
to complete the road to Watertown, and
that it is the intention of the company to
have the running from Fond du Lac to
that city by the LIST of January next.
e The Hon. j. w. Edmunls, former
ly an Old Line Wing member of Congress,
from Massachusetts, and since acting with
the Fillmore party, has come out for Ere
mont and Dayton.
e Twelve thousand dollars have al
ready been sent to the Tribune office, for
the relief of those who, in defiance of a
thousand obstacles and discouragements,
are laboring and suffering to make Kansas a
free state.
nt,,
of the most unyielding Locofoco strongholds
in the state now talks of giving 1000 ma
jority for Fremont.
K Rev. L. Amesbury of Chester, N.
H., has been called to the Congregational
Church, in Faribault.
e When the news of Fremont's NOM
nation arrived in California, but three pa
pcrs hoisted his name. BY the last steamer
it appears that the political press now stands
IA Fremont, 16 Buchanan, Fillmore 10.
~ Juvenile Migrants, to the number OF
nearly five hundred, have been sent into the
country, from the Five Points neighborhood
in New York city, since the first of Jan
uary last. Most of them were placed with
farmers. .t@>
@r Rev. T. T. Waterman, of Galena,
has accepted call to the Congregational
Church, in Winona at salary of 81, 200.
* The government of India has final
ly determined to limit the practice of poly
gamy by enactment.
The Republicans of the Third Congress
sional District, Wisconsin, have re-nomi-
mated the Hon. Charles B:llinghurst for Con-
gress. 9f aaou e
ES Even Ned Buntline has deserted
the Know Nothing cause. He is now stump
ing New York for Fremont.
ES If the respectable citizens of Louis
vile do not very soon put down the gang Of
ruffians who disgrace that place, the ruffians
will put the city down. Nothing more GER
tain than this. a..
A FRENCH tailor has invented cutting
machine capable of cutting out fifteen suits
at once, almost with the rapidity of light.
ming. Ho 7oa h
& There is Presbyterian church in
Northampton county, Virginia, composed
entirely of ladies. They are twenty five
in number. There is not male member
among them. sla.,y .ase..a-r a{r ~