The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-06-28

EE Tomatoes are said to be excellen
for cows, having the effect to increase tn
quantity and add to the richness of tn
milk.
ES 1t is said that the proprietor of tn
Rural New Yorker, published in Rocheste
has declined an offer of SAC, 1000 for that ex
cellent agricultural journal. He estimate
its value at $4,000.
e The sales of land by the Illinois
Central Railroad Company in May amount
ed to to $293, 800, at an average of abou
SIS 60 per acre. The average of the sale
in May last year was $50 OF per acre.
E& The Rector Ct Trinity Church, say
New York paper, estimates the whole
property in his possession at 100000
Judge Jay shows it to be double tina,
amout. There is no ecclesiastical corpora
ton in England that has so much wealth il
it's possession.
IL The Mayor of Baltimore has exer
-cised censorship" over the stage, by di
recting the managers of theatre in that
city not to perform pieces called Jack Shep-
pard, and A Glance at Baltimore-they
being, in his opinion, improper and democrat
izing in their tendency.
e Some of Mr.. Summers constituent:
among them the venerable Quincy, Jared
Sparks, r. A. Dana, Longfellow, &c,-have
subscr bed funds to present him with ties
timonial. They propose to raise 81 500.
IL Mr.. Buell., the editor of the Dem
ocratic Review, who went to Cincinnati
got drunk and pitched into street brawl, il
which he got stabbed, is likely to recover.
THE Superior Court of Delaware has de-
cided that the restraining liquor law of tina
State is constitutional.
q A letter from an intelligent ant
well informed politician in Indiana to tn
Cleveland Leader, says that the prospects o
the Republicans carrying the State are very
good indeed the writer thinks Indiana viii
give us $4,000 majority.
NEWSPAPER CHANGEs.-The Republican
published at Mt. Carroll, Carroll county
His; The Union, published at Urbana
CHAMPAIGN county; and tue Register, pub
lished in Fulton county, heretofore all neu
trail papers, have run up the Republican tick
ct to the mast head, within few weeks.
IL Charles Dickens has bought little
cottage in the country. 1t is retired house
on the Gadshil, famous for Jack Fallstaff's
exploits in robbing the Exchequer. Whe1
Jerrold was told of 1t he said it was thu
most sensible thing Dickens had done. 81
have now hopes Of the restoration o
Charles"
The George Law brought home TO New
York, from Aspinwall, a child fifteen months
old, found amid the Egeek at the time o
the railroad disaster. All its relations wer,
killed, and it is not known whose child i
was, though it is supposed to be of French
parentage.
IL The Congregational Journal an
nounces the fact that the two Universalis
churches in New Hampshire, one in Exeter
and the other in Newmarket, have vote'
themselves Unitarian.
E The Peoples Theater at Cincinnati
was burned by fire on the 18th inst. 1t
supposed to have been the work of an in
cendiary. 39a
Some other buildings were burned values
at 81. 80 900.
IL Galignani's Messenger says tina
much suffering has been caused in Franc
by foundations, while the French posses
sions in Africa were suffering in CORE
spending degree from drought.
IL Princess Philipa, sister of tn
King of Mosquito, is now servant in tn
house of a colored preacher, named Smith
at San Juan.
e The name of Newport, Wis, ha
= y
been changed to Kilbourn City, in honor {
Byron Kilbourn, the President of the Nil
waukee and La Crosse Railroad.
Mr.. BucHANAN's AGE.-James Buchana
was born on the 10th of April, 1871. Fl
was, consequently, Is years Of age on tn
10th April last.
EE The Senate has passed a bill giyin
Mr.. Marsh, late Foreign Minister at Cor
stantinople, the sum Of $4,000 extra con
| pensation. E5