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

NEWS ITEMS.
tx A ragged school association, in :
public appeal, states that there are in Lon
don 100000 who never attended public
worship, 10000 habitual drunka rds, $50,
600 open prostitutes, 10000 profes sed beg
CARS, 10000 gamblers, 10000 destit ute chill
dren, 5000 receivers of stolen goods. Nor
than 10000 young men under eighteen year
of age are annually committed for theft il
Great Britain.
e. The Western counties of Pennsyl'
vania, without one exception, exhibit heavy
Republican gains. In Somerset county the
gain since the October election is 300. There
was but one Fillmore vote in the county. In
Tioga the gain since October is 572, and In
Warren county 800. Lawrence, Allegheny,
Beaver, Mercer, Crawford and other coun-
ties also give large gains since the State cleo
ton. They are, of course, unavailing, owing
to the many thousands of opposition votes
thrown away in the Eastern portion of the
State.
u Mrs. McMahon, a crazy woman ar
rived at Niagara on Wednesday evening, and
stopped at the Niagara House. After being
in bed for short time, took all the keys
from the doors in the vicinity of her room,
fired the curtains of the sitting room, and
after doing much damage, was captured and
confined. Being sent by train to Leroy next
day, she was missed at Tonawanda, and was
found just above the village dead, and her
head horribly mangled.
* The Journal of Commerce states
that the demand for furs of fancy descrip-
tons this season, exec DIS all precedents, and
as consequence prices on raw stock, for va
rieties, have gone up fifty per cent. or even
higher compared with last year. For dress
goods, furs will be worn this winter to an
unusual extent. Sets costing $3.50 are very
common.
E@ Hon. De Witt G. Leach, the Re-
publican member elect to Congress from the
Fourth District Of Michigan, is the able and
faithful conductor Of the Lansing Republi-
can, a paper which he has conducted with
signal talent and fearlessness during the re-
cent campaign.
ES The Legislature of North Carolina
organized on the 18th inst. The Senate
elected w. W. Avery, Of Boone county,
Speaker the House of Commons Speaker is
Jesse G. Shepherd, of Cumberland.
E< Captain Griffin, of the U. S. Nj il
Steamer Empire City, arrived at Charleston,
states that party Of Americans on their
way to Quito, were waylaid by the Indians
in the mountains between that city and
Guayaquil, who robbed them, and left them
entirely destitute.
~ The Lancaster pa Express says
that while all speculations about the Cabinet
are premature, there is little doubt that Hon
Howell Cobb, of Georgia, and Hon. John
Appleton, Of Maine, will be offered places.
u The people of Toledo having OBJ
tanned an appropriation from government for
Custom House and Post Office, are now
agitating for one for a Marine Hospital
E< In attempting to arrest a notorious
burglar named Hartman, at st. Louis, on Sat-
urday, policeman named Shay had his leg
broken below the knee by shot from Har-
man.
u 1t is said that 400 persons in Con-
necticut were disfranchised last month, by
the new constitutional provision making a
knowledge of reading and writing qualif-
cation for voting.
FIVE of those wounded in recent election
riot in Baltimore have died. 1t is hoped
that most of the others will recover, al
though some of them are still in very criti-
cal condition.
A railroad route has just been surveyed
from La Crosse to Prairie du CHEN. 1t is 81
miles, with an easy grade.
THE Milwaukeeans have been at glorifi-
cation, held at Ripon, over the opening of
the Milwaukee and Horizon Railroad to that
place, One of the toasts of the evening was:
sour meet Railroad Celebration-when the iron
horse shall drink of the waters of the Fox
and Wolf"