The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-11-15

dence. Clifton, his beautiful seat at Wind.
sor, was sold some weeks since, and the old
Judge has taken passage for Liverpool, to
make his home in Great Britain for the re-
mainder of bis days.
e Peter Thorp, of Mount Morris, N,
Y, while returning from church last Sunday,
with his sister and Miss Wells, was thrown
from his carriage by his horses taking fright
and running away, and was instantly killed.
HIS sister WIS badly injured, and is not ex-
pected to recover. Miss Wells was not Sc
riously injured.
- The business of the United States
Mint at Philadelphia, for October, was as
follows. Deposits-gold, 13O,8lO; silver,
6O,370; total. $l9l,1SO Coinage-gold,
S3S2,0a9; silver, $2oa,s49 6s; copper,
1928 so; total, S3S:l72 "a.
e. A curious phenomenon has recently
been observed in Greece. The lake Copias
has completely dried up, and an immense
tract of fertile land is thus rendered availa-
bic for the purposes of agriculture.
E<It is stated that Jerome Bonaparte,
of Baltimore, cousin to the present Emperor
of France, has been stopping at Washington,
for several days. 1t is understood that he
is pressing some propositions upon Secretary
Davis, by which he wishes sufficient induce
ments to be held out to his (Bonapartc's }
son to induce him to re-enter the American
army.
The editor of the Fredericksburgh
(Va.) News, advertises for wife, for him
self: Applicants must not be over twenty
two years ofage, and willnot be required to
have more than 81 600 in cash. The editor
adopts this as the cheapest mode of OBJ ain
ing wife, not having time to hunt one up,
and the advertisement costs him nothing.
81 The bed of the Ohio at Cincinnati.
just at this time, presents sorry picture.
with only twenty-five inches of water in the
channel, so that carriages and droves of cat
| tie readily cross without benefit of boat or
bridge. The river is sixty-two feet below
high water mark-a point of depression not
known before to the oldest inhabitant.
gss- 1t is estimated that the mission of
Earl Granville to Moscow, as the Extraordi-
nary Ambassador of England at the corona
ton of the Gar, viii cost the country from
5000 to 100000. The suite of the noble
Earl includes nearly 40 persons.
g Several German boys were playing
'jail'' in Hamburg, N. Y, few days since,
when one Of the prisoners attempted to es-
cape, the boy jailor having his fathers gun,
and not knowing it to be loaded, pointed at
the running boy, and pulling the trigger, shot
his mate through the head, killing him on
the spot.
E@ The exports of specie from the port
of New York for the week ending the 1st
instant, were 81 S2l ,945-making a total
since January l, 1856, of $32, Gs6, 300. Same
time 1855, SEC, 4s2, GG1; same time 1854,
$34, 6l2,ll6; same time 1853, $2l ,S26,96l
same time 1852, $23, l0G,l36.
rs The London Chronicle has made a
calculation, from which it appears that there
are more Smiths, Joncses, Browns, Robin
sons and Thompsons in London than any
other city in the world Paris and the Chi
nese cities exceptcd) has inhabitants.
EE In will case, tried in Boston, the
strongest proof Of the sanity of the deceased
at the time his will was made, was the fact
that he subscribed for newspaper few
days before his death.
EE Hon. Arson Burlingame is confin
ed to his bed in Cambridge by illness, but in
the opinion of his physician, if kept quiet
will be about again in few days. His indis.
position is the result of fatigue.
EE The President has appointed Peter
X. Dodson, of Z tab, to be the United State.
Marshal of that Territory, vice A. T. Haun
resigned. s
1 e The number of students in Har
ward is COZ Yale, GOA /; in the University o
Virginia, $40. In the latter there is an in
crease of 80 over the the number last year
At Yale there are q students from Southern
States.
E Six persons, all Irishmen, were ar
rested in Lafayette, Ind, on the charge of il
legal voting. Three were convicted ant
lodged in Jail. The other three were let eff
but when they offered to vote a second tim,
they refused to swear in their vote.
i SINCE 1888 the gross produce of golt
mines of North Carolina, as far as indicated
by the mint returns, are $4, 23S, 1886, and o
Georgia $5,6S5,S64-total 81, $780, 100 an,
the aggregate expense of maintaining then
So, 900 annually, or about $500, 900 for tn,
whole period.
; ACCORDING to the London Statistics
Journal, the national debt of Europ
amounts to nearly two thousand million
sterling.