Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-05-10

| dwelling houses. brick, with lots Is leet lIonl
and 100 deep, were sold at from 500 TO 1925,
cash-lcss than the houses could be put up for.
The Courier says this is fair specimen OF
prices just now.
Another revolving pistol has been in
vented. 1t has magazine in two sections,
each capable Of containing seven cartridges, so
that the pistol may be fired fourteen times
The cartridges thrown into revolving block by
means Of a spiral spring. The pistol is self
Gaping. 1t is an Albany invention.
- The King of the Netherlands has just
authorized the establishment Of gigantic
banking institution, with cash capital OF 49,
900, 900 francs, to be called the Banque Inter-
rationale. 1t will issue eighty millions OF pa
per money, or double the amount Of its CAPT.
tall with the privilege Of increasing the amount
to one hundred millions.
"A satisfactory experiment with coal
burning locomotive has been made on the New
Jersey Central Railroad. The high price of
wood, and the difficulty in obtaining supply
has rendered necessary some mode by which a
cheaper material might be used for purposes Of
fuel on railroads.
~ A school master named Lyman, has been
convicted in Hartford, of beating lad with too
much severity, and fincll twenty dollars and costs.
He appeals the case to the Superior Court.
7 n L., La
dered to be discontinued, the vacant lands in the
district being rednced to less quantity than one
hundred thousand acres.
Cy j. Brown, of Hart county, Ga, the father
of twenty nine children, has discovered rich
vein of gold. The old man and his boys, with
their mortars and pans, make from FIVE to six
dollars per day.
CO At Claremont, N. H., roofs loaded
with snow that has been there Since Christmas.
c. Near Whitehall, N. Y, the other day, du-
ring the temporary absence of her husband, "A re-
spectacle lady cut her hair short,put on her mans
best suit, took his $50 and took the cars. The
husband has disagreeable forebodings as to the
meaning of this singular asfair, and has gone in
search of his wife.
CO Lesseps, the protector of the Sucz ship ca
nal, is pushing the enterprise successfully among
the capitalists of Europe. The stock is eigh: mil
lion dollars, nearly two millions of which were
taken in Egypt.
- The same number of the Paris Moniteur
that announced the birth of an heir to the throne
of the Bonapartes, contained decree that all the
money that bears the eifgy of Liberty shall cease
to be current coin.
G15- The New York police are overhauling the
street beygars who infcst that city. Almost ev-
cry day the Office of Mayor of that city is besieged
by numbers of countrywomen complaining of
having been swindled by bogus California steam
err agents, who have sold them counterfeit pas
sage tickets. In one instance man had laid
out about 1926 for tickets to 90 to California,
which proved to be spurious, and upon calling
at the Office where they were bought, was beaten
and elected from the premises.
Cy A lawyer lately attempted to pass him
self off for Rufus Choat. At the suggestion of a
printer who was present, the ''writing test'' was
applied to him. He wrote legble hand, and
was Immediately kicked out for an impostor.
Cy In the interior of Asia Minor and Armenia
this winter has been one of unusual severetv.-
In the vicinity of Koniah, a caravan of eighty
persons was buried by snow Slide Fifty of
them were rescued alive by those who fastened
to their assistance the remainder were beyond
recovery.
NARROW EscAPE.-Colonel Curtis, Mayor elect
| of Keokuk, being absent from home, returned on
the very last day in the evening of the time pre-
scrbed by law, in which ne could take the oath
of Office.
A DISTRESSING CIRCUMsTA lit
tie children were killed near Tiltonsvic, in
Jefferson county, about sixteen miles below
Steubenvile, on the river, on Sunday last, I'M
der the following circumstances. The day be-
ing pleasant, the two children l. ID taken a
babe to play. Last winter some tret had been
feIled, and cut into saw log Lengths, and lef,
lying on the hillside. The thawing ard wash
ing of the dirt on the hillside had so ,osencd
one Of the logs that it gave way, and rolled
down the hill at the particular time these little