The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-09
NEWS fTEMs.

NEWS ITEMS.
tx In the machine shop of tho Cleve
land, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroa
Company at Cleveland, vote was taken O
the 18th: Fremont n Buchanan IL Fill
more 12. In Hollis machine shop, Fremon
"a Buchanan g; Fillmore 8. In Sila
Merchants foundry, Fremont 38 Buchan
an 2. In the Phoenix Foundry, Eremon
C< A young man named Richard Ture
ly, was asleep on mountain near Troy, las
week, when he was suddenly startled by
clap Of thunder, and jumped down preci
pice, distance of fifty feet. He struck up
on rocks, but strange to say, only had ON
arm broken, and his knee shattered. He wi
survive.
@ The Washington correspondent o
the New York Commercial writes: " Penn
sylvania begins to feel the pressurs of thu
anti-Buchanan elements, and if the impres
sion be permitted to prevail that Buchan
ans chances are hopeless, he will be desert
ed with as little ceremony as if he were {
Franklin Pierce"
@ There is family named Drew, re-
siding in Roxbury, Massachusetts,, composed
of two brothers and four sisters, whose
united ages amount to 495. The oldest
brother is go, the next brother SO, and the
sisters respectively Sc, 70, II, and "a.
@ A New York paper says that the
search for the treasure on board the Brit.
ish frigate Huzzar, sunk at HelIgate during
the revolutionary war, is going on actively.
but with little success. The ships arma-
ment and furniture are all that have been re-
covered thus far.
tx The body of young German wom-
an was found in the river at Milwaukee on
Thursday, having committedsuicide. A let
ter was found among her effects, in which
she assigned as her reason for committing
the act, bad treatment on the part of a lover.
* A correspondent of the Detroit
Tribune, writes that 5O,OOO,OO0 feet of lum-
Der has been shipped from Saginaw SO far
this season, and that this amount will be
swelled to between lOOOOoOO0 and l50,-
100000 before the close Of navigation.
E The White Mountain correspondent
of the Boston Transcript describes visit, On
the 18th ult,, to an immense snow bank in
Tuckerman's Ravine, at the base of Mount
Washington, which has not sufficiently melt
ed this season to form "snow arch"
E An extraordinary kind Of fraud has
ust been discovered in France. Ladies' mus
lin collars, to all appearance handsomely em
broidered, are offered for sale, and when the
purchasers proceed to handle the new article
a little roughly, the seeming embroidery
falls off, being nothing else than little Jumps
of paper cleverly pasted on the muslin.
E Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has
sailed for Europe. She will bring out her
book, On the Influence of Slavery upon
the White Population" during her absence,
both in England and in the Upited States.
TX A decision has been rendered by
Judge Mead against the legality of the prac-
tice adopted by the New York and Erie
Erie Railroad Company of charging an ex-
ira price for tickets whennot obtained at the
station Office.
IL 4 brute at st. Louis, named Jacob
Neaslein, has been arrested for beating his
wife to death. For two or three weeks he
had been in the habit of beating her every
day. The woman has left two children, one
two years and half old, the other only FIVE
months.
E The Weston IVA. Herald says that
ice was found on the Goth of June, on the
head of Valley Fork or Elk, from the freez-
ing of last winter, and was supposed would
remain until August.
T A bear weighing four hundred lbs,
was killed at Greenville, Outagmie County,
Wisconsin, on the Goth ult, by VIM. Root.
Bruin had killed several hogs and calf for
Mr.. Root.
E Mr.. Burton, the great comedian of
New York, was so seriously injured by be-
ing thrown from his carriage one day last
week, that he will not be able to appear up
on the stage for some time.
@ Haynes, the supposed murderer of
the girl near Detroit, was arrested and put
in Jail at Norwalk, o., and has been brought
back to Detroit.
E Flour and wheat, Saturday, were
reported dull in New York, with prices tend
ing downward.
E The total length of railroads now
in process of construction in Pennsylvania, is
something more than one thousand miles.
@ During the last seven years four
teen hundred murders, it is said, have been
perpetrated in and about San Francisco, and
the city itself has been burned down seven
times. r 1ii +
. E The Lansing Mirror states that
lead has been discovered on the Upper Iowa
river. Some copper had also been discover
ed in that vicinity. 4. ,;sei. : : s
EE The Richmond Wing does not give
favorable account Of the Wheat crop thro'-
out Virginia generally y-and says the Corn is
ro,v sufyar;no from fha dros,th .jAd ty,> h..x