The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-12-13

"ANSh w tuC Iit Onliut1. has II .UTOknQr
Hon. Charles Summer, and has resided 70
! some Years at Newport, X. L. lie was. saw
the New York Evening Post gentleman O
wealth and standing, and partook Of th,
tastes and accomplishment of his Kindred
1t is singular and mcanchol, e.,inci.lenc.
that another brother OF Mr. Sumner, Horace
\ young man ofgreat promise, lost his life b,
drowning at the wreck of the ship Elizabeth
on Fire Island, in 1850, on which occasion
Margaret Fuller Ossoli her husband and
cliild, also perished. 80 g
II Mr.. NJ. Quinby, Of St. townsville
Montgomery county, n. ", has sold this
year upwards of 10000 poapds Of honey,
principally produced by himself, and the re-
j mainder by a few neighbors who have follow
ell bis example Himself andisen make the
production Of honeya business, and undoubt-
edly very profitable one. The honey is
deposited by the bees in small, cheap boxes,
/ with glass sides and ends, aud sold in the
same by weight, including the.boxes. ..aa
1t appears BY tie retnrns received.
at the General Land ofiice;tLat the number
of bounty Land Warrants located under the
act Of March 2, 1854, is773ad4. covering
more than eight and half millions Of acres.
leaving on the lst of Octobcf 10000 uudcr
the same law located.
zs- A company Of Milesiah gentry in Sa-
ratoea county, became SO ehte;l. Wcdncs-
day. at he result in Pennsylvania. that they
resolved to build bonfire. ifHle 10 their
Irish instinct for laundering bedevilvcnt. .
they built it on a bridge TIE bridge took
fire anil they tried to put 1t aat by throwing
water on it from the creek below This
Corkonian caper will cost tie town about
1900.
AI Lient' Gumison stated that, when
he was in Utah. the three mfmbers of the
Presidency had no less tLan eighty two
wives between them, and that one Of the
| three g was called an old bachelor because
he had only a bakers dozcn.'' t
Z The Democrats OF Fin,ilay. Hancock
County. Ohio. burned Colonel Fremont in
cfiigy- on tie night Of the llsh nit They
had prepared to do it early IN tic evening.
but were warned by the Republicans that it
would not be allowed, and accordingly pm,
IT OF till tie respectable people Of the town
had gone to bed.
\ MAN named Bill Blake was arrested
lately in Angelina county. Texas, for the
murder of whole family named Moore, and
was Immediately taken and executed by
mob. Previous t me, ting his doom, he
made full confession Of his heinous crime.
and said he was insti>ated to its commission
by others.
IL Henry VIII. made law that all
men might read the Scriptures, except SER
wants i: but no woman except ladies who had
leisure to ask somebody the meaning. This
law was repealed in Edward the Sixth's
dav.
E A worthy minister noted for his
wit, on being asked what kind Of person the
wife Of Dr-was. replied, . | will give you
her grammatical character. She is a NOM
substantive-scen, felt and hcar,l.''
Il n panther was shot few days
since near West Greenwich, K. l., weighing
90 pounds, although very thin in flesh. He
probably was on an excursion" hence his
lean condition.
e TIE New Jersey Know Nothincs
h I'VE raised a.Presi,lential banner for 1860.
inscribed " Stockton and Bolts"
e 1t has been decided by the Supreme
Court of the United States that it has right
to enquire into and interfere with the lcc.l
tax legislation of state.
E& A block of marble from the ruins
of Carthage, has been contributed to the
Washington Monument, by DR.. David Por-
ter Heap, acting American Consul at Tunis.
e-- The Natural Bridge property; in Vir-
ginia, including the hotel and 100 acres of
land, has just been sold for $4,000.
.zsy- 1t is probable the production of whis-
key in the Ohio valley is fifty million gallo, S
per annum, involving consumption of
twelve and half million bushels of corn.
the average value of which is So 100000.
EA Since the opening of the Green
wood Cemetery on Long Island, n Y, in
September, 1910, the interments have been
AZ .223 in number. IN ..
E< Thirty millions Of bricks--morc
than enough to supply all the hats in the
United Statcs-have been manufactured in
Milwaukee during the last year.
W. c. JOHNSTON, the Tax Collector for
Washington county, is at present in this city
for the purpose of receiving taxes due that
county. Tax payers will embrace this OPP
portunity for paying their taxes. Mr.. J. is
stopping at the Merchants Hotel.
A MONUMENT is about to be erected in
Shelbyville county, KY, to Col. John Har-
din, of that state, who was killed in 1872
while bearing his country's flag of peace to
the Indians north west of the Ohio.
E 1t is estimated that there are 7OO,-
600 pianos in use in our country at the pre-.
sent time. li-p
i The failure of the Robbins & Lawrence
Company at Windsor, is said to be for al
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