The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-04-05
st. Paul, March 81, 1856.


e By the law of the Iowa Legislature
tie State Capital was to be relocated, at
some point within two miles of the Forks of
the Des Moines River. Some informality in
the law, prevented the action of the commits
sioners hitherto, but they are soon to pro-
coed to fulfil the object of their appointment
u The Washington Star says, it is I'M
derstood by those who have closely exam
ined the subject, that there are from six to
seven millions acres of land subject to pri-
vate entry in Iowa and Minnesota.
In 1862 an earthquake at Pekin, in
China, buried 100000 persons, and at the
same place, about 70 years later, 100000
persons were swallowed up from similar
cause.
E DR.. and Mrs. Mary Grove Nichols
have established Free Love League at yell
low Springs, Ohio, and are endeavoring, says
tie Sandusky Register, to institute Mary
Lyndon morals into Antioch College A
meeting of the citizens and faculty had been
held, and DR.. Nichols requested to leave,
but he said he was determined to remain.
e The land sales of the Illinois Gen.
trail Railroad Company for January and Feb.
amounted to 1924, 700, notwithstanding the
10 e ~,
GREE LovE."-Some enthusiastic expo
nent of this doctrine, gives tie following
lucid description of what it is" Free Love
is essentially and socially spherical ele-
ment-one of the fundamental spiritual har-
monies-a wirmodial inseperability of the
eternities-a primogenial co efficient of the
superscnsible zones-a cognate principle of
original materiality, flowing lineally toward
matrimonial, social and moral consonance in
the universal and eternal aur of things"
SHOCKING MURDER.-Capt. III. E. Steven
son, First Clerk of the steamer Ohio Belle,
was killed by a man named Joseph Jones,
about IL o'clock yesterday, on board the
boat, between Smithland, KY, and Cairo
LII. The circumstances as related to us by
a witness, were as follows: Jones came on
board at Smithland, in a state of partial in
toxication, and shortly afterwards, went into
the barber shop and got shaved. He then
rendered the barber a $50 in payment. The
latter not having the change applied to the
clerk, who pronounced the bill counterfeit.
1t was returned to Jones, who then present.
ed a $50, which the clerk also pronounced
counterfeit At this the former became per-
fectly outrageous, and raised such distur-
bance in the cabin that the clerk attempted
to put him out, whereupon the latter drew
revolver and shot him through the body
He lived about fifteen minutes after re civ
ing the shot. Great excitement existed on
board, and much difficulty was experienced
in preventing the passengers from executing
the murderer on the spot. When the boat
reached Cairo, the citizens threatened to
take him ashore and lynch him, but were
prevented. When our informant left the
boat, he was tied to one of the stauncheons,
and the passengers were canvassing the pro-
priety of hanging him without further cere-
mony. We have not learned the result of
the matter. Capt. Stevenson leaves wife
and four children at Newport, Kentucky
~. L0uis Meas.
FRUIT TREEs.-We continue to hear of
the fatal effects of the past winter on fruit
trees in different parts of the State. The
Joliet Democrat says, that not less than
four-fifths of the fruit trees in Will county,
Illinois, are killed.
IL Isaac G. Burnett, one of the old
est and most respectable citizens Of Cincin-
natl, died last week, in the seventy-thrd
year of his age.
ES At Funchal, Madeira, il is the fash
ion to wear white boots instead of black
ones. A lump of chalk serves in the place
of backing box and brush.
e A late number of the Brookville
American announced the destruction of the |
editors hat, whereupon the Connersville
Times impudently wonders fany lives were
lost.