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

| 1HE w EATHER.--rOr Tie past lew Gays
has been spring-like. The ice is considered
unsafe crossing 1t is hoped we will have
boats running on the Minnesota River in fif-
teen days. Our halfstarved community are
waiting with due degree of patience, for
the arrival of the Happy period.--&. Peter
Courier.
THE town of Red Wing was entered at the
Land Office, by Judge WEIGH, on the 25th
inst. Owing to the amount of land survey
ed and plated in the towh--but little less
than six hundred and forty actes-it became
necessary to enter it in two town sites, Red
Wing and East Red Wing:-Red Wing &n-
tiaal. -..
A Rich SELL:-We cut the following sell
from the Buffalo Daily Republic. It occurs
in story which is now being published in
that paper, entitled "Buried Alive"
In 1888 I came to Rochester, and was
there when that sublime farce was enacted
on Mount Hope. A wag at Mount Morris
found quantity of bear bones, which lie
palmed off as the bones of Col. James Boyd
and company, of Revolutionary celebrity
The military took it up and completed the
humbug. A pompous funeral was planned,
and Gov. Seward invited to deliver the fune-
raj address.
The cheat was discovered by sope of the
Rochester faculty a day Or two before its con-
summation, but such was their fear of the
mobocrats, that they kept the secret to them
selves: 1t is supposed that seven thousand
persons followed in the procession. Gov.
Seward was particularly eloquent on this far
cieal occasion. "Fellow-citizens," said he in
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battle, blood and Indian massacre, bit of de-
vastated corn fields, murdered porkers and
unfilial cubs; theme as fruitful and diversi-
fled, if not as spirit-stirring and interest
ing"
| In few days the secret leaked out--the
joke was too good to keep; editors wrangled
doctors quarreled, the military swore, but
they had no redress, they had been most un-
mercifully sold. and to this day you cannot
touch an inllabitant of Rochester in more
tender place than to ask him if he made one
of the procession to Mount Hope, or if he
was particularly edited with Goxernor Sew
ards eloquent Grafton over Bruins sacred re-
mains.
A FIGHT IN JAIi-The Rockford Demo-
crat is informed that Sheriff Taylor had a
pretty hard fight with two of the prisoners
confined in the Winnebago County Jail re-
Gently:
He had opened their cell on the first floor
to remove them to the second floor the first
one passed out, and as the Sheriff turned to
look at him the second one made his appear
ance at the door and with club struck him
a tremendous blow an the back of the head,
stunning him, but not telling him. He me-
chanically threw his arms around him and
was carried by the prisoner into the room
occupied by Mr.. T. and his family. The
other bird was seized by the Sherff's brc-
Their, and right lively fight ensued, in which
a table was knocked over, the light extin-
guished, and chairs broken. Mr.. T.'s wife
now came to the rescue. Re-lghting the
light, seized the rocker of a broken chair,
made their heads ache, laying them open
most beautifully, and vanquishing them in
short order. They were, through her bold
ness, soon safely in their cell. Mr.. Taylor
was considerably bruised but not dangerously
injured.
- 81 admire your beautiful crops ths
year." as the fox said to the poultry, in the
hearing Of the farmer.
Il WoMEN's RIGHTs.-The editor of the Day
ton (Ohio) Journal says: Having seen the
lady's name registered at the Philips House
as Miss L. Stone,' we ventured to inquire
if she desired to be addressed as Miss Lucy
Stone,' or Lucy Stone Blackwell, as the pa
pers sometimes designated her. call my
self Mrs. Lucy Stone, SIR was the gracious
reply"
RECOVERY OF LARGE EsTATE.-The
Imperial Court of Paris has decided a suit
in relation to the estate of the late Duchess
de Plaisance, in favor of Mrs. Ridgway, an
American lady. The estate is valued at
100000, and under the decision Mrs. Ridg-
way is entitled to nearly $4,000. The
Duchess de Plaisance was it appears, the
daughter of the late NJ. and Nine. Maribois
and the latter, whose nsme was Elizabeth
was the daughter of William Moore and
Sarah Lloyd, of Pennsylvania /; and Mrs
Ridgway is the grand daughter of Thomas
Moore, son of the said William Moore and
Sarah Lloyd.
e 1t is common thing when you are
asked to go out shopping with your wife, t.
find that she has put on the very Oldest bon
= net in her possession.
, DIGG1NG CoMMENcED.--The frost is sui
: ficiently out of the ground to allow the com
mencement of excavations for the founda
/ lions of permanent buildings, and we Sc
hundreds of pick-axes busy in all parts Of tn
S city.
e The jury who found M. o. Wake
II 'snot guilty. at his trial on charge OF pei
e jury, in Chicago, have published a compl
y mentary card, sustaining the character
d Mr.. Walker and had it placed on the recor
of the Court, ~