The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-10
SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA TERRITORY SATURDAY JANUARY 10 1851.


k A boy named Fairbanks, at Town
send, VT, fell upon an open knife, last week
the instrument piercing his heart, causing
instant death. lie had been at neighbor's
in the evening, where fightful stories had
been related, and he, it is supposed, being
frightened, carried his knife open in his
hand to defend himself and accidentally fell
upon it.
| ES An immense amount Of counterfeit
money is stated to be IN circulation in Wheel
ing-so much, indeed, that journal of that
city feels justified in the following remark
Almost every man who happens to have Q
counterfeit note in his possession, tries to gel
It off his hands at the box Office of the thea
tire, and we are informed that at least oae-
half Of the bills presented there are countertsi' y
E We see it stated that the Eastern
market is glutted with oysters. The Nor
folk Herald informs us that a vessel freghted
with the popular luxury went from that city
to New York, where it was found impossible
to dispose of the oysters upon any. terms,
and the vessel returned to Norfolk with her
cargo.
81 DR.. Livingston, the celebrated
African traveller, for whose safety there has
been so much anxiety, is expected to arrive
in England about the 1st of December next.
He is to be received with marked honor by
the Geographical Society in London.
e The number of Shaker Societies in
this country is eighteen, located in several
different states. The denomination was
founded by Anna Lee, who was born in 1876.
~ 1t is estimated that the coal product
of Pennsylvania for the year 1866, will be
from six and half to seven millions of tons,
of the estimated value, on boats and cars, Of
about twelve millions of dollars. :.
E AS some men in Pittsburg, on the
Goth ult., were firing at mark: one of the
balls from the rifle struck Loard, glanced a
distance of forty yards, entering the brain of
a man named Gass, killing him instantly.
E A son of Fitz- Henry Warren of
Iowa, ex-Assistant Postmaster General, was
drowned while skating ON Charles River in
Newton, by breaking through the ice, where
there was strong current.
E A snake was recently caught in
Mississippi having head at both ends.
81 1t is singular fact that, when the
Indian swears lie swears in English. There
are no oaths in the Indian vernacular.
ES An editor down South says he never
dotted an but once in his life, and that was
in fight with contemporary.
Or Divorce cases have constituted the
principal business of the Supreme Court, now
in session at Salem, Massachusetts,, and more
than half the applications came from g Cali
fornia widows"
g A treaty of commerce has been con-
cluded betwean France and the Sandwich
Islands.
A LATE number of the American Rail-
road Times contains the following very judi
cious remarks: " No greater mistake has
aver been made by railway officials than was
committed when they withdrew their adver-
tisements from newspapers" No greater
mistake can be made by any class Of busi-
ness men, whether railroad officers or others,
than to withhold their advertisements from
newspapers. Advertising is the secret of
business success.
Scotland on the Four Georges, and though
upon the whole successful, he was severely
Kissed for uttering some dsparaging things
about Queen Mary.
EUROPEAN capitalists are supposed to have
invested in our railroad stocks and railroad
bonds about S65,OO0,OOO, and the whole
amount of foreign Indebtedness will approx
innate at least to $25O,0O0,OOO.
The United Service Gazette states that
Captain George II. Richards, R. n, will
command an expedition, to be prepared
forthwith, to proceed in search of Sir John
Franklin's party, by way of Behring's
Straits.
T. B. Crosby, of Euclid, Cuyahoga coun-
ty, Ohio, raised, the past season, on half
acre of ground, 24O bushels Of potatoes by
measure.
CHARLES RANSOM, Esq, Of Owego signed
$25 toward building the Methodist church
in that village, with condition attached to
his subscription that abolitionsm should not
be preached in the church. He refused to
pay the money on the ground that the con-
tract had been violated. He was sued and
had to pay.
VIM. BREWER, native of Connecticut,
but recently telegraphic operator at Co.
lumbus, Ga, has been forced to leave that
city in consequence of his abolition proclivi-
ties.
IT is considered safe prediction that the
result of the next Presidential election will
be known in all the principal cities of Eu-
rope, and possibly in India, on the morning
Of the next day after it has transpired.
TIE Postmaster of Plattsburg, Mo-, was
arrested and held to bail in $4,000, on
CHARGE of oneninp letter and commnnicat.