The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-10-31
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several thousand dollars who attempted to
commit suicide in that city short time since
purchased his arsenic at a drug store. They
asked shilling for the amount but he actu-
ally beat them down to ten cents.
GEORGE Fay recently fell from the top of
the bluffs at Lake City, Minnesota, and lanl-
ed in a tree at distance of 100 feet, after
which he fell 100 feet farther-making in all
a fall of 200 feet. 1t is wonderful that he
had not bone broken and is now nearly re-
covered.
The latest wonder in the political world is
now exhibiting in New York city. 1t is a
Know Nothing committee sitting daily to pro-
cure naturalizationspapers free for foreigners
desiring to vote at the coming election.
THE Boston Post says that the greatest
sensation was produced on change in that
city when the old house of Francis Skinner
& Co. had suspended. Their surplus is over
half a million of dollars.
! The Washington Star of the 8th says, that
some days ago produce dealer sold a cust to-
mer halfpeck of potatoes for shilling,and
in taking the pay from quarter dollar, re-
turned twelve cents change. This the custo-
mer got by getting out a warrant for the odd
cent, and the case being tried, he recovered
it.
A HoosIER lass lad took the cars at Indi-
annapolis under suspicious circumstances, and
the mother of absconding Miss telegraphed
to the Chief of Police at Cincinnati to ar
rest her daughter, and thereby prevent her
getting married. The police surrounded the
depot but the couple managed to elude their
vigilance. An officer then went to the Probate
Court to arrest them should they supply for
the license. There he learned that license
had already been issued he then hunted up
the hotels and at last found they were at the
United States Hotel, and had taken a room.
He marched up stairs, and without knocking,
entered, much to the embarrassment of the
parties, who were not prepared to receive
company. The lady hid her face and the gen.
tleman demanded the intruder's business
The officer explained his business, whereupon
the bride withdrew her head from it's cover
ing and said "You may tell Ma It's too late
I've been married half an hour The officer
retired
A YOUNG man named Charles Coates, %
years old, who had been suffering for som,
time from consumption, learning from his
physician that he could not possibly recover,
became so despondent that he determined to
destroy himself and chose liquor as the agent
by which to effect his fatal purpose He be-
gan drinking excessively two weeks ago, and
has continued ever since, true to his resolve
being excessively intoxicated from morning
until night. The effect of this ceaseless i'm
bibation was that he died yesterday morning.
"CHARIvARI" visits are not encouraged by
the courts in Canada. Six months ago par
| ty of that kind visited the house of a man
! named Baird, and in the melee that ensued,
one Horn was shot. Since that time Horn
died, but before his death he made full de-
claration OF the diSgraceful transaction, giving
the names of the parties engaged in the af-
fray. Matthew Baird (the person who fired
the shot was arrested on a coroner's warrant
for the crime of ''culpable homicide" Tie
Grand jury at the Assizes found true bill
against Baird for granddaughter in the sec
ond degree and upon this he was on Satur-
day last arraigned and pleaded mot guilty"
After mass of evidence was given on both
sides, the Judge (Sir j. B. Robinson, d. J..)
while addressing the jury, stated that Baird
had conferred boon upon society by shoot
ing down one who was employed in so dis
graceful an action as that in which the party
whose life had been forfeited, had been en-
gagged. A verdict of acquittal was finally
returned.
DIR. FRANCIS, of Philadelphia, has invent
cd what he calls galvanic forceps, which is
inteded as a relief to the pain of extracting
teeth. 1t is combination of the ordinary
forceps, with a galvanic arrangement at
tached, whereby the nerve of the tooth may
be charged with the galvanic influence and
its sensibillty suspended. In this condition
the extraction will be without the pain usu-
ally accompanying the drawing of tooth in
a height of Inflammation. Ifthc expectations
Of the inventor are realized with regard to
the instrument, it will be of great value, not
only to the dental practitioner, but especial
ly to the patient.
AT late celebration at Keokuk, Iowa one
of the speakers remarked, that "when he
landed in Keokuk in 1888, it was a nest of
pirates,' and directly afterward added, Keo-
kuk has held her own remarkably well for
twenty years past"
a boy six years of age, at Syracuse, New
York, while attempting to get down from an
apple tree, fell upon sharp stick which pen
etrated upwards into his abdomen and broke
off therein. A physician administered chlor-
cform to the sufferer, and making an incision
into his side extracted the wood. The boy
is expected to recover.
The rapid disappearance before the axe of
the planter and timber getter, of the yellow
pine of the South, so valuable in ship build
ing, has attracted the attention of govern
ment, from its intimate relations with our
naval service, and for the first time the pub
lie pine lands have been withdrawn from sale,
with the view of holding them for the future
use Of the navy. The district thus reserved,
lies on the Suwanee River, in Florida.
The New Haven Register states that it is
informed by gentleman from Bedford that
one of his neighbors has a pumpkin vine