The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-01-03
NEWS ITEMS.


forty feet down precipice, lodging his wife
in tree that stood part way down the hill,
and the wagon in the same tree several feet
above her! The horse broke from his har-
ness and tumbled over half a dozen times.
Neither the Doctor, wife or horse were in
jured.
t. The Democrats of Pennsylvania
have called State Convention to meet at
Harrisburgh on the I'd of March, to nomi-
nate candidates for Governor, Canal Com
&c. The I'd of March has been
fixed for the convention so as to enable the
members and other Democrats in attendance
upon the convention to visit Washington,
upon the occasion of the Inauguration of
James Buchanan,
E& The increased winter tariff of freghts
on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad went in
to operation on the 18th Of November, stimuli
taneously with the Pennsylvania railroad
and under the system which has been per-
fected throughout the whole line and it's con-
nections, with view of securing a rapid and
generally uninterrupted transmission of
goods, a very large traffic we learn is now
being done.
- The Manchester Mirror states that
between twenty and thirty of the men en-
ployed for years at the Amoskeag machine
shop, and now out Of work, talk Of making a
proposal to the city government next year by
contract; to carry on its schools, take charge
of its sewers, streets, courts, police, and every
department, and keep it well cleaned and
oiled, fired up, and ready for all emergencies,
for 100000.
G1- A verdict Of $500 has been obtained,
in the Court Of Stark county, Ohio, by f.
Reynolds, against W. II. Greer, for SANDER.
The slanderous words consisted in reporting,
contrary to the facts, that the plaintiff, who
is merchant in Waynesburgh in that coun-
ty, had failed and made an assignments
a report calculated to ipjure his business
standing.
- A most brutal deed was recently
perpetrated by a negro shoemaker in Ha-
vana, upon the person Of a young mulatto
his apprentice. The boy was talking to an
other boy, when his brutal master master
seized hot boiled egg, just off the fire, and
thrust it into the poor lads mouth, holding
his hand over the mouth until the boy was
suffocated and died.
e. Accounts from Rhodes state that
the lightning struck the immense store of gun
powder which was placed in the vaults be-
longing to the Ancient Knights, destroying
the whole Turkish quarter so completely
that only three children were saved. One
thousand persons were said to have per-
ished
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun writes: " Mr.. Henry, Of Ala
bama, the inventor of machinery for spinning
cotton yarn by the same power by which it
is ginned, has just left this city for the South.
He claims that it will double the profits of
the cotton planter-adding a hundred and
fifty millions year to the value of their
crop. The process, as described, appears to
be ingenious, and it may prove to be val
uable
Mr. Wright, Representative of the coun-
ties of Clinton and Cedar in the Legislature
OF Iowa, died at his residence in Cedar coun-
ty on the 4th inst Mr.. Wright was i'll at
the beginning of the session, and had not ia
ken his seat. Mr. Toll, Representative from
Clinton county, has been confined to his room
for several days by an attack of quinsy.
On Thursday last lie was convalescent, and
hoped to be in his seat again in few days.
1r is stated in Washington that the Chi
nese Sugar Cane Seed is in great demand and
the United States Patent office will supply
the Secretary of each State Agricultural So
ciety with bushel of sugar-cane seed for dis
tribution among the farmers who will fairly
test it, and produce seed for the future use
of the State.
- Hon. B. G. Whittemore, late State
Treasurer of Michigan, died at his residence
in Ypsilanti, on the eth inst, of consumption.
Mr.. Whittemore was, it is said, man ofhon-
orable impulses, manly, straightforward and
frank in his intercourse with others, correct
in kindness and greatly beloved socially
Mr.. WhittemOre leaves a large family, who
are amply provided as to pecuniary re-
sources
IL The city Of Paris alone contains one
hundred and ten establishments exclusively
occupied in the manufacture of materials used
by photographers, and some of them employ
one hundred and thirty workmen. There
are seven hundred photographers in Paris,
some of whom execute eighty, ninety or one
hundred portraits day, the average being
five portraits day by each photographer,
costing fifteen cents each and sold at an
average of six dollars. The stereascope is al
so branch of photography in which one
Partisan firm has invested one hundred and
twenty thousand dollars.
e. Chicago is funny place. 1t is
original in more things than one. Recently
a man committed suicide there by drowning.
The body could not be found, but the coro-
nor NOT RI ho oboo+ol - &c L..