The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-08-29
NEWS ITEMS.

crease of business on railroads, due chiefly
to their extension INTO new and fertile dis
tricts of country, but the increase cannot
fail to be very large on all the main completed
lines of the Northwest. Take those of our
own State, for instance. Nothing has been
added to their length within the year, but
vast deal has been added to the superficial
area Of cultivated country along their lines,
which, with the unusually abundant harvest,
will greatly swell their receipts. When the
shipping of grain fairly commences, we doubt
whether one OF them will have rolling stock
sufficient to dispose of the freight that will
crowd into their cars.
A STEAMBOAT captain at St. Louis found
himself in this pfedicament, lately. A
washer-woman called on board his boat, re-
ceived all his wearing apparel, forgot to give
her name, and didn't "turn up" again. He
found himself in the condition of Miss Flora
McFlimsey, of Msdison Square-or more so.
The Democrats river itemizer says: ave
intended to write poem upon it, and got as
far as, Capt. Wait, of the Challenge, TINT lay
at the wharf, but came to a dead halt for
want of some word to rhyme with wharf"
RAILROAD IrEMs-The Anamosa Eureka
says that it is the intention on the part IF
the Directors Of the Wapsipinicon and St.
Peters Valley Railroad to commence work
soon at Anamosa, and to grade 20 miles of
the road this Fall. The same paper states
that the Western Railroad is let in small
sections from Farley to Monticello, and ia to
be completed to Monticello by the first of
January next, and to Anamosa early next
June.
EGYrr.-The Augsburg Allemeine Zeisung,
has advices from Alexandria to the 5th Of
July. The Victory, it was reported, was
about setting out for the oasis of Jupiter
Ammon, (Shiva, in the Lybian desert. He
intends to annex this fertile tract to his do
minions, though its inhabitant refuse to re-
cognize his authority. The advance detach-
ment of caravan of four thousand camels,
bringing cassia, tamarinds, gums ivory, gold
dust, &C., from Darfour lately arrived at Cal
70. This is the first caravan that has reach
ed Egypt from Darfour in thirty years its
arrival is an event of great importance, as it
opens the trade formerly existing betw cen
the two countries.
The Republican State Convention of Iowa.
assembled at Iowa City on the the 10Th inst,
for the nomination of candidates for State
offices. We have not yet received full par
ticulars of the action of the Convention, but
learn that the most complete harmony pre-
vailed. Gen. R. P. Lowe, of Lee county,
was nominated for Governor, on the third
ballot; and Oran Faville, of Mitchell county,
was put IN nomination for Lieut.. Governor
These are good men, worthy to be the stan
dard bearers of the gallant Republicans of
Iowa. That they will be elected by sweep
ing majority we do not entertain the slight
est doubt.
A correspondent of the New York Tribune
writing from Niagara Falls. on the 9th, SAYS
that the attempt of Mrs. Cunningham to OBJ
tain possession of a spurious child, is charac-
terilsic of the family to which she belongs
lie says her Oldest sister, now deceased,
practised trick Of the same description and
for similar purpose, about thirty years ago.
In 1887 he says, her sister Sarah married a
Bermudian, in Middletown, Conn, but re-
serves for another letter an account of how
She freed herself from her husband and swim
died his lawful heirs of his property, by
substituting the illegitimate child of her SIS
ter as her own child, by her deceased hus.
band.
THE rowdies of Philadelphia obtain all
the modern improvements in their art quite
as early as early as their brethren in other
cities The North American mentions the
capture of James German, who was armed
with bludgeon made of iron or brass, fit.
ting exactly to clenched fist. This formida.
BILE instrument is lined and padded on the
side next the hand, and is so arranged that
we'll directed blow would crush in the thickest
skull. These weigh about four pounds each.
They are murderous looking affairs, and tell
of assassination in their aspect.
DR.. Dick, the author of "The Christian
Philosopher" and many other works of a
religio-scientific character which have been
and are still very popular on both sides of
the Atlantic, died at Broughty Ferry, near
Dundee, Scotland, on Wednesday, the 29th
of July, at the advanced age of eighty-three.
Up to the close of his life he was an earnest
devotee of the sciences, astronomy being his
favorite study, and that in which he was pro-
badly most at home.
M. Schutzembach, French manufactu-
rcr, is the originator of an important pro-
cess in the manufacture of sugar, consisting
of new mode of lixivating or washing the
pulp, instead of pressing it by means Of
hydraulic presses-an apparatus large enough
to work 100000 to 10000 of best pulp in
twenty-four hours, costing only some ST..
200, while the same quantity of pulp would
require six hydraulic presses, costing $4,000.
THE Cedar Co. Democrat calls Mt. Yer
non the "Model jerusalem" and the Index
calls Upton the model "Gomorrah." The
aristocratic circles of Mt. Vernon turn up |
heir noses in disgust at their neighbor Lis
bon calling it "Dutchtown' and "Kitchen.m
While Lisbon retorts by asserverating that
he people Of Mt. Vernon are mean enough
o steal pins, and hence entitled the place
'Pinhook."
The present Newfoundland line of tele-
graph is to be abandoned. 1t has cost more
han a million dollars. A road was cut
or i1 with immense labor through
100 miles of dense wilderness, and it is now
ound impracticable to keep it up through
he storms and ice of Newfoundland win
er. The company's agents are now making
oundings Of the coasl, with the intention of
unning the. Atlantic cable down from the
ranks of Newfoundland to some point in
Nova Scotia. 1t is not little singular that
in the progress of telegraphing