The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-06-13
NEWS ITEMS.

THE latest report from Great Salt Lake is
assumed a formidable character. Brigham
Young is said to have deserted the Taberna-
Gle, and remains shut up in his own house,
guarded night and day by his friends. He
is afraid to show himself in pubic.
We have received Haytien papers to May
Q. AS usual, the people seem to be divld-
ing their time between fetes and pompous
ceremonials. On the 1st of May was cele
baated the Fete Of Agriculture, at which
speeches were made by high dignitaries, SOL
emn services held in the churches. and the
agriculturists who were fortunate enough to
gain prizes, were publicly crowned, amidst
salvos Of artillery.
On removing the bodies of Mr.. and Mrs.
Railsback from the family burying ground
to new and more convenient cemetery in
the ,o'ey settlement, four and half miles
south Of Eaton, Ohio, the body Of Mrs. r..
was found to be converted to limestone, pre-
serving remarkable fullness and plumpness
as fife. The weight of the body was es-
,ima:ed at about GOO pounds.
The hard case of young widow with
| S20,000 compelled to give up Ter property
If she married again, has been going the
rounds of the papers. To Offset it the San
dy Hill Herald relates how gentleman re-
siding in the town of Granville, Washington
county, died recently, and willed his wife a
handsome sum-stipulating in his will that
in case she again married the sum was to
be doubled nd," pathetically adds the
Herald, ';may tie grass ever be green upon
his grave J"
| L. S. MINT.-The statement of the off,
GERS of the Philadelphia Mint for the month
of May, shows deposit of SlGl $50 of gold,
and Sl99, 5S5 of silver, of which sum, S., $50
were exchanged for the new cent. OF cop
per Sc, Is of old cents were received during
the month. The coinage for the same time
was $lGl $50 in gold, and all in dollar pies
ces. In silver, S203,O0 in quarter dollar
and dime pieces. Tue number of new cents
coined was three million eight hundred
thousand. And the total coinage of the
month was S40259O. The whole number of
pieces coined was 4,977,590.
The morals Of ClncinnIti do not appear to
be better than those of Boston. A single
paper of that city on Monday, the 18th inst,
chronicles the desertion of his family by a
city official in company with his wifes aunt ;
the elopement Of the wife of real estate
broker; the elopement ofthe wife Of steam
boat captain, and the attempted suicide of
another wife on account of desertitn by her
husband, and consequent desttution. This
is certainly startling number of immo-
ralities to become pubic in ore city in a
single day.
In Philadelphia, a short time since, a
single shawl sold for one thousand folr hum
dred and twenty-five dollars. In the same
city needle women will make shirts at six
cents apiece. Comment is suprrhos. MIS-
ery and want are always the companions Of
such extravaganza.
THE Delaware Republican, in announcing
that young Worrell, formerly of that State,
is to be hung for murder in Missouri on the
9th of June, says that "grief has had its
effect upon his parents. His mother is very
ill, AMI his father is undoubtedly insane"
On Sunday week the packet ship West
more and arrived at Philadelphia, with 553
Mormons, bound for Utah.
The Georgian says that three gentlemen
in Savannah won $500 in bets, by the ac-
quittal of Mrs. Cunningham In the New
York murder case.
IT is announced that the wife of General
Scott is dangerously i'll in Paris. Her daugh-
! ter ia 'sw has sailed to join her.