The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-11-14
NEWS ITEMS.

married 10 WIN. "A. Bushnell. Everybody
about Washington remembers Bushnell, who
"sat at the receipt of customs" in the little
(pepper) box office Of the Adclphi Theatre,
Brown q Nichols, managers. Afterwards
Bushnell travelled with Barnum and JENNY
Lind, and there was some talk of his marrv-
ing Jenny, but the project didn't work, and
so Jenny married somebody else." Bush
nells good looks and shrewdness have, how
ever, secured him singing bird, whose notes
(bank and others) approach in some degree
those of the Swedish Nightingale,
We learn from the Barnvile (Mo.) O5seru-
er OF the oath inst, that extensive fcrgeries
have lately been perpetrated in that place, by
person by the name of W. w. Norris. The
forgeries date nearly four years back until re-
Gently. Tie sufferers compromise the es-
tates OF widows and orphans, as we'll as many
capitalists, the aggregate losses of which are
estimated ct from $4,000 to $5O,OOO He
has not been arrested.
SCARCELY day passes that the white tops
OF the emigrant's wagon may not be seen
passing by, on their way to the rich country
lying south and west of us. Almost all
bring their families, with sufficient provisions
for the winter, and many bring all the neces-
sary tools for pioneer life. So says Kansas
paper.
FROM the German colony of Hermann, in
Missouri, we learn that vintage has been in
progress for several weeks, and is almost end
ed. The yield is unprecedently large-the
winters are reapinss larger crop than they
had provided for, and in consequence there is
a scarcity of barrels and cellar room. The
st. Louis Westlichs Post says the grapes are
unusually large and juicy, and if ordinary
care is taken in the vintage, the yield of wine
will be better as we'll as larger than ever be-
fore, as the most contains a greater precent-
age of sugar than has been the case in any
year since 184S. The wine this year grown
in Hermann and vicinity will amount to
100000 gallons.
most singular and fatal accident happen
ed in Somerset, Michigan on Saturday last
to young man named Martin Shaffer. In
loading rifle, the ball became fastened in
the middle of the barrel, when he unbreech-
ed it, took out the powder, and then laid the
barrel ON o bed of Goals to melt the ball.
After the barrel became hot. he stopped
down to look at it, holding an earthen plate
at the other end of the barrel to shade the
light, when it exploded, and the ball entered
his eye, killing him Instantly.
GERMANY is coming to America, notwith.
standing the "hard times" The Hamburg
emigrant houses have been overfowing for
some time past. each ship that left the port
bringing as many as she could take. The
Borussia brought 461 persons, the Gutten-
berg has 275 passengers on board, and the
Ocean Home nearly 200, all bound for New
York. The majority of these emigrants are
from the Provinces of Mecklenburg and
Pommen, and arc not without means, many
of them having thaers enough to purchase
neat little farms in the West.
JOHN English, a butcher in New York, do
ing large business, after serving customer
with piece of meat, deliberately raised the
knife and cut his own throat from ear to ear.
1t is supposed he was laborng under deliri-
um, induced by intemperance. He was ma
tive of Ireland aged 81.
The Cass County (Mic.) 7riJmne says a
little son Of DIR. Hale, of Cassopolis, was in
stantly killed 10y falling into we'll on Tues
day last. The little fellow was trying to
reach hammer on the cover of the windlass
when he lost his balance and fell headfore-
most into the we'll. His father saw him fall,
and instantly went down into the we'll recov-
cred his body, but life was extinct.
The people of one of the counties in Wis
consin, were represented in the last Legsla-
ture by Mr.. Gum. This year Mr.. Cannon is
the candidate for the same Office in the same
county. We should call this noise-loving
county.
ance on the stage again in the character of
Meg Merrilies. Our Cincinnati exchanges
speak of her representation of the gipsey as
hardly inferior to Charlotte Cushman's.
A GERMAN named William Wainrich, com.
mitted suicide in Milwaukee on Saturday
night by cutting his throat. He leaves wife
and several small children.
The County Treasury of Henry County
Ind, was robbed on the night Of the 22nd
ult. About one thousand dollars were taken
500 in gold and the balance in notes of the
new State Bank of Indiana.
The Bremen brig Walborg, having on
board Crawfords Equestrian statute of Wash
ington intended for the Washington Monu-
ment, has arrived in Hampton Roads, where
she W ill await the instructions of the Com
mittee of the Association.
The boiler in the large packing house Of
John Smith, in Alton, exploded on Saturday
last, entirely demolshing the building, and
seriously wounding two persons. The loss is
about $4,000.
Two women were arrested at Hardinville
KY, q short time since, for stealing horse
and buggy in Louisville. The Louisville pa
pers say that they belong to an organized
band of thieves in that State.
A gentleman just arrived from abroad,
says he once found two Austrian custom Of
ficers endeavoring to make out his name
from bis travelling trunk. One called while
the other wrote. They had got "Mr. Var
ranti Solezer" The trunk was marked
"Warranted sole leather"
II is said that dnrinr one of the late street