Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1858-07-10
NEWS. ITEMS.

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The Brooklyn City Directory for the pres
ent year contains $4,000 names, against 39,
600 last year.
FORTY delegates from nine counties have
organized a Republican party in Nebraeka
territory.
JOHN w. FoRNEY is said to be after the
Philadelphia Sheriilalty,an office worth $s2O,-
600 year.
Gov. CoRwIN is talked of as the Opposition
Candidate in the Seventh Congressional dis
trict Ohio.
Charles Dickens allows his wife the stipend
of two thousand dollars per year since their
separation
THE highest honor at the University of
Cambridge, England-that of Senior Wraug-
ler-was taken this year by M. p. Bell, an
American student.
LETTERS received by the Persia report that
the health of Charles Summer has not been
so much improved since he left New York as
his friends desire.
THE Hartford Courant says dictionary
is soon to be published, which will con-
tain ten thousand words more than its
predecessors.
The average dog tax in each town in
Massachusetts, is probably in the neighbor-
hood of $3.50, making total taxation under
this head Of $4,000.
AT Albany, on the Sd, Mrs. Thurlow
Weed, wife Of the distinguished editor of the
Albany Journal, died after long and severe
illness.
FIVE gallons Of New York swill milk were
recently placed in a patent churn, and the
product Of the churning was two gallons of
good whiskey.
AT sale ofliterary property in London,
on Tuesday, the copyright and stereotype
plates Of Jeremy Bentham's complete works,
in eleven volumes. sold for G145.
One thousand barrels Of flour are contract
ed for in Cincinnati, to be delivered in Sep
tenlber, at three dollars per barrel, by parties
! in Indiana.
THE Republicans of the Dist District in
| Pennsylvania, have nominated j. r. More
head for Congress. In the 22nd Dis
trict they have nominated Robert Nc
Knight.
TIE Hon. w. r. Harris, one of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, died at
Memphis on the nineteenth, from injuries,
received at the explosion Of the Pcnnsylva-
MIA.
James S. Wadsworth, of Gennesseo, who
has been prominently mentioned in connec-
ton with the Republican nomination for Coy
crnor of New York, positively dec lines such
nomination.
THE body Of Sophia Dayon, murdered by
her two insane brothers near Detroit has
been examined by physicians. the rumber
Of external wounds found on her was two
hundred and fifty-five.
ORDERS have been issued from the War
Department that General Johnston is to re-
tain command of the troops in Utah, while
General Harney is to return and assume
command Of the Department Of the West
THE Paris 1LoaHeur, the official paper of
France, ridicules the English apprehensions
of q French invasion, and says the French
military and naval forces have not been aug
mcnted as is reported.
THE colored people of Warren, Ohio, have
given one Of their number fifty lashcs on the
bare back, for acting as stool pigeon to the
slave hunters and disclosing the direction
which fugitive had taken.
TIE Memphis papers announce the death Of
three more Of the wounded of the Penmsyica-
nia. This makes the number that have died
in Memphis seventeen, One of them was
Frank B. Jones, banker of Mobile
THE catch of salmon about Halifax this
summer has ben very large. Immense quanti-
ties have been exported to the United States
The price in the Halifax market is sd to Cd
per pound.
The venerable and Rev. Jacob j. Janeway,
d. d., died recently It New Brunswick, N.
j., at the advanced age Of "a years. He
was formerly au eminent pastor of Presby-
terian Church at Philadelphia.
VERY dangerous tens on the State Bank
Of Ohio are in circulation, and dso well execu-
ted as to defy experienced bankers to detect
them. Also coun terieit tens on the Com
mercal Bank at Racine.
The Mayor Of an English city once put
forth an advertisement previous to the races
"That no gentleman will be allowed to ride
on the course except the horses that are to
run.
IT now turns out that the British steamer
Styx, which was accused Of committing so
Gulf Of Mexico, was all the time away in
the Caribbean sea. So says the Havana
correspondent of the N. Y. Herald.
Captain Seth Barton, Z. S. Army, is sus-
pended from rank and command for three
months, and restricted within the limits of
his post, for having citizen whipped by one
of his soldiers. The Secretary of War ap.
proves of the sentence.
Susan Brown and Amanda Rhodes have
recovered $5,400 each from the Buffalo and
State Line Railroad Company, on account
of the killing of their husbands by an &C
ci0eut on that load at RnfialO v in
1856.
TIE Cnilian government having lost, with
in six months, four British steamers which
they had purchased for their navy, it is said
now intend to order some American steam
shins Is tLnre is but q sinnln good slim in the