Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-16
NEWS ITEMS

the whole city to its foundation, and causing
a deplorable loss of life. Twenty-eipht per.
sons were killed, and one hundred and five
wounded. Others were supposed to be bu-
ried in the ruins of buildings The gas works
were demolished, depriving the whole city of
light, nineteen sugar houses were destroyed
and many other buildings injured
W Late advices assure us that the prices
of wheat and flour are declining in the eastern
markets, and there is very little prospect of
any advance the present season. Notwith-
standing the cry Of poor crop and its partial
failure in SOM portions of the country, yet it
is now ascertained that there is more wheat
in the United States than the people need for
use, and as there will not be any foreign de-
mand, prices must keep low.
~ Last Monday the Messrs. Winans of
Baltimore, Nd, commenced to launch their
singular steamship by which they propose to
cross the Atlantic Ocean in six days. The
process OF launching her is slow one, the
vessel being launched side ways, and is moved
down herways by the force of two large screws,
at the rate Of about five feet per hour. Mon
Jay afternoon she had reached the edge of
the wharf, Or about twenty-five feet from her
original position. She was then about sixty
or seventy feet from the end of the WAYS.
This queer looking craft attracts a great deal
OF notice. She is in shape resembling a
cigar, and her propelling wheel is like an
immense ring, encircling her around the
center.
- A meeting of workingmen. held in
Trenton, N. j., last week, formed an organi
zatiOn to secure more direct representation
in the Legislature and Congress. Their plat
form is the discharge Of all officers of govern
ment who are unnecessary; revision of the
tariff so as to assess only such goods as COM
pete with domestic manufactures public
lands to be sold only to actual settlers; an
economizing of State expenses better laws
for the collection of wages more direct &C
countability of officers; some restraint on
litigation carried on by the rich to harass the
poor.
~ Peter X. Vanatta, says the Montgom-
cry Herald recovered verdict and judgment
in the Circuit Court of Montgomery county
last week against the Terre Haute, Alton and
st. Louis Railroad, for $1,000. The iudg-
ment was rendered on account of the prose-
cutor having been elected from the cars in the
month of November, 1857, long distance
from any station. 1t appears that Mr. Vanat-
| ia had paid his fare to certain point, but
stopped off for the night, and when he got
on the train the next day the conductor de-
manded fare, refusing to take his ticket On
refusal to pay he was put off the train.
- We see it announced that the Post
Office Department has decided that letters re-
| ceived from United States vessels cannot be
considered ship letters under the provisions of
the Act of March 8, 1925, which apply only
to letters or packets carried Gin any private
ship or vessel" Such letters therefore are
chargeable only with drop letter postage, if
intended for the delivery of the offices in
which they are deposited, and with the ordi-
nary rates if forwarded to other Offices; and,
| In neither case is any compensation to be al
lowed to the person from whom they are re-
| ceived.
t- At Lysander, Onondaga county, N.
Y, on Sunday, John G. Forbes tied Jug
of whisky about bis neck, and attempted to
swim the river. The jug proved too heavy for
him, and he was found at the bottom next
mornlngg-having mixed altogether too much
water with his liquor
- 1t is estimated that two hundred
thousand people assembled at Leeds the other
day, upon occasion of the Inauguration of the
new Town Hall by Queen Victorin. Thirty
thousand children were arranged in body to
the Queen.
- The late European papers tell us that
the amount of indemnity which China is to
pay to England is fully $1O,OOO,OOO. Besides
this fine, as it may be called, she cedes some
of her posts, throws them all open to COM
merce with foreign nations, and admits Christ
ian missionaries among her people.
a. A partially insane lady who was Wis
iting brother near Orville, Ohio, in the Vi
cinity of Massillon, on Tuesday morning stood
near the railroad track, watching the ap-
preaching train. When near she sprang upon
the track, and ran upon her hands and knees
to meet the engine. Efforts to stop the train
were unavailing, and the cars, in passing over
the body, ground it into fragments
az A young Irish GIRL named Mary Nc
Carron, from Hethington Landing, Columbia
County, managed to save $3.50 in four years
and a half of service; went to New York to
see a friend married displayed 800 in gold
and silver, in Green Point stage, when paying
her fare, but after she got out found herself
relieved in the stage.
~" A warrant is out for Heenan, the
Benicia Boy, who is announced for a prize
fight 1t is said this is done by his hackers,
who fear he will be beaten. The officers can
not find him, though everybody else can
Such is the condition of law in New York
city.
.Y@ Rev. Mr. Brooks persisted in the snow
on Salmon mountain in California, a year ago
last February, and his bones have just been
found. a watch, twenty dollar gold piece,
and package of tracts, were found near his
remains, which were not far from house.
lie had persisted almost in sight of shelter
81 The Macoupin Qll) Spectator states
that in case brought before the Circuit Court
in that county, the costs amounted to $751;
81, besides loss of time and contingencies,
and the case was withdrawn at length by the
parties without a verdict. 1t was all about
bull calf worth six dollars.