Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-23
NEWS ITEMS.

which the following gentlemen were elected
Directors for the ensuing year: j. j. r. Pease,
Wisconsin; A. l.. Prtchard, Wisconsin
Wmslow Blake, Wisconsin; Albert Winslow,
Wisconsin; c. Butler, New York; John
Bannister, Wisconsin; S. j. Tilden, New
York 0. d. Ashley, New YoIk; William
b. Ogden, Illinois; Philetus Sawyer, Wis
consin; j. F. Chaplin, Illinois Henry Smith,
Illinois; Perry ii. Smith, Wisconsin.
.Yge There is moral grandeur in the EN-
igrant removing from an eastern home through
trackless wilderness and founding another
home in the forest, on every side illimitable,
obeying the primeval command "subdue the
earth" and make it the abode of settled in
habitants and augmented production of the
earth, greatly surprising the habitudes of him
who roams the forests of continent in the
chase for a precarious subsistence.
~" \ gentleman by the name of Mitchell,
who was a passenger on baard the tll-iated
steamer Arctic, was supposed to be lost, and
in consequence, several persons who consld-
| cred themselves heirs-at-law, took possession
If his property and divided it among them
selves, has very unexpectedly turned up at
the st. Nicholas Hotel, New York, and COM
menced proceedings against the parties who
have so unceremoniously assumed control OF
his goods and chattles.
n9y- There is great talk in Paris of the
| creation of five hundred Barons, who are to
form the nucleus of new noblesse to sur
| round and support the throne. The report
has given rise to that of another-that Of the
intended coronation of the Emperor at Notre
Dame, like the Great Napoleon, in the month
| of January next.
49, The old iron steamer Water Witch,
| built under the administration of President
| Tyler, is being cut in pieces at Washington
49, The Rev. Francis Burns, recently
chosen Bishop of the Methodist Church in Lii
IBERIA, has arrived in Baltimore, to undergo
| the ceremony of ordination.
cEge Hon. Mat. Ward, of Texas has writ
ten letter confirming the rumor contradicted
some time since, that Gov. Runels, of that
State, had appointed him to the United States
| Senate, to fill an existing vacancy. 1t is re-
ported that this is the same Mat. Ward who
murdered the schoolmaster, Butler, in Louis
| vile.
.A drove of nearly 900 hogs were
f.n,,, no ,,o,, IN Dolt;p,oro M,
night last, taken through the streets of the
city, and driven to parts unknown.
ga piece of petrifed wood, with screw
perfectly formed in it, was recently found 80
| feet beneath the surface of the earth, near
Panola Miss. 1t was imbedded in what APP
pcared to have been block of hickory wood,
II or ID inches square.
,Sy@The balloon race at Cincinnati, be-
tween Cedar and Steiner, will take place on
| the 18th instant Their balloons will each
contain $4,000 cubic feet of gas, and they
expect to remain in the clouds three or four
days.
~ In the town of Zublagen, Wurtem-
berg, there has been lately opened new prin-
ting establishment by Theodore Helgerad.-
All the compositors and pressmen are deal
and dumb to to the number of 16O II of the
compositOrs are women.
~ a very valuable mine of Terra Sienna
paint is now being worked in Washington
county, Me-, samples of which were on exh
btion in the fair at Portland 1t is said by
Judges to be better than the foreign.
- Jacob Tripler, 20 years Of age, joined
the Philadelphia Fire Department in 1912
and is still an active member of the United
States Company of that city. He, with his
locks grown gray in the freman's service
was present at the Albany Tournament.
80 The Boston Christian Era says thu
Boston Baptist ministers have not refused t.
exchange with Mr.. Kalloch. The Tremon
Temple building does not belong to the Bap
list churches of Boston. The trustees Of thu
Temple do not object to his settlement.
S3@ Comstock, the Madison county, ILL.,
barbarian, who killed his father and mother
and afterwards cut out their hearts, roasted
them and ate portion of them, has beer
sentenced to State Prison for life.
- \ statement has been published il
several newspapers, that Pope Plus Ninth has
issued "bull'' forbidding Catholic parents
hereafter to name their children Mary.
| Of no y
whom we take to be the Bishop Mcfarland
says that the Catholics Of this country have
heard of no such decree, and do not believe
that any such decree has been issued
| ~ The operation called Legation of the
Primitive lilac Artery, was on the 9th inst.
performed by DR.. Stephen Smith, in the am
phitheatre of Bellevue Hospital. This artery
has rarely, if ever before been tried in this
city. The audience was composed chiefly Of
old practitioners, among whom was the vener
| able DR.. Mott, who has been for many years
the great master of such operations.
~ The Mount Vernon Banner tells the
following rather tough story SIN certain
shop in this city, there was a mouse that had
! become frequent visistor. While on one o.
his visits workman took up musical instru
, ment, technically called a French harp, and
struck up tune. The mouse Immediately
raised his tail in perpendicular position and
began to dance. 1t continued to jig some
four minutes, and then died"
- Upwards of 900 6s Founders and
other heavy siege guns have recently been
sent to the various ports and towns on the
English coast, the whole of which are fully
equipped and are furnished with appliances
fors.projecting red-hot shot and other missiles
of the most destructive description. This
number does not include the large number
Of Is pound battery guns, &C., which have
likewise been supplied to the above named
| stations