Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-09-11
NEWS ITEMS.

The shipment of blackberries alone from
Madison, Indiana, the present season, amoun'-
ed to nearly 1000 bushels, for which $lo'-
557 were paid out.
The introduction of steam on the New
York canals is likely to work revolution IN
the method of Transporting live stock to mar
lot number of steam canal boats for con-
veying stock from Buffalo to New York will
be ready to sail early in September from the
former city, and will make the trip in four
DAVIS Stock will go INFO the market in this
way in better condition and can be transport
cd much cheaper than by railroad.
The colored men of San Francisco con-
template emigrating to New Grenada, and
have entered INTO correspondence with Gen.
Basques, who invites them to come.
JEFFERSON County, Indiana, and Trimble
County, Kentucky, have sent to Cincinnati
and other distant cities, six thousand nine
hundred and ffty-eight bushels Of blackber-
Iles, this season.
During thunder storm in the early part
of last week, the lightning struck flock OF
sheep OF the farm of James G. Devore, about
eight miles from Cumberland, Md, killing
twenty-head The whole flock numbered
only twenty-five.
The city's bill for funeral expences of Aid.
Murray, in New Y ork, amounted to $672: of
this Sl36 was for drinks, ETC., on the road to
the cemetery.
BOGUS gold dollars are freely circulating
through the country. They are we'll gotten
up, many of them requiring the application
of strong acids to show the deceit
In county in Central Mississippi, party
of nine men contributed to purchase barrel
of whiskey for their use during the term ct
the court In three weeks eight of the nine
were dead, while the ninth made narrow es-
CAPE No wonder that hogs have the cholera
after feeding on distilery swill.
The ST. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette states that
gold has been found in large quantities about
seventy miles from Fort Laramie, in the di-
recton of Larame's Peak.
THE famous old Stuyvesant pear tree, in
New York, which was brought from Holland
more than two hundred years ago, is reported
in good bearing condition this year. The
editor of the N. Y. Commercial has had spe-
cimen of its fruit presented to him.
A FREIGHT train on the Newburgh branch
road was stopped by grasshoppers few days
since Large numbers of grasshoppers had
alighted upon the track, literally covering the
rail- The train passed over great number
of them, which made the track SO slippery
that the wheels turned round without going
forward Sand was procured and poured
upon the rail, when the train resu med its &C
customed motion, and proceeded without
further delay.
The late treaty with China is said to have
an effect upon the price of teas. If it has not,
it will have that effect ere long. Teas will
come down considerably.
A CASE of wife poisoning has been discov-
cred in Hartford, Conn, and hushed up "on
account of the responsibility of the parties. y
The husband put arsenic in her coffee, which
she drank, but not enough to kill her.
The Cincinnati (Ohio) Price Curren. states
that contracts are making for hogs in Indiana
and Kentucky at 81 to S4.25 gross, which
is equal to 1915 to Sc net, delivered there
1t is the general opinion, in consequence O
the backwardness of the corn crop, that prices
will rule higher than last season.
IT is stated upon the authority of those
who have heard it, that cat, when her tai
is pinched b tween q door and post, utters
the vowels q, G, i, o, u, with great distinctness
If the injury be prolonged, she gives 10 and 3
also
THE instruments now used for telegraph
are of sufficient effect to transmit messages a
the rate of two words per minute. Improved
Instruments are expected to do still better
The Hughes instruments are thought to bt
tie best yet invented, but they are not in us'
on the Atlantic cable.
THE ladies' are DOMINIC new style of dress
The neck between the shoulder straps, is Gu
in the shape OF letter ": SO as to display
the handsome neck, shoulders and back t.
advantage. The vacancy is bordered b,
pretty lace. We are not informed whethe
this fashion comes from Paris, but it is sale
to re growing rapidly into favor with th'
ladies of New York.
The Island of Cuba, after paying the ex
penses of its own local government, contrib
utes It's excess yf mountaineering annu
aly to five millions of dollars-into the treas
ury of Spain.
A poRrLY, handsome gentleman brough
seat to lady. "Oh, you're jewell" salt
she. "Oh, no." replied he" I'm jewelle
i have Just set the jewell" Could Their
have been anything more gallant than that
THE value of slave property in Mississippi
is 1929 100000 Each slave in the parish c
st. Mary, Louisiana, nets his master Sl75
year, almost 33 per cent of his assesse
value.
A COLONY Of white people has just bee
settled, it is stated, in Florida, in that sectio
recently occupied by Billy Bowlegs and hi
followers.
JOHN H. w. HAWKINS, the celebrate
Washingtonian lecturer, died of cholera, 8
Parkersburgh, Va, a few days since.
The Atlantic Cable is called " Field s II
provement on Franklin's Kite String" b
some of our contemporaries.
HIRAM BRIGHT, of Freeport, has bee
: nominated for Congress by the Dougla