Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-05-15
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pounds. All good judges unite in praising
the fine proportions of these columns.
LAMARTINE owes over three million dollars.
The large amount needed discouraged his
friends from the attempt to get him out Of
debt by subscription. Besides they know
that no would probably be in again as deep
as ever in a short time. The great French
man is strikingly like our Webster in money
matters.
THE American Medical Association which
meets at Washington in May next, it is ex-
pected will be more largely attended than
usual. From six hundred to thousand doc
tors are expected to be present. The Wash
ineton Star says: The CONVENTION will be
received on the first evening by the President,
and on the second and third they will be en-
tertained at the hospitable mansions of Sec
Rotary Cass and Senator Douglas. After the
adjournment there will be an excursion to
Mount Vernon and collation. at the White
House.
AT Monongahela city, Penn, drunken
fellow, having beaten his children, driven his
wife out of doors, and carried in the night
air a child of his, sick with the scarlet fever,
hi, neighbors gathered, took him from his
bed, carried him to the Monongabela river,
and dacked him until he promised to reform
In the U. S. Circuit Court, sitting in Gin
cinnati, case is under trial in which E. j.
| Dupont & Co, extensive powder manufacture
ers of Wilmington claim $4,000 damages
of Benjamin Kitteriige, of Cincinnati, upon
the ground that the latter as been in the
.,abit of buying empty powder kegs with the
.alcis OF Dupont Il Co., which were after
wards filed with an inferior article of pow
der, and sold as the "genuine Dupont
THE Council of the ord,r of the Legion Of
/ Honor have, after due deliberation, resolved
hat the order Ct st. Faustin, founded by the
Emperor Soulouque of Ilayti, shall take its
proper place among the decorations which
French subjects will be permitted to wear.
lr is rumored in shipping circles in New
York that the Sombrcro lands are about to
be sold to England for u very handsome
sum. The island consists CT guano deposits
rom which good many cargoes have recently
been taken to Baltimore, England and New
York. The price is about $40 per ton
cheaper than the Peruvian article, owing
more to the cheaper rate of transportation,
however, than the original cost.
THR Philadelphia Press says that "the ed
ucation at the Royal Military College of
'anlhurst, England, which is much Dragged
of by the English, is SD inf, rior as not worthy
OF being even named on the Same day with
that received at West Point, and the mill
tary schools in various Of our States"
! By the recent death Of the Earl of Ayl-
mere, the honors and titles of the peerage
have fallen upon worthy Canadian farmer
about forty years af age. His nephew sailed
| in the steamer Indian from Portland on SIT
urday last, to take possession of his Inherit
| ancc.
| In removing some bodies from an old grave
yard in Allentown Pa, recently, two bodies
.erc found to be petrifi,1 one perfectly
and the other partly so. The one was found
to be almost as perfect as it appeared in life,
out turned into solid stone. 1t had been bur-
led II years.
a lady in Boston came near dying one day
last week from medicines prescribed by spir-
itual mcliim. A temporal physician was
called in time to save her.
THE Brooklyn Common Council have ad-
opted all Ordinance in favor of paid Fire
Department, similar to tho7e existing in Bos-
on ard Cincinnati. The contest for its pas
sage has been 'ong and exciting. 1t passed
by a vote Is 10 ..
WE Understand, says the Montgomery
! (.Ala) DMi, that Mr.. Bty AIT Lee (who is
supposed 70 be insane,) living near Marion, in
thi, State, took up and whipped to death
two of his negroes few days ago. lie has
been arrested and held for trial.
THE MeadviIlc (Pa.) Journa, says that
Hugh Shc!ito, Jr., has been committed to
Jail, charged with having struck his father
With a club, in quarrel from the effects of
which the father died.
SOME IDEAS Of fishing business pursued by
th people of Glouchester, Mass, may be
i,rNcd from the fact that this season 1926
Using vessels will sail from that port These
vii! require the services during the mackerei
season, Of nearly 1000 men.
\ SALEM (Oreson) paper estimates the
present population Of that Territory as fol-
| lows: White inhabitants $1,000, Chinese
600, negroes 3nO-total $4,000. Number
Of V, ties about $4,000.
THE new Azof green of the Paris spring
las ions is dyed with such poisonous materi.
al, ,ha, seam>trcsses who prick their fingers
| while Swing it, lose the use Of their hands,
and l,di, S have iecn taken violently i'll from
wea;n. shawls of this color. The tint is
very brilliant.
The Rev. Robinson Scott, who is engaged
actively in the work of evangelizing Ireland
is about to return to Europe. and he is to be
entert,'ned at a dinner to be given on Tues
day, May 18th, at Nhold's Saloon New
York.
Mrs CUNNINGHAM cfthe Durdell affair, is
not living in poverty, as has been reported,
but occnlies an elegantly furnished house il
New Yor.. has five children with her, and
lives in luxury and style.
THE celebrated ievivalist, Jacob Knapp,
has consented to become the pas.er Of new
Baptist church in St. Louis.
TIE Ericsson steamer excursion to the
Mediterranean h,c hoo ol,o,, Il Quad NJ