Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-11-06
NEWS ITEMS.

| ~ The officials oil the State Bank at
Madison, Wis, found themselves in an en-
barrassed situation Tuesday last. The
funds Of the Bank. were secure on the even.
ing before, as usual in "a large safe, with one
ofthe complicated combination lock, and the
next morning, through some disarrangement
of the wards, they were unable to unlock it.
The result is, that they have been obliged to
telegraph East for a man to come on and OBJ
tanned the requisite funds in the interim. from
other sources to CONDUCT their business.
~ The Dubuque San thinks that the
coal field of Iowa, 25,0OO.square miles in ex-
tent, will eventually supply Minnesota and
part of Wisconsin with all the fuel of that
kind that may be wanted, and will also COM
pete with Pennsylvania and Ohio for the coal
trade of New Orle ans and other cities of the
lower Mississippi If so she can exchange it
for Minnesota lumber.
~ Virginia politics are in great snarl Just
now. On the gubernatorial question, very
warm contest is being waged between the
friends of Letcher, (who is proved to have
been an emancipatonists ten years ago. Faulk-
ner, (who Was ditto few years carlier) Hop
kins and Edmundson. All four arc members
of the present Congress.
rSo Within few months the police of
New York have made twenty thousand COM
plants for violation of the Sunday laws, not
one of which has been prosecuted.
~ A row recently occurred at the North
Carolina University, the principal features of
which were the burning the teachers in effigy,
assaulting the faculty, burning the benches,
and attacking private residences
.Y" Chess is honorably associated with
the art of printing, the first book printed with
metal type in England being a treaty on the
game. This was printed by William Caxton
in 1774. Philip II,..of Spain, was an cnthu-
siast at the game.
81 Paraguay is making extensive prepar-
atoms for the reception of the United States
Expedition, Information has been received
at the War Department that over three
hundred guns have been mounted on stone
batteries at the mouth of the paranaw Riy-
err.
~ The Hon. David Wilmot is reelected
Presiding Judge of the Judicial district COM
posed of the counties of Susquehanna and
Bradford, Pa, by $3.50 majority over W. II.
Patrick
~ \ dispatch from Washington, states
that Mr.. Buchanan is thus far unable to pre-
vail on any one to become the successor of
Gov. Denver. The latter positively refuses
to withdraw his resignation, though earnestly
solicited to do SO.
a. The Chiefof Police of Cincinnati bears
the singuarly inappropriate. name of Ruff
fin.
~ One Of the fire companies of Ports
mouth, Va, is to have steam fire engine.
~ Mary Murphy, aged 1O3 years and
10 months died at Fall River, Mass, Tues
day.
~ The Boston Police are now dressed in
new uniform.
~ GODDARD and Steiner, in their late
balloon race, Travelled about 100 miles at the
rate of ~ miles an hour.
,-yy" The difficulty between our Govern
ment and Costa RIGA has be settled
c5Ey- 1t is reported that majority of the
newly elected legislature of Indiana is in
avor of repeal of the divorce laws of the
State.
~ A dinner was given to Governor Denver,
f Kansas, by a hundred citizens of Leaven-
-orth, on the 18th inst.
~ General Santa Anna has purchased
estate on the Island of st. Thomas, for
hich he paid $4,000
~ Giles L. Gaylord, of Torringford,
onn., has raised this season .231 bushels of
orn, from little more than one acre of
found.