Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-16
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ouires the inspector to weigh every bushel OF
grain that passes his inspection, instead OF
one bushel in sixty as heretofore. This de-
cision. however, does not imply that each |
bushel is to be weighed separately, but it is |
to be weighed in any convenient quantity, at |
the discretion of the inspector himself. The
purport of the decision is that the law insists |
upon an absolute declaration of the weight OF
a given quantity of grain, instead Of an av-
erage calculation from the weight of an occa-
sional bushel.
~ A lazy fellow, who had loafed about
Columbia, California, for a long time, and had
never done days work in the mines, was
recently driven by want of means to live' to
obtain a pick and shovel and sally forth to
try his fortune at gold digging He worked
with but little success for two days, but on
the third day he dug up lump of gold near
ly pure, which weighed seuenty-taco pounds!
The lucky fellow took his piece to Wells,
Fargo & Co., in Columbia, by whom it was
valued at fourteen thousand dollars! The
place where this monstrous nugget was dug
is within mile or two of Columbia.
eyeA serious accident occurred at Gin
cinnati on Wednesday, the 29th ult., during
a political procession. In it were three ex-
press wagons, each containinga cannon, which
were fired over the tail boards of the wagons.
Upon the outside of the box was the tire-pan
and heating iron, and the cartridges were care
lessly placed in the bottom of the wagon. In
passing the heated iron from the fire pan to
the gun, spark fell amongst the powder,
some fifteen or twenty pounds in quantity,
and terrible explosion followed. Lewis +.
Lee, who was engaged in firing the gun, was
blown out of the wagon, and fell upon the
sidewalk several feet distant. His clothes
were almost entirely burned from his body
His face, head and abdomen, and in fact near
ly the entire upper portion Of his body were
burned and blackened in horrible manner.
Mr. Hume and Mr.. Kirkup were also blown
out of the wagon, but were less seriously in
jured.
- The Nebraska Republican, gives list
of the members elect of tie Territorial Legs
lature The Council numbers five regular
Democrats, and eighteen opposition members;
the House, by our summing up, ten Demo
Gratis, and twenty-five opposition. The oppo-
stion is composed of Anti-Lecompton mer
and Republicans, with few members who
ran as cold Line Wings and Anti-Lecomp
ton" "Old Line Wing and Republican" &c
~" 1t seems, says the Hopkinsville Ky,
Mercury, that legion of devils have taker
possession of the hogs in Davies, Muhlenberg
Mclean, and the adjacent counties. A gen
tleman who has been travelling through thes'
counties, informes us that the mortality is as
tonishing In some places the dead are pilet
: up by hundreds, the air is black with crows
: ravens and buzzards, and the stencil is over
PIONEERING.
n-sy- The President has left Washington
for his old home at Lancaster, it is said, t
look after the Congressional election. Thaddeu
Stevens, the Republican nominee,i is one of tn
oldest, ablest and bitterest of Buchanans or
ponents, and the prospect of his election wo1
ries the President, who does not hesitate II
delicately to interfere in the elections by tn
Z people, 1t is fur tlel stated that President
), is dissatisfied at the declaration made by tn
q Democratic candidate in opposition to Stevens
that he will vote for the admission of Kansa
h without any regards to the English bill II
striction.
- The accounts received lately from tn
|, route proposed for the overland mail to Cal
v fornia are discouraging. The project of oil
tanning water on Llano Estacado by means
:, Artesian wells, has proveda failure. The AZ
preparation has been used up, and Capt. POP
v has abandoned his machinery and returned I
" his duty in the army Water was reached
& to be sure, in some of the borings, but it Wa
of very bad quality, small in quantity, an
:, would nowhere rise higher to the surface tina
hundred and eighty feet. 1t is not likel
> that this experiment will be renewed.
IF IL The Bank Comptroller of Wisconsi
has furnished the Secretary of the Banker
: Association with statement of the amour
of circulation of the Banks of that State Z
7, the LIST inst, showing an aggregate of 1897
" 74O, being an increase of $9O,322 since Il
/ st of August last The increase of that ella.
e of Banks known as Banks of circulato
IL merely is $114 ,592, while the other Banks
l. 10 S+o+ ho, a
Ill increase of $9O,422. But measures ha,
J. been adopted by the Association of Bank
e which will materially reduce the circulatio
he of the former class of Banks.
IL ~ DR.. Wigon says that the difficulty
III retaining train of thought is one of the il
variable Accomplishments of insanity, it ber
J. an act in which brains are concerned. d
i w. states that he cannot remember to hay
. seen single instance of insanity, howevt
slight, and however recognizable by any b,
" an experienced medical man, where the D;
tient after relating a short history of his con
t. plants, physical, moral or social, could, on b.
+ ing requested to repeat the narrative, folio
the same series.
y. - A long letter appears in Texas p'
er per concerning the passage of Mccullough
n emigrant train across the staked plain to Ca
D, ifornia The great American desert, throue
7e which the train passed, is barren waste an
W poorly supplied with water. Out of 1,6C
e. head of cattle $50 died for lack of water, an
l. for period of seventy-six hours were witho,
re drop to Stake their thirst. The men ais
1t suffered terribly, and many shot down fan
is ishng bullocks on the road, pulled off the
boots or shoes, caught the thick hot blood, ar
drank it freely. By doing this they save
their lives.
e ~ Paul Morphy has turned the tide
c battle in his favor on the chess board, an
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