The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-11

Col. BULLOCK, Mayor of Worcester,

Col. BULLOCK, Mayor of Worcester,
Mass, has given to that city the sum of
one thousand dollars, the annual income of
which is to he appropriated for the encour.
agement of merits in scholarship and de-
pertinent in both sexes in the High School.
Col. BULLOCK declines being q candidate for
the mayoralty another year.
A LETTER published in the Press d ORIENT
announces the convention to Roman Cathol-
icism of an entire district in Bulgaria, which
numbers not less than thirty thousand souls,
who hitherto belonged to the Greek Church.
They have addressed letter to the French
consul, who promised the new converts the
protection of France, in case they should be
molested in the exercise of their new faith.
1t is said that other districts in Bulgaria
are only waiting to see the issue of this re-
ligious movement before following the ex-
ample.
JUDGE DANIEL CADY died at Johnstown,
New York, on Monday the 3lst October,
at the age of S8. He had occupied prom
lnent position at the New York bar for
many years. From 1903 to 1914, Mr.. Ca
DY represented Montgomery county in the
State Assembly; he was member of the
14th Congress Presidential Elector in
1876, and President of the Electoral College
He was also Judge of the Supreme Court
Of the 4th judicial district under the present
constitution.
CONNECTICUT Railroad companies are
held to be liable for fires. Lieut.. Governor
TRAsK has recovered from the Hartford
Railroad Company verdict of $4,000
damages for the loss OF buildings in Spring
field directly alongside of the railroad, which
were destroyed by fire in April last.
The success of cheap literature is not con-
fined to one country. The BOOMERS are
cosmopolitan, as a late instance shows in
England, where Mr. GEORGE B1GG, proprie-
tor OF the Family Herald, has lately died,
leaving fortune of $3.50, 900, made by that
publication, the greater part of which is be-
queathed to charitable foundations. The
Family Herald has always been noted for its
extensive ANSWERS to Correspondents"
and the attention paid to that department is
the main cause of its enormous circulation
among the middle classes, with whom its
authority is unbounded on the delicate d.
emmas that occur in questions of courtship
and marriage and affairs of the heart.
The Protestant Churchman gives the first
announcement of the names of the bishops
who voted aye on the motion of Bishop Nc
CosKRY to restore Bishop ONDERDoNK with
out any conditions. The ayes report says)
were Bishops OTEY, KEMPER, McCosKRY,
De LANcEY, CHASE, WH1rT1NGHAM, and
ODENHEIMER. We are glad to notice that
the name of Bishop WH1PPLE, of Minneso-
ia, does not figure in this disgraceful list of
"ayes."
The DEAN and BOXER affair has broken
out again in new spot. A person named
LOUIS FUNKE, having become the holder of
mortgage given by HARRY BERrHoLF
to Mr.. BOXER, commenced its foreclosure
Mr.. BERrHoLF brought forward, as Offset,
certain services rendered in the DEAN and
BOXER nuptials, and board and lodging for
Boxers daughter. The court decided that
the claim be dismissed with costs, and that
the bond and mortage be Cancelled.
RECENT papers announce the death of
Mr.. EDWARD JAMES THAYER, lately the Di-
rector General of the Postoffice in France,
and member of the Imperial Senate. NJ.
THAYER was son of the late JAMES THAY-
Err, native of Rhode Island, and lineal
descendant of ROGER WILLIAMS
THERE was frost and ice ten miles above
New Orleans on Sunday, the Both of Octo-
Der, and also in various parts of Mississippi
and Alabama.
A COUPLE of Boston lawyers went down
to Belfast, Maine, says the Portland Adver-
tiser, to try case during the late term of
the Supreme Court, and the members of the
jury were so impressed with their eloquence
that they held meeting and passed reso-
luton thanking them for the able manner in
which they had presented the case and the
sound law displayed.