The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-10-21

lie sent bis men to bury poor man in a
gray eat the back end of certain cemetery.
After short time the men came back excl
ted, saying that they could not bury that
man that he was sitting up in his coffin and
swearing that he was not dead. MERRITT,
in high Indignation. seized spade and went
back to the grave himself, where he found
his customer sitting up and looking quietly
around him. But, determined to have his
wages at all hazards, the sick man was bu
ried anyhow. He struggled and resisted as
we'll as he could, but few bats from the
spade soon sett ed him.
AT the horse show at Boston, on the 18th,
the principal trot was between Columbus
and the Montreal stallion, Live Oak, mile
heats for purse of $500. Columbus was
winner, making the first heat in 2:35%; I'd,
1863, and Sd in 2:4O.
FLORA TEMPLE, like good wine improves
with age. Her --latest exploit excels all
former ones. At the great National Horse
Fair, held at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on the
18th, Flora trotted for the citizens purse of
$4,000, and won in two straight heats,
making the best time onrecord-2:2lIs and
2:1934.
AT Newark, New Jersey, on the 18th,
PATRICK MANDE was convicted of the MUIR
der of his sister, Mrs. MARY TURBETT, in
May last. The prisoner was Indifferent
through the trial, and unmoved at the rem
dtion of the verdict.
The agent of the Great Eastern arrived
at Portland, Me-, Oh the 18th inst, and
states that the steamer will leave Portland,
England, during the latter part of this
month. When he left, the company did not
entertain the thought of her visiting any
other port in America on her first trip ex-
cept Portland, where it was expected she
would remain about three weeks.
AT Niagara, on the 10th, M. BLoND1N
was presented by his friends with gold
medal The medal is of the weight of
500 piece, but with little more surface.
On one side is an engraving setting forth
the object of the donors, while the reverse,
has view of Niagara Falls, represents the
daring performer as he crossed the rope on
18th of August, with man on his back,
and bears the simple inscription, August
18th, 1852"
A dispatch from Baltimore, of the 18th
states that the municipal election, in pro-
gress in that city, was characterized by the
usual scenes ofviolence. Several respecta-
BILE citizens were maltreated, and some Sc
verely injured. 1t was supposed, however,
that the reform ticket had been successful,
as the returns up to nine O'Clock, P. M.
showed the reform candidate to be 1l6
ahead.
The steamer Marengo, from Pittsburg,
sunk on Rogers Landing, twenty miles
below st. Louis, on Friday afternoon, the
14th. The boat is valued at $4,000 ;
insured $4,000.
The steamer Brunette was burned on
Bloody Island, opposite st. Louis, Saturday
morning, the 18th.
The receipts of the American Tract So
ciety at New York, for six months ending
October l, have been, for publications sold,
$l03,507.54, and in donations and legacies,
59,38o.47 in all, $l42,8S7.8l, being $5,-
069.50 more than for the corresponding
months of the previous year. 25,lO6,0OO
pages have been distributed.
AT the last account, flour was selling on
the Island Of Hayti at $240 per barrel!
That looks like high price, but the money
was Hayti currency, which is like our old
Continental money. About 800 of it are
worth one silver dollar.
IT appears from the account of Messrs.
PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & Co., that they have
expended $4,000 in establishing The IT.
lantic Monthly, and the maximum profit of
that periodical in any one year has been
$4,000.
REV. A. B. WHEELER, of North Bridge
water, Mass, failed recently for $4,000.
He proposes to settle by paying his credi-
tors forty-three cents on a dollar. The
papers have neglected to inform US what
business the Rev. WHEELER was engaged
in. Possibly he was the leader of that
famous three thousand" who, in the
name Of Almighty God," got up the cele-
brated crusade against the Nebraska Bill.
STEPHEN H. BRANCH, the cratic news
paper adventurer, of New York, it is ru-
mored. has gone to California to escape
prosecution for a libel upon Madame BAG
1oL1, Mrs. S1cKLEs' mother.
The wife of Mr.. LEVI BERRY, of Smyrna,
Aroostock county, Maine, attended Court
at Houlton, recently, during the trial of
divorce case, in which her daughter was the
libellant, and became so excited and
wrought upon mentally, by the circum-
stances Of the case, that, though the verdict
was in her daughters favor, she committed
suicide by drowning herself in q brook near
her house. e.m ~ alosas'
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