Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-04-30

gagged in preparing for the next session. Il
the latter they are removing the desks and al
terlng the floor, in accordance with the resoll
tons passed last session. The passages ant
corridors, hitherto unfinished, are now beins
Plastered and frescoed, and will be completed
by the close of the summer 1901 =
| H 1t is reported that after the adjourn.
ment of the last Congress, Speaker Orr said
/" In my opinion the Opposition will organize
the next House of Representatives, and h
they select conservative, national candidate
will also elect the next President" -
| So Mr.. Barnum lately attempted to deli.
yer a lecture on Money Making at Oxford
England, when the undergraduates plotted to
put him down. He was greeted with groans
and misses, hut with an orange, and peppered
with chestnuts, and after hard effort was
obliged to abandon the attempt.
H John M. Jolly, of Tippecanoe, Spen-
Ger county, Indiana, was arrested last week,
charged with causing the death of his wife by
poison, administered in her coffee. Her re-
mains have been exhumed, and the stomach
and its contents sent to Louisville for chemi-
cal analysis. .-'.'.s--
The Chicago Tribune says it intends to SUBJ
sutute HllPs air light in its Office for the usual
coal gas, and adds that it expects to save a
thousand dollars year by the change.
w Henry Jumpertz, the man who muir
dered his mistress, packed her BODY barrel
and shipped it to New York Michael Nc
Nance, for killink his wife, and Michael Finn
will be executed in Chicago on Friday, the
9th Of May, H1,'.."- i...3s2
a. Among the recent notable deaths re-
ported, are those of Billy Bowlegs,. the Semi
mole chief in Florida, and Capt. Joe Parks,
chief of the Shawnees in Kansas. .'.:.g -.s'
eW Mr.. George Ticknor is preparing a
Life of Prescott, work in which he win have
the assistance of the eldest son of the histo-
rian, Mr.. VIM. G. Prescott. The materials
for such biography found among the papers
OF the deceased, are said to be ample and in
teresting. $3.50 " "',7 'H
Ia Richard Golden, Ex-M. P, visited the
New York Legislature in session the other
day, and was received with distinguished con-
W- The Hon. E. lockwood Hoar of Con-
cord, has been confirmed by Gov. Banks, as
Associate Judge on the Bench of the Su-
preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts,, in
place of Judge Thomas resigned. Judge Hoar
is Grandson Of Roger Sherman.
az A catalogue of the rich men of Bos-
ton has been published, from which it appears
that William Appleton is worth $754, 900 {:
the Fifty Associates are assessed at 81 1922
600; the heirs to John D. and William Shaw,
81 ,O72, 900; Josiah Quincy is worth $685.
COO; John G. Gray, 1861, 900; and Mrs. Cor
nelia A. Thayer owns $5OO,OO3.
w- The Irish patriot, William Smith
O'Brien, reached Louisville on Friday, the
18th inst.
Gr The population of Paraguay in 1856,
according to the public records, was 975, 900.
Two-thirds of the population are Indians and
half-breeds.
az A Vicksburg paper says that card
playing among steamboat travellers in the west
has diminished fully one-half within the last
year, andits place has been supplied by chess.
~ The difficulty between the citizens
and raftsmen at Kilbourne City, Wis.,, has
been settled, the citizens agreeing to fix the
dam SO that the RATS can pass through with
out damage; so there will probably be neither
riot nor bloodshed about the matter.
~ The Mobile Register proposes Geo. NJ.
Dallas as candidate for President.
"a The debt of the city of Quincy is
$777, 1000, as shown by the recent city report.
$5OO,OO of this was incurred ON account of
the city subscriptions to railroad stocks.
az The Court Milliner, recently died in
London, leaving a property valued at $4O,-
600. She leaves the most of it to charities :;
for herself, she directed that she should be
buried in point lace.
"a A law passed in Maine establishes the
annual salary of members of the Legislature
at $3.50. They can sit twelve months if they
please for this princely sum.