The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-12-09
All Sorts of Items.

Tue observance of Thanksgiving day in
Massachusetts is consistent, for the authori-
ties annually dispense turkeys and creature
comforts to the prisoners they keep in Jail.
Last Thursday, the 5l2 prisoners in the
State prison were regaled with the following
excellent variety; 500 pounds turkeys, $50
pounds sausages, 5 barrels apples, 5 BUSH
els oranges, 2 barrels turnips, 5 barrels
of potatoes, $50 pounds raisins, 200 pounds
rice, Is pounds tea, Is pounds coffee,
100 pounds sugar, s cans milk, and barrels
crackers. On the same day, three prisoners
in Suffolk county Jail were fed in like man
ner.
SECRETARY FLOYD has been censured for
not acting upon the numerous warnings he
received of the Harper's Ferry Instruction,
and Gov. Wise is even more severely de-
nounced because he does just what the other
is blamed for not doing
PUNCH illustrates English feeling towards
NAPOLEON in a cartoon picture, where he
depicts JOHN Bull as addressing volunteer
saying, Invasion, indeed That is game
two can play at. Why, to hear these poodles
talk, one would think that my bull dog is
dead !'' and the bull dog pictured at bis side
shows astonishing ferocity.
MARRIAGES, as every one knows, increase
most among the poor when the poor are
well employed and the necessaries of life
cheap. 1t appears, from the English Reg
istrar Generals report, that $4,000 persons
were married during the last quarter, an
excess of more than 600 as compared
with the corresponding quarter of last year.
During the same quarter the excess of the
births over the deaths was $4,000.
PARIS papers state that the dry hot
weather of 1859, though it has diminished
the yield has had favorable influence on
the quality Of wines this year, which are
firm and strong at the same time that they
are fine, delicate and rich 10 tanin.
AN officer in the English army, who was
with his regiment in India during the whole
period OF the late revolt, returned to his
home during last month, and the morning of
his arrival the postman brought him letter
which was mailed in May, 1857, which had
been following him for two years and half,
and which had only that moment reached
him, in the same place where it was mailed,
and in the presence of the same person who
wrote it.
JEREMIAH H. Brown, who had agreed to
support fifty-two young men studying for
the Baptist ministry in Towards College,
Alabama, at an annual cost of $4,000 in
the aggregate, has recently endowed theo-
logical chair in that college by contribu-
ton of $4,000, in addition to his former
pledge.
A SINGULAR auction sale is announced to
take place in Washington on December 9Th,
being the various articles that have accu.
INFLATED at the dead letter Office for the last
twelve years. These articles comprise ear
rings, breast-pins, finger-rings, gold and
silver watches, studs, California gold, dia-
mond pins, spectacles, purses, pocket-books,
bead-work, embroidery, lace collars, hand
kerchiefs, cuffs, surgical instruments, chill
dren's clothing, hats, boots and shoes, gloves,
books, &c.
AT the Newmarket Houghton meeting,
Prioress was beaten for the Cambridgeshire
stakes. having previously won match of
500 sovereigDs, beating Lord GLAsaow's
Toxopho'ite in race of one mile and sew.
enteen yards. Upon the same day as the
Cambridgeshire, Starke ran fourth in field
of five. On the next day, Dove came in
third in a field of seven, and Optimist sixth
in field of eight. The following day Mr.
Ten Brock won another match with Prior
ess, for 300 sovereigns, beating Lord GLAs-
cows Maid of Mashsm, at distance of one
mile, two furlongs and seventy-two yards.
His horses, Dove and Optimist, however,
were again unfortunate-the former coming
in last in a field of ten, and the latter twelfth
! in q field of fourteen.
The Cleveland Herald adds supplement
to its recent narrative of the young man