, 1859-11-28

They are getting up an opera company at ST.
Paul, 10 perform alt winter.
The Dubuquc Western Railroad is now
completed TO Monticello, in Jones Co.. Iowa, and
the Anamosa Eureka sinks tue cars will be run
niox 10 that place ty the lst Of January.
:. .TuE SrRrLcs rnoorcs or M1SSEso1A.-H is
estimated by those capable Of judging that Min
nesota has raised tie past seuson. one million
fire hundred thousand bushels Of surplus pro-
duce. THIS, re consider is. pretty good for =
State illat ncrer exported bushel ot any kind
Of produce until about eighteen months ago.
81. dhtAony Express.
THIrIErs.- Jasper County '(Iowa) Pttxs
Of The l7th, says that on Tuesday night Of last
week, Mrs. John W.;Browr, OF De>moiaes town
eoue children ut a birtb-All girls-weiehtng
nineteen aud ha'f pounds Tho mother and
children are doing we'll
The peop.e OF Rirer Falls. Pierce County
{Wis.) have recently been rega!ed By the as-
sembing cf ''a liberal convention ," in that
place, :cumpcsed Of tpiritaaiists. hloomers,
antitobacco chewers, &c. The Joa,nat says
the sefn,ous." There Tas much talk and long
string Of resolutions were adopted Of the usual
kind.
| .Flug--Thc house Of Mr. F.. G. French near
MenJota was destroyed by fire Of last week.
Tue fire was communicated by d little son Of
Mr: +. while playing With ma.ches-
Drac1Ans.-The citIes Of Nuscatine aud Eeo-
|, kuk, Iowa, hare recently been the scene uf the
operations Of regular organized baud Of burg
iaFs.: No night passed but several houses were
entered and rebbad Of monty and other ralu-
ab1cs~ The place, however, becoming too hot
for tbcun it IS supposed that they have gone tur-
fher South.
Qr1rx l. FEA7:-Audrew Drso.t, Who il at
T.. h..., rhn aet< ht;xhx S,,p pr
cine, says the journal challenges every body to
beat lin in the feat Of making shoe with ono
hand; tie other being tied behin.1 him. Mr.
DusoI,, in the short space Of an hour and If
teen minutes. with hts left hand tied benin, him.
made and finished in tho best manner, Iadies
| walking shoe.
"TnnEE cuILpEgx BrnxED 70 DEA7H The
| which occurred in Carer County, four miles
| Southwest Of WatestoHn, Minnesota. Frjd.Y
before last. The house Of Mr. Amos Allen wsa
burned, and bis three chi]dren, aged from two
| to six years, we're consumed IN the flames.
| Every effort to arethe children wns unasailing.
Nj. Allen nnd wife are left destitute.
az Ep1ron's yuzD1c.onr.-cro4us, Of tho
St. Anthony {Minn.} :1S'nes published In his ra!e-
dictorv last week. lie nays:
| Four years Of active scrvice in The profession
editorial. bare revealed TO US The fret that the
principal emo]uments and inu,uni,ies enjoyed
BY the chair, are An OCEAN Of adrice, shower
q hriekb.ts. mud m endless procession of tWo
dollar promises.
TWO YopSo Mes srr%nszp 70 ~ Losr.-The
day after tie eleetion,' Samuel and Theodore
Lane, sons Of Ns, Samuel Lanesor this city,
started for st. Joseph. Mich, where they il.
tended to procure load Of apples and return.
the trip generally taking two or three days.
They hare now been gone two weeks to-day,
and nothing has been. heard Of them. It Is
feared that their little craft has been upset in
gale Of Wind, snd that they hare been lost
Raf;at .b+r#ak
Ixn1Ax TExrEnAxcE soclk71.-Somc of the
Indians on Lake Superior haze formed TEN.
perauce Society. Tbs occasion Of this was a.
follows: "a large number: os them had collect.
ed u considerable: s1npunt of money in small
SIMS, which they entrusted to the keeping Of q
chief in whon, they bad Implicit confidence,
Tho digu;ssry was not iof fallibie. aud one day be
went on spTr and speotits ALL The rad men held
Al indignation meeting over it, and after I most
emphatic series Of gTunts, formed seKrro-
teciive association, hased in fundamental prin-
eip1es-that is 70 SAY, the 6rst Indian who got
dtunk was 70 be tied to : stump sad whipped
with twenty-five lsshss-