Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-05-14
NEWS ITEMS.

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w George D. Latchford, Postmaster at
Annapolis Junction, Maryland, sued Miss EN-
ma Dorsey for SANDER, laying damages at
81 800, but the jury, after trial, only award
ed $3.50. Miss d. repeatedly charged Mr.. L..
with retaining her letters and other mail mat
ter, and refusing to deliver them to her; had
circulated and reiterated this charge, and re-
fused to retract thence the suit. 1t is said
Miss D. intends to carry the case to the Court
of Appeals.
W The Rev. j. Harden, charged with
the murder of his wife, was arraigned before
the Oyer and Terminer of Warren county,
N. j., and pleaded mot guilty" The indict-
ment contains four counts, charging him with
having administered poison to his wife at diff
ferent times from the first to the ninth of
March.
~ Charles E. Hovey, of Boston, died in
that city on Thursday night, from long and
very distressing attack of rheumatism. Mr..
Hovey occupied in trade similar position to
that held by Mr.. Stewart in New York city,
as wholesale and retail dealer in dry goods.
He was man of rare integrity and singular
unselfshness, and was consequently held in
very high esteem by his fellow citizens.
~ We have already given an account Of
case pending in the Superior Court at Co
lum5us, Ohio, in which Lucien A. Bowers
brought suit against Ira D. Preston and his
fections of tho plaintiff . wife who was sister
TO Mrs. Preston. The jury found the defend
ants guilty Of alternating said wife's affections,
and gave Bowers judgment for 81, 900. So
it is settled by the Courts, that in Ohio the
value of wife's affections is 81, 900.
H The special Washington dispatch to
the New York Herald says !" Letters which
have been received in diplomatic circles, by
the last steamer, from reliable sources, state
that change in the English Ministry is inev-
table, and in that case, new Minister in place
of Lord Lyons is very probable
az 1t is said that Sandusky (Ohio) bill
lard player has just made run of 200 points,
carom game. The balls played were not
moved over three inches from their first posi-
ton during the run, and at no time were they
nearer the end cushion than fifteen inches, and
the side cushion than twelve inches.
W The letter of Governor Wise, recently
published, contains much truth. The position
of the slave-holding section at this time could
not be more truly and cOmpactly stated than
he states it:
We are strong on the ground of equality.
We relinquished that in attempting to assume
more than equality, and we lost all character
for justice. We were wise once in demand
ing no more than our due, and we have been
foolish since and of late in trying to deprive
others of their DUE
~ The Hon. Lynn Boyd, ex-Speaker o
the House of Representatives and Democratic
candidate for Lieut.. Governor of Kentucky, is
lying at the point of death at his residence in
Kentucky. His disease is diabetes.
w- The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana,
delivered the grafton before the Order of Odd
Fellows, at st. Louis, on the 26th.
H- Peter Parley's great work on Natural
History, on which the author has been enga-
ged some twenty years, will soon be published
by Derby & jackson. 1t forms two large
quarto volumes, illustrated with 400 engrav-
ings.
W- The Direction of the Great Western
Railway Company Canada have presented
$500 to the firemen of Detroit, in acknowled-
ment of their services at the recent confagra-
ton of the Company's property in Windsor.
W- James McCrory was shot dead in his
store in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon
April 80. by Samuel Fl. Cunningham Gun.
ningham was serving warrant, ana alleges
that he shot him in selfdefence. McCrory' s
friends deny this.
W- The Memphis Enquirer expresses the
confident belief that the Opposition will gain
two members of Congress from the Western
division of Tennessee.
tW The Washington Republican names as
prominent candidates for the nomination of
Generals Harney, Wool, Jesup, Commission
thinks, if he cannot get the first place on the
ticket, take the second.
W- The Hon. William Slade, Junior, OF
Cleveland, is spoken of as candidate for the
Republican nomination for Lieut.. Governor
of Ohio.
W Judge Halliburton, of Nova Scotia, the
original "Sam Slick" has been knighted.-
So he is Sir Sam Slick, an abominable allite-
ration.
W- Gideon j. Pillow, Jr., son of Gen.
Pillow, of Tennessee, is supposed to be among
the lost by the explosion of the steamboat
Niagara on the lower Mississippi. Mr.. Robt
johnson of Kentucky, was saved.
~ The Dubuque Herald says there was
a Nebraska half-brced walking around town
few days ago, who measured seven feet fou1
inches in height, and is only seventeen years
old.
| ~. The National Convention of Homoe
pathists will meet at Boston, on the 1st o
June. 1t will wind up with a ball and levee
at Fancuil Hall.
- Hon. John Bell, of Tenn, and Hon
Thos Corwin, of Ohio, were in New York or
Saturday the 3Oth ult.
W The amount of capital invested in th'
ice business in Cincinnati is estimated to b.
about $145, 900, and the annual sales to bt
about $3.50, 900.