Weekly Minnesotian and times., 1859-12-24
NEWS AND MISCELLANY,

The Daughters College at Harrisburg, KY,
was destroyed by fire last Saturday.
The aggregate of cold is greater the present
year than during any one for seven Years
past, except that of 1915.
The public debt of Virginia amounts to
SO, lot,G59, bearing an annual interest of
Sl,1S6, S29.
SO much money never was expended be-
tore IN an election, as i'll the late Mayoralty
election, in New York
Tammany Hall is to be sold Immediately.
bag and baggage, at public auction, for the
benefit of It's creditors
It's estimated that the Brown military DEM
onsiration in Virginia will cost that State
100000
The London Uorniag Pest announces that
the Government has resolved on forthwith
erectlnga new arsenal, in the place of that at
Woolwich.
The graves at Chiriqua had been aban.
don'd Tor the gold washiugS Three thousand
dollars worth of gold images had arrived at
Panama, for Chir1pa.
The widow Of John Brown is said to be
quite Ill, from over eXcitcmen. consequent up
on the ordeal ot taking the renlaius of her hus-
band to North Eba
Out fthe s. 900 600 lost on the Aus;raI.
ian steamship Royal Charter, recently wrecked
on the coast of England, but $4,000 have
been recovered by the divers.
Henry Jumperts who has been on trial in
Chicago for the last three weeks for the mur-
DEF OF Sophia Werner in the fall of 1857, has
bel. acquitted
new paper entitled, Broocn's Crime, has
| been started at PayneSvle, Ohio, by John
X. French, formerly ofth Paynesvllle 7eis-
graph.
Hay is selling in Toronto at $50 per ton,and
is sparingly offered and of poor quality at
that. Straw is worth Sl4 per ton, and is al
so scarce
The Republican National Committee are to
| meet IN New York city, on the 2lSt inst, to
arrange the time for holding the National Con-
vention for 1860
y large number of the citizens of Dubuoue
have pledged themselves not to burn gas un-
less the present prices are reduced from 40
| to $3.50 per 100 foot.
The Union Ne at Fanieul Hall. Bos-
ton, on last Tuesday evening, was an immense
and enthusiastic one. Hon Edward Everett
| tlngulShcd men addressed it,
The Sergeant-at Arms of the United States
| House OF Representatives has position not to
be desplsed, pecuniariy considered Its said
that the pcrquisites last year amounted to the
handsome sum of $4,000. with margin
over.
The Territorial Legislature of Nebraska as.
semblcd on the 9TH inst. There was warm
contest Tor the organization between the Adj
mlniStraton and Anti Administration Demo
cratic factions, the latter finally succeeding.
A doctors wife attempted to move him bv
her tears. "Ahr' sad he, "tears are useless.
| have analyized them. They contain little
| phosphate OF lime, some chloratc OF sodium.
| and water
The remains of President Monroe have
been removed TO Virginia, and neat rnonu-
ment, III the form of an iron temple, erected
over them. The birth place Of Washington
has been cedcd to the State.
To make a lady stick out her finger, put on
the aforesaid digit a diamond ring To make
her stick out her eyes, show her silk dress.
TO make her stick out all over, give her
crinolirc.
Two men, Joseph Sparks and Oscar Flint.
were assaiied in Baltimore, few nights ago.
Flint was knocked down, but his companion
escaped by flight. When the scoundrels hit
Flint, Sporhs .tiea0.
The most amusing man in the world is O.
frenchman in passion. by Gar you call
my vie, woman two three several times
once more, an will call the watch house. and
blow out your brains like candle.
bill has been introduced into the Leois-
lature of Vermont to abolish Grand Jurios
and in lieu thereof establish indictments upon
information. In eight other States move
ments to the same end have been made.
The Adjutant General gives notice to the
soldiers OF 1912 and all other parties interested
that no claims under chapter l76 oftbe laws Of
1889, will be received or adjudicated after the
first day of January next
A chap was walking along one dav. when
he saw rattlesnake, nicely coed np. As
the snake saw him, it raised its tail and beran
It's not very muslaal w-h-i-r-r, whereupon the
chap stopped and said, well, by, if YOU
amt the Dussest scared snake ever saw. I'll
be|!'
The Governor of Georgia recommends in
his recent message, that the criminal code be
so changed that suspension of specie pay
ment by any bank in Georgia shall be deem
ed conclusive evidence of fraud on the part
OF the President and Directors, and the off,
GERS OF the bank should be punished for it by
a suspension of liberty in the Penitentiary,
without permitting them to show that it was
not fraud. No suspension of either kind
would be likely to occur with such a law.