The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-24
News and ellaneous Items.

child.
MRS. ELLEN WALDRoN obtained verdict
in Chautauque county, N. Y, against the
Buffalo and State Line Railroad Company
of So 900, for the killing of her husband,
some two years since.
We learn that Captain L. HI. HART, of
Pepin, Wisconsin, is building for the excIu-
sive trade of Lake Pepin, a snug little
steamer of about fifty horse power, to ply
between Wabashaw, by the way of Pepin,
Lake City, Maiden Rock and other points.
to Prescott.
ONE of BEECHER's co-laborers at the Wo.
mans Rights meeting in New York, was
Lucy STONE, and on the platform, in loving
embrace, was that infdel female, ERNEsrINE
L. Rose. On Monday evening of the same
week she had delivered an eulogy upon
PAINE, and closed up her weeks work by
applauding BEEcHER.
SAMUEL COLLINS, of Weyauwega, while
at work in Waupaca, Wis.,, says the Wau-
paca Spirit, about the shop of Mr.. ALLEN,
last Monday morning, had his left hand and
arm drawn under the knives of the machine
and literally cut in half inch pieces nearly to
the elbow.
A FIRE broke out on Main street, Can
ton, N. Y, on the 18th, and laid in ruins
half the business portion of the village
Ten or twelve buildings were destroyed.
The loss, on which there is some insurance,
amounts to $4,000.
The Boston Post says: 1.-The London
Morning Chronicle, LOUIS NAPoLEoN's Or
gan, is edited by an American" The
Washington Constitution, JAMES BUCHAN-
ANS paid organ, is edited by European.
AT Kingston, Canada West, MARY ANN
CoUPER, aged four years, was scald to death
by fall ne backwards into pot of boiling
water, on the 1st inst. Her sufferipgs were
intense during that night and next morn
ing, and delirium supervened, and all sense
of pain seemed to have ceased until death
ensued two days afterwards.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania,
lately issued decree, commanding the City
Councils of Pittsburgh, to make full and
ample provisions for the payment of the in
terest due on $l5OOOO of Bonds issued by
the city of Pittsburgh in payment of its
subscription to the charter of the Valley
Railroad.
A YOUNG married woman named SARAH
JANE MCCHEsTER, has been arrested on sus-
picion of having something to do with the
mysterious murder of a custom house officer
lately in New York. The general immpres-
sion is that she is innocent,and that her hus-
bands story corroborates her statement that
she was at home all the evening. A stage
driver asserts positively, however, that she
got in to his omnibus about the time of the
murder, near State street. and rode up to
goth street.
The extraordinary operation of sending
dispatches direct from Halifax, Nova SEQ.
tia, to Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen, ria
Quebec, Kingston, Ogdensburg. to Beloit
and Chicago was performed on the 18th
inst..-the lines working over distance of
three thousand miles with ease. The dis
patches received at Milwaukee arrived in a
few seconds, promptly and with great accu-
racy. This is working over line nearly
twice the length of the Atlantic Cable, and
demonstrates the fact that good lines and
skillful operators. A line of almost any
length can be worked as we'll as short
one.
A CASE of more than ordinary interest,
involving as it does, the sum of 100000,
which by will was left to Mr.. HENRY Sc
GUINE, resident of Staten Island, by his
brother, JAMES S. SEGU1NE, a wealthy
planter, owning property in Virginia and
North Carolina to the amount named,
is at present pending at Richmond,
Staten Island. The contestant in the case
is the son of the deceased, to whom, at the
death of his father, was left only. as annuity,
$500. Upon the will being entered for
probate, short time since, action was taken
by the son to contest the validity of the
same upon the ground that his father was
incompetent, from partial arrangement and
other illness.
A HIGHWAY robbery was committed in
New Milford, Conn on the LIST inst.
BANKS, cattle dealer, while passing
through a wood in a snow storm, was
stopped by two men, one of whom held his
horse, while the other knocked him senseless
and robbed him of 5000 or $500. They
then put him in the wagon, tied up the
reins and started the horse. When passing
a house he was seen by the inmates and
rescued. Suspected parties have been ar