The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-20
All Sorts OF Items,

Two million grows out the United States
fund received under the boundary treaty,
and these sums are increased by one-tenth
of the annual revenues of the State. In ad-
dition, each county has four leagues of land
devoted by the State for the use of common
schools, and nine-tenths of the reserved lands
in the tracts donated to railroad companies,
the other tenth being appropriated to the
University fund. The whole University
fund is now estimated at 100000, com
posed of this tenth of the land reservation,
and fifty leagues of land, of which sales have
been made to the amount of 5000, 900, with
donation of 100000 from U. S. bonds.
The pirate Hicks is to be hung on Fri
day next on Bedloe's Island, New York
harbor, and, says the Herald, it is rumored
that several steamboat proprietors are ar
ranging for trips down the harbor, for the
purpose of gratifying the morbid curiosity
of that portion of the community who de-
light in the revolving spectacle of public
execution.
Our late japanese visitors anticipate
their arrival at Jeddo, in the Niagara, about
the middle of September. The Niagara
Will subsequently SlNC uCI OLuCCIS du ODDOr-
tunity to see the Holy Land, and return
after twelve-month's absence. The latest
advices render it probable that our amcabe
relations with Japan will not be disturbed
by the death of the regent.
THOMAS HEEDEN, and woman named
Sheerley, until recently residents of Ulster
county, New York, are charged, the one
with poisoning his wife, and the other with
poisoning her husband, that they might en-
Joy each others society without hindrance
The bodies of the deceased wife and hus.
band were disintered, and the stomach sent
to New York for chemical examinations,
and poison was found in sufficient quantity
to cause death. Meanwhile, however, the
guilty parties took the alarm, and made
their escape.
APRoPos 20 Tommy's alleged successes
the New York Times exclaims " What
an Atlantic of amatory epistles must await,
for example, the Prince of Wales, should
that royal youth, unprotected by " executive
naval officers" rashly venture to put him
self within reach of that army of emanci-
pated school girls which slipshod training
and parental neglect seem to be rearing up
among US! !"
The London College of Surgeons, grave
and learned men, had Tom Sayers down, not
long ago, to test the weight of the blow be
gives, not on any of the doctors, but upon
machine which is made like stomach, and
recedes with the blow, registering the num-
Der of pounds weight it gets. The figures
to Toms credit are 329 pounds, which is
something like lively sack of -four hitting
you, every time he gets fair blow.
The New York Tribune announces that
Lola Montez is recovering from her late Sc
rious illness.
IT is supposed by learned theologians,
such as Petrus Cametor, that Adam entered
the garden of Eden in the spring. How
ever that may be, it is quite certain that be
came out in the tall.
AN eminent Massachusetts wag has ex-
pressed his surprise that, in view of the fact
of six cows being killed by electricity dur
ing recent thunder shower, in the western
part of the State, an extra session of the
legislature was not called to provide the
rest of the cattle in the Commonwealth with
lightning rods
GENTLEsT OF HER SEx.-What did you
say was the principle of the Stereoscope?
ALFRED -.-Wby it makes two
people into one.
Best AND BRIGHTEST, (innocently)-
What delightful invention !--Vanitg Fair.
JOSHUA M. CRAIG, of Chicot county,
Arkansas, recently sold to Judge Francis
Griffin, of Washington county, Mississippi,
his plantation and negroes, known as the
Iceland Plantation" for the handsome
sum $4OO,O0O-$lO0,O0O cash, and the res
dence in seven equal annual payments, with
eight per cent. interest.
APRoPos to the death of Prince Jerome
Napoleon, the New York Jonrnal Of Com
merce says-"And thus the last link that
connected the pageant of France OF this day
with that of the Great Napolean is sun
dered. All the great men and women who
figured on the scene of France, and we may
add of Europe entire by years ago, are gone
Not one is left, save the old Queen of Swe-
den, the widow of Bernadotte. All the
rest are gone. Three Kings of England,
two of Denmark, two of Sweden, two
Emperors of Russia, three or four Popes,
one Emperor of Austria, enc King of Prus.
STA, two Kings of Holland, two of Saxony,
two of Bavaria, two of Sardinia, two of
Naples. The Great Captains are all gone.
What changes-what changes What
shadows we are-what shadows we pur-
sue'"
PRENTICE, of the Louisville Journal,
makes the following good hit:
Mr.. Yancey procaims that the pen is al-
ready nibbed which is to write the story of
another revolution. IT'S more likely that
the rope is already twisted which is to be
knotted under the left ears of those who
shall attempt to create the revolution.
A POET says that the wind kisses the
waves. That, we suppose, is the celebrated
"kiss for blow" about which we have heard
so much.
The Albany Atlas paper speaking of
Occasional's allusion to woman in the
case of Fitzpatrick's decleusicn, says -
Though the Press does not say so, we pre-
sumo the wearer of crinoline which upset
the calculations of the Baltimore Conven-
ton, was Miss Harriet Lane. 1t has been
rumored that Mr.. Collector Schell was at
tached quite as much to the same lady as
he was to the Custom House, and that her