Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1860-01-28
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coming in.
THE library Of Alexandra contained
100000 volumes. The Sararens when
they took the city, in the year Of our
Lord GAP, burned the entire library !;
using, during the space six months,
the books instead of wood, for fuel.
Ar least two hundred ladies' in Pro
vilcnce, II. L., have had their shawls
and dresses ruined within the last
three months, by having lamp-oil pour
cd upon them while walking the streets.
A man in New Haven attempted to
drink seven pints Of port wine, Oh Il
wager. The sixth was q ''pint" too
far, for after swallowing it he dropped
dead. Much valuable liquor was &C
cordingly lost.
Rev. JOHN FINLEY GROVE, founder
of Hanover College, and seven years
teacher at Hanover, died Tuesday at
Hanover, Ind, Of disease Of the heart.
Aged IS years.
Ar the National Fair at Chicago,
over 5 10000 were taken in hard cash
ut the gates, and the Treasury brought
away . surplus of some ten or twelve
thousand dollars.
The Washington correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Commercial, says there is
q rumor ::''Court Circles" that Lyons,
the new British Minister, will shortly
l,oJ Me-, IT, ,r;o< I o,,o <l.n <l%,,
The Cardinal Vicar Of Rome has is
sued all edict forbidding ladies to 90 to
church in crinolinc. The confcsser is
to forbid them to present themselves
at the alter to take the sacrament I'M
less they are dressed in Il simple man.
ner.
The grave Of the late Judge Conrad
is to be chiselcd out of the solid rock,
OH bluff overlooking the Schuylkil,
in the Laurel Hill Cemetery. The
monument is to be II feet in height
and will be made of sandstone and
marble after a design by young man
who was educated at Girard College.
The principal productions Of the
State Of Wisconsin are pretty girls,
railroad bonds, mink and other skins,
seed wheat, Sons of Malta, tax titles,
corner lots and white fish.
Macaulay the celebrated English
historian and writer died in England
on the 2Sth ult., Of the disease OF the
heart.
The Hon. Isaac l. Stevens, Congress.
sional Delegate from Washington ter.
ritory, has stated that "within one
mile of the shores of Puget Sound
there is more timber than can be found
on all the tributaries of all the waters
OF Maine.
A sort of Pullet conventions meet
ing of womeu's rights fanatics.>-was
held at Roche ster on the 10th and 18th
inst. A few old hens, it is supposed,
were there to lead off in the cackling.
3 GRACIOUS H eavens! QUEEN VIC
ToR1A is again --------. At her time of
life, too!
TIE New Orleans Delta announces
q forthcoming work on Nicaragua, by
no less person than Gen. VIM. Walk
er. .-.
OLD JOE BARKER, the famous street
preacher, ex-Mayor of Pittsburg, and
ex-Know-N Nothing orator, is now serv.
ing a sentence in the county Jail in
Pittsburg, for nuisance.
TIE harbors o! Baltimore, Rich
mond, and Petersburg are effectually
closed with ioo for the time being,
while the harbor of Norfolk is unob-
atructed, and holds free communication
with the sea.
The young ladies of Cambridge are
80 fond Of BLADES that they learn fenc-
ing and use the gloves, too, with UNI
common science.
We learn from Montreal papers
that racing ca the frozen st. Lawrence
IL tive ya4e there. Purses are striven
for, and rank and beauty throng in
cutters to see the strife.
THERE are at present in the world
about 12I 900 Mormons. $4,000 live
in Utah, Of whom 4,6l7 have 1890
wives. .,- ..
A line Of onnnibuses has recent.
ly been established at Beyrout, the
first ever seen in Syria. The Bedouins
run from all sides to see them pass,
and stand looking after them with as.
constituent
@ Two hunters caught Al mink about
two weeks since in the vicinity of Nc
Leo3 Lake, Minnesota, in three days
As an evidence Of the mild weather
in Florida, the editor of the Tallahassee
Floridian has been presented withripc
pears, plums, grapes and pomegran-
ates, the three former Of the second
growth Of this season.
THERE has been introduced into the
Senate Of Ohio, a bill to punish all
citizens convicted Of raising military
expeditions for the purpose of Great
ing scrvile instructions in other State.