The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-01-06
Our Own State.

There are no mltters of special interest In
our State exchanges this week. They are
mostly filled with Congressional and Legis-
lative proc ceilings and accounts of the loca
amusements of the season.
The Winona Republican states that within
the past two months, there has been an in
creasing demand for real estate in that part
of the State, and more particularly for farm
ing lands. The immense crops of grain
which have been pouring into their market
since last September, enable strangers as
we'll as occupants of the soil to realize to
some extent the value of farming lands in
Southern Minnesota, and to form some
estimate of the wealth which is in store for
those who purchase them now at their
present rates.
THE Cleveland lie Sueur Coz Herald,
gives an account of tragedy enacted by
man ma med KELLY, who split woman's
head open with shovel, from which she
will die
The St. Peter Statesman has an account
of the doings of Rev. Mr.. HILL. of LIE
Sueur county, who has been preaching at
kasota, in that county, for the last thir-
teen months, to the United Brethren. The
statesman sums up his pious labors as fol.
lows:
That some three years ago he had seduced
young girl about sixteen years od--from her
home in Maine--tOok her to Boston, where she
was employed for time in a millinery estab.
lishment; from thence he took her to Kansas,
where he remained a short time; and from
thence he brought her where he has resided the
past thirteen months. He has a wife and three
children in Maine, and the woman he is at pres
ent living and ccha biting with has one child.
The Minneapolis Plaandealer says eve
will guarantee he was shrieker in Kansas,
and breaches the negro aud him cruci6ed to
his.admiring brethren at Kasota After a
full exposition of these warm traits in the
character of the Reverend gentleman, about
one half his congregation voted to retain
and fellowship him as their spiritual teach
er. The thing is not to be wondered at,
when we consider that KALLoCH was retained
and fellowshipped by his congregation in the
enlightened and puritanic city of Boston.
Men and women whose mental and physical
cravings are of that character which creates
desire for social and political fellowship with
the negro, cannot be expected to make
many wry faces over the moral short COM
iDgs OF their religious teachers
MAJ. CULLEN and Maj. MIX, Indian
Agents, started for Washington last week.
Maj. CULLEN informs the editor of the La
Crosse Democrat that the celebrated Indian
Brave, HoLE.IN-THE-DAY, has built him a
gay old house" on his reserved six hundred
and forty acres, at Crow Wing, on the
Mississippi. The house has cost him some
six thousand dollars in gold, and is nearly
surrounded by a piazza. The old chief is
living with sic uires, in all the splendor of
Mormon Bishop. His parlor is furnished
with seventeen rocking chairs, while the
walls are hung with eight large portraits
seven of which represent himself, and the
other, Major CULLEN! Three of his wives
are old like himself, and the other three
young and beautiful! They live like white
folks" all set at the same table and have
the best china and coffee sets for every day
use. The old man has over one hundred
acres OF his reserve under cultivation, which
brings forth beautifully His wives work
a large garden we'll stocked with flowers.
The Belle PLANE Inquirer says that WIN.
WARD, ESQ.,, of that township, shot Cat
amount or Wild Cat, in the Big Woods,
within five miles of that place. 1t is repre-
sented as being of extraordinary large size
and the only one ever seen in that section OF
country by the preseot settlers.
The st. Peter Statesman says that the
Free Press Office, lately destroyed by fire in
that town, was fitted up under the capital
removal excitement, and was one of the
most complete printing offices in the State,
outside of St. Paul. A power press alone,
belonging to the Office, cost some ten or
fifteen hundred dollars, and the entire Office
material cost about $4,000. The stock on
hand was worth about 5000, their winter
stock of paper having been received the
same day. and the books and papers were
valued at $5OO-besides the building be-
longing to Mr.. DODGE, which cost two
years ago about $500. The entire loss can
not fall short of $1,000.
The Statesman says that Mr.. HUNTLY,
residing near Scotch Lake, in LIE Sueur
county, has raised parsnips last summer
that measured tweuty-one inches in circum
ference and that he planted potatoes the
first of July last, some of which when dug,
weighing one pound each: