The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-08-24
All Sorts Of Items.


York Express writes: Commodore Van
derbilt is here with his son-in-law, Col. Os-
good, both of whom have their teams OF last
horses, which they exercise upon the PARK
race course almost every morning, in COM
pany with other equally fast teams. Mrs.
James Gordon Bennett is also stopping at
the United States Hotel. She drives out
magnificent pair of ponies, which she handles
with superior skill. John Morrissey and
Andy Shean are among the distinguished
and much observed of our lions. Morrissey
is troubled with sore throat, so much so
that it is with difficulty that he can be heard
speaking. Under this affliction he could
not think of meeting Heenan in the ring, and
says to do so would be madness"
AN English gentleman, writing to friend
in Canada, makes the following allusion to
the Prince of Wales: "He is really very
fine young man, for, although he is in ap-
pearance and manners mild and unassuming,
in the hunting field he takes very forward
place. He rides most fearIessly and des,
perately at anything, and l am pleased to
think that there is not a sovereign in
Europe, or President in either South or
North America, who could line with him
across stifly enclosed country"
1T is stated that the Count de Paris and
the Duke de Charles, who were travelling in
Syria at the moment of the recent outbreak,
only saved their lives by travelling rapidly
through the mountains OF Beyrout,
The Annapolis Gazette records the death
of the youngest child of Governor Hicks, of
Maryland, and adds that he has been sadly
afflicted since he took the gubernatorial
chair. Within two years he has lost his
with and three children; has been confined
to his room six months with painful dis
ease, from which he was relieved only after
undergoing dangerous surgical operation.
Our Of one family in Walworth County,
Wisconsin, within a few years, four of the
brothers and two of the sisters committed
suicide.
The n. Y. Times says Mr.. Sheehan,
Universalist preacher, has married Mrs. EN-.
ma Cunningham Burdell in San Francisco,
whereupon the Post gets off the following
The Universalist is wise,
And proves his doctrines worth:
No risk to him of future hell
He'll have it all on earth
We notice in one of our English papers
the details of frightful outrage committed
in South Staffordshire. The wife of a miner,
named Twigg, ventured to demonstrate with
her intoxicated husband on the improperly
of asking her to leave he'd at an early hour
in the morning, for the purpose of preparing
supper for himself and a boon companion,
whom he had brought home with him. No
other provocation was given, but this seems
to have been enough for the brute, who,
under pretence of kissing his wife, pressed
her to his bosom and plunged knife into
her side, killing her almost instantly.
PARIS Fashions for August tell US that
striped dresses are much in vogue of late,
no longer the old style of horizontal stripes,
but almost universally perpendicular ones,
which produce pleasing effect on dresses
with founces, as they thus blend more grace
fully with the ensemble of the robe. Bon
nets are less pretentious in their decoration;
fewer flowers are worn, and those somewhat
negligeLtly.
The last census of the population of the
colony of Victoria showed SO, 1856 unmarried
men, of 20 years and upwards, to but l2,-
545 unmarried women of corresponding
ages. The proportion of unmarried men on
the gold6elds was still greater, the bachelors
being to the spinsters in the proportion of
upwards of 20 to /.
They mean to do things in shape in Mon
treal for the Prince of Wales. They have
put up a building for a ball room which
gives clear dancing area of SO 5000 feet.
The Wheeling Times states that man,
moving near the line OF the Central Ohio
Railroad, attempted to kill snake with the
heel of his scythe, and that in so doing the
blade struck the back of his neck, severing
his head from his body. TIE Times proba-
bly, learnt the facts from the mans own
mouth.
KING BoMBA's modesty has heretofore
required the danseuses of the San Carlo
Theatre at Naples to cover their limbs; but
Immediately after the PRONUNCIATION of the
new constitution, the ballet girls, asserting
their independence, threw away the pre-
scribed green drawers, to the infinite delight
of the audience, and appeared in the tights
common to sylphs the world over.
A MONUMENT to the memory of Joan of
Arc, the Maid of Orleans, after the design
of the Princess Marie of Orleans, is to be
erected by order Of the French Emperor,
near the old bridge of Compeigne, where
Joan of Arc was taken prisoner by the
English on the 23d of May, l43O.
VERY few people have an idea of the
immense quantity of burning fluid and
ooronhono consupod In tho TIT, ~, ,