St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-09-20
NEWS ITEMS.

' NEWS ITEMS.
IA correspondent of the 21itune, who
processes to have the best opportunities of
knowing what Mr.. William B. Astor is worth,
states that his property cannot fall q dollar
short of $40, ZOO, 900, and that its annual in
crease is about 2,0oO,0 900.
ray A drill by the Chicago Zouaves, at the
Wigwam in that city on the evening of the 3Oth
ult., is understood to have been their ''last ap-
pearance" in a military capacity. The men,
bers propose to devote their time and talents
exclusively to their private affairs hereafter.
b6@ They have another barrel mystery in
Chicago. A woman named Ann Katrida Rasck,
was, on Tuesday, found in the bottom of an
old well, head doWnwards in barrel, and with
a cord drawn tight enough around her neck to
cause death. Her husband was arrested on
suspicion.
D9 A Portland paper says that Gen. Tom
Thumb is to take wife from that city, not
only zone of Portland's fairest daughters,' but
''the handsome and accomplished daughter of
one Of our oldest and most esteemed citizens"
She is said to be very ''pretty, below the ordi-
nary height, and heiress to quite g large
estate"
D9r "Since the crucifxion Of Christ there
has not been SO benevolent an institution
known among men as African Slavery
Henry Clay Dean. ...
The man who gave utterance to this bias
phemous sentiment is now ''stumping" the
State of Iowa for Douglas, as one of his
Electors.
B1 Capt. Ellsworth, of the famous Chicago
Zouaves, resigned his command last week, on
which occasion the Cadets gave an exhibition
drill at the Wigwam. He has chosen the pro-
fession Of Law, and will at once enter the Of
fee Of Abraham Lincoln, in Springfield, to
prepare tor the pursuit Of his chosen pro-
fession. II. ''. -
D6 Mr.. Douglas went to New York the
other day to consult a doctor about his throat
We are sorry about his throat, but the things
he has uttered through it 1--WE haven't a word
to say about what may have passed the other
way) would have burned and blistered throat
Of brass.
19r On poster advertising negro opera
troupe now performing down east, is a big
cut Of darkey's head. Some wag recently
wrote beneath the cut on one of the bills,
''This is the rock on which the Democratic
party split
B6e The Mobile Tribune confidently saws ::
'sln the South there is not the slightest doubt
that douglas is losing strength every day, and
that Breckinridge is gaining it. And it seems
to us that, in the nature of things, this must
continue, for, as has been truly said, ''there is
no salient point in the advocacy of Douglas
b6e A novel match is soon to. come off be-
tween Capt. Travis and one of his pupils, in
Memphis. By agreement they are to shoot
| fifteen times each, the Captains balls to first
strike the floor, and rebounding, to lodge nearer
| the center of the target than the ball from his
opponents pistol, who is to shoot in the ordi :
nary way, taking deliberate aim. .:....
D@ very pretty and elegant present has
been forwarded to Miss Nightingale by a
grateful officer, who recovered under her
treatment whilst in the Crimea 1t consists of
small repeating watch in a ring, the cylinder
Of which is made of an Oriental ruby, Its di-
ameter is the tfty-seventh part of an inch, and
its weight the two-hundredtl part Of grain.
ps The other day Senator Seward was
standing upon the platform Of the Boston and
Worcester railroad depot awaiting the de-
prrture' OF the cars, when young and ardent
| republi an addressed him, rel GREETING that more
notice had not been given of his arrival, when
they would have given him a reception supe-
rlor to that of Senator Douglass s.It's. of no
consequence he remarked, ''my mother has
] 0S0AA NSAN 4OA d ANulUcT Ol yc1TSs
DeD@On Sunday last, humber of Southerners
who were passengers on train from Niagara
Falls, took offence at certain colored passengers
who were aboard, and demanded that they
| should be put off. One Of the chivalry as.
sauited a co1ored man who went upon the plat
form, and but for the interference of the con-
ductor, the Southerner would have been roughly
| handled. The conductor insisted that one
mans money was as good as another's, and
| that all passengers should be treated alike on
| the train.
That is great improvement since former
| times, ,...,>. =.
D% At Meadville, Pennsylvania, few days
since, Mr.. Robert Harrington, who owns and
| tends a saw mill and lath machine at that
place, observed ssme irrcgularity in the move
ment Of the lath machine and going below
the mill, to his horror he found that his child
had been caught by her clothes upon revolv-
ing horizontal shaft, and was whirling around
at tho rHte of one hundred aid sixty times per
minute, and at every revolution striking her
head upon the ground. She was dead, of
| course, when discovered, and mutilated in q
manner too dreadful to describe 800
4.WEALTHY CoRponA11oN.-TheI Illinois Cen
trail Railroad, the Presidency of which Gov.
Banks has consented to assume, is the largest
railway property on this continent, represent
ing a capital of more than $50, ,0OO, 900, cover
! ing a territory larger than the State Of Con
necticut, and furnishing daily employment to
between three and tour thousand men. e
p@. .(Scene-Goddess of Liberty in the door
Of. the White House, and Little Dug; with one
foot on the steps)
Douglas -'.sstand aside, woman, and let me
into the ''White House" I'm going to live
there the next four years."
Goddess Of Liberty-t'You can't come in
unless your Abe L! (able.) ;::,:: : 10 ,n*'2E
AFR 1.-THE Dimykrat party
ought to have the American Aigle off its ban
nor this election" said an honest Patlander
the other day: 2-s.fHl, ,as9t8no.l II atT!sei
t'.tWhy?" asked . bystander. ! rasrr II
"Bekase you see the Aigle isn't : double