The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-12-28

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be commenced, the entire arrangements
being all completed. The entire building
is to be raised six feet, portions of the
rear rebuilt, and the interior remodelled.
The work will be commenced in February,
and will be completed in about three
months. The total cost Of the improve.
ment will be about $4,000.
CH1cor county, Arkansas, is reputed to
be the wealthiest county, in proportion to
its population, Of any in the country. Its
taxable property amounts to $40 100000,
while its population is only LOO. This
gives not less than $5,882 351a to each
man, woman and child in the county,
equally divided.
To OUR LADY READERs.-When are
lands like certain animals When they'r
fallow, dear.
When is a small dog like Punch or
Judy? Because it's pup, pet.
Why is young lady cutting High
Dutch on the Central Pond like popular
song? Because she's skaty, darling.
Why is fact like my devotion ? Be-
cause-ah-because it's true, love.
Why is a catarrh like total immersion
Because it's cold, duck.-Vanity Fair.
The Paris correspondent of the Boston
Traveller makes the following announce
ment :" Prince Orlof, he who saved the
life of the Emperor Nicholas at the time Of
the great insurrection, and the signer of the
treaty of peace at Paris after the Crimean
war, has gone crazy, and is kept in a
straight jacket in his own palace. The
radical change wrought in Russia by the
present Emperor is said to have had a part
in superinducing this arrangement. Revo-
lutions, even peaceful revolutions, always
have Victims
FROM Bells Life we learn that Savers
has given up the Champions Belt, though
not without resistance, and that it has been
handed over to the Staleybridge infant.
Some 600 dollars remain to be paid on
the new belts, and Bells Life appeals to
the friends of Sayers and Heenan to raise
it at once, otherwise they must remain
with the maker.
The copyright of Webster's Dictionary
yields $4,000 year and of his "Ele-
mentary Spelling Book" $35,OO0,OOO of
copies have been sold, the annual issue
being now upwards of 100000.
IT is said that Gen. Joe. Lane has sent
the following dispatch to the Governor of
North Carolina
Deer gov--oregon is probably lost. have
resolved to see seed with my Native state
The election. of linkon has did tile COB. Our
only trust now is in god and Suthern union.
Yours, jo Lain.
A COUNTRY couple, newly married, stop
ped at the Gibson House in Cincinnati, a
few days ago, and the groom called for
some wine. When asked what kind he
would have, he replied, "We want that
kind of wine where the corks pop out and
the Ticker biles up like soap suds."
The Cincinnati Commercial says: i" In
tense interest is felt throughout the country
in respect to the officer who commands
the garrisons of the United States forts at
Charleston. We learn that the officers
name is Robert Anderson, and his rank
that of Colonel. He is well-known and
gallant officer, who distinguished himself in
the Mexican war, and was severely wound i.
ed in the desperate battle of Moline del
Rey. He is the elder brother of our fellow
townsman, Larz Anderson"
A FRENCH paper, speaking of our Presi-
dents, says that certain words generally
give each one his popularity, and thus
translates General Taylor's famous speech
at Buena Vista: "a little more raisins
(grapes) Capt. Braggw while be translates
"Old Hickory" Vieur Meyer ("Old Wal.
nut!')
The dying advice of the Empress Dowa-
ger OF Russia is reported to have BEEN
Don't, Alexander, don't MAKE any alliance
with Austria"
CAPT. NATHAN JAoU1rH, of Winchester,
Massachusetts, a man in bis eightieth year,
walked to Lowell, eighteen miles, to spend
Thanksgiving with Mrs. L. Eames, his
daughter. He accomplished the journey in
five and one half hours, without fatigue,
His friends tried to persuade him not to
attempt it, and furnished him with tickets,
but be wanted to show what an octogena-
rian could do, and declined to ride.
THE increase in the population OF the
United States can be we'll appreciated by
the fact that, in 1886, when Mr.. Van Buren,
was elected President, the total vote of the
Union was but l,498,OOO, or less than the
vote which Mr.. Douglas obtained this year
IT is rumored that President Buchanan
and John W. Forney have, through the
interposition of mutual friends, amicably
settled the feud that has existed between
them for the past three years.
ELIZABETH M. SMITH, of Burlington, N.
D., has invented and patented an imnrove.