The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-15
News Of Our Own State.

Minnesota has just been completed at the
Hastings Foundry and Machine Shop"
and works admirably. This engine was
built for Mr.. Rehse, and is to be employed
in elevatipg grain at his new warehouse.
The Hokah Chief says that from reliable
sources Of information it learns that not
more than one-fourth part OF the surplus
produce of Houston county has yet been
marketed. The Chatfeld Democrat believes
that the same estimate would be nearly the
truth with regard to Fillmore county. Ta-
king the State at large. it is safe to presume
that not more than one-third of the crop of
1860 has yet been marketed.
WE learn that many of the farmers are
making preparations for the manufacture
OF large quantities of maple sugar, the
present spring. This is a good move. On
account of the large coat of snow on the
ground in the woods, the sugar season will
be unusually lengthy. AS sugar is cash
article, our farmers should make all they
can, and thus keep much money which
would otherwise go out of the country.
The Hudson Stor says, if there are any
of our people who do not know that the
Merchants Hotel in st. Paul is the "best
kind of place to stop" we would just
remind them of that fact for their special
benefit. We know of no hotel in the North.
west where there is less show or better &C.
commodations than at the Merchants. Mr..
Belote knows how to keep hotel, and Mr..
VEBBERs particular forte is in attending to
the wants of his guests.
If we were asked to name the most black
guard paper in the State, we should unhes-
itatingly give the Minneapolis atlas the
palm over all others. The letters of the
editor>in-chief from Washington are strings
of indecent and outrageous epitbets, applied
to everybody indiscriminately, who may
differ from that astute parsonage on national
politics, and sickening adulation of Mr..
Aldrich.
Although for several years, says the Wi
mona Republican, a good deal of difficulty
will be experienced in raising such fruits
as apples, pears, etc., in Minnesota, yet the
facts lead to confident belief that careful
and judicious experiments in fruit culture
will be amply repaid, after reasonable pc
riod of waiting. AS yet but comparatively
few attempts have been made in Minnesota
to cultivate orchard fruits, but those per-
sons who have made the experiment have
almost invariably met with some degree of
success. We are informed that within
circuit of twenty-five miles west from Wi
mona, not less than thrty-fve or forty per-
sons succeeded in raising each few apples
last year, from trees planted four years be-
fore. These beginnings are small, to be
sure, but they indicate what can and may
be done with proper effort. AS the season
for planting the various kinds of fruit trees
is now fast approaching, we would remind
our readers, particularly in the country,
of the propriety of an extensive cultivation
of the orchard as we'll as the smaller fruits.
Now is the time to make thorough Begin
ming.
In Henderson, diptheria has prevailed
among children, but was only fatal in the
case ola child of Adam Buck. Frederick
Koort, convicted last spring of mansaughter
at Henderson, has been pardoned out of the
States prison and returned home. A cath
Ollie church is veoy nearly completed in that
town.
ONE day last week two little boys of AL
bert Lea, Freedom county, were indulging
in the amusement of mock hanging, when
one of them got the rope so firmly around
his throat, that the play ended in TRACE
dy. The boy was taken down dead.
Two men skated on the Mississippi river
from Fountain City to Winona, distance
of twelve miles, in forty, five minutes.
AT Albert Lea, where Kreigler was
hung on Friday, the lst inst, there were
about fifteen hundred people present. He
seemed Indifferent to his fate, and died with
hardly struggle.
ALL the country papers announce the de-
parture of citizens for Washington. 1t is
estimated that at least two hundred Mime
sotians are now besieging the Heads of De-
partments and the President for Office.
AN IrishmaD, named Morris Fitzgerald,
farmer, committed suicide on Wednesday
of last week, near Mendoza in Dodge coun-
ty. No cause assigned for the act.
The Anoka Republican anticipates the
erection in that place of large number of
buildings during. the coming spring and
| summer.
We copy the following from the Glencoe
Register:
The saw mill of Messrs. Snyder & Close
was burnt on Thursday night of last week.
No one knows how the fire originated, but
it is supposed to have caught accidentally.
This is great loss, not only to the owners,
but to the community at large. We under