The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-06-06
State News.

The following items are clipped from Mrs.
Swishelm's paper, the st. Cloud Democrat:
SHEEP FOR MINNESOTA Wright, of
Dayton, passed trough town last week on
his y to buy sheep. He will get them
in Wisconsin, if possible, if not, 10 Illinois.
Dayton, as is known, is situated on the OF.
ter Tail River, about twenty five miles this
side of Breckenridge, and in good stock.
raising country. One hundred sheep be.
longing to Major Cullen, were broug ht up
on Monday, and taken through to the Ma
jO.'s farm, near Sank Centre.
DRowNED.-Letters from the Fourth
Regiment say that at the time of the falling
in of the decks of the steamer Gladiator
noticed in last weeks Democrat-Casper
Capser, of company 4, Captain Laeg) was
drowned. He was on the lower deck,
standing guard, and seeing the upper deck
crushing through, jumped overheard and
was lost. This is the only death we have
learned of in either company D. or G..
A TRA1ToR.-Letters from the Third
Regiment, now in Tennessee, report that
VIM. A. Caruthers, Register of the U. S.
Land Office at this place under Buchanan,
is a Lieutenant in Morgan's Cavalry at
Corinth. This information will surprise no
one who was acquainted with the pro.Slav.
cry feelings and secession sentiments of the
eXaRegister.
TAKEN TO AN Acknowledgement Lowry,
under charge of Oscar Taylor, ESQ.,, was
yesterday morning Thursday taken on
board the Cutter, and will 60 to Cincinnati,
where be will be placed in an insane asy.
lum. He has not given any signs of i'm
provement, and this course was deemed nec-
essary.
D1ED.-At Crow Wing. on the morning
of the 27th, David P. Chapman, aged 46.
The deceased was one of the first settlers in
Minnesota.
FIRE.-On Saturday night the dwelling
house Immediately back OF E. G. Smiths
shoe store, owned by DR.. w. B. Simonton,
was burned to the ground. Mr.. s. left
some time since for the Cariboo mines,
while Mrs. S. went to Kentucky. Lately
it has been occupied by G. E. Vanderburg,
but MIR. V. having also concluded to try his
fortune at the mines, vacated the house on
Friday morning. The burning was clearly
the work of some incendary enemy of DR..
S., as this was the second time it has been
fired. The house was worth about $500,
while Mrs. VS. loss cannot be less than
$7O0-no insurance. Although suspicion
points to the incendiary, no arrests have
yet been made.
Speaking Of our local currency, the st.
Anthony State News says:
Our community is, becoming flooded with
notes of the Peoples Bank and St. Paul
City Scrip. The latter may be all good
enough but we would thank the people of
our neighboring city to keep it at home.
Thompson Bros. are good endorsers, but
even they do not undertake to make it as
good as Treasury notes or the notes of Eas,
tern specie paying banks.
Items from the Chatfeld Democrat:
BURNED TO DEATH.-We are informed
that little girl five yeara OF age, child of
Michael Langham, of Fountain Township,
in this county, was burned to death by her
clothes taking fire from the stove on Nom
day last. The mother had gone for a pail
of water about 80 rods distant, and left the
little sufferer with other children in the
house. When she returned the victim was
lying dead upon the floor, which together
with the bed and other articles in the room
were on fire.
THE District Court, for this county meets
at Preston, on Monday next.
IMMIGRANTS. --Twenty.f immigrant
wagons, with the usual accompaniment,
passed through this town, headed West, on
Thursday last. We welcome them to our
fertile lands and healthy climate.