The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-06-19
NEWS OF OUR OWN STATE.

who, by the way, edits rich and racy pa.
per called the Glencoe Register, and
which we prize highly as an exchange. is
one of the largest and best farmers in the
State. In recent number of the Reals
ter he gives the result of his first winters
experience with large flock of sheep, as
follows:
HE EXPERIMENT.-Now that the winter
has gOne and sheep are able to cater for them.
selves, we find that our flock has consumed
this winter one ton of hay to every five head OF
sheep. We fed them one hundred and seventy
two days, but the first thirty days during No
vember, they obtained their living principally
in the fields. We also fed out each day one
peck OF corn to the hundred head. Our loss
has been about one and a half per cent.-that
is, sheep and half to the hundred head.
The flock is in good order, and were we as
well posted during the winter as we are now,
we should have probably not lost sheep in
the flock. Our advice is, to those who are 90
ing to embark in the sheep business, and are
not acquainted with the habits of sheen to
start with small flock. They will then be en-
abled to become acquainted with them, and
they need not lose any at all.
The Winona Republican of Saturday
last, discourses as follows on the weather
and crops in that section of the State:
During the past two weeks the weather in
this vicinity has been very favorable for the
growing crops, there being plenty of warm
showers to bring forward grain rapidly, with
pleasant sunshine enough to make all balance
in favor OF bountitul crop. sWc are assured
that the crops of all kinds throughout the
rnI1 tr,ur Loo --I Lo@+
Vanced at this season Of year. They anticipate
an early and plentiful harvest, more particular
~ OF wheat. There has been much larger
breadth OF ground sOwn than heretofore and
from present indications, the yield will be much
larger per acre. May their fondest anticipa-
tons be realized.
HE Monitor, published at Taylor's
Falls, Chlsago county, says the crops are
looking finely in that section Since the
late rains vegetation is putting forth with
re-doubled vigor
TIE Chaska Herald Carver county,
chronicles the arrival in one day at that
place Of one hundred and fifty immigrants.
TIE Shakopee A'y,es says one day last
week, girl about thirteen years of age,
was found wandering about in the woods
near Young America, Carver county. She
was entirely naked, and appeared to have
been for some time without food. Her
appearance is that Of an intelligent and
sane person; but all efforts to induce her
to speak are fruitless, although it is evil
dent from her actions that she understands
the English language. Mr.. Fitch has taken
her to his house in Young America, where
she is kindly and properly cared for
ACCIDENT.-We are panied to learn that
Captain A. NJ. Enoch, of Co. - Ninth Mime
sofa, was very severely if not MORALLY wound
ed by the accidental discharge of a revolver
on Thursday noon. 1t appears that party of
twenty ladies and gentlemen had started on
pleasure excursion to Camp Pope, and had
proceeded as far as the saw-mill at the Lower
Agency, when the accident occurred. Captain
Enoch had stopped at the mill for some pur
pose, and while there, the revolver dropped
from his belt The conclusion discharged one
OF the loads and the ball struck the Captain in
the right breast, passing through his lungs and
striking against his shoulder-bade. DR.. Null
Ter, the surgeon at the Fort, pronounces the
wound as exceedingly dangerous, and considers
the Captains recovery doubtful. A boat was
constructed by his friends, for the
purpose of bringing him back to the Fort.
Major Frank Cleary, of the Confede-
rate army, said to be attached to the COM
mand of Henry A. Wise, was arrested on
Monday morning at Barnum's City Hotel,
in Baltimore. He arrived in Baltimore
some days ago, and went to New York,
where he was married. Immediately
after he returned to Baltimore with his
bride, and stopped at the hotel, where he
was arrested.
Why is a lovely young lady like a
hinge? Because she is something to
Bedford Mercury.
A soldier writes to the Springfield
as follows: "Of all the fine
decisions with which history feeds you,
none are more unceremoniously shattered
by experience than that OF war. This one
is molly, the forces are immense, the battles
bloody; yet in the front and centre Of an
invading army, within speaking distance
of the enemy, the war-pictures of earlier
years seem as far off as they did in boy
hood We are filled with the same feel
ings and impressions and impulses that we
had in private life. Your brass don't de-
light you, if you have to scour it; your
big boots don't please you, if you've got
a blister. Say what you will about enthu-
siasm, and pride, and all that, soldier
marches out to dress parade very much as
he used to march out to the barn-yard to
milk. He's the same man."
The Augusta (Ga.) papers describe
how the "Yankee prisoners in that city
were presented with bouquets by the
ladies, and cigars by the gentlemen. The
Richmond Enquirer is as mad as thunder
about it.
The Washington correspondent OF the
New York Commercial says call the pris-
oners taken in the battles on the Kappa
hammock have been exhanged, and it turns
out that the number captured by US is just
about half of that taken by the enemy.
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