The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-05
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

The New York city and county tax
this year will be fourteen millions.
Participating is unusually brisk in
New York.-Boston Post.
Yes, unusually and no pockets suffer
so severely as Uncle Samuel's.-Journdl
Of Commerce.
There are three men in the Maine
State Prison from Androscogin county for
killing their wives.
The Maine soldiers in the field have
allotted to their families the past year the
sum of $42s, e5S7S.
AT the Department of Agriculture,
few days ago, by patent process, guam
tity of sorghum syrup was converted to
clean and pure sugar in the course of a
few minutes.
There sre now sixty-five large vessels
building at Quebec, and the number for
the year will be about seventy-fve.
Chicago markets sold four million
pounds box and bulk meats one day last
week, besides thousands of pounds of
pork, lard, &c
Military authority lately compelled a
St. Louis gambler to disgorge $4,000 won
from government officer.
An exchange states that at Aspinwall,
the other day, seaman was going ashore
on hawser from the bow of the steamer
Solent, when shark took off one leg at
the first bite On the next attack the man
lost his left arm near the shoulder, then
the right arm at the shoulder, and last
his head was taken clean off.
-Hackett recently played Falstatf, at
Norfolk, by invitation of Gen. Butler, who
was present with his staff. Mr.. II. in q
short speech after the play observed: 81
would felicitate this audience particularly
in having had an opportunity to see the
Real Staff of one of the ablest generals of
the age, and at the same time the False
Staff of the public's humble servant, Mr..
Hackett." Gen. Buffers Staff rose and
bowed, and the audience cheered long and
loudly.
"A contemporary discovers that the new
chaplain of the House of Representatives
at Washington, in his prayer few morn
ings since, gave the Lord full and very
artistic description Of the statue of Liberty
upon the dome of the Capitol! He had
previously described the most noted cathe-
drals of the old world, and other works of
art. He is of the new order of "Gospel
men,"
The Boston Daily 4Adceytiser re-
lates that lady who died something
like half a century ago, fearing that one
of her SONS might waste his property, left
the portion designed for his use in trust
for his support, at the discretion of the
trustee. The first trustee appointed was
the first Mayor of that city. The second
was gentleman who was also Mayor at
one period and is still living at venerable
age. At last in 1927, the property, then
amounting to $1O,19s, was placed in the
hands OF well-known gentleman of the
old school, noted for his familiarity with
the men and the ways of the past, and the
tenacious vigor with which he holds to
the sturdy notions thus derived. This
gentleman has Just closed his account, the
cestui que trust having died. The trustee
has had ample opportunity to turn aside
from bis old habits and to invest the trust
fund in various promising schemes. He
has lived to see some of these schemes end
in the loss of all invested in them, and to
render the following account of his S1O,-
1913. He has paid for the support and
care OF the cestui que trust and his funeral
charges, 3,135; he has paid to the legal
representatives of the testa.rix, $45, 600;
he has now in good notes aud mortgages
$11,3OO-$75,435.