The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-08
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.

ladies will be distinguished by black aprons,
the unmarried by white. California and other
widows by aprons hemmed with yellow.
Beau Hackett says, "A little woman is n
dangerous thing" What is large one:
The blasphcmy Of the New York Lndepen-
dent is awful. 1t says Mcclellan ''seemcd so
amazed that he had fought Il battle without
defeat, that he regarded the heights of Sharps-
burg as another Mount of TRANSPORTATION, and
besought the Administration that he might
make three tabernaclc9 there for winter
quarters" &C., &c.
"A Quaker recently wrote to u member of
the Ohio Senate thlta young man, formerly in
his employ, had so distinguished himself in the
war as TO merit promotion and the letter end
ed quantity thus:
Now thee knows, James. that it is against
the Quaker discipline for orthodox members to
NEEDLE in wars and iightings, therefore 1 turn
this matter over to thee, and want thee simply
to tell Governor Brough that, as the service
will be- advantaged thereby, it is right that
William should be First Lieutenant Relying
on thy suaye presentation of the case to our
friend John as well as on his correct Judgment
| expect soon to be thy again obliged friend.
| The town of Hatfield, Massachusetts,,
raised Go acres Of tobacco, last year, the pro-
duct of which, at 80 cents per pound--less
than the average price of that which has been
sold--would bring 1872 1000.
A special commission of the Navy Depart
ment is sitting in New York, making an inves-
! tigation into alleged frauds upon the govern
ment by contractors Eight or ten persons are
Of. ybo -,
mates of Fort Lafayette. 1t is charged that
some Of these frauds arc exceedingly aggrava-
ted, and that they involve transactions of mill
ions Of dollars.
The new steamer Azalea made trial trip
in Boston harbor recently with several govern
ment officers on board. The boat performed
well and all seemed delighted with lhc trip
A Boston paper suggests the organization
| of "a grand Loyal Ladies' League composed
! cf women who willing to pledge them
selves to maintain while this war lasts, de-
cent economy in their attire" In connection
with this, it is interesting to know that the
! Mcrrnach Print Works are about to resume
operations, SO that calico viii once more be
cheaper than deiaines. These print works
A mass of mcteoric iron, in possession Of
! Mr. Fisher, No. Is William street, New York,
weighing twenty-nne pounds. was found by
Otho Curtis, miner at the foo: Cfa tree he
was telling, in Gilpin county, Colorado Terri.
tory, in August last. \ nail was Immediately
forged from the mass. Application Of mnriatic
acid produced on the polished surface the Wild
! maUstattian figures. a test which establishe;
the fact that the metal is meteoric in its origin.
a movement is On foot to build another
new theatre in the upper part of New York
city, in which, on alternate nights a French
dramatic company and q German opera troupe
| shall perform from October to May. A com
mittee has been appointed 10 raisca subscrip-
ton 20 the amount of $500, 600 in @100 shares.
Recently the gifts to Yale College have
reached the muniicent amount of $3.50, 000, viz:
Ellsworth bequcs: $4,000; joseph r. Shef
field 500 900; Stale Of Connecticut 100000;
j. Hatliil $4,000; 8. B.Chttenden, $4,000
| a. Il. Street. $50 600; unknown 800. A0-mak-
ing in tie aggregate, $4S0,000.
"A young man named Rope, photograph
! ist on the 10Th inst, fell from the highest
| rock of Lookout Mountain. near Chattanooga,
and was instantly killed. He had been engas-
ed there sometime taking pictures, and. in adj
| jlsting his apparatus inadvertently stepped
| too near the edge and went over.
| a band of English operatives from Lanca-
| shire--sOme 30 adults, male and female, with
| fair proportion of little folks-arrived at Wa
| tcrville Maine. the other day on their way to
| the mills at North Vassaiboro'. They are
shorter by head than the'Mane Yankees.
An Immigrant association has been for,uc:
in Maine, and the Legislature Of that Safe has
passed a resolve TO pay into the treasury of The
association twenty-five dollars fer every able
bodied laborer brought over by its exertions.
The emigrant agents Of Utah have deter
mined to abandon the town Of Florence as their
QUILTING point upon the Missouri river, and to
make their emigrant depot in Otoe county. at
Wyoming, about six miles from Nebraska City.
A Mrs. Cornelia Hill, who died in Monroe
| Connecticut, last week, was born, married, and
| died on the same day of the month"; and the
| same month in the year. A remarkable coin
| cidence.
IHc INcW DCUlOIO CCUnUHU Dotii tIiC
locomotive manufactures in Taunton have
been forb; den for the past six months to
build engines for other parties than the Unit
ed States.
If glycerine is treated with nitric Or sulphur
rio acids, as cotton is treated to produce gun
cotton, the product when heated explodes with
equal violence.
One of the charges seriously made against
Commodore Wilkes, is, that when before the
Naval Court of Inquiry, he stubbornly and in
dignantly refused to tell his age. 5.
The divers around the Bohemian have
large kerosene submarine lantern-a Yankee
| invention, costing over a thousand dollars, to
| help pick up things by.
Senator Wilson states that in his opinion
we have now about 10000, deserters, although
some have represented that we have double
that number.
| There were manufactured last season on
the Upper Mississippi and,its tributaries, the
enormous quantity of nine hundred million
| feet of lumber.
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