The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-15
NEWS AND OTHER ITEMS.


"A Iette, from Hamilton, Canada says tna'
last week woman named PERKINS, "ne VI
respec table well-to-do farmer, near nsanIAofo'
Upper Canada, finding herself upon her oeath'
hai9 sent for a clergyman and confessed thal
she had at different periods OF her LIE CON-
mitted six MURDERS and all by poison AT nrs'
it was imagined that she was delirious, but
snhseouent inquiry has afforded ample corrob
Grafton of the poor wretchs statement. She
said that she had q mania for destroying hu-
man life. and it was only by the greatest self
restraint that she could keep herself from Sc
cretly poisoning all persons with whom she
was on terms of friendship. She had, how.
ever. poisoned four children and two adults
and what makes the matter still more revolt
ing. is the fact that two of the former were
her own children, and one of the latter her
first husbands. The children were murdered
in England and the adults in Canada
The Rochester, N. Y, Union, says great
drought prevails in that vicinity. 1t is now
doubtful if rain can restore the grass so as 10
afford fall food for cattle. Butter Is scarce
and will continue to be so under the noe1 Ia
vorable circumstances that can oe an''ci
To what extent the corr, potatoes anu o1nei
crops are already injured it is impoSsloie W say
with anything like certainty. iney' Aa'e 'n''
Tar done better than was expec'eo.
Penny trains are now an inSutuuon III
London They run early and late on the un-
derground railroads. The working-man oe.
scends into :. spacious subterranean depot,
wel, LIGHTED. in one part of London, takes his
seat in q third-class carriage and, for two
cen,s in ten minutes, is landed, miles away, in
another part of London, whittier, by ''buss,"
would have cost him ten cents and an hours
ride In this way the mechanic, in his pretty
cottage in the country, or in distant street,
is really close by his work; and one great evil
in large city checked in part.
One of the best evidences of reconstruc-
ton in the South is observable in the move
ments towards restoring railroad cOmmunica-
tons throughout the country. Capital is re-
euired for this purpose, and the moneyed men
of the city of New York, which is the CHIEF
financial and commercial centre of the nation,
are asked to extend the aid necessary to repair
the old railways in the South, and to build new
ones.
Persons from Ohio state that the Senatorial
contest going on there between John Sher-
man and General Schenck, is vastly more ex-
citing than the gubernatoriaL Both the gen.
tlemeR are stumping the State thoroughly,
and are the recognized aspirants for the place.
No others are spoken of in connection with
that Office. General Schenck's friends claim
that he has secured large majority OF the
Union nominations for the Legislature.
John Mann, of Randolph, Mass, died on
the 18th ult., aged eighty-seven years, nine
months and fourteen days He was the eldest
man of the town, and was the youngest and
last living of a family of eighteen children.
One of the incidents of his life was in the war
of 1872; when our ports were blockaded by
British cruisers, he drove four OK team from
Boston to Richmond, Va, carrying load OF
domestic cotton goods returning with load
of tobacco. This was the first OK team ever
seen in Richmond, and excited great interest.
His father died in 1915, at the advanced age of
pinety-three years.
"A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser
says that ten years ago, IN San Francisco. the
steamer Brother Johnathan was thought unsea-
worthy, and she was never sent down the coast
on that account
The Mercury calls upon The merchants and
ship owners of New Bedford to hold meeting
to consid er the necessity of presenting their
claims protection and decentralization at WASH
ington.
The Victoria bridge, across the st. Law
renee is made up Of twelve entirely distinct
sections. This is ON account of the expansion.
Sometimes these sections are nine inches apart.
4 dial at the entrance of the bridge carefully
registers the expansion of one OF these sec
tions by which that of the whole bridge Is
regulated.
lis not the negro man and brother =
~ Y. IndepeRlent-
He may pe your brother or hall. brother-he
is no relation OF ours-LouisUiHe Journal.
Cotton and other crops are represented to
be in tiourlshing condition.
"A new style of condensing milk is to-
evaporate 10 per cent. of the wrole bulk in re-
celvers from which the air has been exhausted.
The milk is condensed in this way without be-
ing cooked.
From q statement of the affairs of Charles
Graham & Co., filed in the New York Court of
of Common Pleas, it appears that :he liabilities
of the firm are 81, 10000 and their actual as
sets $735, 900. Their nominal assets are 81.
100000, including 81 900, 900 due from Edmund
3. Ketchum.
The Agricultural College at Amherst,
Mass, is to be three-story stone structure,
100 by 60 feet, and granite quarry in Pelham
has been bought to furnish the stone. The
foundations are to be laid this.fall
PUBLISHING INCOME RETURNS. sys-
tenn of publishing the income returns and
all the private business details demanded
by the internal revenue assessors Is rldl-