During the decade include between 1860 and 1870, the wealth of the United States has increased from $16,159,616,068 to $30,068,488,507. The wealth of Minnesota during that time has raised from $52,294,413 to $228,909,590.
Somebody forged and sent to Washington a letter purporting to be the resignation of Gen. Van Cleve as Postmaster of St. Anthony. On the strength of supposed resignation, Dr. Townsend was appointed Postmaster. This seems rather a hard case.
Memphis luxuriated in a two-minutes’ earthquake on Saturday morning.
A meeting of the Board of Immigration was held last week, last which it was resolved to print a revised edition of the State Immigration Pamphlet—12,000 copies in English; 3,000 in Norwegian; besides editions in German, Swedish, French, and Irish.—Maps will accompany the pamphlets.
The first boat of the season, the S.S. Merrill, arrived at St. Paul on Tuesday morning. This was the latest opening of Lake Pepin known, with a single exception, in seventeen years.
DESCRIPTION OF MRS. SWISSHELM.
Chicago Correspondence of N.Y. World.
The most venerable , also the most conspicuous of those American women who have been professionally journalists is Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm, now living, with her friends, the Babbits in Chicago. She is still one of the acutest politicians among American women: yet she is a good house-keeper. I know, for I have eaten her biscuits. Her head is very large, high over firmness and self-esteem, wide awake at combativeness, massive in the intellectual moral regions, and her forehead is as square a a marble block—“casuality,” as the phrenologists call it, jutting cut like the horn of Jupiter. Add to this face full of self-assertion, a controversial mouth, an inquisitive nose, sharp, almost to fierceness, and eyes four times as sharp as her nose.
MINNESOTA NEWS
(Racism alert! —ed.)
The Sioux Chief, Spotted Tail, says he proposes to tear up the track of the Northern Pacific railroad and kill its builders. He says that he expects this will lead to the extermination of his tribe. It would be exceedingly unfortunate to have him disappointed.
The Austin Register gives the particulars of a horrid butchery which took place in the town of Rock Dell. A brute named C. McDonough struck his wife three times with an as—once burying it tot he helve in her shoulder; then purring off her left hand; and then through the right hand into the top of her head. Incredible as it may seem, the woman is still alive. McDonough was arrested and lodged in the Rochester jail.
LOCAL NEWS
On Monday Capt. Lueg’s team which had been brought-to in front of Hines’ paint shop, made a sudden start for down town, dropping out of the tail end into a miscellaneous heap in the street a man who had been standing in the wagon. This individual gathered himself up, and soon recovered the team, which has stopped near the Congregational church, none the worse for its little lark.
RAILROAD NEWS.—Work was begun this morning, just west of Washington avenue, grading for the track of the railroad to the new depot and up the Sauk Valley. A rumor is current that the construction of the Brainerd Branch had been given up for the present.
FIRE.—On Tuesday afternoon two stables, one belonging to E. Ruff and the other to —Doble, caught fire from a lot of burning rubbish in Ruff’s yard. Both stables were burned to the ground. A couple of cows were rescued.
It might be well to mention in this connection that it is a violation of ordinance to burn chips, rubbish, &c., wishing the city limits. The Chief of Police is on the look-out for offenders.
POLICE COURT.—On Monday Gilbert L. Wakeman, whose arrest for stealing wood was reported last week, appeared before Justice Barnes and retracted his pleas of not guilty, and plead guilty. He was fined $10 and costs, and in default of payment was sent to jail for sixty days.
On the same day John Kelsey was fined $5 and costs for being drunk.
Yesterday was a rather lively day Chas. Erickson and Lewis Iverson were fined $5 and costs for being drunk, and Peter Peterson was mulcted the costs for resisting an officer.
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