STATE NEWS
— A man stopping at the Washington House was robbed last Monday night of $160 in greenbacks. — St. Peter Advertiser (That’s almost $3000 in current money!!)
— Little Herbert Sikes, aged two years, the son of H. Sikes, of Ashland, was burned to death last week. His mother left him alone in a room a moment, and he seems to have got hold of a fragment of newspaper and stuck it in the fire. His mother returned in time to find him fatally burned. The little sufferer died an hour afterwards. It was only two years ago that Mr. Sikes lost a little daughter by scalding. — Mantorville Express
— The Rochester Post has that an old gentleman named O.T. White, who was knocked down in the street some time since by a fellow driving a fast team, has since died of the injuries then received.
— The same paper states that William Parker, aged fifty years, while coming into town was attacked with apoplexy, and died in a few hours afterward.
The Minneapolis correspondent of the Press says that the great capture of whisky (909 barrels) reported as having been made at that place by Collector Jones, proved to be but so much vinegar; while the Pioneer maintains that there was a quantity of whisky seized, though not the amount stated.
NOTICE. — This is to give notice that I hereby give my son, John Pierre, the balance of his minority; and that I will collect none of his earnings or be responsible for no debts of his contracting from this date. THEODORE PIERRE. St. Cloud, Minn., Feb. 24, 1866. 32-3w
DIVORCES.—The Chisago Post states as an actual fact that the applications for divorces in the courts of that city number TEN per day! These are not very encouraging statistics for young folks whose romantic ideas lend them to think that getting married is a sure road to everlasting happiness.
A Success.— The Temperance League is rapidly increasing in numbers and influence. The “roll” exhibits three hundred and six signatures. That a reform is needed in Minneapolis, none can doubt. —Atlas.
That’s what comes from drinking whisky. Here in St. Cloud where the article is never “touched, tasted nor smelled,” there is no need for Temperance Leagues. At least, we judge there is not, for certainly no such league exists here.
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