Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A bad hub-bub—Jesse Pomeroy. If John Bull finds the North Pole no one will quarrel with him about the right of possession. The Chicago Times' Washington correspondent says that Senator Jones laughs at his recent loss of $700,000 in Panama stock speculations, as it is “a mere flea-bite” to him. Oregon papers are bragging because a vessel built in that State has made the quickest run of the season from San Francisco to Liverpool with a cargo of wheat, outstripping the crack ships of several nations. The town of Wilkesbarre, Pa., is gradually settling into the quicksands that underlie it. The Record of the Times estimates that in the brief period of 8,000,000 years it will sink below the surface of the earth. Universalism, says the Christian Lead er, has advanced more in New York and Brooklyn during the past seven years than in the forty years previous. The number of churches has been about doubled, and churches that were then feeble missions are now strong. Australia has a big tree, too, and it is gratified to think that there is not time for an American vandal to go over, chop it down, and take it to the Centennial. It is 480 feet long—an announcement which will shake the midriff of hundreds with envy, hatred, malice, and all uncharitableness. A public-spirited citizen of Pitts burgh, Pa., with an eye to the main chance, has offered to furnish an excellent band of music to perform every afternoon and evening in some of the prominent parks of that city if he will be granted the exclusive monopoly of the ice-cream business on the premises. Jesse Pomeroy’s sentence is to be commuted to imprisonmeut for life. The Council, after much solemn deliberation, concluded that there is a punishment worse than death for Jesse. It is to shut him up where the sight of passing children will tempt him to feel around for a bottle of vitriol without fluding it,— Brooklyn Argw,