Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1875 — ITEMS OF INTEREST. [ARTICLE]

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The new mania—Pneumonia. Mysterious fires at the East are now attributed to “ ashes from a tramp’s pipe.” Tweed’s ruling passion was conspicuous to the last—he “silently stole away.” —JT. F. GrapAfe. Navigation is closed on Latte Chicago, —Augusta ((7a.) Chronicle and Sentinel. When did it open, pray? Immersing a growing plant in water of 120 degrees will, it is said, clean it of lice and other insects and not hurt the plant. ‘ ' Wood is selling at thirty dollars a cord at Cornucopia, Nev. Everything out there seems to be about as high as the mountains. The greatest feat in telegraphy ever accomplished was in sending the President’s message from ’Washington to New York in just thirty-one minutes. Matt Lynch, a lucky miner, spent the summer in working his placer-claim on the Moreno, Colorado, and has just cleaned up $18,300 over and above all expenses. The boys in Hillsboro, Ore., have a tribunal of their own and inflict punishment on their culprit fellows for vagrancy —one of whom they have frequently flogged. Another boy has been fooling with pistols. His name is Columbus Hightower, of Walton, Ky., and he shot his grandmother, an old lady of seventy-six killing her almost instantly. The people of Middle Park, Col., are killing their winter meat out of a herd of 500 elk which have congregated in the valley of the Muddy. It is like going into a big herd of cattle to butcher beef, says the Denver Newt. The Stewart (Col.) reducing works produced silver bricks during the year, up to Nov. 22, of a total coin value of $271,661.72, and those of Judd & Crosby turned out $205,001.50 in bullion, making altogether $476,663.22. On the north of Mount Helena, Mont., there has been discovered an extensive quarry cf Egyptian marbleof fine quality. Specimens have been sent East and pronounced the only quarry of that kind of marble known in the United States. * The Mexicans on the Texas border are adding insult to injury. They steal the Americans’ beeves and after disposing of the meat at Monterey they ship the hides back and offer them for sale to the person from whom they were stolen.— Detroit Free Preet.

The fishing business at Swampscott, Mass., upon which a large number of men rely for support, was lately suspended on account of a strike among the “ baitcatchers” at Cape Cod, who demand one dollar more per barrel, which the Swampscott fishermen refuse to give. The silver-mine excitement is running high in Mason County, Tex. Two shafts have been sunk in one place to the depth of seventy-five feet, where the yield is $lB per ton of ore. The ore is sulphide and chloride. Over 100,000 acres df land have been located in the county within the present month. Col. D. R. Davol, of Fall River, Mass., the other night was to have been married, but a tramp, after partaking of a meal given by the servant, stepped into the Colonel’s chamber and put on his wedding garments, a new overcoat and an extra dress-coat and decamped, leaving his old rags on the floor. The Legislature of West Virginia has adopted the design for a State flag reported by the Committee on Military Affairs. The design is nine feet long, three feet wide, four diagonal bars (two red and two buff), with a white ground in the upper part of the right-hand corner, with tiffi State arms and motto in gilt. David Dudley Field, Tweed’s lawyer, points a moral with his escape. He says it will teach courts not to impose too much bail upon prisoners. He says that if Tweed’s bail had been fixed at $500,000 instead of $3,000,000 he would have obtained bail and his sureties would have been interested enough to have been his keepers.

William Eddy and his two sisters, who have been partners in “ spiritualism’ in Chittenden, Vt., have left for Colorado. The Rutland (Vt.) Herald, alluding to their departure, says: “ The family quarrel which we recorded a while ago, and the recent exposures, and, more than all, the dread of a more complete exposure, decided them to try their fortunes amid fresh scenes.” The New York Press Club had just sat down to enjoy their annual dinner when the escape of Tweed was made known to them. There never was a dinner party broken up more suddenly than was that, as the whole reportorial fraternity dropped knives and forks, grabbed hats and overcoats and set out to ascertain the facts and circumstances. Tweed had more enemies in New York that night than he had in the morning. There’s a woman on the shores of Lake George who has her ideas defined if not accurate. She and her husband keep a hotel. Lately she has applied to have him shut up as insane. The proof she offered was (1) that he was irritable and would swear when angry, and (2) that he “ had a high opinion of himself and seemed to think his presence necessary to the concern!” The Jacksonville (Fla.) Preti says: “ Lying on the wharf of the Lollie Boy are several fine logs of magnolia. They are intended, we learn, for a New York house, who design to test them for the purpose of engraving. When thoroughly dried they are said to be very slightly, if at all, inferior to box-wood. If this be so Florida can furnish an inexhaustible supply of the material.” A Mr. J. A. Groves, Jr., while hunting recently near Central Star, Miss., exhausted his stock of gun-caps, and while in this predicament he suddenly saw a fine buck within full view of him. Acting upon the maxim that where there’s a will there’s a way, he struck a match, leveled his gun upon the deer, touched the match to the tube, fired, and brought down the quadruped! Truth is stranger than fiction. “Black yer boots, misterl” asked a bootblack, as he slung down his box and dropped on his knees at the feet of a street-corner idler od yesterday. “ No,” repliedtbefodividnil addressed, “Give

yer a patent-leather shine tor a nickel,” persisted the gamin. “ Can’t afford it,” returned the man. “ Astor didn’t leave me a cent, the old hog! and I’ll have to go broke the restof the winter.”— Detroit Free Preet. Bad hick seems to follow a ship as it does an individual. Thia is illustrated in the history of the ill-fated steamer Deutschland. Some time ago, while firing a salute at Staten Island, the cannon exploded and blew the heads off four steerage passengers; then they found a skeleton behind the boilers; then last January she broke her screw, and now she breaks in half and fulfills her unhappy destiny. There is a large Newfoundland dog on Bear Island, opposite the Maine coast, belonging to the keeper of the lighthouse, who always barks from the time he first hears the paddle-wheels of the steamer Lewiston until the engineer saluteshim with the whistle. Capt. Deering says he is invaluable, especially in foggy weather, when the light cannot be seen. The dog harks and listens for the salute, and when the three whistles are given he walks off with an air of intense satisfaction. There’s a smart boy on the West Side who will become a second Barnum if he is not speedily checked in his onward career. For the last few days he has been encouraging an interest in art among his schooi-fellows by an exhibition of what he announced as “ a very fine collection of chromos,” charging therefor the very remarkable price of a nickel. The spender of that diminutive coin, on entering the barn-loft which served as the art gallery, was shown a large variety of different sized “ o’B’’ done in a mixture of water and chrome yellow, which the exhibitor facetiously averred were chromos. The desire of one patron of the exhibition to see other boys sold has made the show quite a success and so far preserved the showman from a thrashing.— Chicago Timet.