Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1858 — NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS ITEMS.

fever ia making sad havoc in Havana. J appropriations made at the late of Congress amount to over eighty millions of dollars. , Legislature of Louisiana has abolished capital punishment, substituting! therefor hard labor for I’fe. 0O”An iron Liberty pole, two hundred and eighty feet high, is to be erected in the Fifth Ward of New York city. has been discovered between Terre Haute and Lafayette, Indiana. Garnets are kaid to exist in the same region. ■ Titus, of South Carolina, Kansas and Nicaragua notoriety, is now organizing a company for Arizryrarx (gJ’The Hon. Nathajj.Cjiifiord, (lhe new United States Judge, fnad*4vi^fifajxappearance on the B,ench in Boston, ot^Vv^dnesday. QO"Moses S. Beach the enterprising proprietor of the New York Sun, has, invented a press that prints both sides of his paper at ,once. grand jury of Albany county New York has found an indictment against ! a boy, less than twelve years of age for mur- . der. . I F authorities have decided that delivering ice on Sundays was illegal,] and fined a nittn five dollars who was en-! gaged in it. OCT A duel was fought in Mississippi last I month by Mr. S. Knott and Mr. A. W. Sliott. ' The result was that Knolt was shot and i Shott was not. ' (gy”Dr. Downey, a Catholic priest, is on trial at Petersburg, Virginia, for the murder of Wm. Mullings, The killing is admitted, but self-defense is claimed. South Carolina and Georgia they are rejoicing over luscious cherries, pears, and apricots. Cotton Was also in bloom in Georgia on the 2d.inst. (gyTn the South, no lady or gentleman' considers it a compromise of character to ride in a car with a "person of color.” So says, the Richmond South. Mayor Toomas of ’Cincinnati,' is I breaking up the swindling enterprises in that city a la, Tieiriapn.i There is a great; fluttering among the wounded birds. New Albany and Salem Railroad ! is to be managed by the bondholders hereaf-J ter for a period of ten years. Mr. Brooks retires from theHPresidency, and. Mr. Noble, of Michigan, takes his place., fgy'The Porlsmrutli (Ohio) Times states that over $1,500 changed hands on the qujs- j tion of the identity of the man who claimed to be Robert 11. McAuley, but who turns out to be a. miserable impostor. oO~There are now four hundred and eight it) the Indiana State prison. The ; Warden fintls it very difficult to find accommodations for all of them. It will be necessary either to greatly enlarge the present prison or build a new one. 'fov”Herr Driesbach, the lion tamer has got out a programme for the 4th of July celebration i his city, in<Minnesota, which includes;,a dance on the green, a corn-fed ox roasted for the occasion, "'plenty of lager” I and an oration from Herr himself Richmond (Ky .) .Messenger, mentions a freak of'nature which is without a parallel, in the animal kingdom. It is-a colt -with but one eye. It was foaled on the farm of Mr. Eliijha Roberts, in . Madison i County. The eye is considerably larger than the usual size, and in the middle of the forehead. . r (KT” Our Cincinnati exchanges ciutiomthe 1 pnl|Hic against new counterfeit, tens on the i State Bank of Ohio. The bogus bills are! w 'll calculated to deceive the beat judges. The shading of the “State Bank of Ohio”, is slightly darker in the counterfeit than in the genuine bill, and the name of the Presi-I debt is ratlierj more regularly written .in the former than ip the latter. Awful Indian/Murders.—Anarchy reigns I in Sonora. Guaymas was successfully besieged for omp week by two thousand Indians. Whole vjllages had been burned and the population murdered. Santa Cruz de Mayo hafl been entered by Indians and every man ’ killed. The women and children were con-i .« fitted in a church and burned with the rest of the town. Cheap Nobiltty.—A.splendid opportuni-! is offered to those who desire, ‘""’odfish” i honors, by tlfo Pope of Rome, who is short! of funds, to construct a railroad which he 1 wishes to have built, and he offers the titfol of (Lunt to any one who will subscribe I $5,000 to the st'*ck.- Titles are becoming,! “reasonable” and the ambitious can all be suited. Artists in Rome are prepared to furnish -‘portraits of ancestors” for.a consideration, and coats of arms “dog cheap.” great leader of the Free State leaders, is now arraigned as the murderer of one of his particular friends—his adjut nt general.— Cincinnati Enquirer. The difference between the F<ee State Otjd Democratic parties ot Kansas is excel- . lently illustrated by the difference in the treatment given by ench to murderers. Lane is arrested and tried, while Clark, the Democratic murderer of B irber, is not only not arrested, but is promoted by Mr. Buchanan first to gi Land Office, and then to a Pursership in the Navy. The Free State men punish, and the Democrates promote murderers. That is the difference.— State. Journal.