Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1858 — NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS ITEMS.

(£7*Theta are eight steamers regularly ! navigating the Oregon river. hundred dogs have been drowned by the Police, in New York, since the Dog Law went into operation this summer. i \ | OO”Longwood, the place on St. Helena where Napoleon spent his exile, and the scene of his death, has been purchased by the French Government. ’ s proposed to supply the whole city of Boston with cool ice-water, by putting a ton or two of ice in the city Water' Works reservoir each day. prediction is ventured by the C’in-' cinnati Gazette, (generally well posted upon' such matters.) that the corn crop of Ohio' this season will reach fifty millions ofj bushels. -A antidote to strychnine is said .to ■ be milk. The Baltimore American states; that the lite of a Newfoundland dog was 1 saved by pouring milk down his throat after’ he had been poisoned. society for the prevention of cru- i elty to animals in England has given a him- , dred-dollar medal to Mr. Rarey, the Ameri-l can horse-tamer, in acknowledgment of’ the hutnanc tendencies of his system. white doves entered the win-i clow of the Baptist Church, in Waltham,! Massachusetts, on Sunday last, and lit upon) the the right of the pulpit,: where they remained perched during the; entire services. 0O”An infant son of a clergyman named Alexander, lias recovered §<3,333 damage from the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad Company, for having his hand cut off by a train of cars. CO~A Danish bark has landed three bun-! dred and’tiVo Havana, having lost! a large number of others on her passage. A ! slaver is reported as captured on the south <>f| Cuba, with nine hundred Africans on board. (ty”Rev. T. O. Lincoln, of Utica, was presented by the youths of his congregation ; •(Baptist) with a pair of kid gloves—each of; the fingers and thumbs of both gloves had •folded in it a fen dollar bill. - 05” The Paris Moniteur announces that! photographic-i-experiments were made in! Frhnce during the eclipse of the sun on the loth ult.’, and established the fact that the ancon has an atdiosphere ollabout twenty-five ; miles fn height: (g)/—James B. Swain of the Albany States,man, and the‘•Leo” of the We/b-KorA' Times* was arrested at Albany on Friday, taken to New York and locked up in the station- ; house for the night, on a warrant charging'; him with libel on Bishop Ihighes. 05^TheChilian government having lost! within six months four British steamers! which theyM’.ad purchased for their navy, it ■ is said now intend to order somo Yankee; steamships, as there is but a single good ship! sii the Chilian navy. i 05”Fhe Santa Fe (iaiette says that t’mre ! nre not more than four Hundred bona fide.\ residents, wi bin the whole/territory out of| which it is proposed to form Arizona. There I is, no dojilit, a good dead" of humbug about/ •this Arizona matter. . 05"h.itc.ad vices from Texas state that; ■nine persons have recently been killed by I the Indians. about twenty five miles from ! Weatherford, Parker county. On Keechi : Creek, in that county, the people are.build-! >ng ti fort for protection. 05” The seats of the old House of Repre-' •stpitatives. at ’ Washington, were sold at I public auction on Monday last. There was some competition for the desk and chair ot .John Quincy Adams, and they were knocked dow n to a member of the press at fifty dollars, and are to bo sent by him to Massachi!- ■ setts, as a- present to a friend. 05” The Police of New York caught a fellow offering counterfeit money. After! searching him. however, nothing was found to show that he had any more than the bill offered. An emetic was administered, when lie threw our. three or four little paper pellets, which, upifti being unrolled, were found to be counterfeit bills; 05” The hog cholera prevails to an alarming extent in Gibson county, Indiana. In the vicinity of Princeton, sqme of the most extensive farmers are losing all their hogs. The disease is also committing sad ravages in the northern part of the county. Thus far, there has been nothing found that will effect a cure. A hog once attacked, seldom well. 05” Dr. Brown Sequord, a surgeon of the .first order, has just concluded, before the London Royal College of Surgeons, a course of six lectures on the physiology and pathology central nervous system. In one of his recent lectures he stated that he found a sppt in the brain—the point of the ‘•pen ’ of the caZamtzs scriptorious— not larger than the a pin, which, if touched, is sudden death, as instant as lightning.