Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1858 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

A Good Witness.— Lawyer— did the de-! fendant knock the witness down with malice ! prepense!: Witness— No sir; he knocked him down : with a flat-iron. ■' . , Lawyer— You misunderstand me, my ’ friend, I want to know if he attacked him i with any evil intentWitness —-Oh, no, sirj it was outside the | tent. Lawyer— No, no; I wi<h, you to tell me whether the attack was at all a preconcerted J affair. V ~ . - Witness— No, sir; >t was not a free concert affair; it was at a circus. (gy“A drunken sailor belonging to the ' Hart performed a feat just outside of Chicago, the other flay, which he will hard- i iy wish to repeat.- The Chicago Press says ! he went to the mast-head, then to mainmast I truck, where, hanging by one hand to the slender topmast, he wrenched off the gilt ball, and hurled it to a distace from the ves- | Bel’s side, then sprang into the air, coming < down feet foremost into the water, and after • being under water till it was supposed he gone to Davy Jone’s locker, he rose to j the surface, and was rescued. His first in-[ quiry, after consciousness was restored, was i as to the whereabouts of the man who -bet him twenty-five dollars.” He lies seriously injured at the hospital in Chicago. oO"Mrs. Severe Duval, of Rivers, (C. W.,) lately gave birth to a child having/our legs and feet, and three arms. There is a protuberance near the shoulder, as if it.were a fourth abortive arm. The lower part of the child is composed of t\vo bodies, joined near the chest, or rather, the one inserted into, or growing out of th? other. There is but o.ne head, rather particularly on the top and occiput. The child is of the female sex, in apparent good health,.sixteen days old, and weighs about eight pounds. otters from the Gulf shore of Louisiana speak of the yellow fever as prevailing in that region to some extent, and occasioning not a li’tle uneasiness among theinhab- , itants. The disease, upon the same authority, has been in New Orleans for weeks past, thpugh the papers have not thought it of sufficient importance to say anything a,boirt it. CO”A few weeks since Wm. Laycock, of Bradford, England, undertook to walk ten miles .and throw five tuns’weight over his head in the space of two hours. He accomplished this extraordinary feat in four minutes less than the .time. In the first hour he walked six miles and threw a half cwt. over his head One hundred and twenty times. Charleston (S. (".) Courier announces that a process has been discovered by which cotton can be compressed into a solid form, harder, than wood, impervious to the elements, fireproof and waterproof, and capable of use for building purposes, at about one-third the cost of brick. number of deaths by sun stroke reported to the city inspectors of New York last week, was thirty-one

CO"The Newburg (N. Y.) Gazette tells a story about a large calf it saw in that city on the sth intant, and examined with the following result: It was raised by Mr. John Waring, of Newburg, was only twelve weeks old, and weighed four hundred and one pounds. ot7”Steps are now being, taken by' the order of St. John to re-establish a hospital at Jerusalem for sick pilgrims of all. nations, and for the interest taken in this matter by the Empress Eugenie, she has been decorated with the cross of the Order. 0O“One hundred and fifty officers serving in India have tendered their resignation to General Sir Colin Campbell. The eriormous plunder to which the army has had access, has made them too rich to work under the blazing sun of India. 2s, ££5“A resident of Buffalo since 1811 has been tracing out the changes of the lake shore since |he first knew it, and estimates that two hundred and forty acres of land have been lost in that city alone. million acres of the land granted to, the State of Michigan by act of Congress, in 1850, are to be thrown into the market. The sales will commence at Lansing on’tlie 28th instant. CCJ”A late number of the Washington Union publishes twelve columns of Government advertising and says, is certainly a good thing to be a Democrat in, these days. ,, Washington Union ' boasts that the affairs of the Government are going on like clock-work. Oh yes, they are going on-— tick, tick, tick.—Louisville-Journal. (fcs”Myriads of grasshoppers have made their appearance in the wheat and grass fields four or five miles wesj, of Abington, Virginia, and are doing much injury. To Daughters.—The secret you dare not tell your mother, is "a dangerous secret, and one that will be likely to bring you sorrow and suffering in the endDrinkard is acting Secretary of War in the absence of Secretary Floyd. Too many of that family are in office these days.— Louisville Journal.