Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1858 — VARIOUS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

VARIOUS ITEMS.

spiritualist organs claim 1,037,000 converts to their faith in this country. hundred and fifty-four British troops left Montreal for JLiverpool last week. Stantz, a pauper in the poorhouse of Franklin county, Ohio, has fallen heir to SIOO,OOO. Mississippi river at Vicksburg, when the flood was the highest, was ninetyseven feet deep. 1 estate has depreciated fifty per cent, in Sacramento, since the discovery of gold on Frazer river, men, were suffocated in a well in Somerville, into which they descended to blast a rock, on the 27th ult. Dr. Murray, of Elizabethtown, Nety Jersey, better known as “Kirwan,” preaphed his quarter century sermon on Suifelay last. Qty-Wm. Taylor, Esq., of Montgomery, Alabama, offers a reward of SIO,OOO for the apprehension of the murderer of his son Abner C. Taylor. Austrian papers complain that Prince Frederick William, of Prussia, is going to make himself the head of the Free Masons of Germany. Barbee. Esq., of Lafayette Indiana, had his pocket relieved of S6OO on board the train from Jndianapolis. He was asleep at the time. sheriff of Quebec employed a convict to hang a man and a woman, last week, giving him S3O and setting him free for doing the disagreeable job. , independent State, composed of white men has been established in Southern Africa near the Cape of Good Hope, called the Republic of Trans-Vaal. half a century, it is said that not a boat has passed Mount Vernon, where lies the illustrious dead, without tolling the bell while passing the sacred shade. Green, of the law school in Lebanon, Georgia, has been ordered out of the State for "saying that slavery is dangerous in theory and practice. This is a free country. * hundred and twelve Chinese women recently landed at San Francisco, avowedly for the purpose of prostitution. Their manner of life is said to be almost without shame or the restraints of common decency. £p(yThe pretty Queen of Portugal has not vet seen her husband—having been married by proxy. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, in alluding to theifact, says that a man who will marry by proxy, ought to become a father by the same method. oO”The "Logansport Journal says that a Mr. Stevens of that place killed a rattlesnake on his farm, the other day, that measured five feet two inches, and contained a full-grown grey squirrel in his “eating house” yrhich he had put away whole. thousand barrels of flour-are contracted for in Cincinnati, to be delivered in September at three dollars per barrel, by parties in Indiana. This is a low figure, but shows wbat calculations are made on the season’s crop, and the stock held aver. the State Journal 'ko learn that the 2d annual meeting of the old settlers, of Indiana will be held at Knightstown Springs on Thursday, the 12th of August- A large attendance is expected, and it is intended’to have a basket-dinner on the ground. M. Ray, Cashier of the State Bank of Indiana, gives that on the first day of January next, the charter powers of the State Bank will.cease, and no provision for the redemption of the notes of the Bank, which may be left outstanding. , old loz-cabin at North Bend, the residence of the widow of President Harrison, is gone<r,>'lt was destroyed by fire about midnight, Saturday, July 24. Many valuable papers, relics, portraits, etc., were lost in the conflagration. Massachusetts Medical Society offers a prize of SIOO for the best dissertation adjudged worthy of a prize on the following thdme, namely: “To what-affections of the lungs does bronchitis give origin!” It is open to physicians of all countries. (XyThe British steamer Styx, which made such a fuss in the Cuban - waters, took a Spanish slaver as a prize, with $40,000 in doubloons on board. share of commander Vazey was one-third of this, which accounts for his zeal in looking for other pirates. Mississippi paper tells us how a fellow of doubtful character was induced to leave. Some of ihis"neighbors made up a sufficient sum of money for him to travel on, and left it lying about loose. He found it, but, supposing he had stolen it, he left—not the money, but the countrv. Morse sailed for Europe, with his family, on Saturday, the 24th ult. to be absent, a year or more. The Professor has already received the first installment of the SBO,OOO presented to him by the European governments for his telegraph invention, and was required by < urs to pay a duty upon the gold in which it was paid. William McNab, a worthy citizen of 'Washington township, Poweshiek county, |own, was struck by lightning and instantly killed, while riding in a buggy, last week. The lightning struck hipi on the top of the head., bneajcing ii hole in the skull. His horse was also killed at the same time-. new idea has been started at New Yqfk, that Coal is liable to propagate yellow fever. Mr. Thompson, the health officer, says: “It is a singular and well attested fact, - that the coals which are brought to St. Thomas from Liverpool, discharged in large quantities upon wharves,emit a gas which favors the the generation and spread, of the infection of yellow fever.” mary and effectual mode of abating public nuisances. An establishment known as the “East Saloon,” on Washington street in that city, having become a stench in the nostrils of the public at large, an alarm of fire was raised—an engine brought out, and after the building had beep deluged, if partially torn down

OiyMost of three hundred California postmasters are hotel keepers. (XtyJohn Kendall, who has a wife in Boston, has been arrested in New York for marrying another wife there. lead mine has been discovered near Bamsay, Canada West, and mining operations had already commenced. Negro Equality.- —The Douglas organ of DeKalb county, Illinois, takes ground in favor of the right of negroes to vote! oO”The Hon. Wm. Costello, a member of the Territorial Legislature of Minnesota, was drowned at St. Pau), the other evening. O^yA Minnesota paper defines a “working Democrat” as a Democrat who can poll the largest number of votes with the fewest men. German Turners of Cincinnati it is stated, formally resolved at a recent meeting that they would vote with the Republicans. Chicago Times states that William Fitch, a clerk in the postoffice of that city, was discharged because he spoke to Senator Douglas. O^yA slave boy ijamed Godfrey, aged 12, has been hung at Mobile for chopping off the head of a child 4 years old, named Lawrence Gomez. oi7”Ex-President Pierce and his wife ar r rived at Lisbon, Portugal, _,on the 20th*ljJlt. The young King extended to him every mark of consideration. ■ y , A. F. Snbw, of Brunswick, Me., says that a few applications of castor oil will kill any kind pf warts, on man and beast, without soreness. laying.; on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad progresses slowly. Some nine miles have been laid west of Plymouth. (XyThe Kansas Herald (Pro-slavery) says that ex-Governor Stanton is a candidate for th’e United States Senate from that Territory when it becomes a State. (KJyOne hundred and twenty-six thousand , soldiers are to be inspected on a camp near Warsaw by the Emperor Alexander, of Russia, toward the close of August. ... original alnd genuine Drefd Scott, Was at the Burnet House, Cincinnati, on Thursday, in the capacity of a servant to A. Christie of St Louisf (t(yThe VVesZ Tennessee Whig publicly announces John J. Crittenden as its candidate for the Presidency in 1860. The Memphis ’ Eagle and Enquirer hlas done the same thing. notorious! Calhoun having been removed from the office of Surveyor-General of Kansas, is indigndnt, and threatens to rej veal some damaging Secrets of his partisans. (KJyThe Germans,! in the principal East- ; ern. cities, are holding festivals in aid of the fund for the erection of a monument to Baron Stueben, the tactician o: the Revolutionary army. mooted question “will salt-petre explode!” was definitely settled at the recent fire on the London Docks where 2,000 bags of salt-petre exploded with terrible destructive effect. I Postmaster at Montpelier, Williams county, Ohio, has been arrested for abstracting a draft of one hundred and twen-ty-live dollars from a letter, and giving it to a second person to. get it cashed. - Kob, who has been zealously and effectively identified with the Free-State cause in Kansas, has. commenced a daily German paper ih Leavenworth. The Germans of Kansas are all for freedom. OiyThe President of the United States has issued his proclamation ordering the sale of public lands at Lecompton, on the Ist and 14th of November, and at Kickapoo on the Ist and 19th of November. Godard, accompanied bv his wife and by two gentlemen, made a successful balloon ascension at Buffalo, on Tuesday afternoon. The highest attitude attained was two-miles. i

oO”Judge Lott, of Brooklyn, New York, Circuit Court, has decided that a Plank Road Company are not liable for injuries happening to persons traveling on Sunday, for other purposes than those of necessity and mercy. Bangor Whig says the Penobscot Indians are now doing a smashing business in manufacturing hoops for ladies’ dresses out of basket stuff. The ladies have also adopted the fashion in its greatest amplitude. QO“A new tribe of Negroes has been discovered in Australia, who, if the account is to be believed, are entirely without hair. Their complete baldness gave them a strange unearthly appearance, at which it is said the Baloone blacks were at first very much terrified. (£/*One of the subjects of Parisian gossip just now is a rare case, lately brought to light, of a man one hundred and twenty years old. Four years ago he married a wife who was his junior by just a hundred years, and by.whom he has had three children. 03-The South Bend Forum says: “Colonel May, though a 1 >rge man is brim full of Democracy.” We fear the Forum editor is -mistaken in,the filing. Democracy never filled a maWouf as the Colonel is, nor in the part that predominates! in him. o^7”“Little Dug,” as they call him, is having’ pretty ha-d times of it in Illinois. Dug fights well, but we apprehend he will hardly be able to keep his place in the Senate. We guess that after the next election, he will only bp a Dug-out floating down the political stream-- — Louisville Journal. deuntjijg-ropm of the Indianapolis Journal was entered by a burglar on Saturday night, but thp thief only got five dollars in money and teh dollars in postage stamps for his trouble. A mail must be iusane that would think of robbing a printing-office, and especially on Saturday night. family of James Seba, in Buffalo, numbering seven in all, were poisoned on the 23d ult._ Mr. Seba had mixed arsenic, with flour to kill rats, and the servant girl, supposing it to be good flour, added it to meal of which cakes were h ale for the family breakfast. Fipally restoratives averted any fatal effects from the poison.