Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1858 — A Singing Monse. [ARTICLE]

A Singing Monse.

One of these little animals inhabits our office, remarks the editor of the Cumberland (Md.) Telegraph. For several years' past hie has made his home in it. He has beconie very familiar with all hands, and in broad daylight he can be seen playing around the feet of the compositors, or dancing about the cases, seemingly as little apprehensive of danger as if snugly away in his nest. I’he-paste-cup is his delight, but he pever objects to a bit of cake or suit, with which his admirers occasionally supply him. A piece of cake puts him in high glee; and when he has devoured it he gets in a corner and sings like a canary bird, his notes being sweet and melodious. Sometimes he will sing for an hour without intermission. He is a general favorite —does what he pleases with impunity—and its regarded as a sort of fixture in the office. Even while we. are writing he is playing on the table, and is so tame that he suffers himself to be hand led-without anv show of fear. (ys”ln most of the Illinois Districts there are, or will be. three candidates for Congress. This wall insure a -strong Republican deligation. jj/T’Gencral Comonfort of Mexico is now the lien in Boston. He visited the State House on Monday and was introduced to Governor Banks and the council. Q/j-At Zanesville, Ohio, on Friday cvening during a thunder storni, Miss Mary Elson. step daughter ot John Swingle, was instantly killed by lightning; while a child she was holding in her arms was unharmed.

long as God allows tae vital current to flow through my veins, :I. will never, never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory to the everlasting curse of human bondage,— Henry Clay.

will publish the official vote of jaspei county in the next issue. (JijHWe are indebted to Mr. lyman Wil-’ liams fgr a mammoth squash; I only Administration nien elected in this State, we have yet heard kbf, are English to Congress and Snyder to|the Legislature. ' j