Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1858 — NEWS ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

NEWS ITEMS.

potatoes -«e- cultivated wrtli success on Cape Cod. <GO“They are talking at Boston about a uniform for their policemen. formed in Hartford, Conn., on the morning of the 29th of Sept. ’ t’ • (gs” New York has had eighteen Governors i in a period of eighty-orie years. OirOn - of the principal streets in Galveston, Texas, is paved with shells. oO”The New York Times says the bills for the cable celebration foot up $20,000oO”The Turkish Government is about to establish a Journal at Pans to represent its interests. crop accounts from Rusia areunsatisfactory, particularly in the vicinity of Odessa, Parker, Boston, has in his possession thq first fire-arm captured in the Revolution! Morse was decorated by the Emperor of France, with the insigna of the Legion of Honor. (fc?yThere are now two hundred and seventy thousand members of,the French Legion y>f Honor. 0O = Potatoes are said to have been first planted in New England in seventeen hundred and ninteen. (ffiyAbout two thousand persons have returned to California from Frazer river since the Ist of August. the attack upon the Columbia miners in Oregon, one hundred Indians and ten whites were killed. (C?yA feminine imposter, who passes for Mrs. H. B. Stowe, is receiving much attention in Europe, 0O”An Italian woman, who owns three houses and lots in Chicago, has been arrested for begging. (g(yT,he colonial assembly of Australia has passed a bill taxing the Chinese ten pounds per head. steeple of the Universalist.church in Auburn was blown down during the gale of Thursday week. 1 Leavenworth Citif Herald says the’!' : newly discovered gold region is about as large as the State of Misscuri. (ffyA chimney, two ißindred and thirty- ; six feet in hight, is in process of construction at the Navy Yard, Charleston, Mass. (jQ’A, legal writer in Havana, says there has npt been a decision of pecuniary importance. in the supreme tribunal of that. Island, 'within the last two years, which has not i been purchased with gold. D. Ashmore has been elected to ] Congress to succeed speaker Orr," who declined a re-election. The rest of the South Cn>’o!ina delegation remains unchanged. fpff ' A colored teamster at Newark, N. J. | named James Thorp, has became heir by will 'to an estate in \orth Carolina valued at i $73,000. The testator is undoubtedly the ] father of Thorp. Aitroaehing Ei.TXTtoN.s.;—The next elections to come < fl’are. Louisiana on the Jirst of'November: New York. New Jersey, Mas- ] snclfuselts, I'l n ils, Alichiga.ii, on the 2d; ] Maryland on the 3 1; and Wise, nsin on the 4th. These States choose seveh'y-six mem- , horst of ('ongress. QiyOn last Thursd y nigh week snow I fell ’o the depth of five inches in Alartinsi burgh, Lew is county, N. Y., and on Tug Hill, iu the same county, to the depth of eiyhtrtn i inches! Great country for snow, that Tug Hill. VVe have seen snow drits there in the mddle of June.— Chicago Journal. (y(yThc search for Thurston is still kept lup by Air. Bannister. It is now nearly five weeks since the terrible ascension occurred, and thus Jar no trace of the missing aeronaut has -been found, further than was known at the time of finding the tattered anu dismantled balloon in the gloomy swamps , of Lake St. Clair.