Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1858 — VARIOUS ITEMS [ARTICLE]

VARIOUS ITEMS

reformers’convention held at Utica, a newspaper says “the only thing out of order was a blush.” KT”Aji effort is making in Arkansas to induce the Legislature to compel the whole colored population to leave the State. ££7=lt is currently reported that the British Government will shortly issue a pardon to | Thomas I*. Meagher, the Irish exile. OiyThe little mountain Republic of San j Marino, in Italy, has awarded a medal to ;31iss Mitchell, the astronomer of Nantucket. (ff7*l’eaches have been raised in great [ abundance in Southern New Hampshire; this i‘ s an exception to the general experience. (Pis’ A hand of Gipsies have pitched their tents near Columbus O'., and have made sev- . oral attempts to kidnap children from that ! city. y U-J -There are boats now navigatim r -theErie Canal with greater tonage than the jsh,p with which Columbus discovered Amerj iea. j Orj"The town of Cataiiiaca, in Morocco, (Ain ca.) has been in a state siege for up- ; wards ot twenty years, wjtli_ short intervals ot relief. OcT'The Astor Library, New York, contains ten thousand volumes that have been i published since eighteen hundred and forty- ; nine. 1 J To Stop Leaks uy a Barrel.—Take | equal, parts of powdered charcoal and tallow. mix thoroughly and spread on with a ; knife. OO Mr. Moran, the man who receives a .-aiai‘y,ii --S— 1 0,0 01) a year, has been-Te-jelected President of-the New York iY Erie Rail Hoad. j l }® jn tnc Dible in common j schools'is a subject of warm discussion in ; Kentucky. -The Roman Catholic Bishop ! is opposed to it. (ffg’The consumption of Cochiluat.e water in Boston the Jast. yeur, was equal to seven- ; t v-three g-. lions per day for each man. woman and chilli in the city. - ‘ he oldest grist mill in l’enn., is at | Germantown. It is still in operation. 1* is buil 01-stone, and was erected in sixteen 1 hundred and eightv-three. OC7 Henry < . I, ougenecker, Opposition, has ,1 majority lor Congress in each coujitv; Biieks; - M J.'iiigli, i ;gi: Total. 2 -iff. | tns District,gave Bucliai aii 2. i ii:» majoritv! lo I’ll I.YEN r Till. SMOKIN' OF A Lt>H’. Soak the lick in strong voiegar. am! j ry ,t j well before tming. It will then horn hotli sweet and pleasant,- giving 'much satisfafe-"-tiou tor tno trifling trouble in preffariiig it. OOrlt is stated as certain that the Erupt - ror of Russia has been invited bv Prune Napoleon to visit. France, that helms accitj - ted tlie invitation, and that he will visit both London. ;T*id Paris next spring. Iff/. A Little girl, w‘;ighing ii.>o pounds was on*' ot The attractions at the Connect iState Fair. Sue a mused herself hv handling a .south American boa cumslrieler. si*\ - ent eon teet in iengtji. (ffJ'T’he Louisrilu Courier states, as a ■ act., that a child ol German parents, in that city recently slept 11 ni uieru pu-il !y fora week, and its respire! ion .-.'ml pulsation were unchanged, hothbeing natural,. 0 17” R u'ey. ilie horse tamer, instead of returning h, me, went fir hi England to Sweden, and pi looses' seeing Ea.p! ui i before !*e returns. Phe- London News says it j- surprising how his system takes evervwhere. Cffj” Flie London Press styles the recent riotous excesses perpetrat-U on Staten Island, demoniacal uffrocities; the French editors .admonish their nation to reflect on the nature of the democracy which is tendered from America to Europe. .Minnesota Eu * tion.—The St. Paul Pioneer ol the L > :’,d says,', .definite returns have been received from everv "part of the State except one District. Legislature stanfils. House, Democrats 39, Republicans 30. Senate, Republicans 15, Democrats:! 1. Cm T Ihe .Y ireasi'c Courier says that a new doggery in that place was “dried up” summarily, jjnd' without fuss, a few nio'hts ago. by the ingenious pmresS of boring holes through tne floor, and continuing- the boring up into; the barrels, affording the liquor a short road into the ground. (ffT" Th&l Ten cl ricks Count i/ Dulger says that throe children were poisoned in Danville on Wednesday, byeating the seeds ofthejamesliyvn. or “jinijisou” weed, as it is conimonlv called. One of them died in the night; the other two, it was thought, could nat-rrewer. Game.—l he Perm: Republican reports a nuifc MjuirH hunt, at that place a days ago, in which two parties . I six each killed exactly three hundred squirrels each.) That sort, ot game must he abundant, up there. Wild turkies, too, are said to be rather ••numerous.” The Seymour Times says that a fellow named llill recently visited several house* in the vicinity ol Redington, in that (.tackson) county 'and- insulted the ladies most grossly. The men hearing of it, sought him out, and gave lnm a first rate, welld-eserved* cowhiding wherein they did well. OCrTliaddeus Stevens is elected to Congress from the Lancaster-District. Penn., hv a majority of 3,173. (Stevens, 9,51 3: Hopkins, t>,340.) \ ct the supporters of Hopkins really believed his chance of election at least an even one. The entire Opposition ticket has over 3,000 average majority: John M. RetyUfor Supreme Court, 3,859. Nobly done, Old Guard. A North t arolina YY mow.—A young and handsome widow has been tried for her lih l in North Carolina. She shot an officer who came t.o enforce an execution, which he did not dii. in the gentlest manner. The jury thought the widow was too handsome to lie hanged, so they returned a verdict of Hot guilty. ; ’ " ' (ffg“ Hie lion. Galusha A. Grow, the man against whose fist the Hon. Mr. Keitl Sinn k his eye, when he unfortunately stubbed his toe on a certain occasion, during the last cession of Congress, lias been re-elected hv 7,800 majority. It Keitt had chanced to hit both eves aginst Guiusha’s fist 1 there is no telling what would have been [ the measure of the approbation expressed for the latter by the people of his District.

rumor has reached us that on Monday last, the 11th ult. G. W. Clark, notorious for the murder of Barber, was shot, and scalped, hear Lecompton, by some person or persons unknown. Clark after leaving Fort Scott, which had become too hot to hold him, received from theJPresident the. appointment of Purser in the Navy Yard at Washington. He had returned to Lecompton to settle some business matters connected with his former residence there—was waylaid and killed. He was undoubtedly killed by some person who had been a-yictim to his brutality when, with nr tried bands. h‘e moved over the Territory, killing and burning, iwithout. rlespect to age or sex, and has followed him as an avenging ‘angel.- watching for an opportunity to ‘destroy him. —Emporia ( Kansas ) News,