Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

tß7”Foreign letter writers say that a .revolution in Italy is approaching. ,{£s”Col. Fremont’s Mariposa claim yield* from $51,500 to $3,000 every week. O^7”A sewing machine has been invented to be used in tlie bottoming of shoes. t'he whole number of Indians within our limits is estimated at about 350,000. M Spurgebn is expected to be in New York during tbe May anniversaries. ofiT~ An extensive plan is being organized I in New York city to send emigrants to Arizona. aggregate value of furs exported from St. Paul, Minn., this year, is $161,022. fgy“Since the first of November,eight per- ( sons have been tried, for their lives, in Bos--1 ton. (j7s”lt is intended to make Commodore j Stewart an Admiral, the title to expire with I Li 3 death. i ■ ■. . Agassiz and Bache highly i approve of the project of another Arctic expedition. OC/~The King of Naples is said to have j decided that all foreigners employed in his ; State must be naturalized. O^7”A movement lias been made in the Massachusetts Legislature to declare vacant -Uie Seat o! Senator Sumner. CC7"Vv ithin the last three years the number of unknown persons who have diedjdn i New York has averaged four hundred per annum. V-J -Y hog was exhibited in Newburgh. New A ork, last week which weighed 756 pounds, after being dressed and the head : taken off. CO”A young man in Butler county, Ohio, inis been suddenly stricken entirely dumb, ! without any apparent previous ailment. CffT” The Scientific American states that ! phenate of soda, of one degree of strength, will effectually exterminate bedbugs, fleas ! and flies. of the late Ex-President Polk’s slaves, iti Tennessee, have been convicted of attempted insurrection, tli3 punishment of : which is death ! was imported into this country last-year 300,000 lbs. of opium. Not more than one-tenth is used strictly for medical purposes. 0^7“11 the new law against free negroes (goes into operation in Maryland, full 250,000 | persons must leave the State, or be sold into slavery. is the popularity in France of the Suez canal project of 31. de Lesseps, that 3,000 street porters in 3larscilles are among the suscribers. 0O”A New York correspondent of the jßoston Advertiser- states that W ashington Irving has made a donation of SSOO to the Mount : Vernon Fund. company of fillibusters has ! set sail for Nicaragua, and another revenue ( cutter lias fired a harmless shot at the departing “emigrants.” Medary has signed the joint ! resolution passed by the Legislature removing the seat of Government of Kansas to Lawrence, and the Legislature is holding its ! session there. 0-S”A Galveston paper says the camels there carry from fourteen to sixteen hundred pounds with ease. They are very tractable; j one of them belongs to a lady and always . kisses her whenever she comes near enough. Aenry Jackson, a shoemaker, and his | wife, got beastly intoxicated, in New York | city, on Wednesday night, and in that condition retired. They were found dead next i morning. Drunk together in life, and in death not divided. t ■ OC?”An Eastern editor says that a man ia New York got himself into trouble by marrying two wives. -Y W csteru editor replies by assuring his . c'Jtemporary that a good many men in that section have done the same thing by marry- ; ing one. , A Northern editor retorts that quite a j number of his cotemporaries lound trouble j by barely promising'to marry, without going any fuither. A So ithern editor says that he was both- | ered enough by simply being found in coni- , puny with another man’s wife.