Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

(Ky“ The Cleveland Plai idealer, a Democratic organ, having r ad the returns from Connecticut, exclaims, “Farewell old Nut- ' meg.” j oO”The Burlington. lowa, Gazette a daily ; and weekly Democratic newspaper, of twen- ; ty-two years’ standing, has suspended publij cation. (KT’The Detroit Tribune says an infant child was killed in that city, a tew days ago, by parties who undertook to perform the Jewish rite of circumcision. i learned Russians cohnected with l the college in Pekin, have recently announced that, according to the last census returns, China contains a population of 455,000,000. o^7"We, have heard ol a great many trials of reapers and mowers, but we never before heard of anything like the trial of Sickles that is now going on.— Louisville Journal. fellow who made his escape from ijail, at Dayton,Ohio, several weeks ago, has turned up in New Madison, Indiana, in which place he has been giving a course of lectures on his “travels in the Holy Land.” A ; E. Gibbons, editor of the Harrodsburg, (Ky.) Transcript, blew his brains out jon I uesday last. Insanity from excessive drinking, is supposed to have been the causei 1 he deceased leaves a wife and six children.. 0O”On the anniversary of the birth-day-of tlie Prince Imperial of France, their Majesties gave a sum of one hundred francs to each child born on that day. and whose positions may render such a gift needful. (ts“ The house of Michal Pheney, of New London. Connecticut, was burned on Friday night. The father of the family was absent at the time, but Mrs. Pheney and her two children, aged respectively five and three years, perished in the flames. 'I AKiNG em.on Trial —A fellow in Massachusetts recently married three wives at intervals of a few months each, and finally offered to take back his first and prettiest spouse, provided she would agree not to tell the others. '.Ci7“Dr. Wetherill of Lafayette has analyzed some paint' d confectionary, particularly that favorite of children, candy dogs, and finds that the Coloring matter of the gretn lines is composed ol arsenite of copper, a deadly poison. A single piece of such candy contains enou"h poison to kill several chil--dren. Confectioners must look out fcr this. Lei.al Technicalities.—A man was indicted at Columbus. Ohio, for stealing two oxen and a cow. He was tried last week, when the evidence shdwed that the cattle con.-isled ot two steers and a cow. The ju*y found the prisoner gniltv of petit larceny in steal'iig the cow, v ilued at -S2O. and he was sent to the dungeon for fifteen days, on bread, and water. The Irish Vice R .yalty.—The Dublin c r-.-sp indcnt oi the Liverpool Journal, s»ys ’ Queen \ ic’ori iis in favor of in .king ’ Prince of Wales her representative in Jrerind. and that it is high’y piobable his Riyal Highm-s will b > th j Viceroy before tils cloat o 18 >O. It is upw ir I of four centuries sincea njy.il Prince fil’ed the office of Lord Lieutenant. Rem a 'i.k able Preservation.— \. live infant, only seven months old. with a life preserver tied to it, was found in the Mississippi, floating on a bail of cotton, twen’y-lbnr hours after the terrible explosion of the steamer Princess. The little creature was restored to its mother, who was among the saved and is now doing well. That child wasn t born to be drowned. A Freak of Nature?—On the farm oi our old friend, John A. Deatn,are two lambs, which are joined together, their heads being reversed. They are perfect in every respect, i with the exception of the connection which holds them together. In sucking they appear to have come to a mutual understanding, ami take it one gt a time—the other patiently waiting. They follow the dam by ! going round and round in a circle.— Bluffton Banner.' ' , O’?/”At Havana, at last accounts, says the Journal of Commerce, an order for exacting a stamp tax on account books, promulgated by the Governor General, was exciting a strong feeling-of dissatisfaction. By this order, every leaf of every blank-book for business purposes must be stamped; o'herwise no claim of indebtedness, based upon accounts, is collectable. For each of the first and last leaves, $8 are exacted; and for every other leaf, is 2.