Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

Smfith O’Brien, in his partingspeech to his countrymen in New York, gave them some excellent advice—among! other things, that they should not seek office,! and that, in voting for can idates-, they should ; always prefer tin* most honest and honorable ; men, whether American or Irish—advice: that i's ts good for a native as a foreigner. Barnifs, Jr., son of the editor "of the Detroit Tribune, was accidentally hanged in a gyt'.inasiium, in Detroit, lust week, j When found his dead body was suspended I I v a strip on a ladder, on which he had evi-i dently been, practicing. He was a promis-1 ing b> y: sixteen years of age. Democratic National Convention.—The . members.of the Democratic Nitiond Com-, mitfee have agreed upon the second of June,! 1860, as the day f< r the meetr g of the N t- ■ tional Convention,at Charleston, to nomin-i ate candidates for President and Vice President. ‘Phz, zur,” said an Irishman to a traveler, ; would yet be so obliging as to lake; ttiV gr°at coat to Boston wid yez!” •• Yes,” s iid the man in the wagon, “.but 'how’ll you get it again!” “Ocli! that’s asy enough,” said Pat, “for sure I’ll remain in jt.” (gJ=The Memphis Appeal learns that six miles north of that city the locusts are up-i pearing in swarms, eatir g up everything in the gardens; the chickens are so fond of them that many have been killed by oyer-j gorging with them. (XT’An editor iff an Illinois paper, writing to i' nriv ate friend . says: “We are Republicans, of course. Every-j bodv who fears the L >rd. and cat! write a| legible hand without running out his tongue, is a Republican.” , CgT'A hnnny coun'e have just returned to I F ilincu'h. Mass., fif’tn their wedding trip, which was a whaling voyage th it -lasted five years. During absence, the wi e gave I birth to two babes, ime of wh : ch was a .cliibi of four years when it reached Ifome. iy~ The Washington Star ) tiblishes the canard hi’ l/m'. G“tier ■ 1 Scott has made; n bet of fiv ' hundred bottles of champaign i that L 'Uis Napoleon will never return to; Paris. (gy>At. the iate term nf the Circuit Court ! o r Vziwrence conn’v, Mississinni, Edward, L'ngs'ord was indicted for selling a hoop skirt to a negr >. without permission, and ; -fined one hundred dollars and cost, of suit. Oiz’Dispatches tc- the Secretary of the Navvrender it cert; in that slavers bound to' several Southern St ites are .now on the coast ' of Africa. Tli ir cargoes are .exnected to arrive this Full in ississippi aid Texas. fit’ll orac * Greekv wjis received with great enthusi ism in IGin.-as. At L-iwrencej he was welcomed by hundreds of men, each of whom had a copy of the Tribune neatly' folded and fastened on his hat like a plume. (£s”The Galveston. T> xas, ?7tcs of the 26th says that a meeting of the “O iposition”' was held -in Austin, on the 21st inst.. at which General Sam Houston w;as nominated ' for Governor. (ty“ Abraham Norris.. f N-'wintryport, Mass., has been sentenced to five years in ; the State Prison, for biting of? a v\oman'-isd nose. QtJ’Tbe l.itt'c Pig Monthly is the name of a n<’w juvep.ile in ig z-iie ju-* started in! New York. -R >of. little pig. or die.”