Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

Cttr*The wheat product of Ohio, this yearj is estimated to be three million bushels more than ever before raised. OC?"The Republican Convention at Law> rence, Kansas, on the 3d inst., nominated Marcus J. Parrott for delegate to Congress. The Lafayette Courier reports that two men were killed by “choke damp” in a well, in Crawfordsville, on last Wednesday afternoon. Lafayette Journal of last week says that a woman wyis fined twelve dollars and costs for selling liquor in that city without a license. 14 assessors of eleven counties in Ohio, report that in those counties, last year, seven thousand and fifty four sheep were killed by vicious dogs. J. W. Barrow, of Alabama, announces that he has been opposed to the slave trade, but that he Is novv in favor of it. He is a wheel-Barrow.—- Louisville Journal. Pettit, of Indiana, says the Louisville Journal, has determined to make his perminent residence in Kansas. Indiana has our congratulations and Kansas our symsympathy. OCyGen. Whert denies, through the New Orleans Picayune, the widely published statement that he had been invited by President Juarez to command a column of American volunteers to aid the Liberal cause. The express from Denver City arrived at Leavenworth on the 2d, with S6OO in gold on consignment, and a considerable amount in the hands of passengers. The accounts from the mines continue favorable. carry a single mail through from St. Louis to San Francisco, Cal., requires the use of 140 stations, 163 changes, 91 drivers, and 716 horses and mules. The total amount of animals required on the road is 1,800. Philadelphia Bulletin lays down a number of rules of action in case of • ne’s clothes taking fire, and concludes by recommending any lad}’ who should unfortunately find herself euveloped in the flames of her burning garments, to “keep as cool as postible.” (fjrA couple of females at Cayuga, Canada West, went into the forest to cut material for hoops, being resolved to keep up with the prevailing fashion. They selected the stem of the “poison ivy,” and after wearing tin; hoops a lew days, were so dangerously affected as to require med cal treatment. ocs”More camels, says the Civilian of Galveston, are coming to Texas. The importation now expected is to be made from the valley of the upper Mongolia. They are stronger than any other kind of camels, and are accustomed to the severest hardsfiips. They are to enter the United States via San Francisco. Hartford Courier says that an old farmer Jiving near Fall River forgot the “run” of the days last week, and drove into the town with a load of hay for sale, on Sunday. He did not discover his blunder till a crowd of boys gathered about him, and rather rudely notified him of the derangement in his almanac. New Albany Tribune says th'.t Lovely Love, of Dearborn co nty, who was sent to jail last week for stabbing his son-in-law with a pitchfork, has a twin brother named “Hatefu 1 Love,” and that both names were actually given by the mother. Either the Tribune is quizzing or that mother had a strange fancy in names. satisfied with having a doubleheaded girl down South, they have produced a horned b y to compete with her for notoriety. The lad is a negro, in Hinds county, Miss., has horns on his head three inches long projecting above each ear, and interfer s considerably with wearing a hat. They are stiff’and hard, but not flinty, as are ..ho horns of quadrupeds. Evansville Journal says that another head has been blowr. open by the infallible process of blowing in the muzzle of a gun, and raising the lock with the foot, to see if it is loaded. Its name was Scott, and it lived in Union county. We have not noticed the item in the Union county paper, and we doubt if there be not some mistake in the locality. Newcastle Courier says that Dr. Dorr and Jordan Pickeney, of that place, returned home from Pike’s Peak last week, with the report that gold digging won’t pay. There is gold in small amounts- to be had by hard work, but the same work would make more money at other occupations. Which, we have no doubt is true. morning after the French occupation of Milan, several journals that had been suppressed by the Austrian government reappeared. One had been suppressed for five years, and in the last number had promised the “conclusion” of a story in the next. True to promise, the next, at the end of five years, took up the story where it had left off, and completed it. Rockford News says a boy named Harris, sixteen or eoventoen yea’s old, hired a horse in that town the other day to go six miles, but drove the poor beast seventy miles, and until it actually fell dead from exhaustion. The young barbarian was after-, ward lynched by half dozen young fel'ows, who flogged him so severely that his life is in danger. Philosophically Considered. —A young French soldier writes to his mother from Cast.iglione: “Dear mother, lam yet living and lively; but I am not quite complete. The surgeon of the regiment has cut off one of my legs. I have been used to having the leg by me and the parting was cruel. Do not weep, dear mother, but rejoice rather, for I will rejoin you now, not to leave again. I will always be, now, a part of your little card party—thanks to the wooden leg. of the greatest monopolies of England is expiring, and a great deal of discussion is going on about the renewal of it. It is the monopoly of Bible printing. When Janies the Frst authorized the present translation sjf the Bible, in 1611, be gave the right of printing it to the two Universatiea and the King’s printer, and thus for two hundred and fortv-eight years nobody has printed the common Bible in England but these monopolists.

Wonderful Escape. —Henry P. Baldwin, the forger) on his way to Utica, escaped from thp custody of Sheriff Bloom, of Cincinnati, in jfather a perilous Planner, on Wednesday wetek. Tiiey were on the express train, and when a little east of Clyde, the prisoner asked to be allowed to go into the “saloon” in ,the car next to the one in which they were riding. The Sheriff conducted hiin thither. In returning, the moment Baldwin pud his foot on the platform, followed by the Seeriff, he made a sudden spring from the car, and was lost to the official. The train was going at the rate of forty miles an hour, and the prisoner was heavily handcuffed. Strange to say the man was but slightly wounded in the head, and for several days eluded the vigilance of the officers to e-ar-rest him. On Monday last he was found at work hoeing potatoes for a farmer, more than thirty miles from the pi ce where he made his fearful leap, and was again taken into custody. cently died in the State prison at Columbus, Oh>o, where he Was serving out a life sentence on a verdict of manslaughter. His dying declarations, confirmed by other testimony, leave no doubt of his innocence. He found a man by the roadside wounded and bleeding, and dragging him to a spring, was trying to restore him by applying water, w en he wss discovered and seized as the murderer. His declarations of innocence went for nothing, and after being placed in prison, he gradually pined away and died of broken heart. It is a cruel case. Sickles’ Tragedy.—We learn this morning, says the Wilmington (N. C.) Heiiald, of Wednesday, that Mr. Jere. Collins, on Saturday last, at Caintuck, in this county, shot and killed a free negro named Daifid Jones. Cause of the killing, as we havje been informed, was alleged improper intimacy of Jones with the wife of Collins. Collins shot him four times, and then left but, thinking he had not killed him, returned and shot his victim five times more to fihish him. A| Female Sickles.—The wife of a broker,! in Columbus, Ohio, having cause to suspect the fidelity of her husband, repaired, a fejv days ago, tp thp house of a woman, whom she believed to be the recipient of his attentions, and exclaiming, “You have dishonored my bed!’-'attacked her with a knife, inflicting several Revere wounds. The woman finally rallied, however, and succeeded in escaping her assailant. 8 -4 fc£?“The Indian Bureau has been officially informed! that thU Indians of New Mexico show strong indications of hostility. One of the United States Deputy Surveyors has beeri forced to abandon his survey by a band of marauding Apaches.