Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — Various Items. [ARTICLE]

Various Items.

O’Brien, of Lafayette, accidentally shot himself last Thursday, while hunting in Starke county, and died of his wound on Saturday. O. Hinton, ot Ohio mail rc bbery notoriety, is nr.ru unced in the California papers, as a peraocratic candidate for Judge of Sonoma cojunty. (g’j-Ono- of the broadest hints to pop the question which it is possible for a young lady to give a young gent leman, is to d -dare to him her intentions of never marrying. first-class locomotive costs about §IO.OOO, a passenger- car, §2.000: a baggage car §1,500: a freight car. §050; a gravel car, §450. The iron f a railroad c .sts from ,5,000 to 8,000 per mile. » 0.5 The N.Y. Post says the rogues’ gallery is much frequented by ladies, and two respectable tpmales have just m arried men whose portraits are exhibited —one as a noted burglar, and the other as a noted pickpocket. the other day, while looking at the skeleton of a donkey, and admiring and .wondering a* the structure o! th t despised animal, made a very mal adroit quotation. ‘ Ah,” said pie,‘-ice are tearfully and wonderfully made.?’ A Mail ILobhkr in Ir ins.— A private disi pitch to the Postmaster of this city, says: •The Postal istcr of Pontanelle, Adair counI ty, lowa, is in irons, tor robbing the mail.” • This may account for losses occurring in ! that region of letters from and through the 1 Chicago post office.— Chicago Herald. | A New Epidemic—Twentv-six Cases of {Suicide jx a Fortnight.—The Louisville j Democrat, o! Saturday, enumerates tvvrntyisix cases of f ilicide during the past fortnight. ’Eleven were cases of h inging, six by p >isponing, five by cutting lhe_throat, and one bystabbing. ‘ (ffj’A proi igious calf weighing five liunidred pounds, fourteen weeks old. a native ot 'New York. Was sold at Washington drove [yards for §3| ?.0. A hbv had taken it from l the cow whi’li five days old, ami fed it on I meal and milk till the day or sale. Tito avjeiage gain fir day was five-pounds’ s fgTS nne lloatm/’n have ihtr >'uced a navel cr i't iifpotj- the Gen 'see river, at Ft >chesiter. It consists dnipiy of two long water--tight tin tnbefe, connected at each end by a (piece of board, and having in the center an {elevated seat (for the oarsman This -queer flooking afthiiiis slid to pull with .surprising (ease-anil swi it ness. 1 GO'"The gr.iss h<s become so dry in some •portions o this State, that it catches fire ifr-un the spnrkjs of th * 1 motives. On tin' Torre Hi ite r'iad th yd; .ve cut ditches near She track, to check the 11 .airs, and prevent kheir consuinitg the ies of the road. At Iseveral places on the Bolleionta ine road,the Itritins h ive been forced to stop and extinjguish the tires. i Brute Instnct-—-A few days 'ago it farmer in Cummiirgton, Mass., went alter itis joows; one ot them persisted in'going the Wrong way; after trying a while to bring her jto his mind, he gave up, and let her have her Ipwn, and followed her. She led him to a pemotc part of the pasture, where he .found (another cow fast. Releasing the captive tow, the refractory one willingly returned io the yard. 1 A Soi.ijd arAin—The Urbana, (0..) Citizen, speaking o| Robert McFarland, Esq., of Sit at city, now in his seventy-fiith year, says that be has livdd there fifty-’our years. He 4aw Washingt.cn in 1793. Was in Urbana before any house was built. Made the first Ijridle ever was piatle in Springfield (for Griffith Foos.) Nejver gave a note or went security. Never paid interest. Never sued itny person, or was sued. He never chewed Oobacco or‘Smoked a cigar. He never drank if dram of whisky in ht« life; and he was the first class-leader in Urbana. lie preached "from appointments one year in advance, sixteen times at R| >binson’s, in Harrison towntihip, and has annother appointment there a jear ahead. | A Rat Skin {Suit. —An ingenious individual, ot Liskeard, Cornwall, England, hafpr some time pfist, been exhibiting himself in a dress composed from top to toe of ratskins, which be has; been collecting for throe ypars and a halfi. The dress was made entirely by himself; it- consists of hat, neckerc|)ief, coat, waifecoat, trowsers, tippet, guitars and shoes. The number of rats required to complete the suit was six hundrejd nit 1 seventy; and the individual when thujs dressed, upp -nrsj exactly like one of the Es, qjuimaux d-.-scriblSd in the travels of Perry arid R oss. The tippet, or how is cotttjtttsed of the pieces of-skin immediately round the tftils of the rats, and is a very curious }>art, of the dress, containing about six hundred ti^ila —and those none of the shortest.