Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

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[Specimen of the Contents of the new work by the editor of the “Lousville Journal,’' entitled Prenticeana, just published, and which will be sent, postpaid, on receipt of One Dollar by Derby & Jackson, Publishers, New York.] A Mr. Archer has been sent to the Ohio penitentiary for marrying three wives. “Insatiate Archer! could not one suffice!” The editor of a western paper recently fancied himself “a live ox;” but since our rough handling of him, he is beginning to conclude that lie is on\y jerked beef. The “Southern Mercury'’ says that Mr. P. O. Thomas “has received his commission as Postmaster.” Soothers’ a post-office gone to P. O. T. A Pittsburg paper says, in an obituary notice of an old lady, that“she bare her husband twenty children and never gave him a cross word.” She must have obeyed the good old precept —“bear and forbear.” A Newbern paper says that Mrs. Alice Day of that city was lately delivered of four sturdy boys. We know not what a Day may bring forth. A Buffalo paper announces that Dr. Brandreth has introduced a bill into the Legislature. Is the editor sure lie minded his p's in his announcement! The editor of the Boston “Liberator” culls upon the ladies of the North to make use of nothing that is produced by slave labor. He needn’t expect them not to use cotton. They will not expel so old a f riend from their bosoms. A lady correspondent, who professes to be horrified at the indelicacy of our paper, ilireatans for the future to set her foot on every copy she sees. She had better not. Our paper has i's in it. The common opinion is that vre should take good care of children at ail seasons of the year, but it i 3 well enough in winter to let them slide. A writer in a Virginia paper devotes three columns to describing the great Blue Ridge Tunnel. We hardly kuow which is the greatest bore, the tunnel or the description of it. -AW. 11. Ilooe, a postmaster in Vermont, publishes that two hundred dollars of the public funds are missing from his office, and he asks “who has got the money?” Possibly echo may answer— Hooe. The editor of an Indiana paper says, “more villainy is on foot.” We suppose the editor has lost his horse. A party of our friends, last week, chased a fox thirty-six hours. They actually “ran the thing in the .ground.” The New York Evening Post says a man “cannot be active and quiescent at the same time.” There may be some doubt of that. Some fellows bustle about terribly and yet lie still. Messrs. Bell& Topp, of the A". C. Gazette, says that “Prentices are made to serve masters.” Well, Boils are made to be bung qnd Topps to be whipped. Mrs. Charity Perkins, of New Orleans, came near dying of poison a few days ago. A sister of Charity was suspected of administering the dose.

A. K. says he expects in a short time to psy everything lie owes in this world. Ay, but there’s a heavy debt that he has got to settle in the other world. Ther’ll be the deed to pay. Mr. Z. Round, an old and valued friend of ours, was recently elected magistrate in Wisconsin. That, we suppose, is what our Wisconsin friends consider squiring a circle. A Rocky Mountain correspondent of the New York Post, who writes himself “Henry E. Land,” describes Oregon as the most delightful country in the world. Our citizens, if they choose, can go out there and see “how the Land lies”. We were considerably amused by an account that we lately saw of a remarkable duel. There were six men upon the ground and six misses. A Mr. J, Black, declares for the dissolution of tlio Union. Let him have a traitor's reward: “Huilg be the heavens with Black.” The Ohio River is getting lower and lower every day. It has almost ceased to run. All who look at it can perceive that it exhibits very little speed, but a great deal of bottom. A young widow has established a pistolgallery in New Orleans. Her qualifications, as a teacher of the art of duelling are of course undoubted; she has killed her man.