Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — A New England writer says that It has [ARTICLE]

A New England writer says that It has

been found that negroes can be better trusted than white men, not to betray secrets. We suppose this is upon the principle that they always “keep dark.” Mrs. I.ucy Hill complains, ill an Atkans** paper, that her nephew has trampled upoa her rights and feelings. The graceless youog rascal shouldn’t be allowed te trample upon his aunt-Hill. A Canadian paper mentions the marriage of Mr. Joseph Sterling to Miss Anne Stirling , Love strokes are not usually severe,but this one, it is plain, has knocked an i out. A woman in Florida, named Cros3, lately gave birth to an infant son which weighed only one pound. That Cross wasn’t hard tu bear.

Two men, Joseph Sparks and Oscar Flint,. were assailed in the suburbs of Baltimore, a few nights ago, by a gang ot shoulder-hitters. Flint was knocked down, but his companion escaped by flight. When iLys scoundrel* hit Flint, Sparks flew. Mr. William Hood was robbed near Cur* inth, Ala., on the 13? h inst. The Corinth/ paper says that the name of the highwayman is unknown, but there is no doubt thsi he was Robbin’ Hood. | A Mr. Bentley has been indicted in Alabama for striking a stranger with an a.va He says that he didn’t know but the stranger was a robber. He didn't know, end so ha axed him. A quizzical editor in Arkansas, who rr.tLer rejo'ces in the rattier quizzical name of Har • ry Hurry, says that “t’uth is generally slow in i£a v progress.” Probably it is never in such a Hurry ns he. A young lady of New Orleans,- who recently performed a remarkable feat in rowing, has been presented with a be-autife! yawl. A smack would have been more appropriate. ~ A man in our State, wh o attempted ta hug a beautiful young woman, Miss Lemon, | has sued her for striking him in the eys. Why should a fellow squeeze a Lemon onless he wants a punch? Mr J. S. Fall, a Mississippi editor, asks when we shall get wise. Undoubtedly btfor* Fall, if ever, Mr. Henry A. Rhule says, in a Mississippi paper,,that ha has “worked zealously for the administration.” Now let 'him tvr:i and work faithfully against it. ’Tis a poor Rule that won’t work both ways. Mr. and Mrs, Brewer, of Wayne County, have twenty-two children. Theirs is, perhaps, the most extensive brewery in lbs West. • Tbe Beaver Argus records the 'of John Coburn, only three feet high. X > I wander he wanted to get spliced. A man named J. S. Bill has set up a skiving shop in one of our western cities. Wa know him of old. Whenever he tskes off his beard, he shaves a bad Bill. An impudent anonymous correspondent signing himself “Nad Bucket,” expresses th* wish that wo were daafi. Very well—l*t him show himself in person, and we pledge ourselves to “kick the Bucket.” A Southern lady has abandoned the-Ska.-ker establishment near Hopkinsville, to marry Mr. James Bean, aged seventy-five. She must be fond of dried Beans. A handsome young fellow in New Yoftr | in great distress for want of money, married j last week a rich old woman of seventy. He j was no doubt miserable for the want of rooj noy, and she for tiie want of a husband; and “misery makes strange bedfellows.” A father and son, Anthony and Th.om.ii Screw, escaped on the 25th ult., from il)e YVetumpka jail. There sre two Screws loose. A lady in Montreal, on the lift, recovered. §2,000 of a Maj. Breckford for hugging and kissing her rather roughly. She ought to set a high value on the money, she got it by a tight squeeze.