Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1882 — NEWS BREVITIES. [ARTICLE]

NEWS BREVITIES.

£» lagidataffiof Texaahas defeated to prevent offering insanity reg from flruhkennessas a plea for acquittal in murder cases. The coolest exploit Cleveland, 0., has , known was that of burglars who recently entered a house in thefamily’s absence and openly moved away the furniture on drays. An lowa young lady dreamed thrice that she had married a certain man. She met the man, according to her dream, and the marriage took place,' and—now the two are divorced. | K A. Sothern is said to have been a most excellent physical medium, and on one occasion in New York he so scared Matilda Heron with a letter from the spirit worl<ißh>on which there was a drop of blood, that she could never afterward bear allusion to ttye subject The pay of one shilling a day hitherto granted to British* 1 naval cadets on entry is to be abolished. The cadets will be treated more as private students than as young naval officers, thus reducing the .cost of maintaining the training-ship, Britannia. • Representative Cabell, of Virginia, - had a letter from a constituent recently, saying, “My friend Mr. Hoerd years ago moved West; I can not hear from him. Will you please go to the census office, look over the lists, and send me word where he is?” Mr. Tennyson is said to be so nearsighted that be reads and writes with great difficulty. That he is a good courtier may be inferred from his declaring that the nightingales have not sung at Faringford, in the Isle of Wight, 'since the prince consort died. When the war broke out Gen. William Newell, of Durham, Maine, aged 62, dy ed his hair and whiskers and enlisted. When asked*if he was not over 45, he replied that he was a leetle, and was accepted; but when his rank and age were known he was detailed to hospital duty. He died recently, aged 82. A Mr. Randall, who lives near Flat Lick, Ky., has a couple of most singular monstrosities on his farm—a couple of lambs, each the proud possessor of two heads,* and each head graced with two healthy eyes. The singular animals are as playful and frisky as any other of the sheep kind. The heads are joined together just behind the skulls. Arrangements are now being made for the erection of a monument in PereLachaise, to the memoiy of the first President of the French Republic. By Mme. Thiers’ desire, as expressed in her will, the tomb in the memorial will contain the bodies of Mme. Dosne, M. and Mme. Thiers, and Mlle. Dosne alone. “You dirty boy” is the advertising catch-phrase of a soap manufacturer in England. For permission to print the phrase on the backs of the paper, stamps, etc., to be used in taking the English census, the soap manufacturer will pay all the expenses of taking the census, which will be about $500,000. The province of Quebec has two credit foncier companies organized to loan capital at easy rates of interest, the first French company with $20,000,000 capital having been supplemented by Reinach & Co., of Paris, Duncan Mclntyre of Montreal, and other members of the new Canada Pacific syndicate with $5,000,000. A case of “boycotting” has occurred, not in Ireland, but in Scotland, in the county of Dumfries, on the property of the Duke of Buccieuch—indeed, in the village which adjoins the park of Drumlanrig castle. It is alleged that an exinnkeeper has been driven out of the village, the inhabitants being forbidden to have anything to do with him in his present capacity of bailiff, because some years since he offended the Duke’s agents by charging the Tory candidate for the county what they thought was too much for the use of his conveyance on a polling day. It is stated, further, that not long ago a retired “writer” who settled at Thornhill was also driven awav, as the issuing of a ukase from the J castle caused every door to be slammed i in his face.