Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1883 — GENERAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

GENERAL NOTES.

Metallic red is the color of the new 2cent stamps. Georgia s manufactured products will aggregate almost $41,0,000,000 this year. The aggregate demands of Councils for appropriations for next year foot up at $13,810,755. Two sunflowers in Lancaster, Fa, ureas* ure respectively forty-eight and forty-nine inches in circumference. Over 71,000 Califonria mountain trout and 505,000 salmon treut have been placed in Lake Keuka, N. Y., this season. One hundred and sixty-four bodies of drowned persons were taken from the East river, Brooklyn side, during the year ending July 31, I*BB3. The Montana Assessors’ Convention voted to assess the roadbed of railways within the Territory at $4,500 a mile and telegraph and telephone lines at S2OO a mile The body of Joe King, one of the rioters who was hanged onthe 21th of October, 1882, at Eastman, Ga., and buried at Cochran, was unearthed recently and found to be petrified. In a population of 1,300,000 New York City has 01,052 real-estate owners, 'lt further apuears that while the real estate annually increases in value the owners become A raft measuring 1,2t0 feet long, twelve feet d .'ep, and twenty-four feet wide, and consisting of 5,81.0 logs, has just been towed down in safety from St John, N. 8., to New York, a distance of 05<j miles. Five sixty pound weights used in the 'execution of William Fee, who was hanged in ISO.) at Lyons, N. Y , have sinoj been playing a useful part in pressing out the white paper on which a local newspaper is printed. Cid Fancy, the war-horse ridden by Stonewall Jackson, is tenderly cared for at the Virginia Military - Institute, at Lexington. He is a handsome sorrel, ot good form, but his joints are stiff. He is : 0 years old. In Akron, Ohio, a follow who had been unable to urge his "horse to draw -a load up hill unfastened the tugs from the singletree anti tied the poor creature’s toil to it. He then whipped thi horse until the indignant bystanders interposed. The fellow had to escape from the town. Aeabi Pasha seems quite reconciled to his exile in Ceylon, and even* admits that the English are perhaps the best friends of Egypt. To shew bis s ncerity in this phv testation he is studiously acq'uiring the English language. He would like to tee Igypjfe again, but would not retrrn at the risk of adding to the complications. If no better in other respects than their brethren, in Eastern cities, San Franc.sco sinners ceitainly have the virtue of superior boldness. Jp a single number of a Monday newspaper published in that city there ara accounts of pigeon-shvoting matches bv three- different clubs, of a great billiard tournament,,and a ba"e-ball match, all of which took plhee on Sunday. . “tp— — One of the most impor ant subjects now receiving the at ention of the Government is the dep etion qf. the American forests. In order to obtain fell detai s as to the actual area of 1 eriitory covered ly timber Mai. Powell, Director of ’ the United States Geo ogica Survey, has detailed an - gent to guiix This State is selected first because he is familiar with the 1 topo .rap icai bearings of West Virginia. Cir. u'ars have been sent to prominent men of t- e State, asking co-opera ion in the collection of information concerning the timber area. Many answers have been re eived. Several have furnish l d the o nee with county maps with the t mber areas marked. Ihe result of the inquiries so for has been gratifying to Xaj. Powell, and' it is probable that the final result will be of sufficient value to warrant the Bureau in continuing the inquiries in the other Statea ■ j . ,