Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1879 — ODDS AND ENDS. [ARTICLE]

ODDS AND ENDS.

Thb Atlanta University for colored people to in a flourish tag condition. Dr. LrMotnb has disinherited hto sou who refused to cremate hto child. A child has been born near Columbus Ga., with a transparent abdomen. Thb fires In the dismal swamp have broken out afresh, and are raging fiirionaly* Germany has imposed a duty on ford equal to $1.1) per one hundred pounds. , Mrs. Mills, of Fonda, N. Y., fell dead from fright on hearing a man cry murder. Disastrous storms in Belgium and floods in the Valley of the Rhine are reported. A book has been publish to prove that the remains of Columbus are at Havana. , “Talmage's advanced agent calls him “an eminent divine and Christian warrior.” - - President Hayes will rusticate at hto old home in Fremont, Ohio, during September. When the Emperor of Germany visits Ems he engages ninety rooms for himself and suit The Boston Globe puts the cost of the Fall River strike at a million dolforsa year. - More than a thousand newspapers have been started in the United States since the Ist of January. Chloroforming people on the streets of New York and robbing them haahaoome quite common. Lightning struck a Tecumsuh, Michigan. Sexton and knocked him into a grave he had just dug. In two districts of England 985,870 spindlers are idle, and the cotton in dus try is everywhere depressed.

A Philadelphia Italian has imported thirteen professional crippled beggars from Italy for speculation. Deputy Sheriff Featherstone shot Thomas Gaither three times in court at Martin, Texas, Wednesday. The young peoplejof Jackson County Oregon, have discarded dancing, but go through the figures on horseback. The English and Scotch dairymen say the importation of large quantities of American cheese to running them. Two negro boys had a butting match at Greenville, N. C.,_ the other day, and one butted the other into the next world. The ndications of a revival of busies* in the Lehigh Valley are very grest, both in mining and smelting ores. A recent authority on swimming ays that a good swimmer can go two miles an hour without the aid of the current. Rev. Josef bCook preached to a San Francisco, audience on a Sunday evening, and on Monday sent in a bill for SIOO. ' The Tuil|toh banks are unable to tell the of their paper money in circulation, knd it is rapidly becoming worthless.

American Anthracite coal has been successfully tried in Italian locomotives, and the Consul at Florence telegraphs that large orders are fourthcoming. The United States Consul at Port Sarnia reports that 27,327 Canadians, mostly well-to-do farmers, emigrated to the United States last year, by way of Port Sarnia. . The rats are so numerous in the Andover, Maas., poor house that they steal the food of the Inmates off their dishes at the table, and they fear that they will be devoured by them. Thomas Harlan, of Hollis, Ills., lit a slow-match at the bottom of a mine, and signaled to be pulled up to get out of the way of the blast. He fell from the bucket and lay on the bottom of the shaft with a broken rib, when his young son seeing the peril his father was in, slid down 75 feet of rope and snatched the fuse in time to prevent the explosion. i Charles H. Qjilly tramped Into Beading, Pa., a few days ago, hungry, ragged and disconsolate. A year before he had made the people of that city stare at his ways of squandering $20,000 that had been left to him. On the latter visit he begged a meal at the hotel in which he had once occupied the finest apartments, and slept in a barn where he had previously kept his horse.

Martha Lewis, a widow of Phoenix, near Syracuse, N. Y., gave five sons, all she had, to the defense of the Union in the late war. They were all killed in battle, and she was left without support, and has ever since been maintained by the community as an object of charity. She has now secured back pensions due her dead boys to the amount of SI,BOO, and is also guaranteed an annuity of $96.