Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1868 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

■EBHMBI I 11 1MBBHBWWHBBWBH! Miscellaneous N«vi. ~-Tbis y ear f* hilndelphia hap been improved by the erection 0t*4Q,000,oob jfJmlJ, J* —The Right Rev. Dr. Ryan was consecrated Catholic Bishop -of Baffalo last Sunday. —Prairie fires have doneimmense damage to farms and crops in lowa the past month. —Tho National Bank of Bt. Paul has been designated os a national depository. _ —An Italian marblo monnnoent is to be erected over the gravo of ex-President Buchnnan. . —Ten gallons of water were' drawn from a Mrs. Brown, of Glen Springs, S. C., tho other day. She had been suffering from dropsy for several years. Gon. Sheridan is arming the Osagas to fight tho Plains Indians with whom they havo sorao old grudges to settlo. —The members of tho Colored Congregaticnalist Church, at ChatItanooga, Tenu., don’t use tobacco and don’t spit on the floor. A Pennsylvania farmer says that he has raised this year 500 bushels of the Cuzco potato upon an acra,Jloo bushels of Peach Blow and about 200 bushels of Harrison’s. Mr. Berry, of Rochester, N. Y., raised 6,400 quarts of Wilson strawberries upon five-eights of an acre thisyear. —A now post office has been es- > tablishsd at.the stock yards in Chi!engo. —A farmer in Troy, Vt., recently i killed a bear, that was destroying 1 bis corn which weighed 275 pounds and yielded Yo pounds of oil. •—The Metropolitan Church at Washington, D. C., is to havo a sofa l made of wood from Gethsemr.ne, a pulpit of wood from the Mount of | Olives, and its vestibule paved with ; tiles from Solomon’s Temple. j

[ —The Secretary of the Treasury ! has decided that ilia three per cent certificates are not re-issueablo after redemption, upon the ground (hit their issuo was authorized for tho exclusive purpose of taking up com- | pound interest notes. —“Butehor” Forrest wants to duel with General Kilpatrick, and | says he may communicate through John Morgan’s Basil Duke, of Lou- ! isville. —The Devil has made his second i annual appearance in Kentucky, at least n number of persons have. made affidavits that they havo scon him. This accounts for tho large Democratic majority' in that State. The expenditures of the Frecdmen's Bureau in South Carolina the * past year have been $195.500, bolides §289,000 used in buying subsistence stores issued to planters, for which there is a loin upon their , V —. — —. —_o—j ~~~Th'7rg&srdyTrotrWi(TrThr'A.et <rfCongress February 3d, 1868, ail cot-1 ton imported from foreign countries is exempt from import duty from and afior the first day of this month-

—The President has pardoned James Atkinson, who served fifteen months of n terra of fifteen years’ imprisonment for counterfeiting, on account of old ago and infirmity. —Josiah L Pike convicted cf the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, of j Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, is sentenced to be bung next Tuesday, freight locomotive okplodod while working at a gravel pit on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad, eighteen miles from Cincinnati, last Friday, killing five persons. —A $500,000 fire broko out in Ottumwa, lowa, sn the 30th ult. —A 830,000 fire opeurred in Westerly, It, 1., on the 30th ult. —A fire broke out in one es the car bouses of the Boston $ Albany Railroad, in Boston, Mass , destroying 8100,000. on tho 30th ult. —A sub-contractor on the Burlington & Quincy Railroad, drew Sfe.QOO to pay his hands, last Friday, and lit out. —The propeller Congress, from Buffalo, loaded with railroad iron for Chicago, ran oa a roes three miles west of Thunder Bay, teok firo and was destroyed on tho night of October 27tb. The crew saved themeelvee by the -email boats.— Lose 830,000. Insured for $20,000. —Late advices from Sitka state that a fire bad destroyed considerable property there. —A gray eagle, measusing seven (fret and three inches from tip to tip across tbo wings, thirty inches from beak to tail, and weighings twelve pounds,-was killed io Floyd county last Wednesday J r - ’ 1