Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1869 — Wait. [ARTICLE]

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Waif a moment, brother, do not toss that dime to the liquor seller. Put it back in your pocket and you will hail the happy act. Wait.boys, before you light t hose cigars, Thereris no more filthy habit than smoking. Wait, sister, ere you set your heart on “gorgeous apparel.’’ Do noPsneer “old maid” as that plain quiet female passes by. “Sweet sixteen" will pass away and a silver tinge creep over the coal blaek hair. It is tough enough to have youth fade away withefut a drop of cold proud scorn. Let the uncertain brevity of life teach respect for y«>ur eiders. Wait, young man, with the mos. sy moustache, do not fling your ■ kstiny into the arms ami -charms of that maiden with artificial blushes. Propose not for bcautv’s sakeDo not rashly shun bachelor-hood, act TeiSiircTv”and wisely. Rich man, wait, the pale faced, thinly clad and shivering poor need vour help. Think of them with philanthropy. Wait, hazel eyed bpauty, sooner than forge the chains which bind your soul to that <>t some fast young j blade, know for certa'm and for sure before you use the scaling es. - * consider Packard's Monthly to be one of the very best magazines published in the country. 11. is original, wide-awake, spicy nnd thoroughly Young American. Every young man in the country should subscribe for it. Subscription price $2.00 a year. Send 20 cents for Specimen copy to S. S. Packard, Publisher, New York. C?/~There is not a better youth’s magazine published, than the “Little Corporal.” Original, sensible, instructive and entertaining. Each number is an improvement on its predecessor. Price $1 year. Alfred L. Sew’d!, Publisher, Chicago, IllsEs£”The Pniirie Farmer comes to us enlarged and greatly improved. It is now not only the lest agricultutal paper published ita the West, but is the largest and theapstt. Price $2 per year. See-eur clubbing terms ia anotlisr polumn.

MrThe original arc* Qj.. JasplX County contained thiile<n Zioi'/r«ll square miles, instead of thirteen, ns last arcuk in “Early Reminiscence of Jasper CoMi»v.” Minnesota pays ten dollars apiece for wolf sca'pHi— Last year the sum <4 pended for scalp bounties amounted to t11,30u, and they now think .some enterprising Ninirmlsare engaged in growing them for the market. The wolf-business is a dei ie<lly Western branch of stock raining, and n wolfest tli<> lati'st d< v< b p nicnf of husbandry. The Grand Jury have dismissed the Surratt ease on the ground that the President’s amnesty pardoned him for all acts against the government. / Semi a delagation from Seymour to visit him. Lake Superior fishermen nre catching large quantities of fish. Of course they are a superior article. In some of lhe Kansas towns, wood brings S2O a cord. Gbn pity the printers there, for patrons wont. — A good newspaper is worth to a child a quarter’s schooling per year. There has been 3,300 bankrupt eases in Virginia to date. Louisville, Ky.-, is valued at $03,343,074. Brigham A'oung pays eighty cents a dozen for eggs. Olives are being raised in Southern Utah. TheV have a voting ladv studint in the Law Department of Washington University, St. Louis. The lumber regions of Wisconsin are overrun with rats aiid mice, and cats are_in gEual_demaiuL— The Governor of Kentucky ’rt-c-. omniends that the Civil Rights Bill be tested in the Supreme Court. The St. Louis artesian well reached the depth of nearly 3,506 feet, and still t bey hre bpreing yet. Forty thousand dollar’s worth of smuggled opium was lately seized in California. Il had been brought from China. Seven inches of snow has recently fallen in sonuf parts of Texas, which is the greatest depth ever known in that State. The Chicago Soldiers’ Home is to be qloscd in tl’.e the inmates removed to the Dayton National Asylum. The President was, on Thursday last, presented with a hickory cane cut from Lookout Mountain. The donor is an old personal frim«l. Governor Claflin, of Massachusetts, was inaugurated on Saturday last, and delivered his message to the Legislature. Mr. Rufus Mager, formerly of the Indianapolis Sentinel, has purchased the Logansport Pharos. Mr. Magee is said to be one of the best editors in the West. The editor of the Marksville Rcyisfer, who is also Clerk of the Seventh Judicial District Court of Louisiana, reports the total destruction of his paper by a mob, led by the editor of the Marksville Villager, published at the same place. Cattle over a year old, which have not been marked or branded, are everybody's property in Texas, and, like Cain, iiiay be killed by any one who meets them. The San Antonia market is stocked with hides taken from cattle without marks. The McLean county (Ill.) soldiers' monument, at Bloomington, has been completed and accepted. It is fifty feet high, of white lemont stone and Vermont white marble, and cost $15,000. It will be formally dedicated next spring. The New York Post publishes n letter from Dr. Samuel G. Howe, j saying that at the date of (lie latest reliable news from the interior jA Crete, the insurrection was in full blast, with no talk or thought of submission. Dr. Hovye, on behalf ofj the Cretan Relief Committee, a?" peals to the public not to be misled by lying Turkish reports. butto.give the'Cretans s'ympatkv and abundant succor.

Coal, » abundance, and of excellent quality, has been discovered half a mile from Argenta, bn theline of the Central-Pacific Railway, four hundred miles from Sacramento, furnishing the Company a much needed supply of fncl at the point desired. An aged citizen of Louisville} Kyr, hat bought off a breach of promise •nit with $5,000, The young woman whose feelings he had lacerated was