Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1869 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

An American school has beep established in Sitka. Miss Ida Lewis, the heroine of Newport, is soon to be married. A snow storm passed over the town of ■ Leeco, Italy, on the evening of June 18, Free bathing rooms for women ahd children have been opened In Philadelphia. A kan In London, follows the occupation of “ professional introducer,’? ‘and. makes money by it.- ‘ .jt.. Miss Garrett has passed the second examination for the degree of doctor of medicine in tho university of Paris. The latest fashion of London “nobs”, jgto carry a poodle in their arln* under IBS' flowers in their respective buttonholes. »_ Commodore Vanderbilt has taken one entire floor in the new hotel at Niagara, Canada, for his family, during the summer. Cognac, the great brandy town of France, is said so be one of the wealthiest places, in proportion Wftp size; in ‘be world.

A Mr. Miller, of Union square, New York, it should be universally known, Advertises for the owner cf an umbrella which he has found. Baron Alphonse db one of the thou* 0 - —oTHSCHItD was during th» - --*« arrested in Paris, - recent disturbance. He was - up for three hours. At a Boston baby, show,Mrs. Coughlin, of Brookfield, took the prize on triplets, for her three daughters, Faith, Hope and Charity Coughlin, u - Boston, by the addition pf Dorchester, has now a total of nearly 10,000 acres, and a population of 280,000. Dorchester contains 4,632 acres. The Cincinnati Times says: “The new railroad between Louisville and Cincinnati will bind the two dries together like a pair of cats tied by the tads.” The number of men organized in the Wades unions of New York city alone amounts to 66,099, and they have a bank account of $58,126.69. Thu first time a writer in the Cincinnati Times saw Thomas Bucanan Read, he was pasting theater bills for a strolling company, of which he was one. Daniel G. Mason, of the New York firm of Mason Brothers, music publishers, died on the 24th ulfc, at Schevolbacb, Germany, whither he had gone to recruit his health.

A swarm of bees lit on the front of a locomotive on a Vermont Railroad a few days ago, and the engineer not daring to disturb them, they got a free ride into Canada. An Englishman has engaged to form a company with a capital of $1,500,000, to work the prolific coal beds of Southern Russia ana introduce the manufacture of rails. The territory covering the marble quarries of Rutland, Vt., was sold within the memory of men now living, for one old mare and colt The property is now valued at millions. Dr. Russell says he wrote Wales’ speeches before the London Geographical Society, and had “doocid hard work to keep them short enough for the Prince to trouble about getting them off by heart.” There is in New York a belt of Indiarubber (made for a Buffalo elevator), of the dimensions of four feet In width, 320 feet'in length, and 3,600 pounds weight This Is nmoh the largest belt ever made in this country. The widow of Captain Wise applied to the Navy Department for payment of the expenses connected with the conveying of her husband’s remains from Naples to Auburn Cemetery, bat the request was declined. An autograph letter of Mary Washington, the grandmother of her country and the mother of the first President of the United States, wss recently sold In New York. Only one other authentic autograph cf this lady is now know so exist

On the 89th nit, a thirty-barrel-well of lubricating oil, worth sl4 per barrel at the well, was struck on the Jamison farm, about one mile and a half above i Tionesta, Pa., at the depth of only two hundred feet.. Great excitement prevailed, and property advanced wonderfully. The North German Confederation has a fleet of 4,067 merchant vessels, of which 8.694 belong to Prussia. Tonnage, 1,316,374 tons of 1,000 kilograms each. There are among them 153 steamships, with an aggregate horse-power of 21,162. Of these steamships 80 belong to Prussia. The Universallst Convention of Maine passed a resolution dedaring “capital punishment detrimental to the best order of society, and to the teachings of Jesus.” The attemptto revive this barbarous custom” in Maine, the convention regarded “with deep grief and unqualified disapprobation.” -• -Thk discovery of rich silver mines between White Pine and the head of navigation of the Colorado River is announced The ledge is from 3 to 90 feet wide, and very rich. There is an abundance of wood,nmter and grass. The location of the mines is not far from the line of survey for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Thu importation of Chinese crackers has been very heavy the present season, and is estimated by importersaohighas 140,000 boxes. The pyrotedhniiFwhich is probably the most extensively manufactured and sold is the torpedo. During the past yfehr more than 200,000,000 of them haye been made. An .English paper says it is not aq uncommon tiling in that country for ladies traveling in first-clast railway carriages to cut dowA gnd carry away the silk cUf?f the windows-tor the purpose of making aprons of them 'Bo general did Ke practice become on ode line that all new curtains were made of a material that was Hot worth stealing. A woNDjutvot submarine stewnahip has been examined and approved by the Prussian Admiralty. It is a modification Of the Amoricah monitor system, the deck' and a turret alone being above water ordinarily, bat the vessel is capable of eq tire submersion, and can make an attach, withyulbmarine cannon and torpedoes, or •ail under the water during a storm.