Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1869 — Another Dodge. [ARTICLE]

Another Dodge.

Somebody from New York, signing himself as Secretary of the Merchant's Union Law Company, has been sending circulars to the lawyers in this vicinity and throughout the country, asking them for the location of their bustnesa, residence, date of admission to? the bar, and other items, which he states he desires for the purpose of using them in the new law register and official directory for 1870, and further stating that the book is to, contain such information in regard to every lawyer in the United States. Upon receiving this information he sends another circular* with the following preface: “If you do not remix the required subscription of ten' dollars toward defraying the expenses of publication, and for a copy of the work, the following particulars must necessarily be omitted therefrom.” The particulars referred to are thosefpreviously requested to be sent. — New Haven Courier. —The Rev. E. D. G. Prime, one of the editors of the New York Oteereer, started 2il on a journey round the world, going by way of San Francisco, Japan, China, India, the Holy Land and Europe, lib intends to do all this within a year.