Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1869 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Vanderpilt is called the ancient marryln’er. A Newpoiit head-waiter makes SIOO a day in fees. Prussia lias seven hundred cloisters with six thousand inmates. A cnn.n in Ohio died recently from the effects of a rat-bite on the nose. “One Night in Ten Bar Rooms” is a forthcoming drama by Mark Twain.. Tiiehe are twenty-two American students at the University of France. \ Indianapolis claims to bo the greatest walnut lumber market in the world. TnE Southern Illinois Normal University has been located at Carbondale, Jack son county. Twelve hundred persons were last year summoned before London courts for cruelty to animals. More diamonds liave been discovered at the Cape of Good Hope, one of which is said to be worth £BO,OOO. Wilmington, North Carolina, dressed the lamp posts in mourning on the death of a late popular lamplighter. The Masonic Fraternity of Louisville are about erecting a Widows’ and Orphans’ Home, to cost SIOO,OOO, onground donated. Dn. F. A. Mitchell, one of Mr. Greeley’s school-teachers, who taught him writing, died recently in Manchester, N. 11., at eighty. A lady in Swampscott, Mass., has secured a nail recently made in a New Hampshire blacksmith shop by Robert Collyer.

Jenny Lind has become quite poor. Her husband has squandered most of her money. It is thought that she will open a school for opera-singers in Paris. A man recently died at Parkersburg, West Virginia, of cancer in the face, caused by a piece of wood accidentally striking his lips. TnE Pennsylvania State Fair has, among other premiums, a prize of fifty dollars to the reporter who writes the best and fullest account of the show. A mountain range of iron ore has been discovered in Alaska, The range has an altitude of 2,000 feet, and causes a deviation oi ten degrees in the magentic needle. The Bishop of Wisconsin recently held a confirmation among the Oneida Indians at Green Bay. The service was in the Mohawk language, and seven persons were confirmed. An apothecary’s clerk in Boston, who recently sold laudanum for rhubarb, thereby causing the death of a Mrs. Norton,lias been admitted to bail in $2,000, to answer to the charge of manslaughter, The hull of a buried vessel was found lately eleven feet under ground in digging a sewer in jhe streets of Stockholm. It is supposed to have been there more than three hundred years. Benjamin Brown, of Stapleton, Staten Island, a graduate of Harvand, offers to give $5,000 to the Oxford crew, if they will consent to row the Harvards, on cither the Hudson or Charles river next autumn. The Sisters of Mercy in a Durham (England) convent lately struck and departed from the establishment without leave from their superiors, on account of the insufficient allowance of food. A Cleveland surgeon was sent for hurriedly by a wealthy family the other day, to set a fractured limb, and, making great haste to the house, a pet poodle which had met with an accident was borne in with household lamentations by a domestic.

At a recent meeting of the Ladies’ Sanitary Association of London, at which a number of prominent surgeons and physicians were present taking part in the proceedings, it was decided that there are not at present sufficient data to warrant the present law compelling vaccination. Two noted Saratoga belles got into a dispute on the piazza of the Clarendon the other day about which had the longest trail—each one stoutly claiming to have the longest. It was finally settled by measurement, when the difference was found to lie just half au inch, the longest being 13 feet inches. Dr. Mooeus, a much respected and benevolent physician of Plattsburg, N. Y., died some weeks since. While the funeral was being attended at the Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, mass was lieing recited in both the Catholic Churches for the repose of his soul. The Irish and French residents, whose poor he had attended without charge, desired this done. A California letter of the 24th of August says: “ Eight car loads of butter anti cheese just arrived, and seventeen mor* expeeted,/row the Eastern State*, for California. * VVny is this thus, and what is the cause of this thus-ness*’ California is sadly behind in dairy farms, yet lias any quantity of land suitable for them. Here is a magnificent opening for those understanding the business.” A resident of Birmingham, Counectitttt, recently accidentally shot himself In the lfimd with a pistol, the ball passing through the bones of the little finger of his left hand. Jle refused to have it amputated, and in a few days mortification set in. The finger, with a portion of the left hand, was then removed, but lock-jaw set in, from the effects of which he died.

The Newark Advertiser tells how a Jerseyman’s life was saved, the other day, by a kick. He was attempting to get upon a moving train, with a' pail of butter in one liana and a basket of eggs in the other,' and was in danger of loslngnis life, when the conductor gave him a vigorous kick, which sent him flying with heels in the air, and scattering his eggs and butter in promiscuous directions, but preserving him from injury. A large body of black ants were seen on the highway between Concord and Lpndon, N. H., a few days since. They were formed ii} two lines, extending entirely across the road to the bank opposite. Persons who saw them estimated their number by the million. A severe battle was fought, which lasted nearly an hour, after which both sides were occupied In burying their dead. Their weapons were their teeth, and they destroyed each other by biting their bodies open in the middle. An eminent writer on finance and economy, M. Eugene Forecade, became ipsane two years ago. His- fronds appliedto have the “care” of his' property, but apparently left the Invalid to take care of liunself. However, a strange lady, a widow, and ah admirer of Forecade’s W* ent, stepped in, and for two years nursed him through his illness. The Court having S renounced him of sound mmd,' the next ay he married his heroic nurse, and they started for Italy to pass their honeymoon. —Paris Letter. ' Ik the hamlet of Nuraey, In Carlow

County, Ireland, twenty two families, numbering over one hundred and twenty persons, old tenants mostly, holding under middle men, and remarkable for industry, sobriety ana punctuality In the payment of rent, have, upon the death of the person on whose life their leases depended, been turned out of house and home. One morning, two bailiffs, a sheriff and eight policemen, armed with rifles, unroofed the cabins, and drove out the inhabitants to take refuge in ditches, sheds and under temporary structures. Into one old cowhouse, on the land of a neighboring gentleman, there were huddled together fourteen persons of different ages and sexes. This cruelty was practised because the owner had determined that nobody should live on the land. The following statement shows the number of Postoffloes in operation In the States and Territories of the United States on the first of August: Alabama, 487; Alaska, 2; Arizona, 14; Arkansas, 384; California, 471; Colorado, 91; Connecticut, 897; Dakota, 35; Delaware, 86; District of Columbia, 6: Florida, 108; Georgia, 402; Idaho, 20; Illinois, 1,575; Indiana, 1,281; Indian Territory, 27; lowa, 1,081; Kentucky, 885; Kansas, 886; Louisiana, 220; Maine, 807; Maryland, 486; Massachusetts, 075; Michigan, 937; Minnesota, 605; Mississippi, 355; Missouri, 1,111; Montana, 58; Nebraska, 181; Nevada, 48; New Hampshire, 401; New Jersey, 514; New Mexico, 41; New York, 2,602; North Carolina, 725; Ohio, 1,996; Oregon, 144; Pennsylvania, 2,715; Rhode Island, 96; South Carolina, 308; Tennessee, 754; Texas, 499; Utah, 105; Vermont, 450; Virginia, 945; Washington, 69; West Virginia, 561; Wisconsin, 1,021; Wyoming 16. Total, 27,181.