Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1869 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Nearly a cart load o£ bats wastakep from a gareet in New Qrlpaps, the other day. ' '•»> The total value of cotton produced this year in Italy is estimated to be abopt £12,000,000. ~j ~ ■ ATRunk passed ever .the Boston & Albany Bailroad, the other day, directed to ‘‘llworth, Karnak” •' A summer visitor at North Oonway, N. H-, claims to hare caught!?,ooo treutduring the last three months. Mr. Kooumanschaap has contracted with the Texas Land Company'for the in- ' trod action-of 5,000 Chinese laborers. A copy- of Bhakspeara’s comedies, toriea.and tragedies, printed in London in the year 1023, recently sold 1 for sl,690. ■ Agassiz told a pompous money-bagger that he too might have been a banker, but for the urgent demands of science, and the banker was silent A Miss Lucy Lee advertises in a Mississippi paper that she “is of good birth and education, andis, wifiipg to marry an editor, believing herself able to support One.’’ , A-N infant died in Westport, Qonn., recently, from the poisOn taken into its stomach by sucking a green veil which the nurse had thrown over its face to keep the flies off. The New York State Homoeopathic Medical Society have inaugurated a moyezment for the erection of a monument to H. B. Gram, M. D:, father of hometopathy in America. . i, , ■ : A child in Hartford fell out of a thirdstory window, and was picked up unhurt from the pavement The next morning it fell from the bed to the floor and broke its neck.. The Charleston Charter’s cotton statement for the. year places the total product at 2,358,369 bales. Its estimate of the rice e/op in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana, is 81,915 tierces. A thunderstorm and tempest visited Guadalajara, Mexico, on- the 13th ult Immense foil. Over two hun-. dred buildings were Struck by lightping, and five persons were killed Iry the subtle fluid during the storm. A Japanese, step-mother, at Asaka, boiled doWn her husband’s two children in a hot bath. Her punishment was to be slowly boiled in a cauldron of oil, to which each step mother in Asaka contributed a portion. ; 1U ...,, ?.:!■< A New York Jester to a St, Louis paper mentions the pamc of a woman in that city wffo derives $20,000 annually from her medical [fraction, wbieh is to he as respectable ps. her income. ' A wealthy and beautiful young lady in •Brie, Pa., recently married ah uncouth and Crippled Journeyman shoedfoker, Who was already married and possessed of a family of children,!on the supposition that he was wealthy, and an agent of A. T. Stewart.

...—, . . ■ A. T. Stßwart, in recording his deca of the Hempstead Plains property, put stamps to the value of $3,944 on the deekL After the stamps were, canceled, it was discovered that he was only compelled to use $394 in Btanips. Mr. and Mrs. WirAixit ITalb, of *Upton, Mass., celebrated their golden wedding recently, and among the guests were three sisters and two brothers of the bride, who attended the wedding fifty years ago. This must indeed be a Hale and hearty couple. Two hundred dollars’ worth of postage stamps, which it was supposed had been stolen from the Covington Postofllce, have been recovered. One hundred dollars’ worth of postage stamps had been sold to a gentleman, but the clerk, in counting them, made a mistake, and gave hpn S3OO worth. , Hereafter the English Baptist Missionary Society will not Send out any married missionaries? The men who go must prove their fitness in bodily vigor and mental aptitude by, a trial of two years. At the end of that time they may return and marry, or a wife maybe sent cut to tjiem.

An “old miner" at Avondale proposes that hereafter all the miners give one day’s pay every year toward the fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans. "By this means, he says, they can raise SIO,OOO, and for himself he counts the first day> work that he Jias done since the eatastrophe sacred for this purpose.

Nki-nris Carve NTS h, 13 years of age, of Bridgewater, Vt, is a heroine. On the 25'th ult., while playing on the bank of a pond, with three other little girls, one of them fell in. Nellie first directed the two girls with her to rnn for some men, and then waded into the pond up to her chip, but, failing in that Way to get at the drowning g+rl, she procured a long pole, and, after muehi exertion, succeeded, just, as the girl was sinking the third time, in rescuing her. < A younu lady jn Alburn, N. Y., reftised to marry her sweetheart unless he stopped chewing tobacco. He agreed, and the wedding came off in due season. Return, ing from the bridal tour, in the cars, the other day, he pulled a roll of something from Wp pocket. Bhe thought it was tobacco, and therefore clutched it and threw it out of the window. Alas! it was a roll of money, $2,500 in all, and it has not been recovered!

A party of eight persons, consisting of C. T. Chaffee, wife and wife’s sister, and five children, the youngest 12 weeks old, were recently found on the road, near Baltimore, MA, tn a most destitute condition. They were' without money, starving, and almost naked. Chaffee stated that they left home, in Leavenwofth County, Kansas, in February last. Tor where they have friends, and had traveled tlje entire distance on foot, living by charity on the way. They were provided for and a liberal subscription in money Was raised for them, and they resumed their R«»y tp Phlladelphl*,by boat. A y°w tywUU W «•

Relied a dentist’s office it Virginia' 'tiity, Neb., the Other dnyifo >Hav*i het teeth filled. She was seated to the derating chair, apd partings pair of rich and tempting lips, displayed two’ rotes of ivory sliC lSd do teeth Which" required-filling and-none to be extraeftedi She eoukln t tion grew lively by. sighs i M°ne. Again did he search, bqt with no better success. ! He began to get* excited. At' last she rushed from the oftiee and soon returned with a lady of fashion, ‘whose front teeth disclosed the gold. The deaf thing only wanted to be in the fashion. s .., 11 A Mna BoniNsoN,. (living about six miloafrom Indianapolis, recently displayed great herdfsftt th' SAVing’ WF ’ child ’ from drowning. The child was near an open cistern containing over six feet of watef, and refr thi.' The mother,Alone im the house, heard the splash and screams. She went to the cistern ana sa w thd child floating'oh thi' Water, mid then ran fora ladder whidh shefound had beep, misplaced. She again hastened to, the cistern, and finding that' the child' had’ slink, plunged to-the hot tw»t and i hfter twp.,or three unsuccessful attempts at length brought Up the child, apparently l lifeless. Her cries had attracted a neighbor, who took the child and. finally succeeded In rescuing the heroic Woman. Both mother and childwere in a little time fully restored-. , The Cape God Gazette relates the fol-* lowing instance of pluck mW persistence I ‘‘(On the afternoon of the gale, two young men of West Sandwich, named Gibbs, went out in fishing, in a dory. The gale comihgupon them carried away theiFMß arid kpM»tlfefr bOst, they dinging to Um wreck. One of them, Who could swim, diVested himself of liis boots, took an oar, and struck out for the Shore, which was about a mile distant, telling the other, who could not swim, to cling to the wreck, and he wbtald save hiin. Arter reaching the shore, he constructed a lift 1 composed of several rails, which he seenfed With his pants by tearing them into strips for the purpose, launched it and* started to the resepe of his companion, When within a few rods of him! the raft was dashed to pieces. He clung to one of the rails, told his companion to hold.on to the boat, and struck out for the whore. He then constructed Another laupch, wit h boards, which'he secured by tearing his drawers ibid strips,'and afeW nail*. He started for tUd wrecks and when- within-a short distance of the 'boat the raft w4s, again demolished by the waves. He now 1 took to the wiceokj cut the anchor-rOpu, and the wind having'abated, drifted Ashore,, where the boat was righted and hailed but. i They then, divided clothes and'started for home.”.