Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1869 — CORRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CORRENT ITEMS.

Mexico City his a population 000. Maine has nineteen [revolutionary widows. i One colored man bus been elected to 1 tlio Massachusetts Legislature. A fjike school for poor children has been established in Georgetown, £>. 0. TiiiiUE wasn’t a bucket or.any vessel of the ki6uoh txisnl the ill-fated Btrtnewall TkXas, [hftff more thaii threA tnilllon head of eAttkyand can export, annually, 1,000,000 beeves. i Hhumank, the prestidigitator, lately had his .Match Stolen in New York, being beaten at sleight of baud. t , t A Bchjahqson (Vt.) paper thus closes a marriage notice,: “.Nil carils( no cake; .no Westerp paper need copy." I'tvteNTV; ychrs ago Pennsylvania was tlie largest wheat.produ.ing Htate in (he Union j nbw it iaabout tho twetftkon the USt.; ,I, .■ iV I i A, HWa’AuiMflT keepef has been arrested in Washington for issuing cards in iniitatlon rtf the currency notes of tMe United States. • Tire*average home production of wheat in England for the three past yesxs is St ated at 12,£■?$,()($. and the impprtation at jiuarfQrs. j JL, GynM+tt vfho survived the Stonewall disaster grieved over the loss of life so mnMi that he jurrtpefl ovcrlawrd from another Steamer and was drowried. ,<• . ■At a Now England county heir the receipts were so much below the expenses that poly sixty cqnts on tljc dollar will be paid ont^, premiums. A woman recently died atCorry, Penn., from the effects rtf chloroform given for the purpose of extracting teeth without pain. The employes of tka Portsmouth(N.H.) Navy Yard have jgivpn fI.OOQ tp the widow of ona of SAclr number, who was recently killed by the explosion of a gasomet«r.

According to the assessment, returns for 1869, the total number of brigs fn lU|nols is 2,036,304; In 1868 the number was 2,‘292*828; being a dbcrfcaie of 956,7524. Don’t put your pen# in yoar mouths, gjrls. A Cincinnati school girl has been in‘tht habit df doing so, and was reefenily nearly poisoned to death by the ink, Curtis L. North, an insurance agent ol Brooklyn, N-./Yt; ’gave his beloved ptstor a raw potato the other evening. The beloved pastor. opened the potato and foond a $506 bill inside. It has been estimated that genteel farming in the country out from large cities costs about $25,000 a year, unless an attempt ia made to; raise something, and tfieri it goes as high as $50,000. 1 An English papef- says that photographs can now be printed with printers’ Ink. They are as permanent as a printed text, and so easy of production that 18,000 may ha produced from a single plate in one day. TnE duration of human life In the principal countries of Europe has, recently been,estimated, as follows: Prussia, 412 years; Belgium, 41.5.; France, 44.2; England and Wales, 45.4; Sweden,'4fes; Denmark, 52.5; Schleswig Holstein, 52.7. jA.MpgMpx temple is tp be erected in New York city within the coming year. The building wifi cost $600,060, arid Is to be a house of reception (for Mormon emigrants from Europe; and resting place for traveling brethren of the United States. At Calvert, Md., a few days ago, while a young man- was trying to drive an ox, the animal grew angry and struck hiui in the neck wtrh Its horn, severing the jugulaT vein, and Causing his death in a few minutes. - r^- — ; ..p.:, ———r“- —f--Anna Gareshna, a young girl at.Kieff, in Russia, rescued, recently seven children from a hurrilng house, wmeh none of the firemen dared to enter. The Emperor, ui»u, bearing of her heroism, sent her a thousand silver roubles, and tbe Empress presented her with a Valuable necklace. From letters found on the body of John Barber, a -wood ehopper, murdered at Efireka, Ma, g few days ago, it appears’ that he was, with one brother and Ills motfifer, beWTOW estate, in Bombay; vab v?:d at $10,000,000. The letter Nad just been receiyefi, and was stiff unopened. On the day of cleotigri at Worcester, Mass., a woman’s ticket Was put in the ffifid; iidadcd by Ann Shaw Green, of West Iloxbury, for Governor. Several women insisted on they- privilege, to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment, and one ticket wa* actually flepositod iw spite of the offioersi 1 .

At !Mihbtd, N. H., the other day, a painter fell from a scalfokling. Although he broke a flagstone an inch thick upon which ha kill, bis skull was fractured, both legs were broken above the knees, one hip was dislocated,, and the bones of one elbow \_yere-shivered to atoms—he talked rationally M’hen picked up, and Mlds fair to recover! • A. «rtj;omU> girt, aged fifteen years, emplopwfl ag mjrsc in a family named Morgan, residing in Bedford county, Va., to gratify spite against Her mistress, threw a babe, of which she had charge, 1 Into the flref and let it remaiju Until both of its legs were burned off above, the ankle, causing its death. The girl was committed to jail for trial, , A Mu. Facet, in England, has been gathering some statistics as so the careers of medical Students. He has collected particulars i f 1,008 students, and finds that “21? achieved distinguished suceesS, fit* considerable success, 507 fair success, and 124 very limited suttees; 5(5 failed entirely, !)0 left the profession, 87 died within twelve years of commencing practice, and 41 died during pupilage.” In Bangor, Me., a few days ago, a man noticed a large and small spider in puMuit of a fly. The suialj one ejuightlhe ffy and was carrying hltn off, When the huve Vine attacked Him, took- possession Of the flj aqd.nugrchqd The little ope crgpt up behind the large one, bit nfin oii the leg, ahd r*n awny for dear lift. Instantly the: large spider cpip«i(eftceri, i s\ycll??g,,and in five minutes was dead. Wtnn Hie military fired upon the «sotminers qf Aubip, France, ‘>Uild whs Struck' hy-seyemi in>4tJ«.lKvih.and HmiAtriaae niothec, t«j»ia*l back and trtoi|ig hmled her child in his face, exclaiming, “lake, it, ruffian! You want nWt hlrtOd ! Take to Mr.'Win. W* SAmVdoB, editor- it 'the laHU t*sip«*w»yNew YotK/ Mr, title .'SO '.'S'*is; . 'll:.”. ’• ' i trr f

fused to take it mat of tho postoffice, and it was sent to Washington among the dead I letters. It was accidentally picked up the other day ainong some t»f the literary rubbish of tho Department, and. at once forwarded to the writer.