Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A New York adtybaak. •. '1 -“WiA Tms British Mweum f&PQO,SixTbrn • locomotive* exploded their boilers lastymri .‘/NW*-- j tip A Pittsburoh yqnpg m*n has papd SSO for kissing a lady 1a th<j |treeL ,Tkk cjnensas of Uie Peabody* Ceremonials in Maine werri about' s7,ww., “ * Tnr: Twrosi bagiproclainK&wwßqlsqjj St. Louis now measures fifteen miles from, her northern to hsr limits. Tng late M. Gronof,' said the wettit hietft 1 Russian mercbqnt, Jalt.qnly $15,000,009. . .. ... „ , A New York negro janitor Wre upllO,000 worth of b ‘ls and soM the leaves ior bld paper. I' I 's r ■ Tot.edo has been sued for $40,00p because it shut down on a canal that 'rnn a In the three days that Jefferson,.Da vis was at Huntsville, Alabama, he took over 500 life insurance policies. ,>r/ " finite, ba., has had (free within a year 1 and Ifta, pojloa have •but recently caught the, rascals that set them . , A D?I. A ware woman h getting a divorce' because her husband jumped oa theback side of the bed A ad aUtrmxg.Uurglarh. ; T! , 4 .,r> A man at Lowell, Maas., has made a □revision ,iu his will that he liyjst be mjiedin a -bui-glat proof ‘rare 'When he dies. ' : ’ ! 5 '■■- d» The upper ten of London< regard} it as bid etiquette to rid* to dhuxebou Bunday, whenever ivia possible, frtyvalK., A WAtH from King Theodore’s head was among the “'objects of interest ” at a late meeting of the London Mictoscopldil Society. . ' ' ’ AnEhgUslftnan suicided at. a/hotel in London, arid the landlord. Ma sped his friends for the - loss of cuijtopji and the trouble. u „ . a kijwv pound .shell, thrown into Vicksburg during the War, was "found in the cellar of a store the ovher day, a part oF the fuse,MiU clinging to ih.nifoa - ■ Tnft nWr' Constitution *f, Tennessee prohibits from holding office, all who deny the being of God, or,a fhture state of eewards and punishments.” One of the Richmond’ riaperspfHits this notice at the head of its editorMl ddlumns: “ We shall bri compelled to treat all nominations for offioe as adver^ssn^ts— requiring payment in advance, * ; .. A nice little game has been Stopped at the New York Custom Hones'*- Some of the men have been accustomed jto wear “stomach canteens." fitting about the body under the coat, into which they would syphon off liquor from casks un- ■ loading, carry , away, empty ft safely and return. The New York J&prsss says:** Every day in March the distance between the earth and the sun is increased 14X17 miles. At the beginning of the monthHhe distance was 92,212,632. Astronomically spring begins on the 20th of March, w hen the sun crosses the equate*.’! > juoflE Higby, of Stratford, Conn., was feeding his fowls the other day, when one of them flew Up and lighted on his shoulder, and, reaching round, picked him in the eye, nearly blinding mm for a while. Inflammation set in, and for a few days it was feared he would lose his sight. There was roeentftt great- excitement in the extreme southern counties of Cali-, fornia over the discovery o/ mew and rich gold fields, abotft sixty nfiles from Santiago. The quarts exhibited is free from sulphnrets and otheg metals, and is literally full of free gold, people were leaving San .Diego and L-os Angeles in large numbers for the new mnres. Pjiof Ttxdaia has a theory that the blue color of tfie sky is, 6r may be, produced by particles suspended dn the air, which are not only invisible to .-the naked eye, but irreducible by the highest powers of the microscope, ifodenmatrates their existence by the light which tley scatter, even after-they hate passefl htterly beyond the range of the microscope. In other words, the made of dust, • ; .i i