Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1870 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Thb Czar appends S 3 titles to bis name on imperial decrees. Two years of courtship to one wedding is the Vermont rule! Savannah,- Ga., runs special streetcars for colored people. Tartar-emetic pit) detected a luncii thief in a Vermont schpol, Emigrants at the rate of a thousand a day are pouring into Kansas. Montreal gives its poor 1,000 quarts of soup and GOO loaves of bread every week. In Liverpool, a boy of eleven earns a living by delivering curbstone phrenological lectures. Forty years ago, Hon. George Dawson, of the Albany Journal, set 22,022 cm* of type in thirteen V urs. Two nqw vel -cipedes sold #>r flvo dollars at a late sale of unclaimed express packages in Washington. In Nevada they fined a “ minister” $25 for performing a mock marriage, the victim being a girl of twelve years. At a fire in Rutland, Vt, recently, a young man threw away a pail of water, remarking that it was too hot to do any good. An English sportsman lately killed no fewer than sixty-five geese with two shots, and sold his game in London fbr forty dollars. At a late fashionable Hotel do Villeball, in Paris, it is estimated that the ladies present wore 1,800 pounds of false hair. In Williamsburg, Va., a few days]ago, a horse threw two young men, who had mounted him in a frolic, and killed them both. A lady, compositor on the Janesville (Wis.) Gazette recently set 12,500 emsf of solid nonpareil in ten honrs. Two competing stage lines in California advertise ” free meals and free rides,” each hoping to drive the other from the course.

In a recent breach of promise case of Dickinson against Fields, in Brooklyn, damages laid at 110,000, the jury rendered a verdict for plaintiff, Marietta Dickinson, ullowing SI,OOO. Tub Episcopalians have a "* Clergyman’s Mutual Insurance League,” numbering 529 members. On the death of any member bis brethren each send $3 to the heirs. Benjamin Godby, sentenced to be hung at Waynesboro, Ga., was reprieved by Governor Bullock, but the reprieve was not received till the day after the execution. Tite colored janitor who tore elegant and valuable books ffom their rich bindings and sold them for paper stock, in New York, has been sentenced to the State prison for sou- wears for his vandalism. When Maine entered me Union fifty years ago, her population was 293,885. In that time it has much more than doubled, being now about 700,000, and she has sent to other Stales more than 100,000 of her people. The base-ball season will open at Cincinnati on the 10th of April, between, the Red Stockings and a picked nine. The Red Stockings will bat m the same order as last year, and will occupy the same positions. A New Yoke policeman lost his nose the other night, while attempting to quell a riot among a gang of roughs. The fellow who bit it off boasts that it is the filth proboscis he has served in the same manner. A man in Louisville, for whom there was a letter containing a sum ot money from his mother, was asked at the Postoffice, as a means of identification, to give his mother’s name. He was unable to do so, and stated as the reason that he had been away from home so long.” A man attempted to take possession of the office of a New York line of ownihHSes; the other day, claiming to have bought it for $7,000,000. Me was a maniac on the subject of cheap transportation, and was so frantic at being refused possession that he had to be taken to an asylum. There is a family al Colchester, Conn, some member of which applies at the postoffice for a letter from four to six times a day, rain or shine, oftentimes as the office opens in the morning and the last thing at night, while but one letter has been received for them during the last six months.