Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1870 — State Indebtedness. [ARTICLE]

State Indebtedness.

The debts of the various States are given as follows: Virginia.. ft5,'09,000 New York '*o’ooo,ooo Pennsylvania TenuetMe ■> , Lonieiana v ...... ......... *9,000,1M) Maaaachueatte • Connecticut '• Missouri... *• 1’.00’.000 Illinois T 6,000,000 Sou th Carolina *OOO.OOO Texas T? ’. 3.010.000 Michigan Rhode I "laud 8,000,000 Kentucky 3,000,000 Maine ....... 6,00.91)0 New Jersey 2,000,000 Kanaaa 1............. 1,000,000 lowa, Maryland and Delaware are out of debt; Minnesota, Oregon and Mississippi are blessed with very small debts.

One of the oldest elm trees in Spnth Boston stood in' Fourth ..street, between Dorchester and G streets, and within a few days has heen felled. The tree was quite sound and about six feet in diameter near the base. In sawing the trunk into sections for use as butchers’ blocks, an obstruction was found in the center, at about ten feet from the butt. By Cutting a parallel section at a distance of a few inches, and taking out the intervening wood, it was discovered that a gun barra ran up the core of the tree, itself filled with wood or pith. The weight and character of the gun barrel indicate that it may have belonged to a Queen Anne musket. A question similar to that Which weighed upon the mind of George HI., as to how the apple got inside of th# the inquisitive Yankee —Horace Cook, of Leavenworth, ate three pounds of raisins on a bet. Thebes wai paid to Ids heteti.