Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

fox htmrftr'Fayctte Count y, Ind., was attended by nearly 2,000 men and boy hunters. CalubGreen, of Osseo, Mich., nas invented a machine, to extract skippers from cheese, and secured a patent on it. Chinese secants don’t like Philadel-phia,-as they are not allowed to pound oil tin boilers Sunday. Any man who buys a. town lot. in Greeley, Colorado Territory, must sign the temperance pledge when he receives the deed. , J A BOYteight years old, at Lowell, Mass., spelled seven thousand words without a miss, and he put one hundred to the comFourteen thousand little bells were made from a church bell in Fort Scott, Kansas, which were sold, for fifty cents each to build a new church. Enterprise and novelty combined. The Council Bluffs Nonpareil calls attention to the disregard of the law against wanton slaughter©! buffaloes on theplains, and says that upward of 100,000 buffalo hides have been shipped from that city alone the past winter. 5 .»• The people of Concord, N. H., give an annual concert and levee for the benefit of Lewis F. Miller, a little crippled newsboy, who is trying to work his.-, way through Dartmouth College, and is now in his Sophomore year. A convalescent smallpox patient in England has been sentenced to £2ofine or a month’s imprisonment for escaping from the hospital and making a circuit of the tap-rooms of the town in an eighthour “bender.” A BMAtL-Pox patient got into the jail at Jackson, Tenn., the other day, and the jailer “ lit out’’’ so quickly that he forgot to lock up hie bastile. When he came back the small-pox man Was gone. So were the prisoners. A hen has unfortunately been killed in Boston, which might in time have attained the power of lajing golden eggs. A. solid nugget of the precionfi inetal was found in her .insides, weighing four penny weights, and in shape very like an egg. An ohj lady in a town of Worcester County, Mass., lately refused the gift of a load of wood from a tree struck by lightning, through fear that some of the “fluid” might remain in the wood and cause disaster to her kitchen stove! Importations of tobacco from China is the latest novelty in English trade. It is used in some measure as a substitute for Turkey, which it resembles in appearance, though not equal in quality. The leaf is quite yellow, and is almost void of flavor. A heart, not “in the right place,” was found belonging to a man . who recently died in the hospitaTat Oincinnati. It had been beating away for years, comfortably enough on the right side, when by all rights it should have been on the left; but from the slight derangement, it suffered little if any derangement.

Dr. Charles Putnam, of Boston, discourages the popular delusion that the children of the poor are the hardiest and most likely to attain Jo maturity. He says: “Twenty ; 4ight per cent, of the children born in Boston die during their first year, and among the poorer classes the percentage is over fifty.” The new United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs is going to be “bigger than all out-doors.” The principal part will be 500 feet long by 52 feet deep, with a wing 05 feet in length. The kitchen will be 125 feet long, and the dining-room twice that length. The piazzas of the wing and front will be over half a mile in extent. The maddest woman in the United States of America is one who lives at Jackson, Me. She recently lent her fiftydollar muff to a female acquaintance, who sported it at a small-pox funeral, and sent it home with a neat little note, stating this fact, and that as she “had sprinkled it with benzine, the owner need not fear catching the disease.” A Troy (N. Y.) dentist, while plying his avocation around the mouth of a lady customer recently, was seized with emotional insanity, and kissed her. She was not so far under the influence of ether but that the shock revived her, and the tooth carpenter loaned her husband fifty dollars on longtime the next day, beside making no charge for his two and a half hours’ work.

A Cincinnati man ,who suspected- his servant girl of using kerosene oil to kindle the fire "with, thought he wmuJd try her one night, so he poured the oil Out and filled the can with water. "When he landed in the diningroom next morning there was no breakfast, and no fire to cook it with—nothing but a stove full of soaked wood and the foolishest looking girl he ever saw. Charlie Redfield, treasurer of McVicker’s theatre, has a curiosity. It is a bank note on the First National Bank of Goshen, Ind., of the denomination of $lO on the face and S2O on'the back. It is undoubtedly a genuine bill. The mistake must have occurred in printing, and there are probably a number of'others printed in the same sheet, that are floating around the country. The question is; What’s it’s value—slo or Chicago The San Francisco Commercial Bulletin reports the following as the largest single bona fide transaction in grain ever make in California, if not in the United States; The wheat was all in the city warehouse, wfls of uniform, good shipping quality, and was the property of Scholle Brothers, having been purchased by them in lots during the sass at low prices. The sale consisted of 12,000 tons, valued at $500,000. The Willamette Fanner contains a long description of the dairy farm of Mr. Henry Ankeny, near Salem,.Oregon. The farm contains 4,000 acres,'on which are maintained 300 head of cattle, besides swine. During the past season, the products of 200 cows were made into cheese, of which there are now on hand," ready for market, some 26,000 pounds. The improvements upon the farm are described aHength, and with the land are stated to be worth seventy thousand dollars. The magnitude of the Illinois railroad system can be understood when it is considered that now only seven counties, Jasper, Crawford, Calhoun, Hardin, Pope, Massac and Franklin; out of the one hundred and two counties in the State, are not touched by railroads. Even in the seven counties mentioned, railroads are already projected, so that it will be but a •bort time until every county in the State will be reached by rail, aggregating a total of between 7,000 and 8,000 miles of road. , “ •

Here is a Kentucky society item: A short time ago, near Owentown, Thomas Heath, in'ccftnpany with nine other young men, went to within a short distance of the house of Miss Lena Ballard, whose father opposed her marriage with Heath. One of the party advanced and gave a concerted signal. The girl started, with the old gentleman in hot pursuit. The race was close and determined, but the girl got in ahead and was borne ..off on the horse behind Heath, amid the cheers .of the party, whilethe disconsolate parent returned to console those of., his household. The-party hastened to the residence of a magistrate, where they were soon pronounced man and wife.

“Put a barrel on your own back,; you brute!” shouted an old gentleman with a flowing white peard and a cherry face, as a heartless truckman; was lashing a-pait, of overworked horses that were stagger-1

ing through the sloughs in William street. “Are,you one of Bergh’s spies?" was the surly rejoinder. “No, sir, but I’m a Bergher, and if-you’ll come down like a mag I’ll thrash you.” The cartman took up the gauntlet, and the old gentleman was as good as his word; and to the honor of the policemen be it said, they did hot interfere, but allowed the driver to get his deserts.— N. Y. Tribune; There is a schoolmaster in Plymouth, Mass., who may fall somewhat short of Lord Erskine in his admiration of trial by Jury. He was on trial charged with the excessive and inhuman castigation of a pupil, and the result was a verdict, of guilty, followed by a sentence of imprisonmentin the county jail. And now he learns that there was a serious difference of opinion among the jurors as to bis guilt, which makes it*extremely iinprobable that an agreement could be secured. Bather than remain out all night, the twelve good men and true concluded to draw lots for a verdict, and it was by this tribunal that the accused pedagogue was found guilty. However, the decision of the lots was probably the just one.