Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1873 — COBBERT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

COBBERT ITEMS.

. A Hartford baby weighs a pound and a quarter. The law prohibiting minors from playing billiards is Btrictly enforced at Indianapolis. A Louisville watchmaker has in his possession an unique watch formerly owned by Napoleon the Great. A hew volcano, with more than twenty vent-holes, has been discovered near Moieje, in Lower California. A dog team with a sledge, near Ashland, Minn., recently made twenty-two miles in one hour on the ice. Cklkrv over two feet long, grown this winter in Oregpn, is something to boast of, and the papers there do it. The first child bom in-Denison City, Texas, a girl, received a present of a town lot from the railroad company. By the completion of the Texas Central Railroad, there is now unbroken iailroad communication between Chicago and the Gulf. A woman servant' has served a family in Terre Haute, Ind., for thirty-three consecutive years, and has $l,lOO to show for it Miss Hannah Jane Duke, a 500 pound girl, has received S4OO from a circus company in Fayette, Ky., for breach of conJacob Kepler, a butcher of Williamsport, Pa., won a wager by killing and dressing for market ten sheep within an hour. The Roman spirit of a Rock Island ’squire was tested and found worth $ 10, the other day. He fined his boy that much and costs, and then paid the bill. A YOUNG ladt in Beaver Dam, Wis., has recently fallen heir to a fortune of SIOO,OOO through the death of air uncle. Thus are the sorrows of death alleviated. Murray MorleY, - a precocious popcern dealer in Marshal, Mich., not yet six years old, has the snug sum of $65 in bank, the proceeds of his winter's trade. A Stohingtok (Conn.l man stopped his paper and took out his “one square ad.” editor nipped a pet cat by chewing her tail off. Phcebe A. Loweie, of New York City, has been awarded $20,000 damages from Abram B. Chambers for breach of promise. Wc rather guess that Abe wishes now that he hadn’t done it. An industrious Detroit boy has gath- . ered up and piled in.the hack yard during the past winter, over eleven hundred old oyster cans. He has not yet decided what use he will make of them. The La Crosse (Wis.) Lender relates an instance of a man being attacked by hydrophobia nine years after he had been bitten by .a don, having never previously felt any ill effects from the same. Leavenworth, Kansas, is to have a new depot, which will be at least 090 feet long and 187 feet wide. Seven or eight trains can enter it abreast, with abundance of room- for loading. The cost will be from $200,000 to $300,000. The cerebral-meningitis, or spotted fever, is raging fiercely on the Pacific coast. In one instance four members of a family died within twenty-four hours. The disease has assumed an epidemic type and proves fatal almost invariably. Imprisonment for debt is by no means so generally abolished as people suppbse.~ The Hartford (Conn.) Courant mentions that ten or twelve debtors have been lodged in the jail of that city during the past winter, and three are confined there now.

A small boy arrived at Harrisburg, Pa., the other day, from Texas, having been sent all the way a la package, with a ticket sewed to his coat. Theeonductors all took an interest in him, and he enjoyed the journey hugely. In one locality of O'Brien County, lowa, thirty-four younc bachelors have opened up farms, and all they want is a cargo of feminine divinity to hedge them round about, and make them behave themselves. The usual process of subdivision of the soil into small freeholds is reversed in Bourbon County, Ky„ where, among other similar transactions, one capitalist has bought and consolidated twenty-four adjoining farms, the former occupants of which, 161 in number, have emigrated to the West. A hotel proprietor at Brattleboro.Vt., was fined $ 100 for selling liquor to a onearmed soldier, and then turning him into the street, late at night, in a state of intoxication, where he must have frozen to ' death had not a friend found and cared for him. „ The editors and publishers of Mainenewspapers having met in convention at Augusta the other day, the Portland Prm ventures to affirm' that there were gathered the “very wisest and most virtuous little crowd of men, in the seediest of last year’s clothes, that ever met at the State capital.” A Chicago servant-girl, envious of her mistress’s fair complexion, determined to rival her if possible; so awaiting her opportunity, one day when her mistress had gone out, the girl proceeded to overhaul her dressing-bureau in search of the wonderful “elixir of youth and beauty.” Unfortunately it proved to be morphine that she got hold of, and it required the combined services of a physician and a stomach-pump to save the foolish girl’s life.