Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

A man who fired the prairie has just been mulcted at Nebraska City In S4TO damages. A Connecticut fanner has named a prize rooster Robinson, because Robinson Crusoe. Thb Oneida Indians of Wisconsin have a brass band, black their boots, wear blue neckties and read the story papers. A Philadelphia judge decides that stealing a girl’s photograph from her album is as Dad as stealing a horse from a bam. Kate Okay, of Kansas City, married her lover half an hour before he left her for the penitentiary to serve out a long sentence. > Newbcbtpokt, Mass., has passed an ordinance forbiddtng. qjgan-grindera to play longer than ten minutes on any block. Thb Government has established an observatory at Fort Garry, Manitoba, which is as nearly as possible the central spot ol the American Continent. Thebe is an orange tree at Ban Gabriel, Los Angeles County, Cal., supposed to be eighty years old, which is said to have yieded in one season 6,200 oranges. The Chinese companies at San Francisco are now making preparations to accommodate an extensive immigration. The next steamer will bring 1,200. The people of Southern Oregon—and, indeed, of the entire State—are in a pjjoper frame of mind to attend a goodsized Modoc funeral with cheerful alac~ritjßr=fort6»id (•<?»'.) Bert MTmLf ntlre sophomore class was suspended from Dartmouth College, recently, for disorderly conduct in the chapel, whereupon the members hired a big team and took a sleigh ride. The Great Eastern is now taking on board the cable which she is to lay between Land’s End and New York. She is expected to leave her moorings at Sheerness in May or June. Two newspapers, a small red shawl and a pair of stockings were dropped on the streot, the other day, by a bustling New Orleans lady. The articles were found and handed back to her by a small boy. Not to be behind hand, Muncy, Pa., produces a ghost in the shape of a beautiful young lady, who goes from house to house, never speaking to anyone, and only murmuring, “I cannot find it —I cannot find it.” A woman who, with her husband, was waiting for the train at Camden, outside Baltimore, recently, having taken passage to Detroit, unexpectedly gave birth to a child, which the husband named Camdenline. The Supfeme Court of California has decided that a man convicted of murder, at Sacramento, recently, is entitled to a new trial, for the reason that a juryman slept, say thirty winks or thereabouts, during the summing up of the counsel for the prisoner. Conbad Lutz, a German printer in the Burlington (Iowa) Hawk-Eye office, has received notice from Wertemberg that he has been drafted into _tbe army over there. Inasmuch as he left Fatherland when he was two years old, he sends back his regrets. The cltrk of Kenton County, Kentucky, recently issued a license for the marriage of William Henry Thompson, aged nineteen, and Mrs. Mary Brown, aged forty five. It being the bride’s third venture. This one ought to last Mary as long as she lives. : —frf Herman Elewanger, whose wife and child were killed by the falling of John Bell & Co.’s store at Dubuque, lowa, in May last, has entered suit in the mm of $25,000 each against the lessees and owners of the building. A Lexington (Ky.) paper tells of a novel runaway match recently accomplished in that vicinity—a father eloping with the elder of two sisters; End his son with the younger, both proceeding by the same train to Jefferson, Ind., where the double marriage was consummated. e Two young ladies of Rochester, N. Y., sisters, named Cordelia and Emma Bull, volunteered to nurse the families of some neighbors during an attack of a contagious disease. Both took it and died, and they were buried in a common grave, leaving behind them the fragrance of a noble deed. Sabah Walker, seventy-three years of age, reached Lowell the other day after a twenty-mile walk, in search of work in the mills. She stated that her object was to lay up a little money against the day when old age would render her unable to perform hard labor.

A Berkshire County, Mass., clergyman recently received a donation to eke out his salary, and the parishioners not having compared notes, by a singular coincidence all decided upon potatoes; and in they came of all kinds and colors, till the worthy parson’s stoek of tubers was increased about 360 bushels. The Rochester Democrat states that the great flshist, Seth Green, has shipped to Sir Edward Tnornton, British Minister at Washington, twenty black bass, which are to be sent to England. The fish were placed in two twelve gallon cans. They were sent in accordance with instructions from the Fish Commissioners of the State. Ax amusing scene was created in the Treasury a few days ago by the presentation of a protest against the United States for non-payment (in gold) of a SIOO legal tender, which its owner had presented at the Sub Treasury in New York and asked for the specie thereon. Being refused, it was sent to Washington in due form, through a notary. A Fairfield, lowa, mother learned of her daughter’s contemplated eiopment, and on the night appointed tor the flight she put some laudanum in the girl’s tea. The latter fell asleep and did not wake up until next morning, and in the meantime Romeo got tired waiting and went home disgusted. He goes with another girl now. Mr. L. B. Leach, of the firm of Trout & Leach, Wannego, Kansas, predicted several years ago that his death would occur in the year 1873. Last fall be bad his grave dug and walled up; about three months ago 8§ stated that he would die" in March, and had bis coffin and shroud made and his tombstone engraved, with name, month of March and year, but the day left blank. On Monday, the 10th of March, he died. The latest “family” which has undertaken measures to secure a fortune by inheritance in England IS the Chace family, in Fall River, Mass., and a mighty significant name it is. Some of the claimants are named James and some I John, but singularly enough not one of

them is called Wildgoose. However, the family has held the usual meeting and appointed the usual committee, and, we suppose, will have the usual luck of always being very near to handling the money and never grasping it.— York Tribune. Some one says that humps are going out of fashion. Don’t believe it, because Washington ladies are expected to know what is fashionable, and you could rest a sack of flour on the hump you witness on the unfortunate here. They seemed very funny when they first appeared, and there was an involuntary titter among thoiio who saw them. Now, no lady can do without one, and they add so much totbe comeliness of the human form the gentl>> men would hardly know what was the matter if a lady appealed without Keg hump. —Washington Chronicle. Scene in a Cleveland street car: Enter lady with a pet poodle. Conductor politely informs her that no dogs are permitted in-the car. Lady quietly takes her seat and says nothing. Conductor again approaches, and informs her with considerable determination that nnless she deposits her dog on the roadway he will not be responsible for any broken bonea. Lady arises calmly from her seat, draws a revolver from her pocket, and taking deliberate aim at the conductor says: “Unless you drive on without molesting my dog, I’ll make you eat this straw.” Conductor subsides, and the lady with her poodle pfbceed quietly to their destination. Bland Bullard, a young man ot Lebanon County, Ky., committed Buicide three months ago, and three day* before that upon which he was to have been married. He now makes frequent visits to the paternal mansion, apparently for the purpose of annoying his father, Who had opposed his marriage. He comes at night, and brines with him a light, bv which he is distinguished and recognized. He familiarly opens the door, proceeds to his old room, and while there employe himself in examining his trunk: Being spoken to he answers not, but he attempts to molest no one. Some think he is an impostor trying to drive the unhappy father to dispose of his farm at a sacrifice, others persist that be is a true specter. * A woman’s determination to part her hair at the side broke up a wedding at Bangor, Me., last week. The company had all assembled, the clergyman was in his place, and the groom proceeded up stairs to escort his chosen one to tbe altar. The lady was splendidly dressed, but in arranging her hair had adopted the “new style.” To this the young man objected in the most decided terms, saying that it looked too brazen and “fast that the hair of a bride should be parted modestly in the middle. A sharp war of words followed, which resulted in a declaration on the part of the angry youth that he had taken a firm stand; that the hair must be undressed or he would never look upon it again. To this the girl replied that he might leave as soon as he pleased, and leave he did, much to the disgust of the people who came to partake of the wedding-supper and were turned out of the house without it. The tender, loving wife of a citizen of Hartford, Conn., recently decided to give her husband a present—just for asurprise, you know—and that she might keep her secret and puzzle him, she thought she would send it by express. So she went to work, did this tender, loving wife, and bought a little box, and some gunpowder, matches and sandpaper. These she put in the box, aad with her own tender, loving hands so arranged them that when the box was opened, the match would be scratched against the sandpaper with the result that may be imagined. This offering of wifely affection was duly sent and duly delivered; but somehow it happened that the infernal machine didn’t work, and the female is trying to think, in the solitude of her present abode, what was the matter with it. > : - r - -