Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

The legal weight of a bushel of corn has been reduced in lowa from seventy to slxty-clght pounds. J Tin Buffalo authorities are taking pool selling at the races tnere this season. InTNcarYorlr has , ** by the engineers, and its ueKioliUon has been recommended. Charles Moore and Frank Morton “*ve conv * c, od of sawdust swindling in New York, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment and to pay a flue of SI,OOO. A Boston girl who was married four years ago in a dress worth $5,000 may now be seen splitting her own kindlings and doing her ow n washing. . There is an honest man in San Francisco. He Is a tobacconist who has put out a sign reading: “Imported cigars of our own manufacture.” Cast-iron monuments for tlic boundary line between Oregon and Nevada are in process of construction at the Occidental Foundry, San Francisco. Two young ladies, very well connected, have been sent to jail for seven days in Kichmond, Va., for stealing human hair from a hair-dresser’s shop. A New York, dry-goods merchant reports among the items of sales, last week, twenty camel’s-hair shawls at $3,000 each, five of which were disposed of to one family. The State Treasurer of lowa has given notice that the State of lowa is prepared to redeem all its outstanding warrants, and they wilt cease to draw interest on and after the 22d of April, 1873. The number of persons out of employment in Philadelphia is appalling. One insertion Of .a little advertisement for a c *® rk to a railroad office brought 985 applicants in a single day. The office of dog-killer pays better than any other offiee in St, Louis. Last year the city dog-killer snuffed out the light of 8,000 canines, and pocketed therefor the snug competence of $34,000. The Legislature of Kentucky lias enacted that married women may receive dk rectly from their employers the wages or compensation for labor performed by them, and that the money so eamed-sliail be free from the debts and control of their husbands. , —. ._:—, of in one -of. the White b* the voting place on the recent election day. The long journey was taken on account of the. depth of snow in the Notch through which they had to pass. Harriet Beecher Stowe says it takes an attack of malarial fever or two to teach the Northern man that he cannot labor the day through under a tropical sun as he can in the mountains of New Hampshire. A Chicago policeman, after a service of twenty-five years, has just retired on a fori tune of SIOO,OOO. If is proper to state that the bulk of this handsome property was made by lucky investments in real estate, and was not altogether the accumulations of his salary. - - The Willimantic (Conn.) Journal says that Leonard Uncas, a grandson of the celebrated Indian chief, and the last of his name, died in that village recently, aged seventy years. He had resided in that vicinity most of his life, was an expert fisher and hunter and a hard-working man. Philadelphia lias discovered that one of the most noted street beggars-, whose income from fraud Is oftentimes thirty dollars a day, lives in an aristocratic quarter, loans money at usury, and gets drunk nightly. Another, a deformed young woman, owns a row of houses, and is a large dealer in real estate. Sixty acres of the farm owned by the late Edwin Forrest, near Philadelphia, which he named “Springbrook,” lias been set apart by his executors for the Home for .aged and indigent actors provided for in his will. The Home will lie surrounded by a magnificent park, to which the public will have a free admittance, , The postmistress at Villa Ridge, 111., has resigned in order to get married. In her letter of resignation that she sent to the Postmaster-General, she remarked that she would rather have one man where she could lay her hands on him when she wanted him, than to bq .handling mail—bags irregularly on a small salary, and~ getting sworn at by people who expected letters that never came. The Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen learns of a young man of that town who made an engagement to call upon a certain Giles County young lady, who had a fire and a light in the parlor, dressed herself and waited all the appointed evening in vain. Next day the old lady sent round to that young man a neat bill of one dollar for those fire and light. A Massachusetts man has a dog that watches for the afternoon train regularly cvery day, gets the evening paper which the expressman throws off, and conveys it "*■ to his master. He knows the time when the. train is due as well as his master, and if it is late he waits for it. At Point Creek, Jackson County, Ky., a trader had bought sheep of a resident. Resident had one more to sell, when the following conversation ensued: Trader —“I’ll give you $2 for that sheep.” Resident—“lt's worth $5.” T.—“lt ain’t worth $2.” R.—“lt’s worth $5.” T.—“lt ain’t.” R. (drawing a large navy)— “What’s that sheep worth?” T.—“ Under the circumstances, I think iUs worth nigh, onto $6.” They traded forthwith. A Remarkable Invention. —One of the most important improvements ever perfected in musical instruments has lately been introduced by Geo. Woods & Co., in their improved Parlor Organs. It consists of a piano of exqisite quality of tone' which 'will never require tuning. The instrument was lately introduced at a musical soiree in Baltimore, and received the cordial applause and indorsement of the many eminent professionals present.— Bos ton, Journal. The Post-Office Department has ordered that postmasters whose salary does not ex, ceed SI,OOO per annum may he permitted to hold local civil offices, such as probate judges, town clerks, etc. Heretofore the amount has been restricted to SOOO, and numerous instances have come to the knowledge of the Department that great hardships would result if postmasters were obliged to throw up that salary to hold a little local office. A Vermont dog was heart -broken at Jhe recent death of a horse owned by its maater. He followed as chief mourner to a point on a mountain, two miles from the stable, where the dead horse was dumped over a ledge, arid the laborers left him gazing down upon the body of his old companion ana whining piteously. Afterward they returned, and found him lying in the snow besidcMhe body, and some force was necessary to get him . to the sleigh to take him home. .* The matrimonial agency business must involve more than an ordinary amount of risk owing to the likelihood that customers will be dissatisfied with the commodity tarnished and refuse to pay their fees. A man in Jersey City promised a Mrs. Percies fifty dollars to secure him a wife. She did so and he gave her a check for twenty-five dollars in part payment, but When he became better acquainted with the wife that wag fttmishea him he got possession of that check and tore it Up. Mrs, Percies brought suit for her fees, but did not get them, • A Syracuse (S. Y.) gentleman and his wife left home a few days ago for an extended Southern tour, intend ingtospend s«iprlag month* to Florida. They got

as far as New York, and in visiting one of the theatres there, the gentleman was robbed of his wallet, containing the several hundred dollars with which be waa to defray the expenses oftlie trip. In the rear of that gentleman’s Syracuse house may be seen a thoughtftil man chopping wood in his shirt-sleeves, while a 9ad-eyed woaSßfcSithm spats- butter aml sighs. The Denver Time* skys t Mr. ,L T. Morgan, while out hunting on the head of the Republican, killed a white Buffalo, the hide of Which he ■brought to Denver, and is having it Stuffed and mounted. This is the first Instance of a white buffalo having been .shot by awh he man, so far as we have ever heard, though the Indians have occasionally found one. Mr. Morgan has been constantly engaged In bunting for several years, and this is the first white buffalo lie ever saw or ever heard of during that time. The buffalo is a yearling, and perfectly white—no colored spotyuppearing upon him. Mr. Morgan has been offered S2OO for it since lie arrived here. M e don’t know whether ten cents damages are considered, large in Connecticut, but in this case it doesn’t make much difference. In Hartford the great suit of Brown r«. Rood has just been decided. It must have been something of a case, for it took three days to try it. Brown sued Rood for “malicious prosecution,” and declared on two counts: 1. That Rood had prosecuted him maliciously in g/ciyil suit; 2. That lie had done the same wicked thing in a criminal case. The jury -went out, and having thought over the matter came back and upon their oaths declared that Brown ought to pay Rood ten cents, and that Rood ought to pay Brown ten cents. If that wasn’t an equitable verdict we should like to know- what would have been.— Hew York Tribune.