Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Boston school-girls play foot-ball. Thk salaries of postmasters are to be readjusted on July 1. One Mrs. Wade fulfills woman’s mis aion as a blacksmith at Fort Scott, Kan. ■A. man in the Worcester (Mass.) House of Correction is serving his fifty-second term. ThereJs a window in an Albany hotel out of which five different men have leaped to their death. Boston papers report the price of refined sugar# lower than at any time during the past ten years. Fokt Smith, Ark., has a woman blacksmith who can throw a mule and shoe him in fifteen minutes by the clock. John Peterson, who is to be hanged in Georgia next month, has, since his sentence, fallen heir to a fortune of $30,000. They feed their juries by contract in St Louis. The jailer receives the pro posals. The last job was let at the rate of thirty-five cents per juryman. Aparty of “young ladies” was recent- . ly dispersed by the police at Springfield, Mass., for disturbing a newly married couple with a tin-pan serenade. Miss Linnamore, a San Francisco lady, has brought suit against Michael Burn's the owner of a vicious dog, to recover SIO,OOO damages for injuries sustained, irorn an assault by the latter. A number of capitalists in New Jersey and New York have already consummated a project for the construction of a ship canal, running under the Palisades at the rear of Weehawken and Hoboken. Justice Dowling wants SIO,OOO from the New York Sun for saying that he opened court, the other day, by asking a prisoner for a “chaw,” and wound up by adjourning to the front room to taken drink. At a small town on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad the other day four able-bodied white men were seen in a field playing croquet. “It was,” says the Louisville Courier-Journal, “the sublimest z spectacle that an impoverished country ever beheld.” That part of Boston which was lately burnt down, and which has an area of about sixty acres, will, it is said, be so laid out that five main thoroughfares will form' radii of a segment of a circle of which the centre will be the Post-office and the arc the sea margin; the intervening streets will be laid out as chords of this at equal distances apart. The Truckee Republican says that there is a rumor to the effect that Captain Jack has divided his army of fifty men into three the'first, under the Cap- . tain, is to capture and hold California; the second is to sweep northward and subdue Oregon, while the third forces its way over the mountains and sagebrush and de vastates Nevada and Utah. The “Iron-Jawed Woman,” who is engaged in ennobling mouth performances in connection with a travelingcircus, was married at Hustonville, Ky., the other day, to a gymnast connected with the same show. An iron-jawed woman and a ’ gymnast in the holy bonds ofTnatrimonyf Wouldn’t you rather see one of their little connubial disputes than all the balance ofthe circus? The latest “big thing” in California is the enterprise of converting Guadaloupe Island, lying off the coast of Lower California, into one Angora goat ranch. The island has an area of 166,400 acres, and is the property of an incorporated company. It is mountainous, well watered, and at present tenanted by an immense flock of wild goats, embracing, it is estimated, 200,000 head. One of the new fraternities of a secret character in their organization and work, which is to be established in the United States this year, is that of Forestry, which, though only planted in England 'in 1845, has now nearly half a million of members, with a cash capital of about $7,500, : 000. A “High Court” of this order will be founded in New York some time in the autumn. — : —----- The lowa Granger is responsible for the statement that five men were grubbing hazel-brush, etc., on the farm of Thomas Coalthrust, tec miles east of Washington, when they found a big snake den, covering a space of about five square feet, at the depth of two feet in the ground. Six different varieties of “serpent snakes” were here making their winter quarters together—the blue racer, blacksnake, greensnake, housesnake, viper and rattlesnake. One hundred and four snakes were taken out and killed, and it is not known howmany yet remained in the den. A remarkable breach of promise-ease-was tried in a Pittsburgh court, recently.In this case the forlorn and broken-heart-ed damsel commenced suit, several months ago, against the man who refused to fulfil his promise of marrying her, and duridg its progress married another man. The curious incident was therefore witnessed, of a married woman bringing suit against a man, who was by this, time also married, for refusing to marry her. The jury found it difficult to decide"what amount would fitly heal her lacerated -heart. ; A Wilkinson County (Ga.) man became convinced the other day that a woman’s temper is very irregular. He had been moulding some bullets, and had neglected to cool off the ladle in which the lead had been melted. While he was counting the bullets his wife came into the room humming a tender love song. Suddenly the song ceased, and the man was made aw-are that something had happened by catching an adjacent coffee-mill on the bridge of his nose. The .unhappy, wife and mother had taken this picturesque mode of informing him that she had picked up the ladle by the hot end. - The last decision rendered by Chief* Justiee Chase, which would have an inters est on this account alone, concerned an accident life insurance policy. The case came from Michigan, and was one in which the heirs of the deceased, who had come to his death by violence while walking,, sued for $3,000, the amount of an accident policy which he had taken out for one day on the day of his death. Payment was refused because the policy stipulated insurance against accident and death while “traveling by public or private conveyance in the United States or Dominion of Canada.” The assured proceeded by steamboat, after purchasing his insurance ticket, and then walked eight miles to his,residence. It was during this walk that he met his death by violence. The Michigan Courts -held that the death did not come within the terms of the contract, as walking was not “traveling by public or private conveyance,” and ChiefJustice Chase's opinion .affirmed the judgment of the State Conxt.i—Chicago Tribune. . . “Don’t afint me I hain’t got time,”— The Postmaster-General has received the following letter from a person who was recently appointed Postmaster (at a salary of sl2 per annum) of a backwoods town in lowa. We give it verbatim el literatim: “to the gineral postmaster at Washingon Citty my Deare friend i hope you will not appint me postmaster in this here town i hain’t got no time to tend to it i suppose you got the paper someow my friends sent up Recominden me buti hain’t got no time to do the thing up as it ort too be done. In fact dont know hardly what is ago in to be done our shoemaker would be a very good man only he was Grely square out which you know- unfits him for the position then there is our storekeeper Jim B that wants the position mighty bad but as sure as you are a livin man jim B kaint read good I

writin and thate the trouble Y’ou see them that wants it don’t know enuff to tend it and them their that does dont want to take it jim B—— was rased but in the countrey and jest come to town last week and dont know enuff to be postmaster but do as you think best only dont apint me i haint got time ever your friend,” etc.— Washington Star.