Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

Omasa hM enacted an ordinance against l 0 Legislature is considering a bill to preventelreusea from entering the State. New Hampshire has found a way to lhed her State Prison convicts on eleven cents a day. A Corning (N. Y.) girl has recovered S6OO from one Peter, a Presbyterian preacher, for slander. Ik Sevier County, Twin., an ancient silter mine has been discovered, with all the old appurtenances for working. A NEW secret society in San Francisco la “Hie United Order of Cobble stone Throwers,” and their motto is “Death to the Heathen Chinee.” A Philadelphia bar-keeper has contributed $2,000 of a prise won by him in the Havana lottery to the funds of an in. ebriate asylum. A Massachusetts postmistress has resigned her office, as a matter of honesty, because she can’t find time to read ail the postal-cards and attend to her other duties besides. These were two remarkable things about Nancy Harvey, who died in Baltimore last week : She was 117 years old; never nursed George Washington, in fact didn’t even know him. An ambitious woman of Portland, OreSm, comes to the front as candidate for ayor, and as an inducement to voters she promises to fulfill, if elected, the pledges required beforehand. The model of the ideal American j uryman appeared in the panel summoned to try the Woodhull-Claflin case, and in response to inquiries, said he “had never heard of Mr. Beecher.” Not far from Harrodsburg, Ky., there is said to be a tree which has grown over and entirely inclosed all but the end of a plowshare, which was hung up in the tree and left there years ago. A Memphis girl was married the other day, and immediately sold her piano, bought a sewing machine, and made her husband a suit of clothes and herself two calico dresses, and now fourteen young men are seeking the hand of her unmarried sister. A Boston paper tells a story of a professional burglar of that vicinity who took a pride in his vocation, and the results of his nightly expeditions in it volume paged and lettered after the fashion of a met chant’s journal. A farmer residing near Davenport, lowa, recently strewed his potato-tops liberally with Paris green to kill the bugs. The following night his horses broke into the potato patch, ate the tops and the poison, and three of them died. -John Rowley, of Henderson County, 111., had been feeding his hogs arsenic to prevent them taking cholera. The heavy rains washed jt out of the trough into the pasture, where the cattle were eating. They licked it up, and thirteen died from the effects of the poison. A conscientious Pittsburgh man promised his wife the other day that he wouldn’t drink another drop as long as he had a hair on his head. That very' night he had his head shaved smooth, and then got drunk with a proud consciousness of having faithfully kept his promise. Baltimore boys know what fun is. A crowd of them covered a cat with a robe of tar and hemp, the other night, and then set fire to it, causing the animal to do some startling gymnastics and sing a diverting dirge. Baltimore wants a few more monuments, boys’ sizes. A wealthy New York gentleman, of an original turn of mind, is going to have stables built upon his grounds after the model of the pyramids of Egypt. He contends the pyramid is the proper form for dwelling houses also, and has the advantage of putting a stop to the eternal discussions about Mansard and other roofs. Several New York reporters are trying to form a coalition against such newspapers as refuse to allow them to use freely such favorite terms as “inaugurate,” “conflagration,” “holocaust,’ ’ ‘ ’can ine quadruped,” “funeral obsequies,” and other spunding absurdities. They declare, and truly enough, that if these words are denied them, they can have nothing to say. The Norfolk (Va.) Journal says there is a mule owned by a woman in' that city, and driven to market every day, that has been an inveterate tobacco e'hewer for many years. Whenever the mule becomes obstinate, it is only necessary' to give him a chew, when he becomes perfectly kind and gentle: The woman purchases tobacco for him regularly, aud always keeps it on hand. Four boys living at Jersey City' recently ran away from home. ‘One of them fashionably stole $2,000 from the bank where he worked, and they all bought sailor's clothes, purchased a yacht and started for sea. Nothing was heard of them for some days, when one was found on board a China clipper ship about to sail. He said the treasurer of the four had absconded and they had to dissolve partnership.