Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1873 — CURRENT ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT ITEMS.

' ° Blest have bean found in tree# on the Sierras at an altitude of 8,000 feet. Brigham demands toll of every vehicle passing up City Creek, Salt Lake. A. daring youth recently swam across the Niagara River at the foot of the falls. Tire grape crop of Santa Barbara County, California, will be very large and fide this year. A pea-lion weighingover 300 pounds has been captured off Wells Beach, Me. A horned toad was lately dispatched by mail, in a sardine box, from Nevada City, to Tiffin, Ohio. ! Boston’s Model Lodging-house Association has proved a failure, and, will close up its affairs. f — p— Little boys and girls are fined $1 a head in Chautauqua County, New York, for boat-riding on Sunday. ’ THEpeach crop, ustiallv so abundant about Walla Walla and the t)alles, Oregon, is this year almost a failure from late frosts. " Utah is one of flic best stock-raising countries in the world., The cows get so strong that their cream churns itself. In a Boston office hangs a sign with the following inscription: “Peple arc forbidden to spite tobakerjuc on the flor.” A new swindle is being practiced on several New York railways. Counterfeit tickets are being sold extensively by putative agents. TnE movement recently started in Cincinnati, to give working-women a holiday on Saturday afternoons during the summer, bids fair to be successful.’' The President of the second branch of Baltimore’s City Council was arrested and fined for setting off flre-crgckers ,in the street on the Fourth. An annual known as the ToUouoy , a kind of Armadilo, has been discovered near the battle ground below Vancouver. It is about the size of a yearling bear. Work is being commenced in Arizona on the military telegraph, and the people are greatly rejoiced at the prospects of speedy communication with the outside world. . -■, Purchasers of accident policies should be a little particular about dates. A gentleman purchased one recently, good" for two days, but discovered ■subsequently that the date on the card make it expire two days before the purchase; ——- The forty thousand live shad sent to California and Great Salt Lake by the United States Commissioner of Fisheries under charge of Liviugton Stone, deputy for the Pacific coast, and two assistants, have arrived at their destination in perlect order. The second party of Chinese youth, about eighty ia all, who are to be educated.. in this country under the direction of Commissioner Uaisun, sailed lrom China June 20, and are expected to arrive in Springfield, Mass., during the last of the present month. A Linn (Mass.) lady sold rags to a Salem buyer. A week afterward she called at his establishment and desired to see what she had sold. After searching the loft diligently she found her SI,OOO in currency, and savings bank book calling for $2,400. Moral: Never hide jOur valuables m rag-bags. The Coffeyville (Kau.) Courier recomommends itself after this fashion: “The. Courier is printed nearer the scene of the late Bender horror than any other newspaper. Those wishing to subscribe for agood, live newspaper should make a note of 1 the fact.” A girl seventeen years old was arrested in Buffalo the other day, cha.ged with three separate attempts to burn her employer’s house. Alter denying the crime to. some time, she at last made a full confession, saying that she only did it “to have a little luu with the folks," as , she “knew they were badly scared.” The prohibitory liquor law in Massachusetts sometimes gives rise, to comic as well aS tragicTncideins, as at HolyokeTthU other day, when a State constaule, after an exciting chase, overhauled a truckman and seized upon the beer-barrel in his wagon only to discover that its contents were offal instead of lager. The counterfeit fifty-cent notes which are in circulation can be detected by bolding the notes to the light, when oue can see there are no silk fibers in the paper, but they are simulated by irregular scratches on the plate, which give the surface impression. The red treasury seal is alsoprinted in ink which will rub and blur over the paper if a person dampen his finger and passes it over it. They have a practical way of righting things up in Canterbury, N. 11. A Manchester man who bad unfairly obtained a farm of a dying man, to the detrimenlTor the widow and children, recently visited it to cut the hay, got his mowing machine ready for use the next morning, and retired. That night about twenty men and women turnyd out, prepared the hay by moonlight, sold the crop, and placed the money in keeping for the rightful heirs, all before daylight. An Expensive Pet DoG.—Tliere appears to be no need of a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals at Concord, N. H. A lady residing there has a pet dog of the black and tan variety, called “Maxie.” The dear little brute was put in a box covered with slats, and started, in the care of the United States & Canada Express, to spend the summer at a delightful place in Vermont. He gnawed out of the box, jumped off' the train between stations on a Vermont railroad, and disappeared in the woods. When tidings of his loss reached his mistress, she caused men to scout through all the region of his escapade, and after an expenditure of over S2OO, 3laxie was found. The market value of such dogs is about $5. The iady says Maxie would never have forgiven her if she had omitted any cfforjto find him.— Boston Adveri&er. “ U - ' .liyi.i, I • .