Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — What it Costs. [ARTICLE]

What it Costs.

One of our prominent citizens who had bean to the habit of smoking considerable, decided recently to quit the habit, and for the purpose cf ascertaining how much it had oost him to keep up the practice, he deposited weekly in a drawer the minimum sum which he had been accustomed to expend for the weed. He allowed the fund to accumulate for a few months, and when he came to count it up, was surprised to find that it aggregated the handsome little sum of s7s.— Mishawaka Enterprise. Crown Point Register. "John Meyer, the man who killed Cornelius Blachley, at Lowell on the 29th of March last, was indicted by the grand jury, brought into court on Tuesday, and plead guilty to the charge, whereupon the judge said: ‘The verdict of the court is that you be confined in the penitentiary during the term of your natural life.’ He received his sentence with the utmost complacency, and afterward assured us that it was really better than he had cause to expect, for he believed that the gallows .would have been his fate, lie said he had often thought that he would prefer death npen the gallows to the life he was living while in the employ of Mr. Mee—his being in continued pain, old in years, clothed in rags, with the knowledge that otheis were living partly upon money out of which they had swindled him—all this was worse than death by means of the halter.”

The whole tribe of impracticable people, of whom Wade and Wen da'll Phillips iibw appear' as spicuous leaders, can doubtless be said to be quite honest, though it must be admitted that they generally have "bees in their bonnets,” But clearly the number of such people is not large. Wade has been mentioned as a "representative republican of Ohio.” It is not true that he is such, as appears from the fact that at the recent senatorial election he, appearing as a candidate, receiving no support worth speaking ot, while a republican of the pronounced Hayes type was elected. It also appears from the recent meeting of the republican state committee of Ohio, when Hayes’ policy was generally ap proved. —Buffalo Express. Bloomington has been enjoying quite a sensation by reason of the tiling of a complaint by Mrs. John McPheetridge against Henry Voss, for a breach of promise of marriage. She is a sprightly, vivacious brunette, with an immense capacity to captivate. Her husband left her some years since and is now in Texas. He is the only son of Hon. Milton McPheetridge, one of the resident trustees of the State University. Mr.-Voss is a young widower, a gentleman of some means, and a prominent member of the M. E. church. That was a dreadful mistake of the Chelsea man. Going into the kitchen and groping about in the dark for a match, ran plump into the arms of tte hired girl. "Why Maggie,” lie chuckled, "you darling little witch,” and then as he crowded his mustache under her nose, the lamplighter touched off a lamp on the side street, and by the flickering rays that fell through thekitch* en window he recognized his moth-er-in-law. He started for the Black Hills at midnight.

A seven-year-old New' Albany lad named Shears, was bitten by a copperhead snake, near Hopkins’ tannery, a few days ago. Ho was stooping over looking into a barrel for hen’s eggs and stepped on the tail of the venomous reptile. In an instant he was bitten by the copperhead, and though a quart of equally poisononsKentncky whisky was promptly administered, it is doubtful if the boy’s life can be saved. “I am convinced that the world is daily growing better,” remarked a reverend gentleman to a brother clergyman; “my congregation is constantly increasing.” “Yes,” interrupted the brother, who happened to be a penitentiary chaplain, “and so is mine.” And there the discussion on the early arrival of the millennium dropped. The wife of Peter Leigden, of Lake county, aged 64 year#, accidentally fell into a well on Monday of last week and was drowned. She weighed upwards of two bund*, red pounds and when fonnd her body was floating on top of the water. ■ ~&~rrV Josh Billings says: “The mewl is a larger bird than the guse or turkey. It has two leg* to walk with, and two more to kick with, and wears its wings on the/side of its bed.” A blue glass chimney on theparlo*' lamp will bring fc young man up to the point of proposing to a crosseyed maiden with pore tfeetb, in three Sunday evenings* v vm