The weekly union record., 1865-01-14
Interesting items.

A Ronsn Catholic Bishop IL Canada Eas,
hss ipierticted the wearing Of ;ewel-y by the
geniler sex.
Pennsylvania has furnished huad.sti million
dollars worth Of iroD, coal and petroleum this
year
4 company has been organized in Boston.
With capital Of SS0e 00o. for the manufacture
Of paper collars and cuffs
The cigar factories Of Boston ard vicinity
have nearly ceased WORK, throwing eat-of em-
pioy over tive thousAu ud-cigar makers.
Three hundred millions Of dollars have been
paid as bounties 10 soldiers during the war.
Oniy the loose change al U1cle Sans Jacket
pocket
An ingenious Pennsylvania has Invented a
machine for coal mining, which weighs but 100
pounds, costs but $500, and does The labor Of
twenty men.
Tue merchants Of New Haven have Just sen,
10 the Connecticut soldiers three huudred aud
hf'y pairs Of gloves and enc hundred pairs of
mitteus.
A. W. Canley. of Boston, has Invented a
machine for turning cannon and other balls.
which is said to be capable of turning 90
twenty inch shot in one hour.
Al recent prize fight near Sheffield, Eng
land, one OF the pugiASis died on the spot He
bad been stimulated 10 q new round, but. when
adFarcng 10 meet his antagonist. be fal;ercd
aud fell dead in tie ripg.
Great guns cost something. 4 10 inch
Parrot gun costs $500: a Is inch Rodmau
gun costs $4,000; a Is inch krupp's gun
costs S29.+00; a = inch Blakely gun costs
$4,000. The two latter are made Of steel
A dancer in one of the Cincinnati theaters
died Lately from drinking ice water. She had
been dancing, and, in passing from the green.
room to The stage, in response to the second
s'loore, she drank glass Of water and dropped
dead before the audience.
\ confectioner in New York got Up q
Thanksgiving cake for the Ladies Home Mis-
sion, which was ten feet long, twenty-five inches
wide, and sixteen thick. To make it took
LOCO eggs, 10 pounds Of -four. l25 pounds Of
sugar, and so pounds Of butter,
Dan VOORHEES,, the Indiana Copperhead
"Son of Liberty" who has misrepresen,ed that
State in Congress following the example Of
Nallaudigham, is abo9t to drop politics. remove
to New York city ard resume the practice Of
the law.
The United States Circuit Court in New
York has given verdict Of four thousand dol
lars to person for damages sustained from 3
stage, while crossing the street. The law is
that pedestrians bave the first right to the
crossing OF the street.
Every day more or less Of government clerks
al Washington resign their places on the ground
that the increase in their salaries by no means
keeps pace with the increasing cost OF all arti
Giles OF living. For every vacancy thus created.
there are ten applicants, on the principle,
doubtless, that some meu live where Others
would starye.
Some people die because they cannot get
enough to ear, but man lately died in Paris
because he could not eat enough He was
tormented with insaliale hunger. His ear inings
being altogether Insufficient to satisfy his enor-
nous appetite, though be ate scarcely anything
but bread. his fellow workmen contributed to
wards his support but, weared of thus bur
deniug his friends, and worn out by his suffer
ings, he at last hung himself.
At recent fire in San Jose, the editor of
the Mercury observes that Mrs. Yourgworih
stood upon the kitchen roof OF bakery and
restaurant kept by ber husband, adjoining the
burning buildings, with a hose pipe in her
hands, keeping the fire from the bakery build
ing. 1t was place of great peril with the
flames all around her. She refused to be
relieved, but, while her husband was at work
below, bravely stood at her post until their
property was cut OF danger.
Henry Curuey, ten years Old, who resided at
Gloucester, New Jersey, was attacked by
bloodhound, recently, and was so terribly in
jured that he died soon after Accompanying
The boy was a small dog, which attacked the
savage animal and fought him desperately in
defense OF the child, but was terribly torn him
self. The child was tossed about in the field
for some time, spectators surprising ii to be q
dead animal; but, discovering that it was a
human being, they went to the childs rescue
Both ears were torn of. aud the scalp entirely
taken from his head. The flesh was torn from
his iace, besides other Injuries. He was found
in an insensble condition, and lockiaw soon
following dea h ensued