Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1880 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Senator Pendleton is decribed as living in a stately and magnificent manner in Washington. Mr. Alvan Clark, the famous telescope maker of Cambridge, Mass., is seventy-six years old. Sknator Bruck, of Mississippi, expects to take the lecture field after his term in Congress expires. A son and two nephews of Tom Hughes, the English statesman and author, have for several years been engaged in cattle raising in Texas. General Babcock, as well as General Grant, has a legacy from the late ex-Seeretary Borie. It amounts to f 6,000, to be paid in yearly installment of $1,250. Amelia Bloomer, the inventor of the Bloomer costume, is the wife of D. C. Bloomer. ex-State Senator of lowa and ex-Mayor of Council Bluffs, in *which city they live. Hon. John A. Cuthbert, now a practicing lawyer in Mobile, was an officer in the war of 1812, and in 1820 represented his district in Congress. He is ninety-one years old. Mr. John R. Chapman, of Oneida Lake, N. Y., is the father of nine sons whose total weight is one thousand seven hundred and forty pounds, Mid their total height fifty-three feet three inches. Dean Stanley's voice was weak and faltering while he read the service at the Bishop of Manchester's late marriage. The bride, too, responded low. But the Bishop's tones were vigorous and clear as a working die at a mint. Professor Doremus' bill for services in the Cobb-Bishop poisoning case at Norwich, Conn., was 91,300, and the State Attorney, with a view to economy, employed Professor Johnson, of Yale College, in the Riddle case, estimating the cost at less than 91,000. Professor Johnson's bill is, however, 92,380, and it is understood that the State will dispute it. Miss Nellie, daughter of ex-Gov-ernor Hubbard, of Connecticut, who eloped with her father's ooachman several months ago, has learned the dressmaking business, and is living happily with her husband. The old man doesn't relent enough to speak of, but has told Nellie that any time she will separate from the ex-coachman she will be received into the family again. A literary curiosity has just been published in Amsterdam. It consists of three short stories, possessing the peculiarity that in each of them only one vowel is employed—in the first a, in the second e. and in the third o, accordiug to whiclr the stories are entitled “ A-Saga,” “ E-Legende,” “O-Sprook.” It is said this could be accomplished in no other language. The Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican confirms the report that the Rev. W. H. H. Murray has gone to Europe, and says: “It is now learned that he spent the fall aud winter not iq the distant West, on a * ranch,’ as some of his friends thought, but in his old haunts in the Adirondacks; and he has not been idling (here, gloomily meditating on his present discomfiture and the ease with which the world gets on without him, but has busied himself with his pen on a literary work which will before long be published. General Robert Toombs has lately been visited at his Georgia village home by a correspondent of the Boston Herald •who describes him as “ a man worn out with years and a passionate existence, but glorying in the fact that he is not a citizen of the United States; that his political disabilities have not been removed, and'that he is the one only and unrepentant rebel.” He was the guiding mind -of the Georgia Constitutional Convention of 1877, but that is the only public office he has held since the war. His closest friend is Alexander H. Stephens, with whom he discusses politics by the day. A little diplomatic tiff at Washington is thus described by the Washington correspondent of the St. Paul PioneerPreu: “Sir Edward Thornton is the senior in the service ' of the diplomatic corps, and is therefore entitled to precedence on all occasions of ceremony, and the remainder of the corps follow in the order in‘which their credentials were received by this Government. Mr. Evarts gave a dinner to the diplomats the other day, and Sir Edward Thornton appeared to be absent when the procession was forming to march into the dining-room. Madam Outrey, the wife of the French Minister, (who is an American), insisted that in his absence the system of estimating rank by seniority ought to be dropped. Madam Dardon (whose husband represented the little republic of Guatemala, South America, and who stands next to Sir Ed* ward Thornton •in seniority) objected and there was a funny scene, Madam Dardon objecting to entering the din-ing-room unless she could go firtt. After some high words between the women, Secretary Evarts, seeing the danger of serious international complications, interfered, and decided z that the regular order of precedence should prevail, and the little South American came out ahead. The French legation is in a fever of chagrin and displeasure.”