Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1883 — PERSONS AND THINGS. [ARTICLE]

PERSONS AND THINGS.

The Texas lecture manajfecrs lost money on Beecher. ' xT’ A man at Viola, Warrell couA(y, Tenn., the other day, eat eight pounds oi oysters in Less than twenty minutes. Mr?. Mary P. Jones, of Stevenson. who has just celebrated, her 100th birthday, has 216 lineal descendants. Mrs. Ann Scott, who fives near Hudson, N. Y.. has been married- four UnieS ard has brought sixteen children into this world HpNRY- Ward'Beecher returned from his ecturing tour with $13,0 00 in-cash;