Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1894 — PEOPLE. [ARTICLE]

PEOPLE.

W. H. Wallace, who was appointed postmaster at Jefferson, 0., by President Jackson in 1832, still holds the office. He is eighty-four years old. An English paper, the other day, had an appreciative reference to “Farragut, the great confederate admiral.” Concerning the statement, widely circulated, that Mr. Moody’s royalty on “Gospel Hymns”has Amounted to $1,250,000,-.. William E. Dodge is authority for the contradiction to the' effect that neither Moody nor Sankey has ever received a cent from the sales of the book. Thirteen of the Presidents of the United States were Masons. They werd Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Wm.~H. Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, and Garfield. King Oscar, of Sweden, in his youth had quite a vogue in Stockholm society as a tenor, and some people have said that a good opera singer was spoiled to make an indifferent king.