Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1868 — Personal Items. [ARTICLE]

Personal Items.

—Frederick Hudson, long the managing editor of the Now York Herald, is writing liis recollections of journalism. _ —Brigham Young is reported to bo paying his addresses to a young Gentile named An,nette Ince, an actress. —Rev. Mr. Milburn, the blind preacher, will probably have hie sight restored- Rt least so sajre'Von Graefe, the Berlin oculist. —The aggregate income of Adelina Patti, from July 1, 1867, to June 30. 1868, was 98,000 francs. Her whole fortune is estimated at 130,000 dollars. —Among the ladies who have claimed the right of suffrage in the new borough of Chelsea, is Miss Frances Power Cobbe, autiiorCsH.. —Mrs. Moses Burr, of Weston, Conn., finding a burglar in her house, “pitched” into him, defeated him, and secured his btihdle. —Gen. A. K. Scott. Governor of South Carolina, has had a singular experience, for in the course of three years he was a prisoner, a victor, and a Governor in the same State. —Queen Isabella, of Spain, whose subjects ate. nun rising in ftuiiinlablti revolution against her, and whose abdication is demanded. is a heavy specimen of femininity. She weighs 225 pounds. —Major Joseph M. Bell, a native of New Hampshire, and General Buyer’s chiof-of-staff, at New Orleans, died at Boston a few days since. Maj. Bell was a graduate of Dartmouth College, and a sor.-in-law of Rufus Choate. —lt is claimed by the Palmyra (N. Y.) Courier that Col. Jamesß. Stoddard, residing in that place, is-the oldest printer in the United States. He is in his B.3th year, and it is seventy-three years since lie began his apprenticeship with Samuel Green, in New London, Conn. He is still in the enjoyment of remarkable mental and physical strength. , —Abbe Liszt is again in Rome. When he informed the Pope of his return to the Eternal Citv, Pius IX exclaimed: “Ah, mv dear son, I have often longed for you. Ko one plays as you do; no one knows" how to exhilarate me by sweet music as you 1” Liszt now spends at least two hours everv day in the Pope’s rooms, and plays to His Holiness.