Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1868 — Personal Items. [ARTICLE]

Personal Items.

—Canada has a young lady of twenty-three who is seven feet seven inches tal .aud web'hs 370 jmuuds. ° ... —Mrs. Mary Booth Goodrich, widow of “Peter Parley,” diyd in AVoOdburv, Conn., last week, aged (12. ‘ '■ —feir Pcrcy KVtlJey, son of the poet, is one of the best yachtsmen in England. His other specialty is private —Artemus Ward is not forgotten in Portland, where a copeart is tn bo given, next Monday, to procure funds for a memorial. —A peddler was found starved to death in his room, at Birmingham, Pa., tho other day, with an emaciated dog Watching tho corpse. • —The funeral services of ex-Gov. Tod, occurred on Sabbath last, at Briar Hili. Over fifteen thousand people were in attendance. —Recently, Mr. James Willis and Miss Carlotto Stood, both of Belmont county, 0., wire united in marriage, tho former aged 82, il.e bride lg years.

—lt is reported in New York that Mr. Edwin Booth has secured Mrs. Scott Siddons-for his new theatre in New York, which will probably open before Christmas. —Dr. Hoyt, of the New York State Board qf Charities, reports that nine-tenths of tho paupers arc foreigners, and one-third of them pcrfdetly able to take care of themselves. —"Mother” Bickerdyko, this famous hospital nurse < f tho western armies during the war, ,1b keeping a hotel at Salina, one of the western stations on tho Kansas Pacific Bailroad. —On Tur sdav last, Angelica Hamilton,wife Of Richard M. Blatcnford, and daughter of James A. Hamilton,'and grand daughter of Alexander Hamilton, died at her busband’s residence in New York city.

I —Somebody m»t Gen. Henry a. i.. er i*m of their <1 partiea with t ten frmi polel" # ‘ —Patrick Duff walked into the pit ... Franklin (N. J.) Furfiace, Mai nia-he •reek, and Ml a dllUUli'U OT iofc reel. h 0 T7* picked up alive, and will probably rorn * Hisdeacont having boon broken by the ged l walls of the pit. J »* —-Mt > James B. Manson, cdlfSrbf Qie Edin bnrfch Daily Review.- was found dead it, a, Btudy. Hfs pen Imd dropped from nis hand" ami a portion of fretddv written maniiserint was before him. Mr Maueon was'a'nativo of the north of and graduated at Aber deem Ho was fol morly editor of the Hlirlim' Observer. His.next post was that of editor OT thoNfeweastlo Daily Express, and finallv ’ in 1802. ho joined tho editorial staff of thn Daily Review, nn which he continued till hb death. „