Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1868 — Personal Items. [ARTICLE]

Personal Items.

—The Duke of Nassau is a bloated bondholder, He has been buying $1,000,000 of five.twenties. —“Doosticks”—thft otigii al of that name, is Police Court reporter for Brick Pomeroy's paper —Tho King of Saxony has a civil list of $600,000, one fourth of which, $150,000 aro spent annually, fordha roval fiteatre rd Dresden. •yrCotta, the Stnttgard publisher, gave Barbu Humboldt $20,000 for the privilege of publishing his “Coamon" for twenty-five years. —Victor Hugo is a Peer of France, having been so created by Louis Phillippe, and n Spanish Viscount, but he prefers to bo called by his own name, without any “handle.” . —Dr. Hoyt, of tho New York State Board of Charities, reports that nine-tenths of the paupers are foreigners, and one-third of them perfectly able to lake care of themselves. -r-The daughter of Catlin, tho Indian writer and hunter, was married a few days since at Washington. Tho bride's train-was oyer three yards long, and held up by two gentlemen. —A young Miss in Baltimore had to give SIOO surety that she would not again assume male attire, notwithstanding the faet. an she modestly expressed herself, thst,-*4te~-ildid_ look nrrghty nice as it tmyr” -- Ono of the most fashionable ladies in Washington has a billiard room in her elegant house, and issues invitations to “billia»d breakfasts,” at 10 o'clock in the morning, when cues and coffee are discussed alternately. —Mr Howard M. Ticknor, of the late firm oLTicknor <t Fields, took his departure for Europe, at New York, on Saturday lost. Mr. . Ticknor is accompanied by his wife, and they intend to stay abroad for tho next two or three years. —Gen. Grant owns as6o,ooohouse aiWashington, and a farm of thirty-eight acres, worth $2,000 per acre, within tlie city limits. Hie real estate at St. Louis, Galena and Philadelphia is worth SIOO,OOO more, and $300,000 is said to be u fair estimate" of his “total valuation?’ —Tho Daymen (Ohio) Journal says: “David Cooper, aged about •thirty-four years, aud measuring only Ore»>/i/-eij;to inches in height, died in Butler township the other day. He ■was an estimable gentleman, of more than average intelligence, and of very active habits/’

—A clergyman in California, named James Hunter, insured his life for $5,000; on his death his wife refused the money because he had concealed a disease from the company. She has had $2,000 presented to her by the company. —A young follow at Nashville gambled and lost his ready money; not satisfied with this, lie staked his engagement ring, worth $125, and lost that. Dishharted, bo started for home, but calling a policomm, the winner was arrested, alter setoral shots were fired, and the ring was restored. —The mailing clerk of the Dubnquo Times has boon detected in the practice of robbing bis employer’s letters of money and of selCing newspapers that he should have forwarded to subscribers. His name is Frank Cooney, aijd be has confessed to taking the money. The amount of his stealings is unknown. . , • ■_ —The wife of Mr. William Pike, livingnear Camubellsville, Kentucky, while endeavoring to release her little bov, whose arm had been caught in a cane mill, had her own arm caught in tho same way. and both mother and son wore so severely injured that an amputation of tho arm was found to be necessary in both cases. ■ —Dr. Harris, while a jnnior at college, being in great want of money to buy shirts or other necessaries, and not knowing how to obtain it, set out on a walk from Cambridge to Boston. On the way ho ent a stick, and, walking a- short distance, perceived thai something had become attached to tho end ,<?f it. It ptoved to bo a gold ring, with Um motto, ‘“God speed thee, friend. thnrne's Note book. The Joint Annnual Meeting of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, the General Committee, and a committee appointed by the Board of managers, took place nt Philadelphia, last week, Bishop Simpson in the chair. Sixty thousand dollars were appropriated for the expenses of the current year. The following appropriations were made for Western Conferences: California, $1,000; Central Illinois, $530; Colorado, $1,000; Des Moines, $1,500; Illinois, $500; Indiana, $500; lowa, $500; Kansas. $1,000; Michigan. $500: Minnesota, $1,500; Nebraska, SI,OOO. *