Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1868 — Personal Items. [ARTICLE]

Personal Items.

•* —Mrs. Stevens, a daughter of Thackeray, is in Boston. —A Marylander 13 writing the life of Chief Justice Taney. —Gen. Prim’s wife, a Crcolo lady of fortune, lias returned to Madrid.. —Mr. William Story is about to publish n now volume of poems in England. —Twenty-three survivors of the battle of Trafalgar are still officers of the British navy. —A Vermont editor writes obituary notices of delinquent subscribers, and in this way bnugs them to life. —A drunken man was picked up in the streets of St. Joseph. Mo., with $2,700 in gold on his person. —Speaker Colfax, as a wedding present, gave his wife a set of- pearlß, brooch, necklace and bracelets. —A. T. Lowe of Marion, Williams connty, 111., was shot dead in a saloon at Carbondalo, yesterday, by a man named Barnnm. —Clav county, Mo., boasts of a uegro woman 118 years old. Him is of Bound mind, can soo quite plainly, and enjoys good health. —Tho oldest physician in the world. Professor Verdugo, has jfrat died at Salamanca, Spain, at the age of 104, after practicing medicine eighty-six years, ; —rarii is beginning to tain of a new star engaged by M. Coguard. Mile. Aboard, such is tho namo of the artist, has already obtained a good reputation, and will replace Mile. Schncider.at tho Varieties. She is said to be very talented. . —At Springfield, Mass., an itinerant scis-sors-grindor won the confidence of unsuspecting females by representing himself to be an exiled Count. One lady purchased eighteen pairs of ecissor#of him. - —Schneider is not going to write her memoirs. She sayß: “I do not find that I have sufficient talent to composo tho story of my owu life, but I have quite enough not to allow it to fie written by any other. ” —A young brother of the late Admiral Napier is soon to be married to a young aud beautiful Jewoss, of Prague, whoso cjjjucation, as well as that of her betrothed, lie'bas superintended since the death of their jttrents. —A daughter of Donizetti, -the celebrated composer of so many popniar Italian operas, keeps a second, rate roffee-houae in the little town of Novara, and a son of Bellini, the composer of “Norma,” end “La Homnambuta," is a school teacher at Milan, —Six weeks ago, a man in Montreal deserted his wife, and absconded with a widow? taking his wife’s money, and leaving her ontiro tv destitute. She has since ln-cotne insane by her trouble,nod is now’ill jul at Montreal, where she will kemata until sffo ean be removed to Beaniurt Asylum. —The young Princeesof Prussia, who was married iu IHC7 to that scapegrace, Duke William of Mecklenburg, has succeeded in taming him, aud is aaiJ to be a very happy wife and mother. At the time of thi-ir marriage it was predicted that a divorce would be applied (or in less than six months. —The Due de M—es Pari*. i» ;ncb. but a veritable miser. He dines ia tarn at the houses of his iriends and relatives: and though Old, will walk five miles tq-eave a,son. Returning from a dsjerttier a few days age, he was overcome with faunae and fell asleep. On awakening he fbnnd ms hit on the bench beside him with twelve sons in it, and a note in pencil attached soliciting aid from the compassionate. i