Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

proper way to pronounce Taliaferro is Tolliver, and senator Bogy, of , f should be addressed as “ Mr. —The fund which has been collected as a testimonial to Capt. Webb, wtya swam across the English Channel, amohnis to ..abost **>,ooo. Mrs. Nellio Grant Sartoris’ infant son *LjMpd on the second anniversary of her marJttuge, aged ten months. The mother is °*2toFyet twenty-one years of age, and very yopng to know the anguish of such a loss. —A. large number of letters have been received by Mrs. A. T. Stewart, purporting to be communications from herliusband in the spirit world, and recommending to her favor, lor pecuniary aid, certain persons named. 'l —The Salt Lake correspondent of a San Prancisco paper says it is settled that after she new temple is dedicated at St. George, “Jjrigham Young, Jr., will be officially ‘proclaimed as the President of the Church _of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and • "feuccessor to Brigham I. The plan is then "lor the Saints to take up their line of march for New Mexico. —Our Centennial walker is beaten. Weston’s greatest walk is 109 miles ip twenty-four hours, while’- three amateur . Englishmen on the London track — \ Vaughan, Crossland and Hause—havp i made respectively 113, 116 and 120 milep "4nr i *life ’satm l tftnd. We throw vtp the sponge; hut Weston was one of our slowest walkers. — N. Y. Graphic. —A base-ball player named Miller, formerly catcher of the St. Louis club, died in Philadelphia, recently. In his last moments he was delirious, and fancied he was at his place in the ball-field, facing his old pitcher, Bradley. His last words were: “Two out, Brad —steady, now—he wants a high hall —steady, Brad —there, I knew it: that settles it.” —The wife ol Ole Bull sailed from New York, recently, to join her husband at his home in Norway. While Mr. Bull has been making his musical tour through Europe and Egypt, Mrs. Bull has been residing with her parents in this country, and spending her leisure time in translating a Norwegian novel, which will soon be published in Chicago. They expect to return to this country in the autumn. „• —Ex-Senator Sprague, of Rhode Island, id said to he the hardest workingman of the large force employed in repairing the damage done at Baltic by the great flood of March last. He is the first man on the ground in the morning and the last to leave at night. The whole work there is under his supervision. He is frequently to be seen as late as ten o’clock at night Coming from up the river, where he has been laboring all day, with a large force of men, .driving logs down the stream. —Pour of Daniel Drew’s grandchildren .have petitioned the Probate Court to have him removed from his position as Trustee of their property. By the provisions of their father’s will they weie to receive half of their portions at the age of twentyone years and the balance at the age of thirty-one years. Mr. Drew' has been acting as Trustee, therefore, for a long time, and it is thought most of the property has been swallowed up In his speculations. His present condition of health is very precarious, and it is believed be cannot live through the summer. —Of the late Mr. Bloss’s curious manuscrjpt the Cincinnati Enquirer says: The peculiarity of his chirography, which was so often commented upon, was supposed to arige from some peculiar defect of the brain. Although he "knew well enough what the characters ought to he, he lacked the ability to transmit to the muscles and nerves of his hand the conception of his mind. He held the pen by the extreme end. His writing was simply a species of hieroglyphics, hut he made his characters always alike, aud one could, by close study, in time learn to decipher them. Many persons supposed that his had manuscript was caused by chorea scriptorum or Scrivener’s palsy, hut this was not the case. Hfc chirography was something wonderful in its illegibility, and there is scarcely a printingoffice in the country where there isn’t* sample of.“Biose” hung up somewhere to try-the compositors.