Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

I. Ammerman is the proud title of a citizen of He# Jeraey. 1 . —Ex-Secretary Bristow will be fortyfbur yhars old on the 11th of inly. —6ergt. Bates now contemplates a water yoyage 10,000. mile# long. If he will make the first mileof it under water, h»4tan draw on Detroit for ssoo— Free Frees. —On tne 18th of Jane Dr. George Cbok, the President of the Brigham Hall Insane Asylum, st Canandaigua, was fatally stabbed by an insane patient, named Brown. —Rev. H. R, Revels, D. 8., has been elected editor of the SeuthMsetem Christian Advocate at New Orleans, by. the Methodist Gendrtl Conference in session at Baltimore. Dr, Revels, is the colored ox-United Btates Senator from Mississippi. —An event of considerable interest in ecclesiastical circles in Philadelphia has just occurred in the retirement of Rev. Henry A. Board man from the pastoral charge of the Tenth Presbyterian Church, which he has held for the last forte-three years. —Mr. Wylie, the Checker-player who won so many matches in Eastern cities, a few days ago entered into an agreement with Mr. Barker, of Boston, who is considered the best player in New England, to'jplay a series of 100 games, each of the contestants to pay ten dollars to the other for every game lost. Up to last Saturday evening thirty-two gamee had been played, of which Wylie had won six and twenty-six were drawn, when Barker said that he had no more money to pay, and the series was closed.— N. 7. Evening Poet —Rev. Dr. Wm. A. Stearns, for nearly a quarter of a century President of Amherst College, died suadenly at his residence, on the evening of June 8, of paralysis of the heart, at foe age of seventy. He attended a meeting of the faculty the day before, which- was unusually long, and became much exhausted, suffering from neuralgic pains through the night. Nevertheless he went to toe chapel, as usual, in toe morning, but fainted while devotional exercises were being conducted. Nothing more serious than overwork and weariness was apprehended, however, and he kept about the house during the day till about six o’clock, when, in not over five minutes after he had been walking around, he suddenly fell dead. —When Admiral Porter was presented to Dom Pedro he said to him, “ I had toe honor of attending your wedding before you did!” which was literally true. Donna Teresa, the Empress, is a Neapolitan Princess, and was married to Dom Pedro by proxy in Naples. Admiral Porter, then a young officer, who was with the United States fleet in toe Bay ot Naples, was present at toe marriage, and was also on one of our vessels which formed part of the escort of the bride out of the harbor. His vessel was on its way to Rio Janeiro at the time, and reached the Brazilian capital in time for Admiral Porter to witness the actual marriage of Dom PedTO ’ -I- . i