Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The new Cardiff Giant: Olive lagan’s husband. —Mark Twain’s eyes are growing diirf, and he wears eye-glasses astraddle his ruby nose. —Stokes’ term of imprisonment will be out next October. And yet he still clamors for pardon. —Mrs. A. T. Stewart’s gifts to public charities have amounted to SIQQ,OPO since her husband’s death. , 1 n, —Lady Thornton, wife of the English Minister, is rusticating among tllfe Berkshire hills at Pittsfield, Mass. I di —Brigham Young is trying to Win Afiii Eliza back to his fold. She has cleased by her lectures $50,000 in gold. —Successfully funny as is Mr. Lewis — the Detroit Free Preu man—he is a human who never laughs and rarely smiles. Mr. Horace White has an article oh “ The Financial Crisis in America”;in the June number of the Fortnightly Periew. —They have been /making a great fuss in Philadelphia over Key. Mr. Oolfelt, because he modestly chooses to other people’s sermons rather than his own. —Vanderbilt University, at Mas iville, Tenn., has received another gift of $860,000 from Commodore Vanderbilt. The total amount given by him to that insfitution is $1,000,000. —Messrs, Jesse and Joseph, itaye’s, of Marion, 8. C. have lived with, their present wives, the former fifty-six and sie latter fifty-two years. The couples ure still strong, ami, propose to live a good many years yet. , i - —Dom Pedro won the hearts of 9,000 factory-girls of Lowell, Mass.,' at his recent visit to the Spindle City. He said he saw more to admin*in that city than any other place he had visited. Ana now every girl’thinks she was the object o/, his admiration. ’ —The father of Charlie Ross has ijn prM the story of the kidnaped child,' written by himself, with portraits of Charlie and his brother Walter, and pictures <sf other lost children, and sac-simile letters from the abductors, with other information' calculated to lead to the discovery of toe lost child. - ■ ‘-! ■ ’ —Ex-May or Eastman, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.„ has given 500 of the street boys of that city a straw hat each with this advice pasted inside the crown: “Don’t Brink,

d»nYW?m*wrm»wnMnY industrioug. worMvfllWidy hard, plajr hard, and you never will be * hatßsrid With the best wishes for your future welfare,r The bo}» took the hate, but it is doubtflul about tbeiil taking the advice. -rfik' D. Bin®, whose Memory is green in the hearts of hundreds of thousand of ailri, died in Cincranaujteceauy. Hewas a printer by trade, and went from Virginia ir 1840 to vine Inn art,'arid engaged irt the 1 I Apiihflfl, he, loaf his (‘VM-siidit in tUo (JaMlfa pfllce in a «sdmewith soot, and Mr. SintP’fittt smfte jWiwder •faklto <friwtt<oHheirt»w» ! WcteHri > lt fotft: ‘Wrt ptfwder himfr fire, l»Ht ’‘be'Pffeiied the •dtefl'tossoertain tfertscaiise oftllhe delay •Wlrert HCxplbded, and ffife ■ flash • blindec feiai 1 for lifts,'. :h» Amrast of thetaatae year

Jlhe was <uUribd tolhss Mary O. Maftin, ■ by wlxmr be had twodadghtera, who, with & «fr metiier v survive him. After joeing jjj, eyesight he wad compelled to abandon thc ;“<ase,” and he engaged in various specm at ‘ ons > until he finally engaged in the fora business, and the publication of a paper x’»own m the Cincinnati JJ&eary ,Thia, brought him wealth, and evewtaMlly <. ’ oatJ L for jkP got into tniible with. Ite m 9tft l authorities, and tt So preyMtwrtMni jt affepted fils mind, and ffife aflecth >n fln* 11 ? terminated his .existeuK*. • ■<->'>. ■ *