Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—David Dudley Field is said to receive the largest fee* of any lawyer in the world, he’s a field requiring such immense fertilizing before production. —The New York Tribune says of Winslow: “Never did a man admit that he was hard up in prettier language. Instead of saying that he wrote other men’s names on the back of his notes, he tragically declares that ‘he was conquered by tempestuous forces.’ *’ —The Philadelphia Bulletin proposes an elaborate work on etiquette, subdivided into chapters, severally entitled as follows: Alphabetiquette, Ascetiquette, Athletiquette, Peripatetiquette, Phonetiquette, Dietetiquette, Prophetiquette, Forgetiquette, Regretiquette, Indebtiquette, Oosmetiquette, Emetiquette. .■ ■ ■ _ —Mark Twain writes a very funny article which turns on his recently having posted a letter with insufficient postagestamps and had it go to the dead-letter office, and his having, after great trouble, reclaimed it. The real joke is against Mark, howeyer, because for several years now any letter with one single stamp on would go to its destination, the deficit to be paid there. The absurd law of which Mark so pathetically complains was repealed when he was,, a boy.— N. T. Graphic. —Lieut. Rudio, of the United States Army, is one of three conspirators who attempted in 1858 to take the life of Napoleon 111. by throwing hand-grenades into his carriage. The companions of Rudio were executed, being convicted, it is said, on evidence furnished by him, which was at the same time the means of saving his life. He has lately come into prominence in connection with the Indian war on our Western plains, having been separated from his command for three days at the imminent peril of sis life. —A New York special says: “Brig.Gen. Henry Reeves (Inglesito), one of the boldest of Cuban insurgents, who was recently killed at Yaguaramus, in Cuba, was formerly in the employ of A. T. Stewart, but at the commencement of the Cuban struggle forsook dry goods to fight for the liberty of Cuba. By his bravery he finally gained the title of BrigadierGeneral, and was greatly beloved by all who knew him. By the Cubans he was called Enrique el Americaine (Henry the American), and by the Spanish troops Inglesito (little Englishman). He has been wounded several times since he entered the Cuban patriot ranks in 1869. His father, who was a minister of the gospel, residing in Brooklyn, has died during his son’s absence.” —John Malone, one of Gen. Hazen’s old scouts, tells the following story of Gen. Custer: The morning of the Wichita fight Custer left his supply train and surrounded the enemy half an hour before daylight. A rumor had reached Maj. Elliott that some of the Seventh cavalry intended to profit by the opportunity, and kill their General for his alleged tyranny. The Major so informed Custer, with the suggestion that he should not turn his back to his men. Custer replied that he never commanded a man wbo would shoot him in the back, and sent word to the band to start the music. “What tune shall we play?” inquired the leader. “ Play ‘ Garry Owen’—a good tune to die by,” shouted Custer, as he put spurs to his charger, and was the first man in that famous fight.