Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mrs. Sturgis, the mother of Lieut. Sturgis who was killed in the Custer massacre and who was her only son, has become insane’from grief. / —The father of Charlie Ross is still chasing about the country in response to cruel telegrams that invariably lead him to the wrong boy. —The New York Sun takes the ground that Stanley in his cruises among African lakes, taking what he wants and killing whom he chooses, is little better than a pirate. —Mrs. Ole Bull has written a letter to the Madison Journal , giving an account of her trip across the Atlantic, and conveying intelligence of her reunion with her husband in Normandy. —Susan A. King, who came from the same town in Maine that Annie Louise Cary did, is now one of the most successful real-estate operators in New York City. She boasts that when she first came to New York she often had not as much money as would pay her street-car fare. —John Morrissey gave his son, John Morrissey, Jr., aged twenty-one years, a reception at Saratoga a few evenings ago, at which one hundred persons were Esent. The young man received from father a deed for property valued at SIO,OOO, and from his mother a gold locket. —The Rev. Brooks Hereford, the new Unitarian minister in Chicago, recently said that after being in this country a fortnight he began to realize what a small place England is and could understand the feeling of the American who said that he was afraid to go out on dark nights in England for fear he should fall over the side. —M. Renan, instead of saying there are not brains enough to go around, puts the case in this way: 44 Thought centralized in some superior man is the only end of nature. Humanity is a great tree which drops its thousands of small fruit; it is necessary that millions should suffer, work and die in order that one great man appear.”

—One carious feature of the Charlie ’Ross case has been pointed out by the New York Evening'Post. It consists in the fact that so many children supposed to be the lost Ross boy have been discovered in various parts of the country. These children, or many of them, must have been held under suspicious circumstances, and the inference is that the crime of abduction is much more common in this country than has heretofore been' imagined. No doubt many children have been stolen concerning whom there has been no public excitement.

—Don Carlos and his ways are thus described by a correspondent at Newport, where the Spanish leader is now staying: “ Perhaps the least aiiy man in Newport, for one at least of such distinction, is Don Carlos. He strolls about the Ocean House piazza as quietly as the most obscure of the guests, talks softly with the members of his suite and friends, but occasionally indulges as any other mortal in a hearty laugh. He walks, drives, goes yachting ana bathes in the most unostentatious manner. But his bathing! Thereby hangs a tale. Each time he goes to the beach some small article may be seen passed to an attendant. It is a ring studded with precious stones, and engraved on it may be read, * Margarita Carlos, 4 2 1867.’ The explanation of this is that he was married to Donna Margarita on the 4th of February, 1867. He cherishes the ring not for its intrinsic value, but for its precious memories. His wife is at present at Pau, France, and he will Join her at Paris two months hence.”