Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. George JBancroft, the historian, owns real estate in Newport, R. I„ valued at 187,800. —The Pitch diamonds, after verification by Gen. Sherman, have been placed in the Treasurer’s vault in Washington for safe keeping. Handy jewels 1 —lt u said that President Grant, at the expiration of his term of offlctf, wUTfravel for a year or Jwo in Europe, and return home by way of China and Jspan. —Bupt. Walling, of New York, holds the opinion that Charley Ross is dead. He places the case in the same rank with the Tweed escape and the Nathan murder. —lt is reported that “ Con” Maguire, one of the members of the Bt. Louis whisky ring who is serving a term of imprisonment, was married privately, a few days ago. —Daniel Drew will have the satisfaction of knowing that when he was in business he did some business. His former brokers have presented iu court the account of the firm’s dealings with Mr. Drew for five years, to the amount of $75,000,000 in gold, all squared before Daniel’s bankruptcy. —George William Curtis is dependent on his salary from the Harpers; so is Mr. William D. Howell dependent upon his editorship of the Atlantic; Bret Harte, T. B. Aldrich, James Par ton, J. T. Trowbridge, R. H. Stoddard, T. W. Higginson, mainly upon fugitive writing; while Grant White has a place in the CustomHouse ; E. C. Stedman is a stock broker, and other authors are obliged, more or less, to do practical things in order to support the luxury of literature. — N. Y. Graphic. —Ralph Waldo Emerson and his daughter Ellen have returned to their New England home from a tour in Virginia. Mary Clemmer writes to tlio Cincinnati Commercial from Washington: “We shall hear more from this daughter Ellen. For she, in all likelihood, wul be the executor of her father’s papers and the delineator of that deep, still, inward life. It is memorable that the men who have achieved the most in letters and in science have always had a woman standing close beside them within the veil, as Carl Schurz says in homely phrase: ‘ Handing them the bricks while they build, and holding up their hands when they were weary.’ ” —Mr. Kerr owned a beautiful lot in the Northern Cemetery in the city, wherein is buried his second son, Charlie, who died in 1858, aged two years; his law partner, James A. Ghormley, who died of con sumption in 1862, and a little adopted daughter that Mr. Kerr took to raise. The lot is separated from the last resting-place of Gov. Ashbel P. Willard by a narrow ■walk through the grounds, and it is a little singular that these two great and honored sons of Indiana should take their final sleep so near each other. Mr. Kerr always expressed a wish to be buried here, and designated the spot where he desired his grave. While Mr. Kerr was a member of no church, it is known that he was partial to the Presbyterian faith, his estimable wife being an earnest and devoted member of that church. — Louisville Cour-ier-Journal. i