Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1876 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The dwelling in which W. C. Ralston lived on Pine street, San Francisco, has been leased and will be used as a private family hotel. —Henry L. SoMace, the Brieport (Vt.) postmaster whose position on the Republican electoral ticket has given rise to so much discussion, is a brother-in-law of John G. Saxe, the poet. —Mr. R. W. Emerson’s daughter, Miss Ellen Emerson, will some time write her father’s biography. Thia young lady « miid by Mrs. Mary Clemmer to be the incarnation of common sense.”

—Walt Whitman satisfies the importunate autograph-hunters by Informing them that his photograph, with signature attached, can be obtained on Herv’ing one dollar to the Matron of the Orphans’ Home at Camden, N. J. 'Hie proceeds are entirely for the benefit of the orphans. —Senator Norwood, of Georgia, is forty-six years old, and the son of a tanner. When elected to the United States Senate he did not know thirty membeteo* the Legislature that elected him. He is known as “ Tanyard Tom,” and can beat any man in Georgia telling a joke.-—W Y. Herald. —A former mathematical pforesswr in Dartmouth certainly understoodtiiormigjily his business of calculation, for when lie went abroad, his admirers relate, be estimated his expenses so accurately that he took ju*t enough money to pay ail hfe bills, and walked into his own home when he returned with exactly one cent >n his pocket. v —Dr. Max Henry Stein, who has just died in Brooklyn, provided by will that his body should be burned by a cremation society, if ary should be found convenient at the time of his death. The World thinks his amiable purpose will not be carried out, since he has not left sufficient money to pay the stoker. “It is understood that amusement of this description is stricter at the corpse’s expense.” —The romance of the life of John Howard Payne, which has been a favorite theme with newspaper writers for a number of years, is- increased by a story for which the St. Louis Republican makes itself responsible. “It is not perhaps generally known” says that journal, “ that Payne was madly in love with Miss Maria Mayo, of Richmond, Va., afterward Mrs. Winfield Scott. Miss Mayo was a famous belle, and as remarkable for her wit as for her beauty. Poof Payne was not; the only one who laid his Heart at Jicr. feet ana had to take it up again; but he probably suffered more from his disappointment than the rest of the rejected lovers. When all hope of winning the fair prize was abandoned he went abroad, never to return, and there is no doubt that the corroding sorrow hastened him to the grave he found in a foreign land. The tradition in Richmond is that Scott addressed Miss Mayo when he was only a Captaih in the army, and received a prompt disMlssal. He repeated the experiment when a Major, but with no better success. The third time he proposed he wore th&,epaulettes of a general, and then was accepted. A friend of the lady asked her w'liy she changed her mind. The reply was, ‘ln my estimation there is. a vast diflerfebce between Captain or even Major Scott ana General Scott.’ ”