Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1877 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The New York papers say the lung disease that caused the death of young John Morrissey was the excessive smoking of cigarettes. —rlt is reported that the voice Of Mr. Sankey, the evangelist, has again been seriously overstrained by use at the prolonged revival services in Chicago. —By no Crook have the troops yet been able to capture Sitting Bull, and several times when it-was thought he was trapped for sure, he would come up missing Miles away.— Chicago Journal. —Mr. Darwin’s last book seems, to be an able book, but the Norwich Bulletin does not think the author satisfactorily explains the connecting link between a bay horse and a bay window. —John Bull has complacency enough on ordinary occasions, nut as an extraordinary, here’s the Landon Examiner saying that the vast majority of English newspaper articles are, from the literary point of view, as bad as bad can be. —Winslow, the forger, has moved on, and the places which knew him now know him no more. He acquiesces in the Extradition treaty, and has made a personal application of it by extraditing himself out of harm’s way. —Mr. John G. Chapman, the New Haven, Conn., philanthropist who for several y§ars has paid the postage on the unstamped letters which have been dropped into the New Haven Poetoffice, has made his report for 1876. During the year he stamped. 1,700 letters, wMcli cost him |49.62. He received in return

f 17.14 from the persons to whom the letters were mailed, and therefore his work of charity has cost him 1 82.48 during the WwW IBireUft; TWI--derbilt read contained a report of the Bennett-May fracas, which lie perused with great interest, and he remarked upon the assault, “ Wbat a pltv It is a young man shonld plMfe himself In mtoh a position. ” He added that when he was young and living over in Staten Island, there was constant fighting going on among the fellows about him, but he made a covenant with himself never to provoke a quarrel or enter on one unless he was struck, and then he would defend himself. i.