Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1877 — PESONAL AND LITERABY. [ARTICLE]

PESONAL AND LITERABY.

—Mr. Smalley says that General and Mrs. Grant ware treated with every courtesy at Windsor Castle by Queen Victoria. The Queen personally received them, and highly enjoyed their visit. —The remains of Marquette, the French missionary, who died in 1675 on his way back from Illinois to Mackinaw, have been recently discovered at Pointe St. Ignace, on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. —Mr. Benjamin Lotting, tne historian, has chosen for his residence a quiet and retired spot in Dutchess County, N. Y., sixteen miles east of Fishkill and the Hudson River. He was visited there, recently, by a reporter of the New York Evening Post, who has written an interesting story of the visit. Mr. Lossing’s house was built in 1811, and has been remodeled to suit his taste and convenience. His library contains nearly 6,000 volumes, and is placed in a fire proof building. It is rich in historical matter, selected principally with reference to use. Lotting began life as a journalist. —Gen. Grant was originally expected to go to Paris from London, but the Memorial Politique, of Paris, explains that he resolved, on the aavicq. of Mr. Washburne, to defer his visit there till after his tour in Northern Europe and Switzerland. It was feared that, “in existing circumstances there would be endeavors to give to some of the demonstrations of wmeh he might be the object a character other than that of disinterested deference for an illustrious citizen who has held the Chief Magistracy of his country and is one of its military glories.” In other words, there was a fear that ex-Pres-ident Grant would be “played off” against President MacMahon. —Amos Fish, who died in Albany recently, leaving property worth $50,000, once described his manner of life to a friend thus: “I buy a shank of beef from the butcher, which costs me ten cents. My wife makes enough soup from this to do us one meal; then the meat cut from it afterward makes two more meals, or one day’s food for ten cents. I split the bone and get the marrow for cooking purposes, ana my wife finds sufficient fuel in the bone itself to do considerable cooking. Then in an iron box I save the ashes, which I use for manuring a few plants that bring me six cents each.” Yet when extra taxes were put upon his property he very rarely, if ever, demanded more rent from tenants than what they had been paying. He married a widow, who had two children and a little money. He offered to borrow the money and to allow her seven per centum. His wife acceptea the proposition, and he was in charge of the property for a long time. One day he forced a settlement with her, bringing in a bill for her own and the children’s board, and leaving lier in debt to him.— N. Y. Evening Post.