Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1877 — PERSONAL AND LITERART. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERART.

—The father of Charley Ross having expended his fortune—some f 60,000 in search of his lost boy, is at present earning a living as traveling salesman for an Eastern house. —Col. Cockerill, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, remained in Europe too long, and, when he returned, found his place as managing editor of that paper tilled. He has gone over to the St. Ixniis Times. —The Centennial poet. Sidney Lanier, has written an “Oue to Wagner,” of which the St. Louis Republican remark*: “This makes Wagner’s visit to America a certainty. He will come if for no other purpose than to kill Lanier.” j. —Mr. Voorhees, the new Senator from Indiana, has yellow hair and a heavy red moustache and imperial. He has a rosy face and a large body more than six feet high, which nas given him the title of the “ Tall Sycamore of the Wabash.” —Senator Blaine’s daughter Alice, who was shot in the forehead by the accidental discharge of a small pistol recently, will be disfigured for life when the ball is extracted, as it lies between the eyes at the junction of the nose and forehead. —The name of Senator Morton’s family was originally Throckmorton, and their ancestry is traced to the Earl of Throckmorton in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The Senator’s father dropped the first syllable of his surname, and his son followed his example.— N. Y. Evening Post.

—Mr. Charles A. Dana, *of the New York Sun, has a great chicken factory on an island outside of New York, where he annually raises choice lots of fowls for thieves to carry off. The latest depredation was a few nights since, when his whole premium stock of birds was escorted away by some fine fellows of fine tastes, who came and went in a boat. —The assertion that ex-Gov. Coburn, of Maine, is the largest land-owner in the United States is disputed in favor of Wilson Waddingham, of New York, who owns 665,000 acres in one lot on the Canadian River, in New Mexico, and enough more in other parts of the same Territory 7 to make a total of 1,256,000 acres, or more than twice as many as are claimed for Mr. Coburn. —Mr. Conger, the witty Congress man from Michigan, has a love history which is quite remarkable. His present wife was his first love, but they quarreled and each married. Twenty years afterward, he a widower, was in Congress, and she, a widow, sat in the gallery and listened to him speaking. It was the first time they had met since they had their lovers’ quarrel. She sent her card and invited him to call on her, which he promised to do if he might visit her as he used in the days of their youth. Her consent was easily obtained, the old love revived, and they were soon married.— Chicago Tribune.