Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1877 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. P. B. S. Pinchbaek, the Louisiana politician, is the publisher of a weekly newspaper, at New Orleans, called the Louisiana and devoted to the interests of the colored people of the State. —The Publishing Committee of Our Union, official organ of the Women's Temperance Unions, has elected Mrs. Hannah Whitall Smith and Mrs. Mary T. Burt, editors, and Mrs. Amelia Alford, pirblisherrfor the coming year. ~=^ME“TspS^^-Erbrifrian iff Congress, is said to have a wonderful memory. When asked, “Mr. Spofford, is there a book in the library which gives information on such a subject?” he will promptly give the name of the volume and an indication of its contents. —Pauline Rhule, of Richmond, Va., has sued F. Neurath for breach of promise to marry. Defendant broke the engagement because he discovered that plaintiff had bad breath. Counsel for plaintiff produced lady friends who swore that her breath was sweetly aromatic. —William C. Gilman, the forger and swindler, now serving out a sentence in the New York Penitentiary, was a member of the Grand Jury that returned the indictment upon which Robert L. Case, President of the Security Life Insurance Company, was convicted and sentenced. —The Rev. Dr. Dale, who recently lectured to the Yale Theological School, reached England on the 17th of November. At a crowded meeting the next evening he said he should like to speak of.thg gpjieroiis and magnified tality with which the Americans were accustomed to receive their English guests, and that it had been extended to him in a most remarkable manner, for which he should never cease to be grateful; that he knew the Americans were a noble, kindly people before he crossed the Atlantic, but that the inijfression had been greatly deepened by his visit. —Senator Conover, of Florida, gave the following sketch <sf himself to u correspondent a few days ago: “I was born at an old settlement called Cranberry, N. J. My family is of Dutch decent, and usedto be called Cowenhoven. It became Conover by pronunciation a hundred years ago. My father w'as.a farmer in Cranberry Neck. I went to Trenton when a boy, and attended school there and learned the drug business, and then went to school more. In 1862, when the war broke out, I went to the Medical Department of the University of Philadelphia. After getting my degree I was appointed a surgeon in the army, and was sent to the Army of the Cumberland, and also had eharge-qf the Woodward Post Hospital, on Broadway, Cincinnati. In 18(>5 I began to practice medicine in Trenton, and did very well; but 1 saw it would be a long, slow business building up practice. So I had myself reappointed an Army Assistant Surgeon, and wasoffered my choice of location, Florida or Texas. " I did not know anything about either place; but Texas, seemed very far, so I took Florida. In Florida I was posted at Lake City, and when the Reconstruction acts were passed in Congress I was elected to the Constitutional Convention of Florida. I assisted to make the present Constitution of the State, which has since been amended.” —At a country school-house in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, a teacher named YoungT’mished a pupil named Belin for a breach of discipline. The next day the boy struck the teacher with a chair, knocking him down and injnringhim so badly.tliM dtt& U OX’ peeled to follow.