Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Fannie Kemble is sixty-five years of age, and weighs nearly 200 pounds. —Gen. Grant refused to authorize the illustrated papers of Paris to print his portrait. —™ —Mr. Elihu Burritt’s health has so much improved that he hopes to be out again next spring. —Judge Hilton, who seems to know everything about the Stewart family, says that Mrs. A. T. Stewart will never marry again. —Gen. D. H. Hill, the ex-Confedcr-ate, a brother-in-law of Sonewall Jackson, has a Bible class of 200 members in Charlotte, N. C. —lt is said that Winslow, the Boston forger, recently visited three of his friends in that city, and that his hidingplace is not 600 miles away. —President Taylor’s grave, in Jefferson County, Ky., is unmarked by any monument; and Gov. McCreary, of Kentucky, wishes the State Legislature to call upon Congress to put up one. —The oldest member of the House of Representatives is Mr. Patterson, of New York, who is almost seventy-nine years old. The youngest member is Mr. Kenna, of West Virginia, who is twenty-nine years old. —Miss Susan B. Anthony has sent S2OO to assist in defraying the expenses of the Woman Suffrage organization that recently met in Washington, and it is said that she contributes every year as much money to aid the cause as all the rest of its advocates. —Miss Tabitha A. Holton, who has just been admitted by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, to practice at the Bar of that State, is the daughter of a clergyman and is only twenty-two years of ago, small in figure, and of modest, unassuming manners. —Was ever there a sadder episode in human experience than the Charlie Ross abduction? There is not a parent in all this round world whose heart does not go out in deepest sympathy for that fond father and anguished mother, who are bending beneath the weight of sorrow and disappointment which the loss of their pretty, curly-headed boy has brought upon them. —Rochester Democrat. —To a correspondent who talked with President Hayes recently the latter said: “ I don't mind the* callers who merely want to shake hands. They often help me out of a dilemma. For example, I may have some persistent obdurate office-seeker or office-mana-ger. He will press his point, perhaps, until he has put his knees against mine and demands a ‘ yes* or ‘Tio.’ It may be that I.feel rising temper at his aggressiveness. Then 1 think of the people outside, They are always let in on presentation of a card saying 1 respects only.’ 1 see some of them at the instant, desirous to shake hands. Sol turn from the unpleasant caller, and while I talk a minute to the people, have a chance to calm my.. wiaj aM. prepare to answer the question.”