Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Elihu Burritt, the great linguist, of Connecticut, has entirely recovered, and will yet linger with us awhile. —The father of Charlie Ross said to a reporter: “Thi3 makes 375 boys I have been called on to see, or have been written about, and my hundreds of failures to identify each waif as my own have taught me to entertain no sanguine hope. I suppose I shall continue going to see boys till I die; but I don’t expect to find Charlie in any of them.” —While the President’s son, Webb C. Hayes, was on the way to Canada with the Earl of Dufferin, before leaving Albany a wag telegraphed to Schenectady' that the President was on the train and would address the people at the station. On the way he went, through the train, excepting the ear in which young Hayes was, and told the passengers the same story, advising them to get out at Schenectady anti help swell the crowd. When the traih arrived there was a crowd at the station, which the passengers joined only to realize, after a few moments, that they had been deceived. —Gen. John Palmer thus describes the appearance of Stonewall Jackson when he went to West Point, as a “Plebe”; “He was dressed in a suit of jeans—blue trousers and vest and a cut-away coat of brown, He wore a ‘ tile 1 and shoes. Boots would have been expensive for him in his town. In his long arms, his shambling gait and his general appearance was something so ludicrous that a shout went up frdm the assembled ‘things’ its lie appeared ott ground for nis first drill. But with this otitra appearance he had a good, woll-shaped head, full, broad forehead, large, full and expressiye brown eyes, a good mouth which, when smiling, gave an expression of great good nature as well as intelligence.”

—The New York Tribune says: “The former Private- Secretary of President Polk has been discovered, old and poor, in Santa Fe. He knew Andrew Jackson, and describes an incident that happened while he was staying at the General’s house, after the death of Mrs. Jackson. One morning he arose very early and started to walk toward the old family cemetery. He approached rather close to the grave of Mrs. Jackson,, and was surprised to find the General himself kneeling over jt. He retraced his footsteps as soon as possible, but- not* toe-soon tor the quick eye of the old soldier to see him. Afterward he spoke to his visitor about the matter, and said that the act in which he had beheld him was no uncommon one. Every morning, he said, he went to the grave, for he thought it the proper §lace for him to conduct his religious evotions. ’ ’ The Cleveland Leader has discovered that the Catholic Bishops of the United States held $9,000,000 worth of property in 1850; in 1870, it says, this had increased to $60,000,000; now jt is $110,000,000,