Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Senator Morrissey can scarcely -sleep at all when lying down. He resorts to a bed or lounge occasionally only for muscular or nervous repose. What sleep he gets is had when sitting upright in a chair or half reclining.— N. Y. Paper. —The stories about Representative Leonard having met with foul play atr Havana are not credited at the State Department. The Department is satisfied that he died of yellow fever, for tho Consul General at Havana has written that this is the case and that he was during his illness tenderly uursed by members of tlio Consul’s family.— N. Y. Evening Post. —There lives six miles from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Martha T. Hopkins, who is only thirty-nine years old and has just been married to her sixth husband. She was first married at twenty years of age; took her second husband when twenty-four years old; her third husband when twenty-seven years old; her fourth husband' when thirty-two years old, and her fifth husband when thirty-seven years old. —The story is told of Gov. Hampton, of South Carolina, that while preparing his first message, which occupied many days and nights owing to tho important problems with which it had to deal, his face wore a very anxious expression ; and on Sunday, the day before tho document was to be delivered, he remained at home to work on it while his family went to church. The family, on their return, to their great relief were received by the Governor with a countenance beaming with satisfaction. “What is the matter?” asked one. “Have you completed your message? L1 '“““*"*"N«T* i! wasthe Governor’s joyful reply; “biitlhave found the old turkey-hen’s nest over yonder in the woods.”— N. Y. Evening Post. —One of tho oldest and best known, as well as best light-house keepers on the Atlantic coast, is a woman, Kathleen Andre Moore, of Black Rock Light-house, near Bridgeport, Ct. She is sixty-live, has tended the light-house lamp for fifty years and lives alone in her little house with two dogs and a pet lamb. She says there used to be many more wrecks than there are now on her cost, before sailing ships were replaced by steamers. She is as active its a girl of fifteen. There, aro several hundred printed rules for the instructioh of lighthouse and live-saving sta-tion-keepers, and this bright old woman knows them all by heart. She is a great reader, and prizes particularly Shakespeare, the British poets and books of travel and history. She had more than 1,000 visitors in her little house last summer.— Chicago Tribute.

—A Mr. Patrick, who was ope of Representative James A. Garfield’s earliest friends, in giving a sketch of his career to some school-children, several years ago, said: "1 want to tell you about a young man who cams to my farm-house from the canal. He had been a canal-boat driver, and as the canal had just frozen up, he wanted to do chores for his board during the winter. James, for that was his name, was a stalwart, honest-looking fellow, and so 1 took him in. My own children soon began attending school, and I asked James if he did not want to go to school with them, but he declined. 1 soon noticed that he seemed to be quite despondent, and asked him if he was troubled about anything, and ho then confessed to me that, although he was niueteen years of age, he could neither read nor wiite, and he was in such thental distress because, as he thought, it was too late for him to begin. I assured him it was not too late, and urged him to begin at once, which he did, with so much energy that within a year from that time he was teaching school himself.”

The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer says: “ Of the 36,000 people in Atlanta, white and black, there are about 6,000 out of employment or without visible means of support, and of this number probably 16,000 of them are males, and of these 1,000 are black.; The principal suffering is among the women and children, and it is intense.” '