Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERART. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERART.

—Gen. Joe E. Johnston dresses neatly, has a short gray beard, is slight and erect. —The Parisian press numbered in 1877 no less than 836 different newspapers and serials. —Harrison Ainsworth is still alive, a well-preserved and dandyish, though gray, old man of seventy-two. —Many years ago Congress gave the widow of President Tyler the franking privilege, and she uses it*to this day. —The people of Anderson County, S. C., presented Gov. Hampton, with a beautiful black horse as a birf hday gift —Mr. B. Gratz Brown, of St. Louis, who ran for Vice-President in the canvass of 1872, has becomejv strong prohibitionist, —Commodore Vanderbilt’s widow, it is said, is soon to marry a Southern gentleman, who, it is inferred, is not seventy-six years old* —The New York papers refer to Edison's “Western twang.” No doubt the ancient Saxons spoke pure New York.— Cincinnati Commercial. —Sec’y Schurz attributes his recent illness to the large quantities of green tea which he has been drinking to produce wakefulness for night work. —Mrs. Mark Hopkins takes threequarters of the estate left by her husband, the California millionaire, and Mark’s two brothers divide the residue equally between them. —Dr. Jeffries, of Boston, who has been examining the eyes of Harvaid students for the purpose of seeing how many are color-blind, has found fifteen cases out of 250 students.

—A minister in Waupaca County, Wis., preached a sermon, the other day, with his suspenders dangling below his coat, and he was puzzled to know the cause of the constant tittering during the exercises. —The mystery about thd* death of Representative Leonard, of Louisiana, seems to thicken. W hen the body arrived at Westchester, Pa , it was carefully examined by eminent physicians from Philadelphia and Washington, who assert that he did not die of yellow fever. —When Representative Eugene Hale married Miss Chandler, her father, ex-Senator Chandler, gave him SIOO,OOO for a wedding present; and at the coming of every grandchid a check for $20,000 has been forthcoming to be placed to the credit of the little one as the nucleus of its future fortune. —Ab the minister of a country church in Georgia was about to marry a couple, u lady objected on the ground that the intended bride was not of age, and her parents were ignorant of the act. The clergyman said it was not a legal objection, and decided to put the matter to vote. A unanimous aye! by the congregation was the result, and the knot was tied. —An officer of cadets at the recent launch in Chester, Pa., saw his men, contrary to orders, letting a number of visitors through their ranks. He rushed up and asked, “ What are you letting this rabble through for?” A moment after he discovered that the leader of the “ rabble” was the Secretary of War, who was as much amused at the incident as the officer was disconcerted.