Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Christian K. Ross, father of the stolen child, has been appointed Har-bor-Master of Philadelphia, out of Sympathy felt for him because of his losses in business since little Charlie Ross was taken from him. —The husband of Mrs. Kate Southern, of Georgia, who was sentenced to be hanged for the murder of her rival, and who had her sentence commuted to imprisonment for ten years, has been appointed a guardsman at the Georgia .Penitentiary, that he may be near Trig wife. —Mr. Alexander H. Stephens’ health is now the best that it has been for many years. It is* said to be a strange peculiarity of His case, and one that in part accounts for his vitality, that during his Ions: sickness his stomach has performed its functions without the slightest change.— N. Y. Evening Post. —Gen. Fitz-Henry Warren died at Springfield, Mass., a few days ago, aged sixty-two years. He was appointed Second Assistant PostmasterGeneral by President Fillmore in 1851 and was afterward a Presidential Elector. In 1865 ho was appointed by President Johnson Minister Resident to Guatemala, where he remained till 1869.

—The Bible gotten out by the Smith sisters, of Glastonbury, Conn., must bo an interesting work. “Happy the compassionate, for they shill be commiserated,” is one of its beatitudes, and in one of the parables occurs the remarkable verse: “Friend,—Low: earnest thou in hither, not having a garment of the nuptial feast? And he was muzzled!”— Chicago Tribune. —Mr. W aters, the class poet for the class of 1878 at Harvard, who has just died, was a young man of intense am bition to excel in scholarship, and finally developed a mania for studying that lie might keep his place in the senior class. He is said to have worked in Ibis way nineteen hours without cessation, either for eating or sleep. This brought on insanity, and he was sent to the hospital at Worcester, Mass., where lie lived less than a week. —Joe Hooker, at tho reception of the Army of the Potomac, occupied a big arm-chair, having a beautifufmtle gin of seven on his knee, whom he kissed repeatedly. One of the company remarked to the child: “You must remember this. Ten or fifteen years hence you will be very proud of having been kissed by Fighting Joe Hooker.” Whereupon the General wittily retorted: “ 1 should not mind it either, my dear, if you were ten or fifteen years older now.” —Charles C. Burleigh, the eminent anti-slavery advocate, recently died at Florence, Mass. He was also a strong anti-Sabbatarian, was opposed to the death-penalty, favored woman’s rights and preached temperance. He was one of the speakers in Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia, when that edifice was burned by the mob in 1888. When Mr. Garrison was assailed by rioters in Boston, Mr. Burleigh it was who closed the door of the office in the face of the crowd, and, confronting the assailants, gave Mr. Garrison time to escape. A kindly message from his old leader cheered his last hours. For fifteen years he was “resident speaker” of the Free Congregational Society in Florence, Mass.