Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, and his newly-wedded wife will keep house at W ashmgton next winter. —The Marquis of Lome is called John George Edward Henry Douglas Southerland Campbell for long. —Charles O’Conor, the well-known New York lawyer, has retired from practice. He is eighty years old. —Myra Clark Gaines has been obliged to give up enough of New Orleans to bury the victims of yellow fever in. —The Washington Post notes as a sign of advancing civilization that the words “ man” and “ woman” are again coming into use. —After an absence of fifteen years, the brother of S. Afigier Chace, the Fall River defaulter, has returned to find in prison the brother whom he left prosperous and respected. —lt is said that the Marquis of Lome, very soon after he reaches Canada, will make a trip through the United States, making a stay of several days in each of the large cities. —Mrs. Fanny Washington Finch, the great-grandniece of Washington and supposed to be his nearest living relative, is keeping a boarding-house in Washington, and has recently had her furniture attached by a landlord for rent. —The fellow who goes about upsetting beliefs that have long been dear and sacred, now declares tnat Kosciusko did not fall; and it will probably turn out that Kos. crawled under abarn before the fighting began, and that freedom shrieked to get him to come out.— Chicago Tribune. —Pronounce it this way. A correspondent writes from the Northwest: “ By the way, talking of Manitoba reminds me that in this part of the world Manitoba is pronounced Manito-bah—-the accent on the last syllable —and Pembina, Pembi-nah. Tins prounciation prevails in Manitoba.” —Mayor Pierce, of Boston, recently did a generous act, which has been made public by the recipient of his kindness. An old man named Hickey, who is confined to his house by a cancer, has been seriously troubled by the erection of a high board fence by the Old Colony Railroad Company on a vacant lot of land between his house and the railroad track, thus shutting oft his view. Some of his friends called on Mayor Pierce to induce him to urge the railroad company to remove the fence, but, instead of so doing, he bought the land of the corporation for SBOO and made a present of it to Mr. Hickey, and gave him SSO beside. The fence has been removed.