Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The wife of Principal A, P. Kelsey, of the State Normal School at Plymouth, N. H., has just inherited S4OO,—Miss Belva Lockwood, the Washington female lawyer, has been refused permission to practice in the adjacent .circuit of Maryland. —The life of the late Bishop Galberry, of Hartford, Conn., was insured for $20,000 payable to St. Mary’s Church, in Lawrenae, Mass., of which he was once pastor. —Sir Garnet Wolseley, the British Governor of Cyprus, has"ordered from Quebec twobuck-board” wagons, as he finds that these strong vehicles are the only ones that can be used on the bad roads of Cyprus. ..... —Mr. Gillette, who has been elected to Congress on the Greenback ticket in the Sevehth lowa District, is a son of Francis Gillette, of Hartford, Conn., ; who used to be the Free-Soil candidate ‘for Governor of Connecticut thirty year* ago and later. of cpolrory, has asked the National Commissioner of Education to collect information through his agents in the South and West concerning the style of cooking there, and the Commissionei has consented to do so. -Mr. Brown, the mind-reader, exhibited his powers before a committee chosen from t the faculty of the loWa AgribulturaV College the otherday. They investigated the.nhenomena closely and finally reported that Brown wasguidedby theunconscious muecucar movements of the subject. Brown denied that this was the case, whereupon one bf the professors repeated exactly the fests of Brown.-Jy- F-