Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mr. B. F. White, of Calais, Me., one of the members of the Maine House of Representatives, is famous for his great strength. He recently lifted a weight of 748 pounds. —Kimball, the obligation raiser, goes about the country, knocking where he sees the tallest steeples, inquiring “ Do you want any church debts lifted here to-day?”— N. 0. Picayune. —The wife of Gen. Sherman is quoted as saying that her husband first aroused her admiration at the early age of ten years “ because he caught rabbits better than any of the other boys.” —lt is stated that the doctor who examined Montague’s lilngs a few hours before he bled to death, and pronounced «>hem sound, sent in his bill after the actor’s death for $l5O. —Blood was the name of the juror who hung the panel in the Billings murder case recently tried a t Ballston, N. Y. Eleven men voted Billings innocent, but Blood hangout for blood. —Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, contradicts the report that he will remove to Ohio at the expiration of his term. He says that he is a tax-payer in Mississippi, and intends to pass the rest of his days jn that State. —Sir David Wilkie’s spelling was not perfect In his letters the reader finds “shaddow,” “melowness,” “exellence.” —“ excelli” “ Morillo” (.for Murillo), “cecede,” “two low,” palates” (for palettes), etc. Some of his brother artists may reap comfort from the fact. —A nice point will have to be weighed at the next trial of the Rev. Mr. Hayden for the murder of Mary Stannard. Since the discovery of the arsenic in the stomach of the victim the theory of the State has been that when Hayden, as he testified, bought an ounoe of arsenic with which to kill rats, he really intended it for Mary. Haydentestified also that he had not used a particle of the poison and had put it away in his barn, where it has been found since. If there still remains an ounce or almost an ounce the defense will contend that none of it was used to poison Mary. On the other hand the prosecution win -assert that as arsenic is sold very cheap the druggist was careless about giving exact weight and threw in considerably more than an ounce. On this delicate point the life may depend. •