Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—A contemporary argues that it is unsentimental to criticise the literature of those hymns which, beoomfhgifqpular, affect the hearts of so many, people in all communities. **> —Gen. Grant witnessed the attfmpted assassination of J fetaff'JMMW was standing, when the shot was fired, at a window of the Hotel de Paris in Madrid, overlooking the Puertadel Sol, where he Was watching the progress of the royal cavalcade which hadwjust Sassed before him. He clearly saw the ash of the assassin's pistol. —Jefferson Davis has beed'sihgularSj afflicted in the death of his sons. oseph H. Davis fell from the piazza of the Exeoutive Mansion’fn Richmond' during the war and was killed; KUliam Davis died of diphtheria In Memphis fn 1878, and Jefferson, the only surviving son, has, as already announced, xeceqtIf'died in Memphis orthe’ —Gen. Fremont, the new Governor of Arizona, on his smval at, Preaoo|t in that Territory; a rew days ago, was' tendered a reception, the warmth o£ which may be measured from the' sere vor of one of the spokesmen, who said: “ Here in our mountain-guanied home, far from the great social center, We Will strive to make you forget the gorgeous East fy the hospitalities of the West.” —The only private mortuary chapel in the United States la in Oak Wood Cemetery, Troy, N. Y. It belohgs to the wealthy Warren family. It is built' of stone, with a vault underneath, and has handsome appurtenanofes oi Episcopal worship, elaborate Wdomments and a stained window of great Yhlue. The only servidbs held there are at the burials of members of the family. —A nephew of Col. Robert Ingereoll was crueny hazed at Cornell University. He was bound hand and foot, gagged, and then taken to a stone wall. Here he was suspended head downward, and was given to understand that unless he would do as he was bidden he would be dropped to the ground. His mustache was shaved ofl, his face colored and his clothes ruined with paint. —Mr. Henry Bewrh has been much impressed by the efforts of a Georgia laay to found a Society for the Protection of Animals. He writes % the President of a branch society in Savannah: “ Suppose this world were composed of such public-spirited and benevolent ladies, instead of the fashionable creatures who flock to the ball-rooms of noted watering resorts, what a blessed abode this planet of ours wouldheP’ ‘