Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—The Marchioness of Lome wears square-toed, flat-heeled boots. —No less than 660 literary works concerning Dante have been published during the last seven years. —“Adirondack” Murray has had three fingers amputated from his right hand, the result of an accident which recently befell him. —Marble busts of the late Senator Crittenden of Kentucky and of Chief Justice Tancv have been placed in tho Corcoran Gallery at Washington. —W. T. Thorno, who was in 1874 expelled from the North Carolina Legislature for denying the existence of a God, was a candidate for Congress at the late election. —Mark Hopkins, Michael Reese, William S. O’Brien and David D. Colton, four of the richest men on the Pacific slope, have died during the present year* leaving in the aggregate $50,000,000 to be distributed into other channels. While on his way to Jackson, Miss., during the yellow-fever scare. Gov. Stone, of that State, was arrested at Meridian, and made to show a clean bill of health before he was permitted to enter a hotel or proceed on his journey. —Perhaps the best preserved clergyman in the United States is the Rev. Thomas Dudley, a Methodist-Episcopal preacher of Kentucky. He is eightyseven years old, and has been sixty years in the ministry, but continues his clerical work as actively as ever. —Santanta, the noted Kiowa Chief, who was sent to the Texas Penitentiary about 1871, found his confinement unendurable, and, after failing to cut himself so that he should bleed to death, recently threw himself from the thirdstory porch of the hospital and accomplished his purpose. —“The Dean of Westminster,” announces the London Athenceum, “ has been extremely well received during his tour in the United States. 'His admirers, however, have not all shown themselves quite f familiar with the Dean’s claims to distinction. It is said that he received an offer of a considerable sum of money if he would give a lecture on his African explorations in a.Westerft city!” Tbe Athenceum is very witty, but does it know positively that the Dean did not make explorations among the Africans of one of our Western cities? — N. Y. Evening Post.