Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1878 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—United States Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, is the owner of a new silver mine which is said to be yielding $9,000 a day. —The recent rumor that Senator Christiancy, of Michigan, is rapidly failing, both physically and mentally, is authoritatively denied. : —Since S. Angier Chace has fallen from his high position and gone to prison, it to remembered in Fall River that eight of his mills were burned within sixteen years, and all were fully insured. —ln regard to the profits of Senator Jones from his stock in the Sierra Nevada Mine, it is said that before the recent rise he held 5,800 shares and sold out for S2OB a share, giving him sl,106,400. —ln the year 1854 Horace W. Tabor was a stone-cutter at Augusta, Me. Now he is Lieutenant-Governor-elect of Colorado, whither he went in 1859 to engage in mining, and is reported to be worth $3,000,000. —Mr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the son of the poet, is spoken of as a probable successor of Judge Lowell, of the Massachusetts District Court, should the latter, as has been intimated, be made a United States Circuit Judge. —John Welsh, the United States Minister to England, has called the attention of Gov. Rice, of Massachusetts, to the fact that collegiate honors are offered for sale in London purporting to come from the New England University, of Boston.

—Judge Herschel V. Johnson, who ran for Vice-President on the ticket with Douglas, in 1860, was holding court at Scriven, Ga., on Thanksgiving week. Instead of adjourning over until Friday to observe Thanksgiving —a proceeding which would have caused much inconvenience to witnesses, jurors and litigants—he had the court opened on Thursday with religious services, conducted by a Methodist Episcopal minister, and then went on with the court business. ——The placing of a medallion memorial of the late Dr. Horace Bushnell in the Park Congregational Church at Hartford, Conn., brings to the mitid of a correspondent of the Springfield Hcpublican the following stories about the dead preacher: “At the council called to dismiss the Rev. C. M Wines (since gone over to the Episcopalians) from the pastorate of our Fourth Church, at which Dr. Bushnell was a delegate, in giving his reasons why a severance of relations was desirable, Mr. Wines gave a long statement of the pros and cons of the difficulties in the church. Whpn he had closed Dr. Bushnell broke out, ‘ Why do you leave?’ ‘I supposed I had answered that question,’ said Mr. Wines, with equal abruptness. ‘ls it because you don’t wish to stay any longer?’ said Bushnell. ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Then, why didn’t you say so?’ retorted Bushnell, in a manner that led Mr. Wines and the whole council to burst into a laugh which restored good feeling all round. On another occasion, while the doctor was an invalid, he was driving with a friend in the suburbs of the city, when an immense Shanghai rooster sprang upon a fence by the roadside and crowed lustily. Gazing at him an instant the doctor ejaculated, after one of his coughing fits: ‘ Don’t you think the Creator must have bad a streak of fun in him when he created that fellow?”

—Not long since, a widow living in Virginia received $3,500. She took it to a prominent stock broker and askid his opinion as to. the best investment for the money. She was told to bdy Sierra Nevada, then selling at S2OO, and Mexican at S9O, and did so. .During the decline which followed immediately thereafter she was called upon for more money, but was unable to respond. She had, however, some rard diamonds, which she had saved from a high estate maintained by her husband and herself in an early day of prosperity on the Comstock, and these she gave in keeping to the broker, and felt easy. During the late crash she was again called on for more margins, and being still unable to comply with the request, was sold out. She had lost her $3,500 and her diamonds, which are now worn by the broker’s wife. There is no romance in the foregoing, but rather an instructive reality, and but_ohe of many such now existing on the Comstock.— Gold Hill (Nev.) New-4 When Johnny was questioned as to why his engagement with Miss H. had been broken off, he rolled bis eyes, looked very much pained, and groanbd, “ Oh! she turned oat a But he forgdt to mention that he was the deceiver whom she had turned Ait.— Puck. .. . »■ - « fit —A carpenter of- ; Liadoonvarna, County Clare, Ireland,has justntethis death in a curious manner. Hft was riding on' a bicycle and was upset. He fell on a chisel and was so badly wounded that be died by the roadside.