Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—A brother bf George D. Prentice is now a clerk in the Navy Department, —Some months ago the Roman Catholic Indians in Maine sent to Pope Leo an qlskpretoly-trLiumed pair of moccasins; and he has just returned the compliment by sending them a handsome medal. • -,-Marriui at Mount Etna, Pa., on tlfe 30th uft., Mr. Leonard Immcl, aged 80, Hind Mito Sarah Keller, aged 87. The hridefrooii was so happy that he iflistributeircash and otitor necessaries bmong the spectators in a lavish manner. —lt has been, said that the matter which hariihdtAl GovJHAmpton most concern during his illness has been a report that his Injury was received by being thrown .fitAn his home. The Governor prides himself on his horsemanship. r Boston is Joshua M. Sfiars, who pays $3V,754Ym a property of #2,949,400. W. F. Weld is taxed on #2,663,600, Moses Williams on $2,051,400, and John L. Gardner on #1,264,500, these being the only men who pay on more than a million. —The current feport that a daughter of Sec’y Stanton is employed in the Treasury Department is not true. The lady so engaged is a relative of the late War Secretary, but not a daughter. The Stanton children have a modest competency, which is administered for them by a Philadelphia trust company. —Among the persona receiving calls on New Year's Day in Washington, was Mrs. Bruoe, the bride of the colored Senator from Mississippi. A large number of Senators, Representatives and other public men paid their respects, and were received very gracefully by Mrs. Bruce and her sister from Cleveland. —The late Representative Beverly Douglas of Virginia was a man of great strength and quick temper. During the late Congressional campaign, whilestumping” his district along with a competitor, he became incensed at something which the latter said, and hurled him from the platform, breaking his arm. —Of Senator Conkling arguing a case before the United States Supreme Court, the W ashington correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal gives this picture: “Cold and indifferent as. Conkling apuears to be, he can summon up as much facial expression as an actor. When he wishes to sneer he knits his brow, half closes his eyes, gives the muscles of his cheeks and nose a twist upward, while the curling of the lips causes each hair of his mustache to vibrate like the strings of an zEolian harp; then in slow, measured, but sarcastic tones, he utters an irony, which, in this instance, is aimed at Judge Bradley.” —There is a significant contrast between the “ pomp and circumstances” attending the movements of the new Governor-General oFCanada and his royal wife. and those of the Chief Magistrate,of the great Republic this side the border. President Hayes and his wife walk to church on Sunday, simply dressed, and wearing or doing nothing to attract special attention. There is still enough popular reverence for the dignity of authority to cause their movements to be -eagerly watched by curious eyes and to prompt many special attentions. It is chronicled that on a recent Sunday a gentleman sitting behind the official pew took out his handkerchief and carefully brushed the rain drops from the President’s coat collar.---Boston Advertiser. —Ccnuarning Mr. Webb Hayes, the Washington correspondent of the Berald.9itimVon, tells this story: “Mr. Webb Hayes, who has a keen sense of humor, astonished his parents and the friends with them last fall, at one of flie largest public receptions held by th« Prg»iaqut and Mrs, HayeA in the Whst. Me {the wag of the family), while t&Misands werb passing up to stfika hands w{lh the couple, pulled hili. down over his face, drew his qpat tight around him and, falling into fine, gravely Walked.up to his mother, and,'taking her hand to shake it, as the others did, .stood for a moment, And gravely said, in a clear, raised tone, so that'all mighthear: ‘God bless you, madam, for your noble adherence to the temperance cause.’ Mrs. Hayes; thbugh taken unawares, thanked hipi gxavely, without any appearance of recognition, and he passed on with tlih crfiwd.”