Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—John W. Young, son of Brigham Young, has just taken his fifth wife. —Miss Mary Jane Wadlelgh, of Sutton, Mass., has 100 pet eats, and when one of them dies she has it buried and its grave marked by a neat monument. —The widow es Senator Bon Wadu has been gradually failing in health since the death of her husband, and is now very Ilf. She is more than-seyen-ty years old. —Senator Call, of Florida, is a grandson of Col. John Lee, of Virginia, a Revolutionary soldier, and a member of the same family to which Gen. Robert E. Lee belonged. —Mr. Mackey, the “Bonanza King lives at Virginia City, Ney., eight months of the year, and is in his mines, where the temperature is from 80 to 100 deg., almost every day. —Mr. Sidney Bartlett, the Nestor of the Boston bar, although in his eightr ieth year has recently argued an* causes before She Supreme Court of the United States in Washington. —C. T. Gidiney, of Troy, N. Y., a poor man, more than sixty years old, announces that he has discovered the ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle, and that it is worked out by laws immutable. —Mr. Swift Johnson, a young American, has gained a scholarship at Trinity College, Dublin, and now the question arises whether, being an alien, he can hold it. The case is to be argued by counsel before the university authorities. —Mrs. Desire Gregory, of Danbury, Conn., said to be the oldest person in Fairfield County, died the other day. She celebrated the hundredth anniversary of her birthday last May, and up to within a few days of her death had been remarkably active. —According to Bell's Life, Weston has not conscientiously carried out his agreement to walk two thousand miles in England. He has been detected in “ stealing rides,” it is said,'Yind Sir John Astley refuses to abide by the terms of his wager in consequence. —There are now six female lawyers in the United States, and all are having a fair practice. They are Mrs. Lockwood, of Washington; Mrs. Bradwell, of Chicago; Miss Phoebe Cozzens, of St. Louis; Mrs. Foster, of Iowa; Mrs. Goodell, of Wisconsin; and Mrs. Foltz, of San Francisco. = —At a Washington dinner, the other day, when somebody repeated one of the jokes that he had read on the long sentences of the Secretary of State,. Mr. Evarts good-humoredly replied, “Oh, nonsense; I don’t object to that sort of thing at all. People who expect to injure me by calling attention to my long forget that the only persons really opposed to long sentences in this country are the criminal classes, who deserve them.” —The Albany Argus gives some sad intelligence about the poet J. G. Saxe. It says that reverses have overtaken him of lateyears, and painful illnesshasbefallen him and members of his family. He denies himself to his dearest friends. His gloom is absolute and beyond relief. The tax Which good livers pay on their constitution has been paid by Mr. Saxe, but it was hoped that his health would come back under a system to which he subjected himself. That hope appears to be fallaciqus.