Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—A St. Louis clerk is named Gasbill. Unhappy man, everybody disputes him. —Enough money has been invested in Government bonds for the benefit of the widow of Lieut. Hiram H. Benner, the yellow*fever hero, to give her an income of S6OO. —An old man a few days ago paid his forty-fifth yearly subscription to the Lancaster (Pa.) Examiner , and said: “I never learned ta read, but I have a good wife, and she always reads the paper to me.” » —Col. Lucky, who was one of President Grant’B private secretaries, and who has been more recently the Secretary of the Territory of Utah, has resigned and will be a clerk in the Lighthouse Office at Baltimore, under Gen. Babcock. —Judge Hilton and Mrs. Stewart declined to pay the taxes levied on their Saratoga Springs property, and the collector levied on ana began to sell the furniture of the Grand Union Hotel. The taxes were then paid under protest. The ground of the resistance was that the Saratogians want out-of-town property-holders to bear an undue proportion of the local burdens. —Harrison was 67 when he was sworn as President, and died exactly one month after, April 4,1841. Taylor was 65 when he was sworn as President, March 4,1849, and died in fifteen months, July 9, 1850. Wm. R. King was 67 when he was sworn in as Democratic Vice President, March 4, 1858, and died on his own plantation in Alabama, in a little more than a month afterward, April 7, 1853. —Although John G. Whittier is a bachelor, his name seems to exert & nuptial influence. In his honor a Whittier Club was organized in Cincinnati eighteen months ago, and the membership of the club was limited to eighteen—nine men and nine women, all unmarried. Since then one of the gentlemen and one lady have been joined in matrimony * five couples are under engagement, and there is hope for the Remaining three. It is understood that vacancies ib the ranks of this society are in great* demand.— N. ¥. Evening Post. - - —The principal topic of gossip in Washington lately has been the announcement that Rustem Effendi, the Secretary of the Turkish Legation, was engaged' to Miss Ellie Stanton, a daughter of the late War Secretary, followed by another announcement two days’later that the engagement was broken. ,The young lady has since left for Bristol, R. 1., where she has relatives. It is said that the trouble was caused by the refusal of her guardians to give unconditionally to her hm£ band after the projected marriage the Sfimttft of her - - Never ask alms of a one-armed man. He hasn’t any to spare.— Danbury ■HUM' ■ ’