Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Mrs. Hayes has a Siamese cat which was sent to her by an admirer in Asia. —The estate of the late Asa Packer will yield an income of $200,000 a year to each of his three children. —Airs. Cunningham, who was a prominent figure in the fiurdell murder, is now living at West Haven, Conn. —Evangelist D. L, Moody, is expected to labor next autumn in Cleveland, and later in the season at St. Louis. —ln a Baptist Church in Mobile an old colored woman was recently baptized who said that she was in her one hundred and thirteenth year. —Representative Alexander H. Stephens, now at his home in Georgia, is said to be in better health than at any time for the last twenty years. —Senator Gordon’s sheep ranch in Georgia comprises 40,000 acres. It is to be inclosed with a stone wall, seven miles of which have been completed. —Mrs. Swift, mother of Charles Freeman, the Pocasset (Mass.) murderer, sticks to her belief that .her son did rigflt, and thinks that God will justify him. —Mr. Silas E. Cheney, of Litchfield, Conn., the late Horace Greeley’s broth-er-in-law, got angry at the local barber the otlieSr day and has had a rival shop opened where shaving costs only five cents and hair cutting ten cents. —Archbishop Purcell does not expect during his lifetime to liquidate his debt; Tut be feels fairly assured that he will be able to bring it to such dimensions that it can be easily carried until future accumulations shall render complete payment feasible.

—lsaac, Farwell, of Dorset, Vt., celebrated the one hundredth anniversary of his birthday a few days ago, about one thousand persons participating in the exercises. He cast his first vote for Jefferson, and has voted at every Presidential election since. —General Robert Toombs, of Georgia, bought one hundred thousand acres of Texas land in the infancy of that State at twelve or fifteen cents an acre. It is now worth from four to ten dollars an acre. His income from his practice as a lawyer has reached forty thousand dollars a year,, and he», is said to be worth altogether at least five hundred thousand dollars. —The correspondent of tho Chicago Tribune who recently had an interview with Sitting Bull thus describes the noted warrior: “ There is something remarkable in his face. It is rather broad and lleshy, but the determined line around the mouth destroys the impression of flabbiness. His eyes are wide, and black, and piercing. The upper lids are heavy, and the outer corners hang over the eyes as if the brain had escaped into them. His shoulders and chest are broad and strong, and the arms muscular, and the* hands awfully dirty. He was dressed in blue leggins, beaded moccasins, a shirt made of the same material, figured like tho patterns of brocho shawls, and his blanket was bound .lightly around his waist, for the afternoon was intolerably hot.”