Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

j -Richard Grant White says English gramm’ar is dead. —Senator Wade Hampton’s leg still gives him a great deal of trouble. —Senator Allison has been made an LL. 1X by the Western Reserve College. —Vice-President Wheeler think? of going to Colorado this summer for the benefit of his health. ' * —Senator Matt Carpenter has been invited to deliver the address at the State Fair at Montpelicj* on the 10th of September. He is a native of Vermont —The Rev. Ada C. Bodies, of the First Universalist Church in San Francisco, married a pair the other day, and was the hrst woman to do] so on the Pacific Coast. —The Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, of Elmira, N. Y., a brother*of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, is advocating cremation, and offers to subscribe for stock in a company to conduct the business. —lt is reported that Mrs. Asa B. Hutchinson, one of the famous family of singers, has become exceedingly wealthy by the purchase of an unworked mine at LeadvillQ, Col., which has since proved to be of remarkable richness. , —Mr. Chester W. Chapin, of Springfield, Mass., has been chosen President of the Connecticut River Railroad Company. He is eighty-one years old, and is probably the richest man in Western Massachusetts. He retired from the Presidency of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company last year on account of his age. Prince Galitzin, a young Russian nobleman, converted by a Bible given’ him at the Paris Exposition, proposes to build thirty Bible kiosks and to fit up seven Bible carriages. He intends to travel in Russia with Mr. Clough, of Paris, whom he has engaged to have charge of these carriages, saying: “ Since. /Christ laid down His precious life fqj - me, I will give my whole life and time and fortune, for His i —Mr. W. E. Forster, M. P., says: “In dealing with the education of girls in the training colleges it has been fojmd that they require little driving to work compared with boys,, and that they are more susceptible to influences es ambition and a desire to succeed. The danger in -the training colleges for elementary is from overwork. There is no fear that young women will not avail themselves of tbe opportunities offered.”: