Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1879 — PERSONAL AND LITERARY. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

—Poetry, says Matthew Arnold? is simply tho most delightful and perfect form of utterance that human words can reach. —James C Flood, tire San Francisco millionaire, will soon build a new dwelling for himself which is to oost $200,000. —The tallest man in Alabama is said to be John W. Robinson, of Pike County, who is six feet seven and a half inches high. , —Currie, the Texan who killed Porter, the aotor, refuses to plead insanity. He says that he has “ a splendid Texas ease” as it is, and there is no use weakening it. —lt is reported thsit United States Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, has bought teu thousand acres of land in Kansas and will make* his home there as soon as his present term in the Senate expires. —There will be a lively contest as to who shall be Bishop Odunheimer’s successor. Already the names of many candidates are mentioned. Prominont among them is that of the Rev. Dr. Starkey, of St. Paul’s Church, Jersey City. —The Washington Star says that the acting Secretary of the Treasury lately reoeivod postage stamps to the amount of ten oents from an unknown person, with a statement to tho effect that the sender, many years ago, while at sohool, had succeeded in erasing the cancellation mark from one pr two stamps which had been used, and had used them again. Now that he knows such action was wrong, he desires to pay the Government the amount “ justly due,” and, to make it “ dead sure,” inclosed stamps to the amount of ten cents, which were oovered into the conscience fund. —A correspondent in Boston who has just visited the grave of Charlotte Cushman writes: “It is delightfully situated iu tbe baok part of Mount Auburn Cemetery, at the base of a bill, with a grand view of Boston and tho Charles River in the far distance. The keeper told me that, when Miss Cushman selected the lot she said, nodding her approval of it: ‘Here 1 shall Hein sight of dear old Boston.’ The lot is a very large one, and In excellent order; bnt not a flower, tree or shrub ornaments It. A little plain marble tablet, threo inches thick and about four feet high, resting on a fiat freestone socket, hearing simply her name, and valued at about S9O, is all there U to mark the restlng-plaoe ol the tragic queen who left hall a million to her next of kin.” —The report that Mrs, Oobb, the Norwloh (Conn.) murderer, is leading a life of luxurious retirement in the Connecticut State Prison has led to an investigation by a reporter, who found her in a double ©ell, which is carpeted with a heavy Brussels carpet. The gloom of the oall la dostroyod by heavy lace curtains of fine texture, which ore festooned graoefully over the arched entrance. The walls are handeomelv decorated with mottoes, a well-filled bookcase, stylish wail-pockets and elegant braoketa and the thousand and one tasteful and inexpensive trifles so infinitely dear to the heart of lovely woman. An attractive camp chair* {(listening with fresh varnish and gtow* ng with warm colors, stood wear a dainty black walnut stand, ***** wfcfeh was a dish of fruit oompe*«deft ywotHtett and bananas, adorned leaves. Wesley Bishop, h** flOjWtomq in crime, is ouo of the •*** GufttittiUPilfii convicts in tbe priaoa, **d sfcpwasfttefe aptitude for the W«sfc *fe whtofclfeift put.