The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1875-01-21
FIFTY THOUSAND MILLIONS.
A Fabulous Fortune and Tremendous
Wedding.

| wedding.
| The Marriage ot q Brazilian isircss - n
Hosng Kentuskian, spicrdo - Exceeding
| the Iniss oi tbc Arabian Nights.
|
The hour is midnight, and | have
| just como in q triile jadcd, but bo.
fore retiring / purpose, while yet the
facts are vivid in my mind. to give
Iyou some, account of q wedding |
Iattondcd this evening. II WAS wed
iding ! make bold to say, the like
loi which VAS never celebrated on
leithor continent. The high con
Itracting parties to the marriage were
| Malia. only daughter Uf Da Souza
Cabral. the great diamond king Of
lSouth Anciica, and George HrthUr
rrockmorton. native of kcnlr Ky,
United States of America. who, for
the past five years. has been success
fully engaged in railroading in this
country, with headquarters at Rin
Janeiro. Da Sou2a Cuhral is the
principal owner of nino of the richest
diamond mines in South America.
and from them. in the aggregate, he
derives an annual income of not less
than S2O.000,0OO. His interests i'll
gold mines probably amounts to MS
much moro, and nm congnizant OF
the fact that last August ho sold n
ono tenth interest in tho celebrated
Bahia Mino-of which, until then, he
had been sole proprietor, for s3.5jo,
600, gold. His diamond interests in
South Africa snd Siberia hc lately
estimated under oath lin somo legal
proceedings before couit in Minas
Geraos) ut the enormous sum ol
S500OO 900 lie has, beside. great
pcHcboHt for real estate, and | was
but recently informed by one Of his
agents. n thoroughly Trustworthy
man, that Cabral's rentals in Lon-
don aud Glasgow alclc yic!d oyci
tl5O.0O annually. In 1865 he pnr
chased the patcnt'of machine foI
making eyclets. from poor fellow
whom he found starving ir gnrret
at Maranham. To-day the machine
is extensively uscd all over the world
AMI Cnbral draws S2,5uO day from
this source alone. And then there
are his sewing machine royalties that
Weld him something over $4,000 q
day. Tho correctness of this last
item is vouchcd ior by n friend OF
mine. who il tho manager Of the
leading sewing machine company in
Brazil. Indeed, it is easy to tell
what he is Interested in, but hard to
think of something that is anything
in which he is not. II would be II
puzzle to name n leading railroad in
South America or England i'll which
no has not stake llo takes in
somctling over million and hall
year from his Steamship stock. and
probably twice as much moro from
other sources. A cool, clear-hcalcd
man ~ sixty. six feet high, strait as
M arrow, with an eye like an eagle,
n judgment as uncrring ~ fate, and
II decision rs quick Ms the lightning,
with superb nerve; unconquerablc
bollncss, and an apparent incapacity
for blundcrinG, pa Sou2t Cabral
riands to day the wcallhicst man on
the globe He was lately asked by
an intimate friend, in my presence,
if he had any conception OF the sum
total OF his possessions. 10 thought
for n moment, and then quietly re
piled: Il could not swear that | was
not worth-presuming that l could
realize on all my propcrty-S5O,OOO,
900, 900" He made this astounding
exhibit with perfect sang troid, but
/ must confess that ms he spoke felt
something very like pity for him. |
could not help but think how special
ly difficult it might be for him to
satisfactorily solve the problem o.
the camel and the needles eye,
/ would not have devoted SO mucl
space to the father of the bride o
this evening were it not for the fact
that otherwise the account that fol
=. lows of tho wedding might be ro
lttlNSu Will lll'IttuiibN iht biiNi'
T. groom, young Trockmorton, is do
,scended from one of the oldest and
!, weal tliicst families Of the "blue grass
,couutr1, rs H. loso5 to cali IT, liz
came to brazil with matter of bal
n million in his own right, and sine,
, has prosperod famously. SO that to-
day he cannot be worth less thar
S6,O00,00O. But poor pittance il
comparison with his fathor-in law''
overwhelmingly gigantic fortune, ,bu
still quito sufficient to relieve hin
from the imputation of marrying thc
s fair Malta Cabral for money. Ht
met her first year ago nj n ball a
Pernambuco, and tho result was {
case of love at first sight on botl
their parts. They make an exceed
,ingly prepossessing couple-he tall
road-shouldered, yellow of hnir ant
-"tache, and she tiny, graceful
ced brunette.
vitations were written OF
Mt by artistic hands, in quaint
tely illuminated. Insteat
closed in paper envelopes
t to their favored re-
its dainty box o
boxes, 1000 il
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