The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-10

table of satin-wood, ~profusely ornamented in the Louis
XIV style, 81, 500; a pair of bronze eandelabra, 81
$40; a pair of carved ebony cabinets, 81, $780,. The
sale realized about 942,O O0, which was a third more
than had been anticipated by ~sanguine critics.
JONATHAN A. GREEN, who used to parade as the
reformed gambler, " and who boosted that he once won
$4,000 from photographers at a single sitting, is
now an old man, living in very impoverished circum-
stances in Philadelphia, the latest Illustration of the
folly OF retiring from business too soon.
The large diamond found recently in the Kimberley
fields, South Africa, weighs 30134 carats, and is said
to be the largest ever found in that region, though it
is not the most valuable. In form it is a perfect stone,
but its color is slightly yellow. The market value of
it has been estimated at SIS, 900. 1t has been named
the Victoria"
CAPTAIN ROBERT W. ANDREWS, of Sumter, S. c..
was in Washington last week, making a pedestrian jour
ney TO the home of his son in Boston,, He stopped in
Washington a day or two, to rest and to shake hands
with the President, He claims to have talked to
every President from Washington down, excepting
Garfield. He is making the journey just for pleasure,
with no companion but a little black dog, and on the
road he walks about twenty-five miles a day which is a
pretty good distance for a veteran of ninety-three.
LIBERTY HALL, the late Governor Alexander FL.
Stephens residence in Charlottesville, Ga, was
purchased at the auction on Tuesday by the Stephens
OOiuul ~ F3sCVN'
also bought the furniture in his sitting-room and bed
room, with the desks, papers, ETC., for $21O. The
library of miscellaneous works and general literature,
which was said TO have cost $40, 900, was bought by
Mr.. John A. Stephens for $500. The memorial asso-
citation will establish a school in the house and erect a
monument to Mr.. Stephens in the grove in front OF 1t.
There are nearly eight acres of ground in the
property.
THE richest little girlin the world is the sevenyear-
old daughter of Captain George Perkins, of the navy.
She is worth 81, 900, 900 in her own name, that
amount having been left her recently by her grand
father, VIM. F. Weld, of Boston. Mr.. Weld was the
father of the little girls mother, and when he died,
four heirs, including the child, came into possession
of the bulk of his fortune, $25 900, 900, which was
divided into four portions. The sum of $4,000 and
a valuable residence in Boston, were bequeathed to
Mrs. Perkins, wife of the Captain, and $4,000
annually to be used in caring for the little millionaire
heiress until she reaches the legal age and claims her
millions.
THE traveller, Ernst Won Hesse wartegg, writes
from Queretaro to the Paris Figaro: "The govern
ment of the State of Q~ueretaro has erected a large
monument of red stone on the spot where the Emperor
Maximilian was shot the 10Th of June 1857. Until
now this gloomy spot on the Oerro de la Campana has
been marked by a pyramid of small stones, which
gradually decreased in size owing to the depredations
of the ex-Imperial soldiers, who almost daily took
away a few stones as a memento of their Emperor.
The Emperor's coffin, entirely blood-stained, remains
in the government palace exposed to the desecratioD
of American travellers, who cut pieces off it. The
convent of Santa Cruz, where the Emperor was imH
prisoned before his death, is falling into ruins, and the
room in which the unfortunate MaximiIian sat has
become almost inaccessible. Monsignore Soria, his
last c~onfessor. died a few days ago."