Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-10-01

Lead iaou the great worlds van! With,
eqnsl rights of man
Attendant on thy rule, Liberty Is sun
New lands will bless, and rulers there will
plan
Diyineat freedom, through thy voice, our
y, y 'sessrf' sss;,s Wv '..,'.T World. i
f,g;iJid millionaire NIackay.
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The Stories of His Wealth Largely
-ladUharue.. lsfsssP robabie Worth.
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Chicago Herald.
TIE story OF John w. Mackay.s
bnyiBg ehaiNs@. York He,ald,f or ra
ther, ID LIE Original liar said. taking
il for debt has been appropriatvly
taqelehed..ia That t:was tperhsps the
alliiest.canatd>of the season. Right
here it ough, to be said that there is.
i5,ifs id5,fe 1uGRsense written 'abont' john
Maskay,than aperhaapge any7iothear; rrieh rich.
man iu America. Most t,of the twad-
die about:hia 4wealth is theo-yeIiest;
romance. He is, in trutb,vs ry rlck.
richer than a1nost any American, wis
w.ihou4ethe; aid of such advantages
as may come from, pure ,cbance, can
ever hope to become, but the fashion
that 'psny,have Of ranking Mackay
with the, Monte Chrlstoes Of the earth
is absurd. There are scores Of men
in=America richer than Meckay, and
who have their wealth better inveat
ed and more in hand. The great bo !
nanza firm reached the climax Of it's
golden romance in 1876 Their stock
in the bonanza mines was then worth
perhaps $loo,ooo.ooo.. The mines in
which they'had a:coutrolling interest
we're paying $4,000 600 q month, but.
this went gradually down, and went
rapidly. That 6r,n, as firm, nevsr
realized more than 100000 month
p-o6t. .Tbia was enough to give ro
nance to the silver cave, and If 1t
mad held out in treasure It would, NO
doubt have made Maekayis Flood.
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Fair and O'Biien the ..iieheat,, PEOPLE
on the earth 8, surface. :.
But itldid net hold out. O'Brfen
died 10 1878; while these stocks were
yet paying dividends and while their
market value, was,yst away y>up. His
stocks were aiapossd Of at market
rates, yet his whole estate. -settled:np
but 100000. Every bonaanz. in!
tefestl ltumblsd after that. It's stocks,
stamp mills, wood and water interests
and all went TO the dogs. Msekay,
it Is well known, had twice what his;
other partners had.i Therefore, if be
had died in place of 0'BEien ut the.
time the latter did, his estate wcrld
have come to .:S2o,O 100000 :or.. there !.
aboonStss. That was the very elinax.of
bonapz, wealth Mr.. MaekaH never.
sz1s sa;s,sszs -, G hsE SO eeasaSstgy u az.
-rzr,;:i: ssFfaszSaH5 fs Sa5 ssah Known a. lh-
poorest investor Of any Of ths bouan
"a firm. He never yet made an j"
vestnen.. except in Government CT
State bonds. that yielded a dollar Of
income. Ar his speculative invest
men.s have come 10 naught;; H gives
away Vast sulas, fquaoderGo'k.r vast
sums, and weE al knss what MIS-
Maekay accomplishei Sin tsa way OF
expenditure. Que day, il front o.
the Nevada Bank, in San Francisco.
Mr.sMackaysread 10 a, paper handed
to hia an absqsd statement that Mrs.I
Mackay had offered to buy the Arc
de Triomphe, in Paris, for 100000
franca. "You may say" SAID John
w. in his broad North of Irelan'. &c
cent, "that Mrs. Macksy is ~ fool
and neither ia Johu Mackay nai
ia dom lie, sir Ap',you may say,
mon, that if John Mackay. Vas fool
enough to pay for that arch or sny
other arch, begad, sir, he don't knew
where in h tie money is comm
from. They've bled me, sor, like
lot of wolves. They say Mrs NJ lckay
has spent half million a year in
Europe. It's don lie. sir. She lives
like lady and want ber to. eo.so,
but begaa $4,000 y''Ar; pays I'll
her, expenses, balls aud all, for a
whole year. They said the 0ther Day
she spent $50, coo en-sfsipgse hallstso
Grevy or somebody2Gad knows'S ho
he if--but thatis ale, sor,. She don t
ppena $4,000 in g whole year in !.
Paris. Say that, will you, sor? 2 ~
Mr., Msekay was sincere y ee9,e IN the.
Mrs. Mackay is not near the tPeto.c'-..
thrift that q loSsef romance writers
try to make her opt YatsJeha = oEn
admission that her expenditures were
$4,000 a year, or thereabcuts. is
enough to make workers growl and
people OF spall means weep, Fifty
thousand sssfito idie away ;sJust
for a womar and a woman's pride !
A woman, daughter of barber-a
barber er,ia.-Downieyille,> California'' in
1856, now Colonel J.: Fl. Hunger
ford, Of the Boulevard frdas' Males
herbee-the, ,kpightly' 'father,iprlev Of
the great American. Midas" as the
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