The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-10-17
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAl..


Five hundred policemen in citizens
clothes are employed in guarding the
public offices of London against dyna-
miters.
Mrs. Richard Barton, living near
New Brunswick. n j., who has twice
given birth to twins, is now the proud
mother of triplets.
Governor Ireland, of Texas, was
arrested the other day for keeping his
carriage standing ON the street cross
ing and was fined ten dollars and
costs.
The late Colonel Gilman Nj. Pal
to the First National Bank of CLIFTON,
''for helping him in time of need, the
sum of four thousand dollars.
Frederic G. Vollmer, of South Nor
walk, Conn.,, is in his one hum
dred and second year. He was sol
der of Bonaparte and fought at Aus
terlitz and Jena. Vollmer does not
drink, but has smoked since the year
1898,
Christian Rauch was employed ten
years upon the bronze equestrian
statue of Frederick the Great, which
was erected in the Inter den Linden,
Berlin, in 1851, The STATUE is seven
teen feet high and stands upon pedes-
tai twenty-five feet high.
The funeral of Victor Hugo was
the most popular colossal fete that
Paris has ever seen. There was no
sadness, no solemnity, but. on the con-
trary, a pagan gayety, the festivity of
triumph. II was the manifestation OF
purely human worship. Letter from
Paris.
Russell Sage is reported to have
lost fully eight million dollars in spec
ulation last year. He is still very
wealthy, but is growing more cautious
and has not the dash of his younger
years. He takes no chances now, pre-
ferring to invest in assured interests,
and has ceased to be q power in Wall
street.
Out of five hundred and nine MEM
bers of the House of Lords, not less
than four hundred and forty are land
lords in the fullest sense of the term;
that is, they derive the whole or the
greater part of their revenues from
land. Fifteen million acres of land,
with an aggregate rent roll of fifteen
million pounds, represent their prop
erty and income, while another seven
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in
the shape of pensions, annuities and
salaries, also falls annually to the lot
of this privileged class
Colonel Brice, the Ohio millionaire,
has made nearly six million dollars
within five years. He began in small
railroad speculatons, made money,
and failed; tried again, and eliminated
with the Nickel-Plate enterprise. Mr.
Brce now lives in New York, He has
a residence on Murray Hill, for which
he paid $3.50, 900. 1t is filed with fur
niture, brie-a-brie and pictures which
have cost a. fortune. He has n very
fine library, is fond of literature. and
is a man of considerable culture, He
has strong mind, great speculative
ability, and never loses his head.
Lawson Lawrence, colored of Eu-
faula, Ala, Is one hundred and three
years old. His present wife is fifty
years old, he having married her when
She was gal as he expressed it.
She is his ninth wife, and, in reply to
the question as to how many children
he had, he said he had been accused of
having one hundred and seventeen,
and it was not for him to
dispute it, Last year he cultivated
twenty acres of land and raised an
abundance of peas, corn and potatoes.
This year he is cultiyating cotton. He
lives within quarter Of mile of
White Pond, Barbour County, where
he has been for the last eleven years.
He labors during the week and
breaches Sunday, being pastor Of
Mount Zion Methodist Church for eight
| years.