Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-14
"reminiscences Of the American Duke
OF SOnora---His Isthmus Of Paua-
anna Railway Scheme.
Social Outlook Of the Administrations.
0rover Shaves Himself and Makes
One Toilet Day.
bonanza Mackay shekeIins Ills wa, 4,
unse"t His oid chum Fair IN the
United states senate.
THE CAPITAL asa HONE.

4 rom our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. .-Washinoton ;s
getting to be popular place of residence
win rich men and retired politicians
Inc beauty and cleanliness of the city. its
bright and cosmopolitan society. lis ev.rv
access to the great commercial centers Of
the East and the seashore resorts all com.
Dine to this end. Real estate has adj.
Vanced amazingly within the last ten
years and before this century shall have
expired fabulous figures will he asked for
convenient and slightly lots. ''>' io'
Inc district Is only so large and mpcb
Oh the eligible portion has been taken in
Inc grand streets and avenues already
occupy as much ground rs the rest of Tho
clty, TO say nothing of the hundreds Of
PARK reservations and grounds GOV.
cred by the government buildings.
PALACE OF THE SILVER KING.
John W. Mackay, the Nevada silver
KING, is here looking out slightly snot
on which he proposes TO erect a gilded
palace for the entertainment of his friends
and Washington society. In tho
meantime he will be candidate for
united States senator from Nevada
agalpst MS former partner, the million
are FAR. When these two money NAV
mates get to bidding for votes in Inc NJ.
vada legislature the silver dollars win
rattle down like hailstones on fin
roof The members will all retire I'm
comfortable circumstances and the reyis.
ION OF the tariff and other national or
state matters will interest them no moro
These gold bugs will have TO buy their
election twice. First, they will have TO aid
them substantially in the local elections
ana IRON then until the ballot for sem
ator Is cast and the ''result announced. ~
II viii be battle Of the s giants,
MACKAH's ASPIRATIONS.
Mackay has been living IN Paris in royal
style for several years. He had Gorge
Gus establishment, which your CORE
spondent took u look at last autumn, lust
on the Champs Elysees, near the great
Arc dc Triomphe. This magnificent man.
sion was tor several years the
residence of Queen Isabella after she
quilted Spain.
The Macknys made II famous. from
vulgar standpoint, with series of splen
did entertainments given regardless of
cost. few months ago the daughter
married the Count Colonna, of AN old
noble Italian family, one of the Oldest and
best-blooded stocks of the Imperial city.
OF course Miss Mackay had to "put
up" big table stakes, or the "dot,n as
they term 1t over there, To- get her man
and his long lineage. Poor, giddy girl
Let us trust that she is happy, and that
she has not taken her ducks to bad
market. Count Colonna Is said to be a
better fellow than most of these chaps,
who, as rule, are no-count. Now, the
Mackays want some political and social
in their native land, SO they can
IMPORT THEIR PEDIGREED soN-IN-LAW |
over and give him "swell" reception |
Fair, who will shell out his shckels thick |
and fast to retain his seat in the senate,
Is Wdowcr, grass one. When he |
got his fortune and political "famen he |
tired of his good, honest, just wife who |
bad washed his shirts when he was a
poor miner, and paid her literally to let
him loose. He has been divorced for sew
eral years.