Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-12-18
NUMBER a.
PERSONAL AND iMPERSONAl'

Toni Luton, French quadroon OF
New Orleans, is the richest colored
man in America. lie is wroth sl,5Oo,'
0OO. ~ .. Times.
When Admiral Nelson fell at
Trafalga he had in his pocket eighty-
four guineas. A Portsmouth thng)
gentleman owns these and has them
riveted into apaper-weight form.
Mark Twain is getting old very
fast, but does not like to be told o. IT,
His hair is nearly white, but Mark per-
si.,s that this was caused BY sitting IN
damp churches out in Ca-Aorni@-N'
\. Times.
L. B. Davis, the inventor OF the
locomotive "cowcatcher. is living IN
Cincinnati. devoting himself prlnci-
pally to designing patterns tor IRON
work. He never received any remuner-.
alton for the .'cowcatcher. "-CnlcHt1dn
Times.
[ --Duprez, the o.. - o~> mas
a hobby for cats in his olu ..se, and is
said to feed hundreds of item every
dav. The animals remind aim Of the
| davs when he associated with sopranos,
especially when they get to fighting
the cats, not the sopranos.
As a family man David Wright
(coored), Of Columbia City, Fla. can
hardly be surpassed, He is the father
of twenty-five children, most Of them
living, and his present wife Is the
mother of twenty-seven children, nine
teen of whom are liying.-thicaqo
Times
While Mr.. Wilson Barrett was
playing Claudian in Boston a six-year.
Old boy. who had been taking a small
part in the play, approached the star
during an intermission and said: "Say,
Mr.. Barrett, do all these people como
to the theater just to see youP Don't
some OF 'em come to see me|' Mr..
Barrett answer is notrecorded. -Bos-
ton Jon1hq,
Camp Meeting John" Allen,
ninety-one years OF age, but still vgor-
Gus, lost two houses in the Pennington
(Me) fire, with the manuscript OF an
autobiography on which he had been
at work for twenty years, his certiti-
Gates and ministerial licenses and many
!. valuable papers. He is now in Boston,
! where he intends to make his homo
) with a daughter Boston Budget.
, "A rare character is Nathan Hobbs,
near Pentield, Ga, He is now in his
ninety.seventh year and can work
every day and read without spectacles.
, He wa, born in the latter part Of the
!, eighteenth century. Seventy-iive years
i, ago he settled at his present home, and
! there he has lived continuously evel
, since For cighty-iye years Nathan
has been afflicted with rheumatism
i ATLANTA Constitution.
n Martin Gomez has deposited Slj,
= 600 in a New Bedford (Ma,s) banl
a under rather curious circumstances
+. He recently reached that place from
San Francisco, and is bound for hi
/. home 1T FayaI on ship which sail
d this week. While in San Francisco
IS friend gave Gomez lottery ticke
<. which he had grown tired OF carrying
r On reaching New Bedford Gomez dis
+ covered that the ticket had drawn
4 $4,000 prize Boston Herald
r w. c. McCauey, of Baltimore,
commercial traveller representing
=. number of oyster packing houses i
Baltimore and New York, has receiye
Y. the information that the last viii Of
.a st. Paul lady bequeathed to him 4 lee
n acy of 5000. The legacy is in CRATE
full recognition of an act of heroism b
" Mr. McCaulpv, who two years ago res
" cued the daughter of the lady fror
z drowning while she was bathing q
" Concy Island baltimore Sm".