Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-10-15


night as he was going to sleep. That
the pin should work through the drum
head ia hardly probable, though not
impossible. but in the absence of any
other explanation will have to be &C.
copied. f. '-..
Rich Ex-Confederates.
Washington Letter to Philadelphia Times.
General Marcus J. Wright, Chief OF
the Confederate Records office, is pre-
pairing a biographical work in which
the fortunes of the ex-Confederate
Generals will be traced up to date.
According to the information collected
by him, q good many of them, South
ern leaders who found themselves pen.
niless after the war, have carved out
new fortunes for themselves, some OF
them even ranking among the million
aires. General Malone of Virginia is
tho richest of them. After the sur.
render at Appomatix he owned a
horse, some war trappings and his
box OF surveying Instruments which
he had before war used as a. civil
engineer.
In less than a week after the last.
gun had been fired he was employed
by the Orange & Alexandria Railroad
at civil engineering. He bought stock
with the savings from his salary, sold
it OPPORTUNITY, invested in other VIM
glnia railroads, and in q few Years re-
tired from the civil engineering to take
the position OF Vice-President on the
Danville Road. From that position
he graduated to- the Presidency OF the.
Norfolk & Tennessee Road. After ten
years had passed he was the railroad
prince of Virginin, and is now a mil
llonaire. His fortune Is estimated at
SIS, 900, OOOl. and he is adding to. it
daily by shrewd Investments.
The two senator's from Louisiana.
Gibson and Eustis, rank next to, Ma.
hone in wealth. Gibson was a. confed~.
crate general and served throughout
the war. At it's close he had several
hundred acres Of land which had not
been titled for four years, and had a.
musty law office in'New Orleans which
he had not entered since his brigade
was ordered to the front. With bor-,
rowed money he set towork planting.
and at the same time began once more
the practice of his profession Now.
after the lapse of twe1rty years, he
ranks among the weaathiest planters
in Louisiana, is at the head of the
bar in New Orleans and is worth con-
siderably over a half million of dol.
lars. This will be increased: eventual
ly to a million or more, as his wife
will come into a large fortune at the
death of her mother, Mrs. Montgome.
ry. His colleague, Eustis, after fight.
ing under Johnston till theclose of the
war, turned his attention. to law and
sugar, and between them had eked out
several hundred thousand dollars.
He Is regarded as the shrewdest man
in the New Orleans Sugar Exchange,
and although not a. broker, always
has che ''tips." He was the candidate
of the sugar men for the United States
Senate, and, it is said has hand in
the Louisiana Lottery Company.
Nearly as wealthy as the foregoing
is General Brown of Tennessee, twice
Governor of that State since the war
and now the receiver Of the. Texas
Pacific Railroad. General Brown,
like so many of his associates. took;
to civil engineering and railroading
when ne laid down his arms. After
constructing several small roads in
Tennessee he: entered the service OF the
Texas Pacific at salary of $4,000
q year, and has his headquarters at
Dallas. AS a result OF his rail
road adventures ne is worth near
~ $l,OOO,OOO, and is increasing
his fortune yearly. General Rosser
OF the Northern Virginia cavalry, now
living in retirement at Charlottesville;
has an estate valued at over $780,
600. He made it all since the war
and at railroading. After surveying
for several years in the Western States
he became connected with the Northern
Pacific Railroad and was elected it's
Vice President eight years ago. His
estate Is almost adjoining the old
homestead Of Thomas Jefferson at
Monticello, and is generally conceded
to be the finest in Virginia. =,
General Trimble, who lives in Balti-
more, found q fortune ia liquor after
the war. The whiskey which bears
his name found its way into popular.
ity at once, and has so far yielded
the General more than a half million.
He owns extensive distilleries near
Baltimore, and although very old he
snperintends their operation.
General Wheeler Of Alabama, now
Congressman from the Eighth District,
after gaining the reputation of being
the most daring cavalry leader of the
South after J. =. B. Stuart, stepped
from the saddle into the cotton field
and from poverty has risen to be the
richest man in his State. His estate
Is valued at nearly q million.
|, General Gordon Of Georgia made q
fortune since the war, but lost it re-
Gently through injudicious specula,
ton. Five years ago he was q million
aire, to-day he is literally not worth
Is dollar. General Johnston, United
States Railroad Commissioners, has a
snug fortune, and g few other ex- Con-
federate Generals are worth 800, 600
or more AL made alter laying down
their arms. z%.. RI =t *=s
At the Merehernich works ID Ger.
many the tallest chimney in the worhd
has recently been completed. Its 44C
feet high, six feet more than tie ia
nous Chimney Of the St. Rollax chem
lical works, near Glasgow, Scotland
which, until the German oneGas built
was without q rival. The flue Of I'll,
Mechernich chimney IL 70 feet II
7laYnofAr at the bot Ian and fer, feaI