Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-10

III, 1OOO'
etc.; Monsieur Meissonier capeEs ninb!y
frantic with rage. The lady answers a
criticism with the remark:
Il paid for it. | shall do as | please will
my own"
Cabanel aiterward painted a satisfaction.
portrait.
1t was quite generally agreed the Meia
%sonnier portrait WAS rather expensive kind
ling material. The soul Of Meissonnier
it is understood, has never quite recovered
from the rude shock il received when be
heard that his unsatisfactory production
had been reduced to ashes. | have nc
dout that Mrs. Macksy's complaint was
Just. Meissonnier certainly cannot fairly
be termed a genius; his success rettects nc
great credit on those who have helped 10
make It. He is wonderfully deXterous With
his brush, but really is without the genius
OF a number OF American artists who
might be named, though such an assertion
may be regarded as fiat heresy by those
who think that no coed can come Out Of
Nazareth, that no artistic merit exists in
nation which is nevertheless certain before
many years 10 take the sceptre and diadem
Of art even from France.
At the Paris Exposition of 1873 Mrs.
MackaY had on view her famous set of
sapphires, valued at $500, 900. The pen
daut is q sapphire az large as a pigeons
egg and alone is valued at $50, 600. She
has famous strings Of both black and white
pearls. She, however, wears very few Jew.
els either at the opera or ct receptions. The
Mackays have two sons, ore years OF age
and the other II, who are beirg educated
in Psria.
About the Tina VIXEN John ". Mackay
as by q wave of the wand Of one Of the
tabled genii found himself enormously
wealthy, but while he was gtill living as 2
bachelor in a plain frame house Oh Suffer
street, in San Francisco, he met the young
widow OF DR.. Bryant, and daughter Of Ma
ior Daniel +. HuDgerford, Of New Orleans.
She had married DR.. Bryant and moved
to Nevada City, where he died, leaving his
wife and daughter in verv moderate, Il not
destitute circumstances. Mr.. MGcksy hear
ing OF this come months later, started a
subscription tyr the lady and raised a con-
siderable sum. Filed with gratitude, she
called on him to express her thanks. She
was young aud pretty and had winning
manners. The visit scaled Mr.. Mackay's
doom as a bachelor. 1t was g Gaze Of love
at first sight. After Il briel and quie,
courtshiP they were married Oh November
2G, 1867.
John ". Mackay is now g man CT so.
lie is quick in hia movements, Of sturdy
build, five feet ten and q halt inches in
has q tOlid complexion, q sandy
mustache aud reddish hair, turning gray.
He aud Gen. Grant were very friendly; he
dinei with the General. He Is q
aud gave large amounts 70.
wards detrGyi ur the expenses Of the last
Presidential campaign il Nevada. When
in New York lie now ~'rRnsGcts his BUSINESS
in the parior5 Of the Bank Ct Nevada, in
Wall straet near William. He ia ore Of
the founders Of that bank. which sometime
ago established Il branch in New York.
He is entirely without prctcIse, warm
hearted, genial AID charitable. lie re-
rrets thai as O youth he had no educational
advantages; he never torgets the days Of
bis poverty and his early struggle with al.
lie likes TO see old friends,
whether rich or poor. He is courteous to
al. Poor John Mccullough used 10
tell with much feeling of MIR. Mackays
yenerosity to the late Ned Adams, the
actor. After an exceptionally bad theatri-
cal season both in Australia and in Cali
he found himself in San Francisco,
to the last financial extremity
Mr.. Mccullough, knowing Mr.. Mackays
generosity, mentioned in q general way the
fact OF Mr.. Adams embaras8ments to him,
aad the result was a letter to the Uuior-
actor, expressing, with the d~elicacy
Of a natural gentleman, his sense Of OBJ
legation 70 Mr.. Adams, as one who had
frequently derived the greatest pleasure
from his approximations, and rendering, IL
view OF his temporary embarrassments,
he loan off 90, for which he incloEed O
check. The assistance was most timely.
Poor Ned Adams, i'll and almost heart.
cried over the letter like = child.
He slep: with it under his pillow, he wss
never weary OF showing il TO his ,r.enis as
an illustration Of Mr.. Macksy's generosity.
And when he died, this letter, deeply cree5-
ed from having been carried about con.
and stained with his tears, Was
it his room, near at hand.
Il told Mackny," said John Mccullough,
on ore OCCASION, hog poor Ned Adams
cried over that letter and how he treasured
it, and lie warm-hearted millionaire WIS
deeply moved. He saiG: IF | had
known exactly how he stood | would have
sent him ten thousand dollars. ! was sorry
| didn't" To the day Of his death Ned
Adams blessed the name Of John W. Mac
kay. One Of Nr. Mackay's bcrefactioDs
was the establishment Of the Roman Cath
ole Orphan Asylum at Nevada City, which
he sill maintains.
Since the great speculation in ming
stocks subsidized some years ago be has
taken less partin speculative venturea than
formerly. The value OF the stock in the
mines in which be was interested declined
like that Of oil the others. lie says there
ia enough ore Of lew grade in the famous
Comstock lode to equal III value all the
ore OF high grade that ouce astonished the
world. lie is part owner Of the Mackay.
Bennett cable, and has sharply competed
with Mr.. Gould for the business Of ocean
telerraphy. o. W. r.