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

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Toni Luton, a French quadroon OF
New Orleans, is the richest colored
man in America. He is wroth SLOW
GOO.--N. D. Times.
When Admiral Nelson fell at
Trafalgar he had in his pocket eighty
four guineas. A Portsmouth (Eng.)
gentleman owns these and has them
riyeted into apaper-weight form.
Mark Twain is getting old very
fast. but Toes not like to be told 0. IT,
His hair is nearly white, but Mark per-
SITS that this was caused by sitting IN
damp churches out in California -.
Y. Times.
Il. b. Davis, the inventor OF the
locomotive "cowcatcher." is living IN
Cincinnati. devoting himself princi-
pally to designing patterns for iron
work. He never received any remuner..
alton for the 'fcowcatcher. '-Ctlctnfdn
Times.
Al nee famous tenor.
-Duprez, thH'o.. Ia~ mas
a hobby for cats in his olu se. and is
said to feed hundreds of them every
day. The animals remind aim of the
days when he associated with sopranos.
especially when they get to fighting
the cats, not the sopranos.
AS q family man David Wright
(colored), 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,-(hicaqo
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 intprmission and said: Say.
Mr.. Barrett, do all these people como
to the theater Just to see your Don't
some Of 'em come to see me?:' Mr..
Barrett answer is Observation-Disclosures
ton J0HiWq,.
-"Camp Meeting john Allen.
ninety-one years Of age, but still vigor-
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 certit-
Gates and ministerial licenses and many
valuable papers. He is nowi 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-tive years
ago he settled at his present home, and
there he has lived continuously ever
since. For eighty-iye years Nathan
has been afflicted with rheumatism.-
| Atanta Constitution.
| Martin Gomez has deposited 2lj,-
600 in a New Bedford (Mass.) bank
. under rather curious circumstances,
He recently reached that place from
San Francisco, and is bound for his
&. home at Fayal on a ship which sails
this week. While in San Francisco q
5 friend gave Gomez a lottery ticket
which he had grown tired of carrying.
r On reaching New Bedford Gomez dis
+ covered that the ticket had drawn o
| SO, 600 prize. Boston Herdid.
w. c. McCauley, of Baltimore, a
commercial traveller representing a
number of oyster packing houses in
Baltimore and New York, has received
=. the information that the last Will Of a
e st. Paul lady bequeathcd to him a leg
acy of 5000. The legacy is in CRATE
full recognition OF an act of hcroism by
7 Mr.. McCauley, who two years ago res
cued the daughter of the lady from
z drowning while she was bathing at
Y Coney Island. Baltimore Sun.