Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-23
PERSONAL AND lmpERsonAL.

When Adelaide Nelson died she
had in her possession copy of every
photograph of herself which has been
published, and the total Of these, cartes,
cabinets, panels. etc., was six hundred
and nine.
BY the death of Mrs. Nancy Green,
of San Francisco, the city of Belfast,
Me-, receives the thirty thousand dol
lars for public library bequeathed in
l849 by her brother, Nathan Wilson,
an officer in the navy and a resident of
Belfast.
"A Covington( Ga. )paper announces
that '.Miss Carrie Whitlock, the beaute-
Gus and vivacitative belle of dashy
Marietta, is in the city, the guest of
Miss Annie Pace, one of Covington's
many spirituelle, fascinating young
ladies"
Mrs. LeBau, the sister of William
Fl. Vanderbilt, is. the only member OF
the family to whom nothing is left by
his will. She gave offense to the family
by contesting the will of her father,
the Commodore, and has since married
a second time and lived abroad.-N Y.
Herald.
Pat Parker, the Oldest colored land
mark sacred to the memory of Wash
ington, died at Dallas, Tex, recently.
at the ripe old age of one hundred and
twenty-six. He was a slave for a
whole century, and is said to be the
original "Old Black Joe. Chicago
Inter- Ocean.
1t is characteristic Of General
Grant that in the height of his fame
and wealth he did not forget his old
West Point riding master. Hearing
that the latter was old and poor he
sent him comfortable check, in men,
ory of the time when Cadet Grant was
considered the boldest horseman and
show rider of ''the Point. ."-Bostoas
Budget.
CLAUS Spreckels, of San Francisco,
is the great sugar refiner of California,
and the virtual King of the Sandwich
Islands, because he controls their sugar
lands and cultivation. He is also the
owner of feet of steam and sailing
ships, and will now carry the mail be-
tween San Francisco, Honolulu and
Auckland, New Zealand. - Chicago
Journal.
DIR. Joseph F. Fox, Irish National
ist, elected to the House of Commons,
is a grandson of the late Commodore
Stewart, of the United States Navy,
and is therefore a cousin of Mr.. Par
nell. He resided in Newburg, Cohoes
and Troy, N. Y, for several years,
treating diseases of the eye, and is a
man of professional skill and oonsid.
cradle literary ability.-Troy Times.
Thomas Jordan, of South Lewis
ton, Me-, is eighty-four years old. Last
winter he lost the use of an eye and
didn't discern it until spring. He
went into the field one day in spring.
time and noticed that things looked
passing strange He clapped his hand
to one eve. Blank darkness! One eve
was totally blind, and, strangest of all,
it had not panied him and he had not
noticed it before.-Boston Herald.
Congressman Golf, the only Re-
publican member from West Virginia,
has fallen heir to five hundred thousand
dollars by the death of his uncle. after
whom he was named. The old gentle
man was one of the richest men in
West Virginia, who owned no end of
land, upon which were coal mines and
much valuable timber. He was slave.
holder before the war, but began topay
wages to his slaves from the date of the
emancipation proclamation, and not
one of them ever left his employment.
In his will he provides handsomely for
them all, leaves one hundred thousand
dollars for the Methodist Church of
Clarksburg, of which he was pillar,
and gave the residue of his estate to
his favorite nephew Chicago Tribune.