Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-06-19
NUMBER 80.
PERSONAL. AND IMPERSONAL
Jay Gould is worth one hundred
dollars.-N. Y. Grdphic.

jay Gould is worth one hundred
million dollars N Y. Graphic.
A new name in England for books
of the penny-dreadful sort is shilling
shocEers."
-Carlotta Patti thinks great artists
are not as highly appreciated by this as
by the past generation.
Mrs. Anna Pratt, of Albany, falls
heir to Horatio Seymour's III farm
and homestead, ''Deerlield. "-Ottc1
IN ~ Herald,
There are three hundred and forty
seven female blacksmiths in England,
all Of whom actually swing heavy ham
mcrs and do mems work.
The medical men Of the United
States are going to put up a statue OF
Dir. Benjamin Rush in Washington,
who is spoken Of as the father of medl-
cine in America.
&C. ID. Patterson, who becomes
postmaster at Home, Tenn, at two
hundred and forty dollars a year, is a
son-in-law of eX-President johnson and
was once a United States Senator.
Mrs. James Claflin, of Hopkinton,
Mass, ninety-three years of age, re-
Gently, in company with a widowed
daughter, went to Chicago to visit her
sons. She is quite vigorous and active.
-BoStoH TraCciier.
Alfred G. Manning, a well-known
ship builder, died at %Fairhayen, Conn,
the other day, leaving a large fortune.
He was born a slave, in North Caro-
lima, and bought himself and wife out
Of slavery forty years ago.
There died recently at Whitehall,
n. Y, Julio I, Buel, the inventor Of
the trolling-bait now 20 generally used.
The first one made was a crude affair,
almost the counterpart OF the bowl Of
a LARGE tablespoon, made of tin.
"A Paris woman who journcyed to
Brazil in answer to an advertisement
in a French paper calling her thither
to claim a fortune, found the affair a
ruse and brought suit against the
author to recover the expenses OF her
trip. The case has Just been settled
by the court at Paris deciding she has
no claim.
While Americans believe that after
siXty-fOur a military officer is only fit
for retirement. the Germans are under
no such delusion. The Youngest Gen
eral in the German army i iifty-seven.
and Count Blumcnthal, still in active
service, is s%eventy-siX, while the Old
Kaiser. now in his ninetieth year, is in
fact as in title the head of the army.
The Tco RcpubiicS (Mexico) re-
: lates that in a decree issued recently
. the Coahuila Legislature declared as
'.Bcncmeritos'' Of the State General
. Portirio Diaz and Hon. Manuel Romero
, Rubio. and ordered their portraits to
be hung in the State Hall at Saltillo.
Thi, honor of ''Benemerito'' is the
highest civic honor a Mexican State
can give.
Yesterday morning the Times, in 3
$ moment of misplaced ~good-nature, cb-
served that Omaha was a thriving town
n and the Herad was a daisy. The same
dav the H,r0i{ said: THE noisy little
4 town which Missouri Is doing its best
b to crowd of the ragged edge of the
= Muddy had better tackle something Of
, it, Size->ay Plattsmouth or Bellevue. y
f The facts in the case are that Omaha
is a scrub town with grass growing in
. lis principal streets, and the Herad IS
d the mea,lie>t paper in the Missouri
Valley. -KmSoS city Times.
1; A negro man, Charley Pritchsrd,
9 of Hamilton, Ga. was slightly bitten on
the hand by a very small dog. The
bite was a mere abrasion of the skin,
drawing but little if any blood. Yet
the negro, a stout man, walked but q
S few steps, entered his brothers house,
t, and fell upon the floor in 4 dead faint.
Il When he was restored to consciousness
n his Jaws were locked-immovable,
II Doctors were summoned, and, after
D administering all restoratives possible
Il and bleeding the patient, they secured
a relaxation of the facial muscles.
10 Nearly a quart of blood was drawn be.
d fore this result was secured -Chicag'
1t lf4I.