Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-07-07
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

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Russell Sage once lost wallet
containing $4,000, and a Clergyman
found and restored it.
Mr.. John b. Fry, who was once
private secretary to Henry Clay Is
living at Sidney, N. T., nearly seventy
years old.
A South Carolina girl was married
FIVE times in seven weeks, and is now
bothered to know which Of the chaps
is her true husband.
"A fashionable girl in New York
wears Gower buttons, pansies with tea
gowns and daisies and buttercups with
other gowns, all being finely wrought
with gold and jewels.
Miss Alice Shaw. the Amerlcao
whistler, recently whistled for the
Prince of Wales benefit, and was per-
sunally eomplimented by him for her
"unusuel facility in an unusual feml-
nine art.
Francis Murphy. the temperance
revivalist. attributes much OF his sue
cess to the fact that while speaking
he never permits himself to say
harsh or unkind word about the
drunkard or about the saloon-keeper.
Mrs. j. A. Ansley, of Decatur,
Ga, has a pair Of Indian moccaslns
donated to her grandfather by General
Andrew jackson, who obtained them
in Florida during some of the carrier
conflicts of the Government WITH the
Seminole Indians.
John w. Mackay, the bonanza
king, has a dinner service worth
100000. The silver was furnished
from his own mines, and, upon the
completion of the set he bought the
dies outright, in order THAT the set
might never be duplicated'
They are telling story in WASH
ington on consequential old natlVe'
who. making her first call on a Sena-
tors wife, said to her: Il have asked
all about you and find that can know
you with perfect safety" At last adj
vices her call had not been returned
Admiral David d. Porter, the chief
officer of the navy, is seventy-four
wears of age. Sixty-four years OF his
life have been spent upon the water,
beginning with the time when, a boy
of nine. he sailed with his father in
the expedition against the West Indian
pirates.
Mr., Gladstone owns q large tract
of land on the Canadian side of tho
Niagara river at point just above the
falls. When the Prospect Park i'm
provements were being planned he was
offered good price for the property,
but declined TO sell. His belief is that
the estate will double in value during
the next few years.
John Wanamaker's brother has
been giving some "reminiscences Of the
boyhood OF the great Philadelphia
merchant His first work was done in
the clothing store of Barclay Lippin-
colt. where he received salary of
81. so n week, all of which he gave to
| his mother. His dinner, when he had
any, consisted Of piece OF pie and u
glass of milk, costing two cents. Each
year his salary was increased. and at
the time he was twenty he had saved
5000, /,
Lawrence Smith. Of Harrisvillc,
Mass, was an enthusiastic astronomer
and specialist in meteOric work. In
1884 his widow gave $1,000 in trust to
the National Academy of Sciences, tho
income oi which was to be used once
in two years in striking Il 5000 gold
medal. to be called the Lawrence Smith
medal. and to be given to any one
making an original investigation Of
neteoric bodies of sufficient Importance
| to merit such recognition. Prof. IL.
\. Newton. of Yale, has Just received
the first of these medals from the
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