Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-07-21
NUMBER 80.
PERSONAL AND iMPERSONAL.


Mr.. Parnell was noted as crick-
eter before he went into politics.
Sir Morell Mackenzie is afflicted
with asthma and smokes stramonium
cigarettes to obtain relief therefrom
The late Vice President Wheeler
gave away between $4,000 and S5O,-
600 during the closing years OF his life.
General Lew Wallace's mother
died when he was = hoy, and Mrs. 10
relda G.. Wallace, who is commonly
spoken of as his mother, is in reality
his stepmother.
Stanley, the explorer, says that
when you can't whip or buy an African
king, you can scare him out of his
boots with a ghost story.
Daniel Freeman took the first
homestead pre-emptcd in the United
States, January /, 1868. The land is
five miles west of Beatrice, Neb., and
Mr. Freeman still lives on it.
Dennis Hanks, of Charleston, H.,
who taught Abraham Lincoln to read
and write, Is now in his ninetieth year
and has numerous descendants to the
third and fourth generation.
Tho remains of son OF Alexander
Hamilton, first Secretary of the United
States Treasury, lie in Sacramento
cemetery. He was a rover from early
manhood. and obtained the title OF
Colonel by commanding regiment OF
Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk
war.
-Benedict Arnold's pass to Major
Andre was recently offered to Mr. Nor
rill, of the Senate Library Committee.
The possessor is direct descendant OF
Paulding, one of the scouts that ar
rested Andre when he attempted to
pass the picket under the name of An
derson.
Rev. DR.. MyrOn Reed, the we'll
known Presbyterian clergyman, of
Denver, Col, was once interrupted
n a public prayer by a man who
shouted Louder :" DR.. Reed stopped
short, looked at the interrupter, and
said coolly: 81 was not addressing you.
sir; was addressing the Almighty
Then he went on with his prayer.
A farmer in South Carolina is said
to have followed the plow for sixty
eight years. There is something to
admire in the humble but useful life OF
such a man. He never waited for
any thing to turn up, Out went foith-
fully al ,w'1'nplainingly to WORK
and turned il up himself, and continued
to turn it up.
Captain Thomas Sampson, who is
one of the special officers employed at
the sub-treasury building in Wall
| street, has been decorated with six
teen medals for life-saving and general
| efficiency and skill in arresting and
| detecting criminals. Captain Sampson
is an Englishman by birth, though he
came to this country when he was only
.hrnn ynarS old
Roswell p Flower, whose barrel
of money is famous, began his life
work at the age of seventeen, when
his brother-in-law agreed to pay him
| s. a month and his board for tending
store In a country town in Northern
| New York. The bulk of his fortune
has been made in railroad stocks and
lands and by investments in coal and
iron property.
| Colonel, Nicholas Smith, the
Kentucky professional beauty who
married one of Horace Greeley's
daughters, is an extremely modest
man. Recently while in New York
lady sarcastically said to him
80. Colonel Smith, how much
YOU look like George Washington F"
And the elegant Colonel gravely re-
spondcd: Madam, Washington was
good and great man, and deserves
the compliment.