Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-09-21
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

Mrs. Oscar Wilde Is one OF the
most popular women orators IN En-
gland.
MIR. John Wanamaker pays $685.
900 in taxes into the municipal treas
ury OF. Philadelphia His real estate
in the city is assessed at $500. 600.
-R. P. Grockett. the youngest SON
OF the famous Davy Crockett, is resi-
dent OF Granbury, Tex, the county
seat OF Hood County. He is seventy
three yearsold. 49,
I'm Chicago the other day lawyer
named D. L. Carmichael, being i'll and
unable to appear in court in an i'm
portant suit, his wife, who is not Q
lawyer. took his place and conducted
the case throughout, winning golden
opinions from all concerned. y
Miss Grace H. Dodge of New York.
L. deyoting her life to helping the
working girls Of that city. She has or
ganized girls clubs. which now include
10000 members. Their motto is,
Purity in speech and conduct" and
their object, is to lead girls into the
way of helping Themselves
Mrs Maria NJ. Dean is homeo-
pathic physician who took an office in
Helena, Mont, three years ago. Her
income last year was in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. She is graduate OF
Wisconsin University and from Bos-
ton medical school, and also studied
medicine in Berlin. She is thirty
years old.
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire
iron founder, says that he began his
business career by sweeping out an
Office and that his fellow-sweepers
were David McCargo, now president OF
the Allegheny Valley railroad; Robert
Pitcairn, superintendent OF the Penn
sylvania railroad, and Mr.. Moreland,
city attorney of Pittsburgh.
j b. Watson, the Australian
quartz reef king, died recently at
Sydney. at the age of sixty-four. He
was a native Of Paisley, Scotland, and
emigrated with his fathers family to
Sydney, and. afterwards to California
and Sandhurst, and finally to the
Bendigo gold mine, where he made a
fortune estimated at E40, ,000 600, $780,
900, 900.
THE Alstons, sir, die with their
boots on" This was the constant
boast of the late Colonel Bob Aston,
famous throughout, Georgia as an
editor and politician. His grandfather
and his father had died that way, and
one day after he had made this boast
he was shot to death. Next day one
of his boys committed suicide in Wash
ington, D. G. Then another son was
: Jailed at Lithonia, Ga, with charge
OF murder to his credit.
-General Boulanger, like great
many noted men, is superstitious. He
is careful not to get out of bed on the
left side, and if his path is crossed by
a black cat he does nothing OF polit.
ical Importance for twenty-four hours.
His followers recall that on the day OF
his sentence he recklessly went under
ladder in front OF his house in Port
land place. 1t is rumored that he is
firm believer in palmistry and takes
stock in the words OF gypsy who eX-
amined his hand and told him that his
4 chief ambition would one da, be salts
, fed.
President Diaz, during the four
4 wears of his administration in Mexico,
has rendered substantial services to
) science by encouraging archaeological
u investigation and taking measures for
e the preservation of ancient monu-
ments aud historical remains. The
> ruins of Xochicalco and the pyramids
of Teotihuacan have been explored
. and the searchers rewarded by many
Il interesting discoveries. An archao-
. logical map of the Republic has been
y made and the palaces OF Militia IN
. closed, for their preservation, by a
- great wall.