Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-09
ABoUr 11Es IND WoMEs.

Nine. Eloise Desabaye- Chegary, the
most noted teacher of her time of young
ladies. died at her homs in New York,
Monday last, aged ninety-siA.
Queen Victoria has announced her in
teution of relaxing the strict require
ment for decollete dresses at drawing
have had to wait outside have caught
cold.
The Empress Frederick viii get ) 900,
600 francs under the viii of the duchess
of Galieia. She receives an annuity Of
GAG, 900 as queen dowager of Prussia,
and is richly provided for by her late
husband.
The youngest couple that ever married
in Butts county, Ca, was Mr. Allen
and wife. They were joined in wedloek
just before Christmas, near Worthwhile.
Allen was just past fifteen years old, and
his wife nine years his senior.
Senator John P. Jones, although
typical WesterRer in appearance, was
born q Welshman. He came to this
country with his parents when he was a
mere baby. He has made several for
tunes running into the millions and lost
them, and made again. Ia his mining
days he was regarded az an exceptional
man among his fellows, rs he has had q
good education.
Agnes Huntington, the American
singer from Buffalo, n. Y, who has just
made great hit in London as Captain
Paul Jones in a comic opera, is tall,
fair woman, with splendid sunny hair,
deep blue eyes and just twenty-five years
of age. She has gained considerable
reputation as a concert singer, but Paul
Jones is her first essay in light opera.
She will probably join the Carl Rosa
company.
John NJ. Clayton, who was assassinated
st Plummeryille, Ark, Tuesday night,
went to Kansas during the free soil
troubles, and enlisted in a Kansas regi-
ment, of which his brother was the colo
mel, soon after the outbreak of the war.
He remained on duty in that state during
the entire rebellion, and after the sur
render purchased plantation near Pine
Bluff, about thirty miles from Little
Rock, where he afterwards resided and
accumulated considerable property.
There may be some humor in Senator
Palmer's forthcoming novel. While
Senator Dolph was speaking on the Sa-
moan question on Wednesday, Senator
Palmer left the senate chamber to see q
constituent from Detroit ''What S go
ing on in the senate?' asked the caller.
"Why,' replied Palmer. 'they are
discussing a bill relating to the affairs of
your late father-in-law. - ''Not Mr..
Owen?' exclaimed the astonished Mich
lgander. eyes, Mr.. Owen, - returned
the senator. s'Old Sam Owen. You
can get copy of the bill in the document
room. The surprised visitor made
dash for the gallery. He wanted to hear
what Senator Dolph had to say about
Father-in-Law Sam Owen.
Mrs. Catherine Owens, aged sixty
nine, wanted to get her daughter S sick
baby-girl from Detroit to California
The child s mother, who is on a Califor-
MIA ranch, thought the change might
save her little one. Friends paid the old
lady's fare to Kansas City, and then she
set out TO beat her way to San Francisco.
It was probably the most respectable beat
on record Often the conductors and
train men were rude to her, often
friendly. She was put off the cars be-
tween twenty aud thirty times, taking
ten DAYS TO go from Kansas City to San
Francisco She often slept little in
stations. It shamed her to be put off,
but she tried the next train just as
pluckily, the child being sick all the
time. In the last twenty-four hours of
the trip Grandmother Owens had nothing
to eat.