Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-06-08
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

"A popular St. Louis girl recently
received during short spell of sick
ness hvs hundred roses and forty-eight
pounds of candy.
More than one thousand empty
patent medicine bottles were found IN
the house OF rich bachelor who died
at Knoxville, Pa, lately.
Hon. Allen G. Thurman believes
In territorial extension, and thinks
the United States will soon annex
Canada and all the continent
Mr.. James Laurenson, who adj
ministered the oath of office to MIR.
Wanamaker, is the oldest postal clerk
In the service of the Government and
has sworn in twenty-four Postmaster
Generals.
Baron Macmillan Washington, 3
relative of the immortal General and
the present head OF one branch OF the
family, resides in his Castle OF Poel'
in Syria. He is nearly sixty years
old and resembles in personal appear
ance his great ancestor.
A colored teacher in the public
school: of Atlanta. &c nalaea Graves.
who was dismissed several years ago
for refusing to march with his pupils
in procession in honor of Jef DAVIS
has been made clerk in the Govern
ment service at Washington.
Mrs. Leland Stanford dresses
deliberately, but she is one OF the most
democratic woman in Washington
society. Her charities are, it is said,
numerous and costly" and she gives
away about twenty thousand dollars
year in trying to make her less favored
friends more happy,
Postmaster Van Cott, Of New
York, never forgets q face. In the
Seventh senatorial district, which he
once represented, he is occasionally
called hand-shaker Van Cott, because
of his habit of shaking hands with his
friends whenever he meets them.
Much of his success as a politician has
been due to his courtesy to rich and
poor alike.
According to the New York Sun
Herr Won Bulow has won one triumph
in America that has as yet been un-
chronicled. One afternoon while the
crowded audience was listening silent
ly to his wonderful shadings, all over
the house, up in the galleries, down in
orchestra, on either side Of the bal
cony- mice come running out to hear
him playras their ancestors came out
to hear the great master, Mozart, long
ago.
George Bancroft is very particular
to remove his glove before shaking
hands, whether alta simple ''call' or a
chance meeting on the street Victor
Hugo would never kiss ladys gloved
hand, and if the, hand were offered
with the glove on the aged poet very
coolly unfastened the glove and found
the desired place. Ladies knowing
his adherence to the tenets OF past
generation took the precaution when
going to pay their respects to the poet,
to wear loose gauntlet gloves.
Justin S. Morrill,, Senator from
Vermont, is one OF the most striking
figures in the United States Senate.
His 4.so,,t eight ,s scareelg dipinishet
: by a slight stoop of his shoulders
bowed by the weight of seventy-nine
years, and his luxuriant wavy gray
hair and clear-cut features, so strongly
suggestive of Charles Sumner always
) attract the attention of strangers.
He has taken leading part in all the
, important legislation in the past
/ twenty-four years, having divided that
time ir Congress and the Senate, but
| prides himself chiefly upon being the
author If our present tariff laws.