Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-02-02
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL;


One Hamilton, aged seventy-nine'
lately married his daughters sixteen
year.old governess, in San Bernardino :
County, Cal.
Mime. Jarocka. the grandniece Oh
Count Casimir Pulaski the Polish
patriot, is now living in Brooklyn
without means Of support. She Is
well remembered in Washington.
Judge Henry W. Taylor, who
died at Canandaigua the other day az
the age of ninety three, was for years the
Oldest living graduate Of Yale College.
having been member OF the class oi
1916.
"A recent English testator be-
oueathed his wife one farthing. which
he directed the executrix to forward her
by post unpaid. because In his llistlne
she was tn the habit OF addfessfrg nfm
as "Old Pig"
The girl blacksmith, Miss Anna
Bole, who recently exhibited dozen
horseshoes at the Mechanics Institute
in San Francisco, is described as pcihs
"about five feet three inches hlgh ana
rather fragile than strong. one Is
fifteen years old.
-Ex-Governor Alger, OF Michigan
gave complete clothing outfit TO .oo
Detroit newsboys on Christmas ne
also distributed coal, flour and other
necessaries of life to 1.50O needy tamil
lies in the city, carefully selected py
experienced agents, to avoid imposl-
tiOn.
George Elliott, of Baltimore, IS
probably the Oldest aeronaut IN Ihe
world. He began ballooning in lo3f
and has made l27 ascents in all, IN
only one of which he was seriously
injured. His thigh was broken on TINS
occasion, and he ceased his aeriai
flights. He is now eighty-four years
old and practices shoemaklng.
: Two young women OF Sacramento
went huckleberrying near bolllnas'
where they were spending aiew weeks
and big brown bear came into the
!. patch and endeavored to monopolize
$ it. One of the girls had small rifle
and finding that either they orthe bear
must 90, took careful aim and put u
:, bullet through the brute brain.
OF Mr.. L. II. Schermerhorn, OF
). Newport, r. l., it is related that he Is
a worth g., ,00O,O 900, hasn't been outside
.. his own door for years, and reads the
Il English newspapers exclusively. Inc
cause assigned for his voluntary seclu
r. sion is disappointment in a love
n. affair, the heroine of which, IL
n mentioned, has recently become
D widow.
es Mile. Dumas is the president OF al
a association of Protestant fadies wh
J, IA visit Systematically the women prlso
he at St. Lazare, in Paris. Some idea c
be Mile. Dumas devotion in this goo
ID; ~, work may be gathered from the ell
,ai cumstance that when she was eighty
zoe two years of age (she is now ninety
'a, six) she learned Spanish, that sh
might speak words of comfort
'ry young Andalusian who did not tunde
.n an stand French.
3n- Miss Mary Maccribbin, who die
,n- at Washington the other day. nearl
ny one hundred years old, used to sa
~ that she had seen every Presidel
,s ere from George Washington to Grove
,an Cleveland. She was living in Bait
The more in 1912 and saw the bomoar'
es, ment OF Fort McHenry. She kne
tho well John Howard Payne. the auth'
AVE- Of ,"Home. Sweet Home" and wi
} to messed his appearance on the stage
md Baltimore. She went to Nashingt'
AZ AZ first in 1921, and it took twelve hou
tho | by stage,