Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11

neatness. He IS great walker and
tTamps all over the capital, riding very
seldom, except in RAINY weather. Gen.
Johnston graduated from West Point,
No. ID in the class OF 1929, in which Gen
Robert f. Lee stood No. 2.
Joseph Conkling, aged eighty-three,
and Miss Maria Edwards, aged seventy
three, we're married at Port JerYis, n 4.
Y, the other day. Fifty years ago they
wanted to wed, but the parents of the
girl interfered because Mr. Conkling
was not well off. in worldly goods. Mr..
ConklIng is now hwell fixed - and
there is no doubt of his ability to provide
home for his bride.
John c. Fremont, the Pathfinder, -
is now nearly eighty years old and his
closely trimmed beard is snowy white,
but his figure is erect and his manner
active. He makes his home at Los
Angeles, CAL, where he has fine
ranch, and where his wife, Jessie Benton
Fremont, is engaged in writing a life of
Kit Carson, the famous scout and prairie
ranger, who led him over the Rockies.
Sir Julian Pauncefote has purchased
several acres of fine farming land just
| outside of Washington city, in the neigh
borhood of the Country club, which it is
understood he intends devotlng to farm
| ing purposes This is the first instance
on record of a foreign ambassador invest
ing in district real estate. Sir Julian in
tends sailing soon for a visit home, and
upon his return in the autumn will be
accompanied by his wife and two daugh-
! tiers.
Gen. w. S. Rosecrans has q peculiar
! onesided expression of face which has a
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| Gen. Rosecrans was the first man who
ever refined petroleum. He expert
mented with it forty years ago. People
said he was a fool, but ne went on with
his experiments. Presently, as though
TO prove what they said, his petroleum
blew up and burned his face in a serious
way. He has suffered from that injury
ever since.
Miss Kate Stopher of Shelby county,
Ky, became much interested in religi-
GUS revival last fall and has since spent
large part of her time in prayer and
reading the Bible. Her prayers were
not answered, she said, and she tasted
for fourteen days by way of penance.
She then consented to take nourishment,
but after five days had passed began a
second fast, which has now lasted TWEEN
lynne days. Her mind does not seem
affected and, though greatly reduced in
flesh, her health is good. She is twenty
eight years old
Two women who died recently were
each gifted with genius, and by patient
labor and study developed their powers
and made themselves famous. In the
realm of song Carlotta Patti
touched the hearts and the ar
tistic instincts of thousands of people of
every nationality. On the other hand,
it was to the investigation of the sidereal
universe that Maria Mitchell devoted her
life. The one charmed by her harmo- |
MES; the other, grave and earnest,
added to the sum of human |
knowledge. There was wide gulf be- |
tween them; and yet the world is better |
both for the singer and the astronomer. |
Richard Chandler, a prominent and |
wealthy resident of the town of Irving, |
few miles south of Black River Falls, |
Wis, is on the verge of the grave as a !
result of an affliction that has puzzled the |
doctors, fand which stands unique in the
records of medical history. For several
months Chandler mouth has been grad
ualiy growing together, until now the
oritice is only about the size of a small
marble. All efforts to check the strange
growth have been unavailing. Chandler
is now unable to take sufficient nourish-
ment to satisfy the demands of his sys-
tenn. 1t is proposed to cut his mouth
open and prevent its further closing by
artificial means, but the patient says his
affliction is a forewarning of his ap-
preaching dissolution, and will not allow
his physician to operate on him.
Sarah Orne Jewett will be forty next
September; Mrs. Humphrey Ward is
thirty weight, Lucy Larcom is sixty three,
Harriet Prescott Spofford is ffty-four,
Edith NJ. Thomas is thirty FIVE, Marion
(Mrs. Terhune) is fifty-nine,
Amelie Rives-Chanler will be twenty-six
next August, Mrs. Frances Hodgson
Burnett is thirty-nine, Celia Thaxter is
fifty three, Mrs. Croly (Jennie June) is
fifty seven, Miss Braddon is fifty-two,
Blanche Willis Howard is fOrty-two,
Rose Terry Cooke is sixty-two, Elizabeth
Stuart Phelps Ward will be forty-f1ve in
August, Miss Louise Imogen Quincy is
Constance Fenimore
WoOlson is forty -one; nobody ever found
out exactly the age of Miss Woolsey
(Susan Coolidge, but it is believed she
was born in 1915, which would make her
age forty four; Mrs. Margaretta WadeDe-
land, author of "John Ward Preacher, -
IS thirty-one; Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge is
1fty-one, and Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail |
is at least eight years older,
though the records are not quite sure
upon this delicate point.
CASTING SHADOWS