Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-01-12
PERSONAL AND IMPERsoNAL.

Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has
great aversion TO the idea OF crema-
ticn.
Levi P. Morton made a fortune in
the dry-goods trade before he became
o banker.
A woman at Novi, Mich, has adj
duced strong evidence to prove that
she Is one hundred and nineteen years
old.
Five drummers travelling for CHI
cago houses in the grocery trade re-
ceive salaries of from $8, 900 to $1,000
year. .ssa
Lady nldley the famous English
beauty, issremarkable for herextreme
ly fair complexion. She is sad to- be
as white as a pond lily.
4 Among the ~ euty odd women in
spectors at The New Aoris Custom
Hoaes aso = s.iccs u IhgEacw Meed
and slksef crfsos'Na ro1fIln
Mrs. Harrison 3 said TO be an ems
thusiastic and successful china painter.
She has her own kiln for firing her
china, and attends to all the details OF
it herself.
A Boston gentleman, who is in the
vigor of life and likely to outlive some
of his children, has presented each OF
them with 81 100000, the share OF the
estate they would get were he to die.
-Dona Maria de Andreda is consid-
cred to be the most cultivated woman
| in Brazil. She spent four years In New
York studying the American school
| system, which she is introducing with
| success into her own country.
| DR.. Hostetter, who died in New
York lately, was peculiar looking
man. He was abnormally short, with
a large head and long white beard.
| He was brilliant fnancier, and owed
mis- prosperity not to chance but his
good Judgment.
Lady Herbert, whose husband was
in charge of the British War Office dur
ing the civil war, has come to this
country, and will interest herself IN
the condition of the Southern negroes.
She has project for building an orphan
asvlum for colored children at Baltl-
more.
| Nine. Dieulafoy. the intrepid wife
of the explorer in North Africa, is one
OF the latest women to receive the
decoration of the Legion of Honor.
Rosa Bonhuer is the only artist who
has been honored, though thirty-four
women in all have been given the red
ribbon.
Louis McMurray, the first man to
successfully can oysters and the
, owner of the largest corn canning fact
, ory in the world, died recently at
Frederick City, Nd. He began busi-
ness in 1851 in modest way, and be-
, fore his death employed more that two
thousand hands in Single establish
ment. He leaves behind a large fort
, une.
DR.. Henry Hitler, who made s3,-
I 0OO,O00 in the manufacture of pills,
was buried at Wilmington, Mass, in d
casket which cost $1,000. -Four coal
black horses carried him to tenn
: porary brick tomb, which cost $500, on
, a catafalque which cost $1,000, and at
, the tomb the casket was placed in q
: big red cedar box, which cost $3.50,
held together by sixty big brass screws,
which cost $lS.
. Miss Amanda Delmas is one OF the
most successful sugar planters in
Louisiana. She is a Creole. and was
:, brought up to life of Incidence until
). the wheel of fortune took a backward
r turn. and she was thrown upon her
il own resources. To the surprise of her
:. friends she took the situation by the
!, horns, and undertook the management
+ of the plantation that belonged to her.
a Every morning Miss Delmas may be
I. seen riding horseback with a big sun
= shade over her head, inspecting the
N gangs OF workmen on her estate.