Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-22
ABOUT MEN AND WOMEN.

Chauncey NJ. Depew 5 annual income
is said to reach the sum of Sl25, 900.
Ex-Attorney-Ge Garland is to
nave S25 600 for running the legal end OF
the Northern Pacific.
Gen. Albert Pike, the head of all the
Masonic orders and rites in this country,
is in his eightieth year.
Joaquin Miller has become q rich man.
Some years ago be bought 200 acres near
Oakland, Cal. They are to be taken
now for town lots.
Hon. Samuel S. Cox is said to be the
only living man in public life who voted
for the admission Of Oregon as state
February IA, 1859.
Miss Daisy Hampton, daughter of
United States Senator Wade Hampton of
South Carolina, is reported to have be-
come 4 nurse III q New York hospital.
1t is said that a part of Queen Vic
toria s savings has been invested in real
estate in New York city, and that each
from the rentals.
Richard Croker, the Tan many chief
tain, says that every man concerned in
the Flack divorce case will be expelled
from Tammany hall if the charges
against them are true.
On the 18th inst. James Spencer, living
six miles north of Brazil. Ind, died
from poisoning. 1t was caused by
wound on his face coming i'll contact
with horse having the distemper.
The duke OF Fife is plucky fellow,
and he dOesn t care to feast on gratuities
He declines to permit his wife, Princess
Louise, to accept any share of the par
llamentary grent to the royal family.
Blondin has accepted a wager of
500 900 to walk on cable from the top
of Eiffel tower TO the summit of the
central dome Of the main building of the
Paris exposition in less than five min
utes
Mrs. Leon Moore, who was said to be
the largest woman in Louisville, died on
the 8th inst. OF heart failure. She
weighed nearly four hundred pounds,
and was unable for years to move about
without assistance.
MT. Jefferson Davis and his publishers,
the Messrs. Appleton, are now engaged
IN fierce newspaper quarrel over bust
ness differences arising from the publ
cation of 1.-THE Rise and Fall Of the Con-
federate Government. -
Mrs Gates, one Of the many daughters
of Brigham Young, has published a long
and interesting defense OF the Mormon
relations. According to her they are
pure, holy and even romantic, and all
outside attacks are simply the result of
prejudice and envy.
Lord Tennyson S eightietk birthday has
been celebrated by the English press
with a characteristic grumble because the
poet still draws his pension of thousand
dollars which was awarded TO him forty
years ago. His books sell by hundreds of
thousands, and he is a rich man.
Stanford, Croker, Cotton and Hop
kins, the projectors of the Pacific rail-
road, had not among them all money
enough to buy supper when they
started, but by the success of their mag
nificent enterprise they became railroad
kings, with a fortune Of $40 900 900
apiece.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt upon his arrival
from Europe the other day remarked
that it was curious thing to see the
American Republic preparing to invite
other nations to send their products
across the ocean when the government
was doing all in its power to keep them
out by prohib!tory tariff.
Miss Mildred Fuller, daughter of the
chief Justice, is TO study law under the |
supervision of her father after her grad |
Uation. The young lady has brilliant |
talents, and has, among other notable |
deeds, written play. During the last |
year at Wells college one of the most |
notable events was the production of |
her drama IN three acts, entitled |
Dreams - in the drawingroom of the |
Morgan homestead. Miss Fuller as
l. ~,
dreamer, and won for herself commend |
atoms on all sides. Miss Fuller us the !
fourth daughter. She is a decided |
blonde with light golden hair, which
glistens IN the sunlight like spun gold.
She is rather tall, but well proportioned, |
and has Il graceful carriage and sweet, T
winning manner. Miss Fuiler is not
only handsome, but is also gifted in a
marked degree