Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-04-06
PERSONAL AND lMPERsoNAL.

The wife OF Senator Reagan, oil
Texas, is his private secretary, and as
such draws salary OF six dollars
day.
"A mother OF preachers'-this is
what writer calls an elect lady in
Ohio who was the mother Of five living
Methodist preachers, all effective.
p. S Gilmore, the band master,
gives this terse autobiography; 81 first
saw the light in the bogs OF Conne-
mara. but was born in Boston in the
nineteenth year OF my age"
After all, the queens OF art are
great r than the monarch5 by birth
Patti refused to sing for Queen Vic
toria last year and Bernhardt would
not play for the Sultan OF Turkey few
days ago.
The Emperor of China, boy OF
seventeen, has serious hesitation IN
his speech and speaks with consider
able difficulty. He is quiet in disposl-
ton, but vaig obstinate when once ne
has formed an opinion,
Miss Mossel McGann. of Canada,
"A teacher of articulation in the Mlssls'
sippi Institute for Deaf and Dumb,
who died at Jackson recently, was
known in every institution for the deal
and dumb in the United States and
Canada as successful teacher.
Miss Helen Blanchard, OF Phila'
delphia, is the possessor OF very
large fortune which she derives from
her invention of the "over and over
attachment for sewing machines. She
borrowed at exorbitant interest the
money necessary opay for her patent
office fees, and now enjoys an income
t that is exceeded by that OF but few
women in that city of rich spinsters'
Mr.. Window is the Oldest membe
of the new Cabinet, being nearly sixty
= three years OF age. Mr.. Miller is tn
4 Youngest, not having reached his forty
y eighth year. Mr. Blaine and Mr.
1 Rusk are about the same age-ftty
) nine Mr. Proctoris fifty eight and Mr.
. rracy sixty, Next to Mr.. Miller tn
a Youngest man in the Cabinet is MI
3 Wanamaker, who is not quite fifty
> two.
\. E. c. Carrigan, of Boston, wh
k died the other day, was noted anon
re Dartmouth men not only for his prom
+, T. inence in all educational matters, bl
20 for his activity as an alumnus OF tn
L. college. He had an interesting co
er lege career. He worked his wa
u, u, through, taking six years to compile
~ ~ his course. He was manager OF II
an boating club when Dartmouth VIC
IN Sc ,ond place at Saratoga. Hereeeiv'
~ scholarship of two hundred and iiI
or dollars from the college, and last ye
ed paid the money back. He was one
'e, a committee representing the alum
'a ~, in the management of the college, al
go. it was through his efforts that t
degree of LII. D. was given to Gener
,N oh B. F, Butler,
er -Charles f. Boles is the real mai
ron Of the famous California highwaym
,hn IN" generally known as "Black Bar
NE At the breaking out of the war he W
wo living in Decatur, H., and joined
for One Hundred and Sixteenth Him
Nv M regiment, was made sergeant a
10. served three years, gaining so
cnt distinction for bravery. Returni
t home in 1868, he disposed of his lar
''o y, Locating his wife and three SIN
OF children all girls-in the little to
be Of Olney, H., and then started
po p,. Montana. From all information
tho domestic relations We're peculia
, of happy. His wife is described by
yti neighbors as an estimabe wont
he and the children he left behind b
;ew @ were bright and unusually pret
md; For many years he has been ter
son t. the stage companies and travel
res in the mountains Of California.