Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-04-19
PERSONAL AND IMPeRsohAL.


Henry Watterson is still young
man. He celebrated his fiftieth birth
day last week. His health is good, and
he is very happy man.
John Wesley Haslett Of Kansas
City, claims the championship belt in q
novel branch of industry. He is the
'sticker" for packing company, and
claims that in fourteen years service he
has slain s,4OO, 900 hogs.
"A short time before young Abraham
Lincoln was taken sick with the malady
from which he never recovered, he wrote
friend in Chicago: "There is no place
like America for me. long for game
Of baseball with the boys"
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, since the death
of the late Confederate chieftain, signs
her name "V. jefferson Davis" after
! fashion in Louisiana and elsewhere In
the South, by which the French veuve
/ (widow) is abbreviated to "V.," and
placed before the name of deceased
husband.
Rev. John w. Farnham, the minis
ter of the colored Methodist Church at
Charlotte, N. c., wears boot the size Of
which is 3515, which necessitates sole
| of twenty inches in length and seven
inches broad. Rev. Farnham stands six
feet ten inches in his sizable stockings,
/ and weighs 40 pounds when stripped OF
his impediments
The most famous of all matadors,
] tho aCnadn y,rirnarn ~ tho tunr1d n
Francisco Sanchez (alias Lagartijo). He
now seldom appears, ten thousand dollars
being the price demanded and secured
in advance for each performance. He is
very great pet with the Spanish no
bility, is very rich, and was the warm
personal friend Of the late King Alfonso
When Alexander Graham Bell was
going about Washington trying to push
his telephone enterprise he labored with
the newspaper men necessarily to get
notices of it in the newspapers. One
S20-a-week reporter was very friendly to
him, and said all the good things about
him and his invention that he could
crowd into the press. Bell remembered
the service, gave him few shares Of
stock, and they made the journalist
rich man.
Mrs. Booth, wife of General Booth,
of the Salvation Army, died recently Of
cancer. She, even more than her hus-
band, was the handspring Of the Saliva
ton Army work all over the world.
From her death-bed she sent this mes
sage to her friends. "The waters are
rising, but so am !. am not going un-
der, but over. Don't be concerned about
your dying. Only go on living we'll, and
the dying will be all right" Among her
latest sayings was: Don't discourage
any body" Miss Frances Power Cobbe,
though differing widely from some Of
the opinions of the Salvation Army,
pronounced Mrs, Booth one of the best
preachers she ever heard.
Nellie Patterson, of Mount Carmel,
is the only woman machinist in Con-
necticut She is handsome girl,
bright-eyed, quick in action and very
popular She is employed by the Mount
Carmel Belt Company and is a full
fledged machinist, having served her
full time at the trade and mastered it in
all its details. Miss Patterson can block
up piece of work on planer or turn
up an arbor or any other product of a
lathe as we'll as any man in the employ
of the company. She, earns mans
.,.1e = - 40 in lapa with her work. At
hrst snc ffSu co meet wf5rr Jcsr0usy
her fellow-workers, but her pleasant
ways have made her general favorite.