Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-03-08
PERSONAL AND iMPERSONAL.

Nearly ninety members OF the
present Congress were in the Confeder-
ate army in stations ranging from pri-
vate soldier to major-general.
Miss Eliza Porter, q young lady OF
Boone County, W. Va, owns saw and
grist mill on Camp creek, which she
conducts herself, and she is laying the
foundation of fortune.
"A lady who is an inmate Of the Dan
ielsonville Conn town farmhouse, and
ninety-six years old, has been bedridden
for years, but the other day she sur
prised every one by getting of her couch,
coming down stairs, and eating hearty
meal. She said she felt 'toler'ble
smart"
Mile. Dumas is the president OF an
association OF benevolent ladies who
visit the Women's Prison OF st. Lazare,
In Paris. For years she has devoted
time, strength and money to this work.
When she was eighty-two years OF age
(she is now ninety-six) she learned
Spanish, that she might speak words OF
comfort to young Andalusian woman
who did not understand French.
81 think it absolutely cruel" says
Mrs. Leland Stanford, of San Francisco,
''to give young man or woman who
must depend upon their own exertions
for livelihood a classical education
pure and simple. There is scarcely
week that Mr.. Stanford is not asked to
give employment to graduates OF Yale
and Harvard. He has six Of them as car
conductors on the Market street line
now"
Jumbo was so much attached to
Scott, his keeper, that the man was
forced to be always within reach. Once
when a stampede of elephants belong
ing to the menagerie took place, Jumbo
caught him in his trunk and held him a
prisoner between his fore feet until the
danger had passed; and just as Jumbo
himself was struck by the engine which
killed him he seized Scott with his trunk
and pusL. ii hin 20 "-a side OF the track.
--Davy Prichard is an eccentric old
man who lives at Shelby, Mich, and
imagines he is president of several rail-
roads. He meets every train, gives or
ders to the train men, passes through
the cars and asks passengers for sugges-
tions as to the management of the road,
and claims back salary of s1,oO0,000
for fifteen years services He decorates
himself with all imaginable badges and
insignia of Office, and deports himself
with great dignity.
The champion tramp would seem to
be one Folkers whom the San Francisco
Chronicle recently interviewed. He be-
longs to Portland, Me-, and is shoe
maker by trade. For ten years he has
been roaming the country, and he de-
clares that not once during this time has
he paid a railroad fare, though on all
his trips he patronizes the ''iron horse"
He says that he has craze for travelling,
which seems very evident from this
statement that he rides about 10000
miles per year. Altogether he has
travelled about 200, 900 miles.
Miss Charlotte Robinson, an English
artist, enjoys the patronage of Queen
Victoria, and has the title of ''home art
decorator to her Majesty" Miss Robin
son is house decorator, and is doing
thriving business. She is rarely with
out two or three houses on hand, whose
decoration from cellar to garret is fire.
quently left entirely to her direction.
1t was while travelling in America that
Miss Robin son wac struck nv the dpcora.
tion of certain New York homes, and
thereupon resolved to devote herself
professionally to such work.