Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-04-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

BARON DE ROTHSCHILD won the first
prize of 100, 900 francs in the Marseilles
municipal lottery. The entire sum,
the Paris Gaulois says, will be given
by the baron to charities.
MADELINE POLLARD says she intends
to remain in Washington and support
herself by her pen while she is living
down her uncnvia BILE notoriety.
SIX THOUSAND pilgrims embarked at
Barcelona, on the 18th, on their way
to Rome. They were accompanied by
several bishops and large number of
priests. They were not molested.
MANY guests were slightly injured
by jumping from the windows of a
burning hotel in Bangor, Me-, early
on the morning of the lsth'
NINETY-TnREE oil-paintings from the
collection of the late S. A. Coale, Jr.,
Of st. Louis. were sold at auction in
New York city, on the 18th, in the
rooms of the American Art associa-
ton. They fetched sla,697. The sale
had been literally advertised, but the
prices secured were pitifully small
when the character of the works is
considered.
GEORGE NJ. HOFFMAN, wealthy
butcher of New York, aged 50 years,
shot and killed himself on the 10th.
Grief over the recent death of his wife
caused the act.
A SHOCKING domestic tragedy oc-
cured at the courthouse in Oskaloosa,
Ia, on the 18th, George Croft shooting
and mortally wounding his former
wife, who had just secured divorce
from him, and then turning his re-
yolver on himself with fatal results.
THE assignment of Samuel l.. Glenn
ems, known over the entire world as
mark Twain" and his partner
Frederick J. Hall, who compose the
firm of Charles l.. Webster & Co., book
publishers, New York city, was filed in
the county clerks Office on the 18th.
The wedding of the Princess Vic.
toria of Saxe-Coburg and the grand
duke of IIesse was celebrated in Co.
burg on the 10Th. The city was packed
with royal and imperial guests, for
cign visitors and German sightseers
Every building in town was decorated.
MAJ. CLIFTON Comfy, president of the
ordnance board, is dead. lie was
stricken with paralysis on the l7th,
while directing the tests of the Crosier-
burlington disappearing gun carriage
at the Sandy Hook proving station, and
died on the 18th.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT withdrew
his offer of $4,000 for the yacht Vigi-
liant, and, on the 18th, the syndicate
who owned the vanquisher of the
Valkyrie sold her to Mr.. George j..
Gould for $4,000. This intelligence
will be great surprise to yachtsmen,
do ''r. -'.~.-a-s s..-s ..~,~ .,---rii &c -
possible purchaser.
THE New York Herald says that
Mgr. Satolli, The papal ublerate, has
prepared charges against Archbishop
Corrigan of New York, backed with
proofs, of conspiracy against him, and
that the New York divine has been
"invited' to Rome, where he is to- he
formally accused Of intriguing against
the papal representative.
In the Golden Gate park at San
Francisco, on the 18th, Scquoia chap
ter, California lodge of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, planted
II "liberty tree" in historic soil that
the women had been gathering for six
months past.
A GOOD many of the CoXeyitcs who
were carousing in the town Of Han
cock, Md, when the start was made
on the 10th, were left, and had to walk
the tow-path in the wake of their more
obercomrades.
SENATOR STocKBRIDGE, uf Michigan,
was reported. on the 10TH to be Sc
riously i'll in Chicago.
THE Brazilian minister at Washing
ton, Senior Mendonca, on the 10th re-
ceived n cablegram officially announc-
ing the end Of the rebellion.
DURING the absence OF his wife, on
the 10th, Lloyd Rodahaugh, prosper
GUS farmer OF Calhoun county. W. Va,
hanged his two children, aged 5 and s,
years, and then took his own life.
The naval stability board has sub
mitted to Secretary Herbert report
of thorough tests of the three great
battleships, Indiana, Massachusetts
and Oregon, to determine tile question
Of their stability. The result Of these
tests was entirely satisfactory, and is
held to show that these ships are su.
periur 10 any warships alloat OF corrc.
spending slzr