Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — Personal Gossip. [ARTICLE]

Personal Gossip.

Any railroads left out over night are likely to pass into the hands of Mr. Jay Gould. Robert Browning is responsible for the statement that he was nearly 50 before he made any money out of his writings. The richest professional mendicant In the country is “Blind Johnny,” of Philadelphia. He is 60 years of age and is worth $20,000. A fortune of $1,500,000 in Australia has been awaiting A. P. Cunningham, a clerk in the United States Senate, for six years and he has just heard of it. An old elm in the Academy yard at Exeter, N. H., set out by Daniel Webster when a student there, and known to all aid students and townspeople as the Webster elm, was cut down recently. William Lloyd Garrison, son of the great anti-slavery agitator, is very wealthy, having amassed money from the wool business. He is literary in bis tastes, t-ikes an active part in politics sod is a Democrat