Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — Ups and Down. [ARTICLE]

Ups and Down.

Now York Sun. When, twenty years ago, Stephen W. Dorsey, then a United States Senator from Arkansas, purchased the Uno De Gato grant in New Mexico, to which, a few years later, he went to live, he was a very wealthy man. This tract, lying in Colfax county, twenty-five miles east of the railroad town of Springer, comprises about 30,000 (acres of valuable grazing lands, and upon it he expended more than 1300,000 in improvements. His residence, a palatial one, with complete and luxurious appointments, contained a fine art gallery, adorned with rare pictures ■ collected in many trips to Europe, and his gardens and greenhouses were filled with rare exotics and native flowers. Gas, the telephone, and all the trades and appliances of a complete urban community were part of the equipment of the headquarters of this powerful cattle king. The hospitality of the owner was unbounded* He kept open hduse. and among bis guests were notable men and women from every part of the world. But the expense of the Star-Route trials, bis lavish generosity, and the depression in the cattle industry impaired his resources, and he abdicated his reign as cattle king in the recent sale of his great New Mexican estutp, with all its belongings. His numerous irrigation, mining, arid land investments in Colorado have proved disastrous, and it is now reported that he is a poor man.

A man who was a prosperous country merchant up |o 1867, then became a banker in a flourishing northern Indiana town, and in 1872 was elected a member of the Indiana Legislature, now fills the position of church janitor at a salary of $8 per month. He considers himself in luck to have succeeded in getting the latter position with its small pittance of compensation. Fate has dealt severely with him —undeservedly so for he was not and is not now a bad man.—South Bend Times. Woman's rights are rapidly making headway in the Old World, for ,in England a lady by the name of Miss Loch, holding the position of superintendent in the Indian Military Nursing Service, was called upon at a public dinner to respond to the toast of “The Army”, while the Russian government has just appointed as principal medical officer of the trans-Caspian town of Kassirnan, Mme. Bibi-Radya-Kondlouia-row, the first Mohammedan who has ever succeeded in passing the examination entitling her to a diploma of doctor of medicine.