A Society Item.
Reading edition
The observed of all observers at the opera last evening was Mrs. Col. Henry J. Bowers, the beautiful and accomplished wife of Col. Henry J. Bowers, general manager of the Fond du Lac Narrow Gauge. Mrs. Bowers, accompanied by Miss Cecilia Muggins of Grand Rapids, her queenly niece, occupied proscenium-box B, and won universal admiration, not more by the nice discrimination with which she approved the performance, than by the superb toilet in which she was attired. Mrs. B. is the daughter of Peter Muggins, the millionnaire pork-packer of Omaha, who came to this country forty years ago a poor lad, and engaged in commerce as a driver on the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Before her marriage, she was the belle of her native town; and since that auspicious event, she has been the acknowledged queen of the recherche social circle in which she moves.
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