The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

BISMARCK is said to be worth SO, 0O0, 900.
SENATOR MORRILL,, of Vermont, once kept
country grocery store.
THE Grand Duke Alexis, Of Russia, has
been promoted to the rank Of Admiral.
THE salary of Governor Luce, of Michigan,
is 81 900 year. He grooms mis- own horse
AINswoRTH R. SPoFFoRD, the Librarian
OF Congress, is said to carry the titles OF
5OO,O volumes in his head.
Mrs. AUGUSTA EVANS WILSON, the notiyd
novelist, has collection of geraniums which
is said to be the finest in the world.
MAD King Otto Of Bavaria has become
suspicious of his attendants, refuses to eat or
drink, and is reported to be dying fast.
THE German Crown Prince, next to the
Emperor, has the largest number Of decora-
tions in Germany, namely seventy-four.
"OUIDA," who is sixty years Of age, wears
her yellow hair flying loose and light colored
dresses. She is engaged on new novel
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN the English States
man, is social lion at Washington and is
said to be industriously counting the daughter
of Secretary Endicott
1T is related Of Judge Clementson, Of Lam
caster, Wis, now candidate for reelection,
that in order to save time and oblige the law
yers he once held court on railroad train.
Mrs REID, widow Of Mayne Reid, the
novelist, is engaged in writing her husbands
life, and is searching for information of his
life and adventures both before and after the
Mexican War.
IT is stated that the great-granddaugh
of Robert Morris, of Revolutionary fame, is
seeking admission, at the age of seyenty-four,
needs 500 to pay the entrance fee.
ter OF Professor Agassiz, has for eight years
supported free kindergartens in the poorest
quarters of Boston and Cambridge at a per-
sonal expense of as much rs $50, 200 year.
THE monument for General Toombs, Of
Georgia, that has been shipped from Italy, is
the third monument that has been built. The
first was lost at sea- A bed of crystals was
found III the second after all had been COM
pleted except the base-rock.
ROBERT SMALLs, who was the last Of the
colored race to retire from membership of
the House of Representatives, is pushing his
claim for pension on account Of his capture
of the steamboat Planter, in Charleston Har-
Dor, and its delivery to Union officers.
/ COLONEL GEORGE L. PERKINS, Treasurer
Of the Norwich & Worcester Railroad, i5
the Oldest railroad official in the United
States, and probably in the world. He is
ninety mine years old, is six feet two inches in
height, and stands as straight as many men
Of thirty.
THE Duke of Westminster is reported to
have larger income than any other subject
Of Great Britain. He owns row upon row of
tenement houses and possesses many square
miles Of farming land. He receives $50 a
minute the year round, or S., 900 an hour, or
s12,0O0 day.
MRS. SECRETARY Villas has never recov-
cred from the nervous shock resulting from
witnessing the sudden death Of Judge Elicit
at the Presidents reception at Memphis
There has been little or no Improvement since
the first attack, and her physician and friends
are becoming alarmed.
COLONEL MARSHALL MCDONALD, recently
appointed United States Commissioner Of
Fish and Fisheries, was horn at Romney, Vir-
ginia, III 1875. In 1854 he was a student Of
natural history under Professor Baird at the
Smithsonian Institution, and graduated at
the Virginia Military Institute in 1851.
Miss FLORENCE E. KALLoCK, pastor OF the
Eagiewood Illinois) Universalist Church. has
just celebrated the twelfth anniversary of
her entrance into ministerial work. Miss
kallock is forty years old and is a graduate
of the Madison wisconsin, Normal School
and of the Theological School in Ro o:hestcr.
CHARLES BATcHELDER, of st. Paul, Mimi,
the young artist whose design for q monu-
lnent to commemorate the Haymarl:et riot
has been accepted rs the best of many sent
in, is a native Of Chicago. He was formerly
shorthand writer in the Venice Of the
West, but since no took up his residence in st.
Paul has been coming to the front as de-
signer possessing originality and power.