The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-18
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PARNELL intends to visit America.
THE Pope has had his large bed room filed
with singing birds.
A SOFT black hat is President Harrison's
favorite headgear.
ROSE ELIZABETH CLEVELAND is the pub
Usher Of her new novel, "His Honor"
QUEEN VICTORIA has expended nearly S.
100000 on memorials to the Prince Consort.
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND c'Gath'D is
writing new novel, the central figure OF
which is Alexander Hamilton.
MILAN OBRENov1TcH, ex-King of Servia,
has an income Of ninety thousand dollars
and is steadily running into debt.
GEORGE W. WILLIAMS (colored), the his
torian of the colored race in America, is liv-
ing at Worcester, Mass, engaged at literary
work.
TIE Duke Of Portland has been Influenced
by his wife to devote his future earn
ings on the turf to the erection Of aims
houses.
THE late S. L. M. Barlow, the great New
York corporation lawyer, had received dur
ing his lifetime several fees of from SIS, 600
to 100000.
MISS HUNTINGTON, the daughter of the
California millionaire, is betrothed to Prince
HartZfeldt, the nephew Of the German am
bassador to this country.
The greatest honor which Electrician Edi-
son has yet received was the particular at
tention paid him in Paris by thelearned men,
bers of the Academy Of Sciences.
FIFTEEN Presidents have visited New Eng
land as Presidents, reckoning the twoAdamses
and Pierce among the number, and four
went hither before they became Presidents.
MISS MARY WANAMAKER, daughter of the
Postmaster General, will make her debut IN
Washington this season. She is not out OF
her teens yet, but is an accomplished girl OF
considerable beauty.
RUMoRs are rife in London as to the health
of the Prince of Wales, which IS said to be
much impaired. It is also said that he seeks
to keep the real truth of his condition from
the newspaper reading public.
JOHN H. B. LATRoBE, of Baltimore, is the
oldest practicing lawyer in the United States:
He is eighty-six years old, and was admitted
to the bar si1ty-five years ago. Mr.. Latrobe
is the father of Baltimore's Mayor.
GEORGE W. CHILDs, the wealthy Philadel-
phia editor, owns number of the handsom-
est carriages in the city, but does not ride in
them once year. He is very fond of walk
ing, and goes wherever he can On foot.
The once famous historian, y. T. Headley,
is still living. BE says that he feels just as
Bret Harte, Howeils and other popular
writer's will feel after fifty years hence, the
truth of the old adage, Every dog has his
day"
AMONG the well known figures at Saratoga,
N. Y, during the season was Judge Henry
L. Clinton, of New York city, once an active
lawyer, but now retired. He claims to have
defended and saved one hundred persons
from the gallows.
THE Baltimore american editorally de-
clares that Robert Garrett's restoration to
health is assured. He attends to his large
correspondence, and on his return to Baltl-
more will resume active business life and take
personal charge Of his large railroad enter
prises.
SENATOR ALLISON. of Iowa, is one of the
few men in the Senate wearing a beard, but
having smooth upper lip. Senator Sawyer,
of Wisconsin, is another. Senator Plumb, OF
Kansas, cultivates short beard cut some.
what after the style of an imperial. But the
majority Of the public men wear mustaches.
TIE Emperor Of Germany rode recklessly
at the recent Aldershot review during bis
visit to England. His seat on horseback is
described as the reverse of good, being loose
and buckety, the sort known as wash ball."
However, his left arm cannot be useless, as
he more than once pulled his horse on his
launches with it.
JUSTICE FIELD; of the Supreme Court, who
has attained so much unwelcome notoriety
recently because of the killing OF Judge Terry
is q small man, owing to his short legs. His
front is impressive. His forehead is high,
running back into polished badness; his re.
naming hair is bushy and silvery, and his
beard venerable white. He is a very digni-
fed man by nature