The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Mrs. HARRISON is fifty-seven.
The Car is expected at Berlin.


The Car is expected at Berlin.
"OU1DA's" first novel was sold for $3.50.
THE Pope has just celebrated his seventy
ninth birthday.
QUEEN VICTORIA has gone on a pleasure
tour to Biarritz.
QUEEN PA, of Portugal is very anxious
to come to this country.
TIE only son of the Secretary OF Agricul-
ture is named Blaine Rusk.
DAvrrT, the Irish patriot, has spent nine
years Of his life in prison for political
offences.
GROVER CLEVELAND was the only Presi-
dent who, during his term of office, wore
moustache.
Mrs. JOHN WANAMAKER was born q
Brown. She is q daughter of her husbands
first partner.
THE ez-Secretary of War and Mrs. Endi-
colt, will remain at Washington until April,
and then go to England.
The country has now two ex-Presidents,
Hayes and Cleveland, and one ex-Vice-
President, Hannibal Hamlin.
The Austrian Emperor, Francis Joseph,
is said to be able to get through prodigious
amount Of work without exhaustion.
GOVERNOR BURLEIGH is reported to have
broken the Maine record by mastering and
signing seventy eight bills in ons day.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL will devote the
remainder of his life to travel and reading.
He says that his literary work is ali DONE
COLONEL NORTH, the Nitrate King, gave a
waiter at London hotel who had served
him q check for $1,000 before leaving Eng
MRS. INGALLS,, wife OF the Kansas Senator,
Is considered q handsome woman, and her
daughter is one Of the most charming girls
at Washington.
JUDGE HENRY S. LONG, the last survivor
Of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven-
lion of 1897 died at Lancaster few days
ago, aged eighty-five
GEORGE BANCROFT. the historian, is the
only surviving member of the class Of 1877
at Harvard, and the Oldest living graduate
in college seniority.
KING OTTo, of Bavaria, has been attacked
by q curious malady, his hair having turned
white in single night, while all his physical
power has entirely left him.
Miss MINNIE WANAMAKER, the pretty,
dark-eyed daughter Of Postmaster General
Wanamaker, has had her life-sized portrait
painted by NJ. Brozik, Of Paris.
MRS. MAcKAY's dinners in London have
been the mOSG popular 6V6QIo OI UI0 SSaSOu.
The wife of the bonanza Croesus has won her
way into the most exclusive society of Eng
land.
The quaint little ladies of the Corean lega-
tion in Washington are quite pretty and are
very much admired. Mrs. Ye is twenty-si
years old and Mrs. Ye Sang Jay only twenty.
They are no taller than children OF ten years
and twice as cute in looks and manners.
VIscoUNT VAUDEVILLE, eldest son Of the
Duke of Manchester, has been declared a
bankrupt. His liabilities are officially placed
at 5000, ZOO. 1t is said that he has been living
beyond his means and has lost money by
betting. Viscount Vaudeville in 1875 mar.
ried Miss Consuelo Yznaga, Of the United
States.
One of the central figures in Administra..
tion circles during the next four years Will
be Mrs. j. R. Mckee, the daughter of Presi'
dent Harrison. Mrs. Mckee is of medium
height and has q pleasant, intelligent face.
She is far more clever than most soclai
woma IN and has mind and will distinctly oil
her own.
SIDNEY BARTLETT, the oldest member Of
the Massachusetts, Bar, died recently at Bos-
ton from congestion of the lungs. He was
ninety years of age, and with him passes
away that generation of lawyers whose fame
was continental He was contemporary
and worthy rival Of Daniel Webster and
Rufu: Choite.