The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-19
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

KING JOHN of Abyssinia is dead.
THE Pope is very fine chess player.
SECRETARY WINDOW is worth $5, 600, OOO
SENATOR STAMFORD is worth $40, ,000, ,OOO
p. T. BARNUir began poor and has now
s., 200, 900.
EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEF is to visit Berlin
about the middle of August
THE Empress of Japan has abandoned her
intention of visiting this country.
THE Prince of Wales has accepted an invi
tation to dine with Mrs. Bonanza Mackay.
MURAT HALSTEAD, editor of the Cincinnati
mmeTciat- Gazette, is n sufferer from cry.
spelas.
Mrs. AMELIA RIvEs- CHANLER, the author.
ess is just twenty-six years DID, having been
born in 1868.
BISMARCK looks pale and haggard and has
grown ten years older in appearance in the
last twelve months
THE Emperor of Austria has given orders
that his dead sons name shall never again be
spoken in his hearing.
TIE late John Bright had on the walls OF
| his study portrait of Gladstone, one of Lin
| coin and one of Washington.
SToNEwALL JACKsoN's widow is now living
| In Randolph County, n. c., with her father,
| who is ninety-one years of age.
| KING ALEXANDER, of Servia, is tall,
| well-built boy, but awkward and shy. lie
takes much interest IN natural sciences.
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY, who is in command
Of our Pacific squadron, is fifty-nine years of
| age, six feet in height well proportioned, and
| quick i'll all his movements.
TIE family of Assistant Postmaster-Gen.
eral Clarkson is composed of five persons
| himself, Mrs. Clarkson and three sons. The
eldest son is eighteen years of age and the
youngest six.
THE will of the late John Scott, of Pitts
burg, President of the Allegheny Valley Rail
| way, leaves nothing to his wife, while his
'hree sons get only 81 each. The estate is
| valued at $500, 000
| MISS CLARA HUNTINGTON, the daughter OF
:he railway magnate, has S4,00O.0O0 of her
own, and will inherit four or five times as
| much She is about twenty-three years old
and goes but little into society.
WARD McALLIsTER the famed leader OF
:he Four Hundred Aristocrats of Gotham, Is
lose on to sixty years of age He is a tall,
well-built man, with brown mustache and
soatee, slightly streaked with gray.
ONE of the closest students of the Indian
problem and one of the best informed persons
| IN the country in matters relating to the In
iians is Miss Kate Drexel, of Philadelphia.
The Indian i'm her hobby, and she Is said TO
give 800, 600 a year out of her own income tc
he Indian Department at Washington.
CHANG FAN MoAB the interpreter at
;ached to the Chinese Legation at Washing
| ON, Is ucScflDeu as SlSdntic Dioiiue cniitt-
nan, with a profile as regular as a Greek
statue He comes from the north of China,
where owing to the severity of the suinptu-
,ry laws, the race is kept intact as to its un.
Usual size and peculiar attributes.
MRS. ELLA CLYMER, tho new President OF
5orosis, is said to be the handsomest member
f that highly intellectual organization OF
women in New York. She has sweet, Ma
ionna-like face, big dark eyes, and a soft
| ow voice. Mrs Clymer is a widow, who wa.
eft large fortune by her husband Sh,
possesses exquisite taste in dress, and Is, il
] act, an ideal President.