The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

The Gar refuses to visit Berlin.
ADMIRAL PORTER is seventy-six years old.
EDITOR MURAT HALsTEAD is in Germany.
Mrs. CLEVELAND is learning to play the
violin.
HENRY CLEws, the Wall street broker, has
written novel.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was eighty-one years
old June g. 1889.
CYRUS W. FIELD began life as clerk in
New England store. :
BRETE HARTE has taken up his permanent
residence in London.
LORD ZETLAND, the new Irish Viceroy, will
serve only one year.
IT is rumored that President Diaz will visit
the United States next fall.
CLARA BARTON, President of the Red Gross
Association was born in Maine.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, author of the Light
of ASIA" is coming to this country.
V1cE-PREsIDENr MORTON is becoming an
extensive property owner in Washington.
THE first of living Americans in the esti-
nation Of European nations is Buffalo Bill.
KATE CHASE SPRAGUE is writing biog-
raphy of her father, the late Chief Justice
Chase.
KINGLAKE, the English historian who is
now seventy-eight years old, is not in good
health.
JOSEPH PULITZER owner Of the New York
World, once acted as Stoker on Mississippi
steamboat.
EDISON, the electrical inventor, is said to
have amassed fortune of S12, 000 900 by his
invention.
JIM KEENE, the famous manipulation Of
wheat corners, once drove milk wagon in
California town.
HIS ROYAL H1GHNEss KING MAL1EToA, of
Samoa, has developed an inordinate desire for
beer and pretZels.
JOHN DAVIS, the wholesale dry goods man,
is the richest man in Missouri, his wealth
being estimated at S22, 0000 900.
Hon. E. J. GAY, of Louisiana, who died
the other day, was the richest man in the
South. He was worth s10,O00,00O.
EDISON says it cost him thirty-fve cents q
mile to learn the game Of poker on train
from New York to Chicago not long ago.
HIProLYTE, the winner Of the Haytian con-
test, isa most inveterate smoker. He eisnever
without strong, black cigar between his
| lips.
THE Mayor of Griffin, Ca, is probably the
| Y0ungest city executive in the country. His
name is Stewart and he is but twenty-three
| years old.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER is
the only smooth-faced man in the Cabinet
and looks considerably younger than any
other of the eight.
GENERAL GREELY, of the Signal Service,
| is afflicted with rheumatism in a mild form,
end grimly refers to this addition to his out
| bit for predicting weather changes
pf-Hy bf,A
in Brunswick County, Va, was the oldest
ninety-fve years old, and had been in the
ministry seventy-6ve years.
EDWARD ]. PHELPS, ex-Minister to Eng
land, has written to the faculty of the Yale
Law School saying that he will be on hand
at the opening of the college year to instruct
| the classes in equity and evidence.
THE grandmother of the Emperor of China
is eighty-nine years old, blind deaf and a
cripple and the other day her loving
grandson presented her with 500 singing
birds, POO silk dresses and 100 musical instru-
ments.
ADJUTANT-G GENERAL HASTINGS, of Penn
| sylvania VINO is in command at Johnstown
is one Of the handsomest men in the Keystone
State. He is over six feet in height, SYM
metrically built, blonde in complexion, with
moustache and imperial. He is q soldier
every inch. His home Isl Bellefontc.
THE new Duchess of Portland will only
rank eighteenth in the list of peeresses of her
rank, as her husbands dukedom only dates
| from 1716 The American Duchess of Marl-
| borough takes precedence of her, but the
| American Vicountess Vaudeville, when she
| becomes Duchess of Manchester, will be one
step below, as she will be the nineteenth in
| precedence.