The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-04-12

TEE President has an offico cat -.
PRINCE MAURICE OF Hanau'is dead
KING ALEXANDRIA OF Servia Il thirteen.
GENERAL BouLANGER will visit London In
June
THE King Of Denmark Is the Cars father
tn-law.
MISS BRADpoN has written over afty
novels.
CARDINAL NEWMAN is now in his eighty
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER Is q
Presby terian.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER Is popular with
his colleagues.
A SON of Charles Dickens is rising states.
man Of Australia.
THE King Of Greece is an enthusiastic and
successful fisherman.
THE Emperor William Of Germany will
visit CenstantiRople in the fall.
SENATOR HEARST, of California, has $780,
600 invested in thoroughbred horses.
- Mr. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE are preparing
FOR the celebration Of their golden wedding.
A TEXAN poetess, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Hart
ford. is said to be lineal descendant Of Wal
ter Scott. -
Iris noted that s.Presidsnt Harrison's Buass
day mail lies unopened on his desk till Mon
day morning.
PIERRE LoRILLARD. the wealthy tobacco.
mist, Is great btrd fancicr and delights in
raising pheasants.
ONLY three Of the War Governors are now
living--Blair, of Michigan; Curtin, of Penn
sylvania, and Kirkwood, OF Iowa.
CAPTAIN JOHN ERIcssoN loft an estate
valued at about $50, 200, which is divided
among his relatives and business associates.
The wedding of His Grace Of Newcastle
leaves the Dukes Of Portland and Somerset
the only bachelor Dukes in the English peer
age.
WILLIAM e. BoUDINoT, at whose sugges-
tion the Signal Service was established, has
just died at Pittsboro, N. c., at tho age Of
seventy five years
MIR; CHARLES JOHNSON, aged twenty.three.
son OF q Kansas City grain dealer, has been
offered q situation as artist for Harper's
Weekly at a salary of $10,0 900 a year.
The famous French physician, Charcot,
the specialist i'm nervous diseases, has a royal
income from his practice. His fee from the
THE Emperor of Austria intends to visit
England this year in such strict inoosnito
that no one but himself and his attendants
will know anything about it till he is at
home again
BISHOP LIGHTFooT, of Durham, England,
come 1885, 900 n year) on church and edu-
cational work. and not shilling Of 1t has
gone into his own pocket.
DIR. NATHAN HAzEN Of Marshall, ILL.,, is
remarkable as being probably tho sols sur
vivor of the battle of Lake Erie, fought
September 10, 1878. He served on Perry's
flagship, and is now ninety years old.
The annual sales in Marshall Fields great
dry-goods store in Chicago aggregate $780,
100000. This vast business employs 5000
people and is personally directed by Mr..
Field, who is ut his desk from o'clock uu-
til 5.
Mrs. MARGARET E. SANGsTER, has ac-
copied the position of editor Of Hdrper's
Bazdr, made vacant by the death of Miss
Mary L. Booth. Mrs. Sangster has been for
several years the "postmistrsss" Of Harper's
Young People.
DIR. RICHARD NJ. GATLING, the inventor
OF the famous gun, is now over seventy
years old; with a full, gray beard and such q
kindly face and mild pair of eyes that no
one would ever suspect him as the inventor
OF murderous war weapons.
POSTMASTER. GENERAL WANAMAKER has
q special telegraph wire running from his
business establishment in Philadelphia di-
rectly to his Office in the Postoffice Depart
ment By this means he is kept informed of
what is being done In Philadelphia, and can
be consulted at any moment. His corra-
spondence has reached such immense proper.
tions that he still retains in the city his CON
fdential clerk, who accompanied him from
Philadelphia.