The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

TIE Duchess of Cambridge is dead.
THE Prince of Wales wears green kids.
THE Queen of Greece is clever artist.
Ex-KING MILAN wears a steel undershirt
The Princess of Wales is forty-four years
old.
JOHN G.. WHITTIER, the poet, is eighty.
four.
The Queen Dowager Of Bavaria is dying Of
dropsy
THE Empress Of Austria suffers from in
somnia.
THE Duke of Westminster is worth $780,.
100000.
CARDINAL MANNING's health is daily i'm.
proving.
EX-SENATOR WARNER MILLER is worth
s5,000,000
ARMOUR, the Chicago butcher, is worth
$25, 900.
EVANGELIST MOODY is conducting a revival
in Chicago.
SENATOR BERRY, Of Missouri, began life
as plowboy.
GENERAL RUSSELL A. ALGER, of Detroit,
is worth s., 600, 700.
THE freedom of Edinburgh has been ten
dered to Mr.. Parnell.
CLAUS SPREcKELs the sugar king, is rated
as high as S20,000,0OO.
LIEUTENANT-GovERN CHASE, of Indiana,
is conducting revival meetings in Covington,
Ky.
NEAL Dow, the Prohibitionist, has been
appointed q Commissioner for Maine to the
Paris Exposition.
IT is said that Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New
York city, receives an offer Of marriage
nearly every day in the year.
ALLEN THoRNDIKE RICE, Minister to Rus
sa, was kidnapped at the tender age OF eight
years and carried off to Europe.
UNITED STATES SENATOR STANFORD and
Mrs. Stanford, and Justice and Mrs. Field
will presently set out for Alaska.
THE Right Honorable William Henry
Smith, First Lord of the Treasury, is about
to be raised to the British peerage.
Ex-PREs1DENT CLEVELAND caught nine
tv-four pound tarpon in Laconhatchee Greek,
in the Indian River region of Florida.
Ex-ATToRNEY-GENER GARLAND has
hung out his shingle. and will spend the rest
of his days in Washington practicing law.
COLONEL WAsuBURN, the new Minister to
| Switzerland is not only said to be the hand.
souIest man in Massachusetts,, but heis some
thing of a poet as well.
THE widow of General Grant will accom-
pany ner son, Colonel F. D. Grant, to Aus.
tria, when he goes there as United States
Minister.
GENERAL WILLIAM S. HARVEY, the ia.
nous Indian fighter, is living at Jackson
vile, Fla, and possesses good health, al.
though eighty-nine years old.
MISSES HATTIE BLAINE, Florence Win.
dom, Miss Miller and Miss Proctor will be
the cabinet families contribution to the
Washington debutantes next winter
ONE Of the most successful lawyers at At
lanta, Ga, is Charles H. j. Taylor, colored
man, who began life as bootblack. He for.
merly practised law in Boston.
CORPORAL TANNER, the new Commissioner
of Pensions, entered the Union army when
only seventeen years old. He lost both OF
his legs at the second battle of Bull Run.
SENATOR BERRY, of Arkansas, was a sol
dier in the Confederate army at the tender
| age of sixteen. He lost a leg at Shiloh, and
after the war became school teacher in
| Carroll County, Ark.
| GOVERNOR BIGGs, of Delaware. owns q
dozen peach farms, is heavily interested in
several railroads, and is the possessor OF
wealth in other forms. He does not show
this in his dress, however, for he wears 6
swallow-tail coat, low-cut vest, and wide
trousers, all of the style of forty years ago,
while high white hat covers his head.