The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-13
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Nps J,y GOULD left six children.

Mrs, JAY GOULD left six children.
THE Prince Of Wales Is growing gray.
PRINCE BISMARCK is in wretched health.
BEN Butler chews up twenty cigars
day.
The Czarina of Russia is reported to be In
sane.
SENATOR Don CAMERON is statesman
epicure.
GENERAL HARRISON carries $4,000 life
insurance.
THE Khedive of Egypt has great fond
ness for cats.
H. RIDER HAGGARp, the novelist, has be-
come vegetarian.
The Empress of Japan is laying in a
wardrobe for visit to this country.
q ALEXANDRA CABANEL, the noted French
painter, Is dead at the age Of sixty-six years.
QUEEN VICTORIA and Empress Frederick
will visit the Queen of Spain at st. Sebas.
JOHN I. WALLER, of Kansas, was the only
colored man in the Electoral College this
year.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX promises to stop
writing poetry when she reaches the age or
forty.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, an
nounces thathe will visit Alsace and Lorraine
in April
THE Emperor of China has been presented
with six railway sleeping cars by some OF his
French admirers
IT. TRowBR1oGE, the author, is now very
pleasantly settled for the winter with his
family at Naples
SIR JOHN A MACDONALD, the Dominion
Premier, has investments IN the unlteo
to
DIR. L. B. CoNovKR, formerly United
States Senator from Florida, has gone back
to that State to resume his practice.
GENERAL ]. C. BLACK, Pension Commis-
sioner, has the reputation OF being the most
wounded man who survived the war.
ANTHONY HIGGINS, Senator-elect Of Dela-
ware, by tasting peach, can tell its variety,
where it was grown, its age and It's market
value.
THE "Orange King" of Florida is j. II:
Harris, of Marion County. His grove of
200 acres this year yields ,0OO boxes of
oranges.
ATroRNKY-GENERAL GARLAND is one Of
the hardest working men in Washington.
he Is frequently found at his desk as early
1.30 in the morning.
SENATOR GEORGE VEST has a weakness for
Kentucky sausage. He was born IN Ken
lucky and has never recovered from q taste
acquired in boyhood.
JAY GOULD was terribly shocked by the
death of his wife. It is said that the home
life of the great capitalist has always been
exceptionally happy.
EDWARD o. WoLcoTT, the new Colorado
Senator, is said to be the only lawyer who
has ever made the Supreme Court Of Colo
RADIO reverse decision.
SENATOR JAMES B. BECK thinks Kentucky
Southdown mutton the finest on earth, and
he has declared that saddle Of it can't be
cooked anywhere else so we'll as at his own
house.
THE sons of the late President Garfield
, ara practising law in Cleveland, Ohio, under
the Arm name of Garfield & Garfield, and
they are said to be succeeding better than
they expected.
w. d. WAsHBURN, Senator-elect from
! Minnesota is estimated to be worth upward
of $40 OOU, ,OO0, and owns the second largest
Touring mill il the world, with a capacity Of
1U QUO barrels day.
G. W. CH1LDs's wedding present to Miss
Dre,el was large pendant, having for its
centre stone an Atexandrite, weird gem of
changeful hue. By daylight it looks lulni-
nous green. and by night deep red.
LII HUNG CHANG. the famous Viceroy Of
the province of Chihli who takes rank next
to the members of the imperial family in
China, has suffered stroke Of paralysis, and
is said to be in critical condition.
"S1Rn WILLIAM CONRAD REEVES, Chief
Justice of Barbados, just knighted by Vic
toria, is colored man. His mother was a
full -blooded African. His father was Scotch
planter. The Chief Justice began life as a