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

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TIE President has an offlce csk
PRINcr MAURIcE OF Hanau'is dead. I
KING ALEXANDRIA Of Servia Is thirteen.
GENERAL BoULANexR win visit London In
June 2s&s-
THE King Of Denmark Is the Czar's father
in.isw.
MISS BRAppoN has written over dfty
novels
CARDINAL NEWMAN Is now in his eighty
ninth year. 81
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAxER Is o
Presbyterian.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER is popular with
his colleagues
A SON Of Charles Dickens is rising states.
man OF Australia. y...l
THE King Of Greece Is an enthusiastic and
successful fisherman.
THE Emperor William OF Germany will
visit Csnstantinople 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,
II i nossd mat ePrssidsns HsffIsons Eanss'
day morning. g
PIERRE LoRrLLARp, the wealthy tobacco
mist, s great BIRD fancier and delights IN
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 S150,O00 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 Z. BoUDINoT, at whose sugges-
tion the Signal Service was established, has
just died at Pittsboro, N. c., at tho age Of
seventy-f years.
MIR. CHARLES JOHNSON, aged twenty three.
son Of q Kansas City grain dealer, has been
offered a situation as artist for Harpcr's
Weekly at salary Of $l0o 900 year.
The famous French physician, Charcot,
the specialist in nervous diseases, has royal
income from his practice His fee from the
Emperor Of Brazil alone amounted to $4,000.
THE Emperor of Austria intends to visit
England this year in such strict incognito
that no one but himself and his attendants
will know anything about 1t till he is at
home again.
BISHOP LIaHTroor, of Durham, England,
makes 1t rule to spend his Episcopal in
come 49,, 900 year) on church and edu-
cational work, and not a shilling of 1t has
gone into his own pocket.
DR. NATHAN dAZEN, or Marshall, ILL.,, Is
remarkable as being probably tho sole sur
vivor of the battle Of Lake Erie, fought
September 10, 1918. 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,
000,0 900. This vast business employs 5000
people and Is personally directed by Mr..
Field, who Is at his desk from s o'clock uu-
til 5. $3.50
MRS. MARGARET E. SANesrER, has ac-
cepted the position of editor of Harper's
Rnznr, ::.aaid~ 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 M. GATLIHG, the inventor
OF the famous gun, Is now over seventy
years olds with full, gray beard and such
kindly fare and mild pair of eyes that no
one would ever suspect him as the inventor
OF murderous war weapons.
PosTMAsTER.G GENERAL WANAMAKER has
q special telegraph wire running from his
business establishment In Philadelphia d.
rectly to his Office In the Postoiilce Depart
mont BY this means he is kept informed OF
what is being done I'm 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-
adential clerk, who accompanied him from
Philadelphia.