The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BISMARCK now weighs only 1G5 pounds.
Ii HI is the name of the King of Corea.
The active career of NJ. de Lesseps is over.
MRS JAMES @. BLAINE has turned sixty.
JOHN BRIGHT is in his seventy seventh
year.
The Hon. Lambert Tree has resigned az
Minister to Russia
BATTENBERG, husband of Princess Beatrice,
is to Le made Duke.
CABANEI, the French artist, left q fortune
OF more than 100000
JAY GOULD is said to bo completely under
the thumb of his son George.
THE annual income of the young German
Emperor is estimated at S4,OO0ON.
CARL SCHuRZ seems to have regained his
youth since his return from Europe.
CONGRESSMAN w. l.. ScOTr, of Erie,
Penn, is worth probably sl5,OoO,OOo.
QUEEN VICTORIA saves more than IS, 500,-
600 per annum from the civil list alone.
DR. GATLING, the inventor Of the famous
gun by that name. is a North Carolinian.
MRS. LEVI p. MORTON speaks and writes
German, French and Spanish with ease and
correctness.
THE Duke Of Sutherland has bought
property in Florida, and renamed it Suther-
land Marc
COLONEL FRED GRANT is getting very
much like his father in appearance although
he Is taller and heavier.
GENERAL LEGITIME, the Haytian Presi.
dent, is described as looking like t'Sara-
toga hotel head waiter"
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the millionaire iron
founder, began his business career by sweep
Ing out an Office in Pittsburg.
THE growing influence in Germany of
Count Waldersee has brought him into
prominence as rival of Bismarck.
STANLEY Brown, who married Miss Moll;e
Garfield, will soon take q position in the
l theological Suryey at Washington.
Jay GOULD, of New York. has resigned as
director of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad owing to i'll health
A WHITE marble figure of the late Emperor
William, similar to the figures of his parents,
has been placed in the Charlottenburg mauso-
leum.
WILLIAM SUNDAY, a we'll known member
Of the Chicago Baseball Club, is conducting
Sabbath revival meetings in the Western
metropolis
Mr.. II. III. JOHNSTON the African ex-
plorer, is now about forty-fve years old:
small, wiry man, with bright eyes and o
bronZed fare.
Sir MORELL MACKENZIE has been offered
$SOOOO, with $500 additional for his son,
to come to America for the purpose of select.
ing spot for sanitarium. This offer was
declined.
The widow of Professor Richard A. Proc
tor, residing in Florida, receives a pension of
$500 year. granted by the British Govern.
mene upon the request OF the leading Eng
lish scientists. t-s'@'s
JOHN MEYERS, who took the chief part in
the Passion Play at Ober- -Ammergau in 1850,
Is getting ready for It's repetition this year.
hispreparation consists principally Of letting
his hair grow. =
Poor King Otto's latest craze is mania for
skating. This would be harmless were IL not
for the fact that the Bavarian Monarch takes
hendish delight in skimming over the most
dangerous places, and compsls his aRonized
attendants to accompany him.
REV. ROBERT COLLIER, the famous New
York divine, has presented Cornell Univer-
interesting history. IL was the bell that rang
him TO work every morning in his young
days and fred the time the days toll was
over. The bell win be used at Cornell for
summoning the students to their classes,