Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-09
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

CARDINAL MANNING is eighty-one years of
age.
QUEEN VICToRIA's health is said to be fail.
ing.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, it is said smokes
dozen cigars q day.
MARSHAL IMAGINATION, Of France, is now
in bis eighty-first year.
PRINCESS VICTORIA, Of Teck, is said to be
the belle of the British royal family.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the colorod orator
and Minister to Hayti, is worth $500, 600.
JOIN TYLER son and private secretary of
President Tyler, sill lives at Washington.
BUFFALO BILLS social success in Paris
pleases him more than his financial success.
EX-KING MILAN, of Servia, is expected
shortly in Paris, where he intends to reside.
BILL NyE'S income from his humorous
writing and lecturing amounts to nearly SO
COO year.
LUCAS SILVA, who was a doctor in the in
dependence army Of Bolivia, has reached his
i29th year.
The King of Greece will probably be the
only European sovereign to visit the Paris
Exhibition.
SECRETARY WINDoM is the oldest member
Of the Cabinet, being nearly sixty-three
years OF age.
IRON EAGLE FEATHER, a Sioux Indian, has
Just completed the scientific course at Dicizin-
son College.
IRWIN and Abra1n Garfield, sons Of the
late President, have entered the 1893 class at
Williams College.
MAURICE B. FLYNN, the New York pOliti.
clan who died recently worth a round million,
vas once a grave-digger.
JOHN D. ROcKEFELLER, the head Of the
Standard Oil Trust, is said to have an an.
nual income Of 50, O00 900.
Ex-Governor AND EXHIBITED STATES
SENATOR Ross OF New Mexico, is now setting
type on the Santa Fee Ns,v Nerscan.
EMM0Ns BLAINE's fiance, Miss Mccormick,
Of Chicago, is a tall, handsome derk-eyed
girl. She is the heiresS to 81, 500 900.
GEORGE S. boutwell,, Grants Secretary
Of the Treasury, is living in Washington. He
is lawyer and practices before the Court of
Claims
A PUBLISHING house in London has offered
William E. Gladstone a large sum If he viii
write political romance He has declined
The offer.
Dom LUZ. King of Portugal, has just pub
lished e translation into Portuguese of the
Merchant OF Venice" He had previously
translated Hamlet"
PROFESSOR E. NJ SHELTON, Of Kansas,
who is going over to Australia to be the cniet
instructor OF the department Of Agriculture
N Queensland, will receive salary Of $500
q year, with house free Of rent.
The Prince OF W aI9S receives from the
British e1cheIuer more than $I2S7, 600 g. Year.
the Duke of Edinburgh more than &142, 0Gl
and the Duke of COnnaught $12J, 0G0. The
Duke of Cambridge gets 1913, COO.
THE youngest college professor occupying
the full chair OF an important school in any
American institution Of standing is believed
20 be W. II. BOcocZ, who is now in his twenty
tfth year and has just been elected to the
chairs of both Greek and Latin in the Uniyer-
sity OF Georgia.
WILLIAM T. COLEMAN, Of California, for
me1ly a candidate for the Democratic noni-
nation fer the Presidency, has sold his large
mining interests i'll Shasta County, Cal, to
ar English syndicate for 3, coo, 900. The
property includes sixty mines, among them
the valuable Niagara.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT CRAWFORD, United
States Navy, has been chosen Tor the head OF
the great Williamson School at Philadelphia
He was born about forty-fve years ago in
WashingtOn's old house at Valley Forge
and was at one time a workman IN the tn
CINE shops at Altoona, Penn.
GENERAL SHERMAN and party recently
assembled to the top OF Pixies Peak in Colora-
do While the carriage was being loaded
photograph attempted to take q picture Of
him. but the General turned his back, with
the remark that photographers were nut
sance On the top OF the peak the General
sat on 6 rock and ate cheese sandwich,
while the others clustered around him ant
Velated "reminiscences.