Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-08-02
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

VERDI, the composer, is seventy-four.
QUEEN VICTORIA is an enthusiast in gar
dening.
GOVERNOR FORAKER is a graduate of
Cornell.
GENERAL W. T. SHERMAN is sixty-nine
years old.
ONE of the Presidents favored amusements
is ten pins.
JULES GREW, the French statesman, is
eighty-one.
PRINCE BIsMARCK's doctor has again taken
away his pipe.
Mrs. GARFIELD, widow of the President,
VIII spend next winter in Washington.
The Empress Augusta Victoria. of Ger
many, has embraced the Catholic faith.
THE Emperor of japan is allowed So 800
900 year for his household department.
ALBERT BRISBANE, in his eightieth year,
has just finished an exploring tour in
Africa.
PROFESSOR MATHER, of Amherst College,
has been in the service of that institution for
thirty years
THE Duchess of Marlborough, accompanied
Ly her husband is coming to America some
time this fall.
The best dressed and ''best groomed" man
IN the British House of Commons is said to
be Joseph Chamberlain.
SIR SPENCER ST. JOHN, British Minister to
Mexico, has returned to London after an alb
sence of fOrty-One years.
THE Earl Of Zetland, the new Viceroy of
Ireland enjoys an income salary included
of about 900 per year.
SIR CHARLES RUSSELL, the great English
crOsS-examiner, has a hard voice, cOal-black
WhlSkerS and heavy eyebrows.
ROBERT HAMMERLING, whose death is an
nounced at Gratz, was tifty-seven years of
age. He was Austria'S greatest living poet.
THE English Government has granted to
the widow Of Professor R. A. Proctor a pen
sion of $500 in consideration of his scientific
services.
CLAUS SPRECKELS has already made S3O-
100000 growing cane and producing sugar
IN Hawll and importing and refining sugar
in the United States.
HIsAYA IwAsAKI, a student of the Uni
verSlty of Pennsylvania, is a son of the rich
est man in Japan. He has gone home to be
presented to the Mikado.
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsOS BURNETT, the
novelist. is to be paid $500 year for editing
the children'S department of a syndicate of
English and American papers.
THE fortune of John Jacob Astor, of New
York, the richest man in the country, is now
estimated at 500, 600, 600. He is about
seventy years of age and widower.
GEORGE B. ROBERTS, who is at the head
of the great Pennsylvania Railroad, is small
man Win q WOnGeC1ul hedQ1OT taCtS ana ng
ureS. He is Of Scotch descent and about fifty
years old, although he looks somewhat
younger.
BUFFALO BILL is living in style in Paris.
He has fitted up a suit of handsome apart
ments in which he entertains in regal lUxuri-
ance. He is making vast deal of money,
but his social success pleases him more than
his financial.
GOVERNOR FITzHUGH LEE will accept the
SUPPLEMENTARY of the Lexington VA Mill
tary Institute, which was offered him by the
Board of Visitors at their recent meeting,
when his term as Governor expires on Janu-
airy l, 1890.
'tSUNSET' Cox, when asked what was his
greatest work, replied: L will fetch it, - and
speeches in favor of the Life Saving Service.
That service has saved 40, 900 lives and S. S.
Cox is its father.
THE Princess of Wales has suddenly fallen
off in her looks to an appalling extent. From
being the handsomest and InOsc youthful
woman of her years in all the kingdom, she
is now said to be only a much ~ de-up carl
cature of her younger self.
THE will OF the late General Withers pro
vides that his renowned stud farm, Fair
lawn near Lexington. KY, valued al 800,
600, shall be maintained and conducted by his
son, ". T. Withers, Jr. 1t Is one Of the most
| extensive establisi ments IN the world.
Mr.. PARNELL no longer hurries through
the Hobbies of the House of Commons with
, that terrible haunted look which the expert
| ences of the last two or three years Lad glyeT
| 20 his face but fingers in the lobby chatflns
| and surrounded by eager friends,