Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-15
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


GENERAL LEG1TIME carried off from Hayti
about $500, 900.
KING HUMBERT, of Italy, is still suffering
from dyspepsia.
MRS. U. S. GRANT will visit her son Jesse,
in California this winter.
SENATOR-ELECT PETTIGREw, of South Da-
kota, is only just over forty years old.
CORPORAL TANNER and family have set
tied down for the winter at Washington
The queen dowager of Portugal is to re-
ceive an annuity Of $63, 900, and she will re-
side abroad.
A COPY of Jay Gould's History of Della
ware County, New York." recently sold for
forty dollars.
GENERAL GRENFELI4, K. G.. B., comman-
der of the English forces in Egypt, looks like
Grover Cleveland.
MANY people will be astonished to learn
that the London preacher Spurgeon, is only
ffty-tv years old.
THE late Sir Charles William Skies was the
founder of England's great system of post
office savings banks.
PRESIDENT CARNOT, of France, recently
remarked that he was determined to visit
America before he died
PROFESSOR TYNDALL, the distinguished
scientist at the age of seventy has climbed
the Al ps in search of health.
THE Emperor of Japan has just taken pos
session or a new palace, furnlShod In EURO
pean style. 1t cost him 81, 600, 900.
Ex-PREsIDENT CLEVELAND and his wife
are becoming well known regular first
nighters' at the New York theatres.
GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER says he
has followed only one rule in writing his
memoirs; that was to tell the truth.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, the London
journalist, is reported to have declined an
offer of knighthood from Queen Victoria.
THE CHILEAN Minister and Sonora Varas
have learned the English language and will
be much in society in Washington this win
ter.
HORATIO GUZMAN, the Nicaraguan Minis
ter to the United States, is a son OF ex-Presi-
dent Guzman He was educated in this coun-
try.
BRANDER MATTHEWS, the wel-known lit
terateur, is a native of New Orleans, but has
resided in New York city the greater part Of
his life.
CARDINAL MANNING is a slight, graceful,
delicate, gracious, dignified man, wearing
no insignia of his rank in the Church, except
a small red hat.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has obtained new
steward for the White House. Philip Nc
Kim, of Scotch and Irish parentage, is lie
mann's successor.
EX-MAYOR HALL, of New York has tried
to practice law in London for some years,
but he finds he cannot make a living without
dong newspaper work.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, thinks of
nothing but war. He conforms his habits to
those of Frederick the Great. and his court
at Berlin has become a camp.
HANS JEGER, one of the cleverest writer's
in Norway, has accepted the place of COM
mon sailor on one of the Scandinavian
ships being poor and in bad health.
JOHNS HOPKINS, the founder of the uni
versity that bears his name in Baltimore,
entered the same city at the age of nineteen
with 6215 cents in his pockets, and died worth
$1,000, 900.
RUSSELL SAGE the New York stock spec
ulatOr, is a shrewd, handsOme-faced, nervous
hammered man in the neighborhood of sixty,
with clean-shaven upper lip and fortune of
something like $50, 900, 900.
CLEMENCEAU the French statesman still
loves to talk of the four years he spent in
America. He had a varied career, too as
school teacher In Connecticut, struggling
physician in the French quarter of New
York city, and again as teacher of French
in ladies' seminary.
WORTH the famous man-dressmaker of
Paris, is a native born Englishman of strik-
ing appearance looking ike a Scotchman,
and adding to the likeness by wearing al
most always Scotch cap. His father meant
to make printer of him, but he didn't like
the work and managed to get into the dry
goods trade in London. Thence he went to
Paris, where he found favor with the En-
press Eugspie, and his fortune was made.
He has fine castle near Paris.