Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Emperor of AMMAN is dead.


PRESIDENT ARRIsON has insomnia.
GOVERNOR Hill is going West in June.
The Car of Russia is an enormous eater.
THE Emperor of Germany is an early
riser.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL is forty
years old.
SECRETARY TRACY is a great lover of
horsefesh.
HENRY GEORGE, the agrarian agitator, is
in London
FRoUDE, the historian, has declared for
Irish Home Rule.
SENATOR EvARTs is said to be ambitious
to become Judge.
The King Of Holland, who has been very
sick, is much better.
SECRETARIES NOBLE. Wanamaker and
Miller never held office before
ADMIRAL PORTER and his wife have just
celebrated their golden wedding
PRESIDENT HARRISON is the fourteenth
lawyer to hold the Executive chair.
ROBERT H. MAY has since 1859 been elected
Mayor of Augusta, Ca, eleven times.
SENATOR STANFORD paid $500 for windows
from which to view the inaugural parade.
The youngest College President in the
country is the Rev. De Witt Hyde, of Bow
doin.
THE Oldest member of the British House
y
ninety.
Miss PAUNCEFoTE daughter of the new
British Minister, is twenty-five years old and
quite pretty.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK talks of
making a tour in America by way of a sum-
mer vacation.
c. W. GODDARD, onsul-General to Con-
stantinOpIe from 1861 to 1864, died recently
in Portland, Me.
A aI0 q MAJ
Der of the Bar Association of New York at
its last annual meeting held.
MISS SCHULTZ, who has just taken the de-
gree of NJ. D. in Paris, is a particularly
pretty woman Of twentyone.
TIE late Captain Ericsson the inventor of
the Monitor, left at his death a handsome
fortune of not less than $150,000.
THOMAsW. PALMER, of Michigan, Just ap-
pointed Minister to Spain, is familiar with
the Spanish people and language.
OVERWHELMINGLY ANAMAKER will,
it is said, continue superintendent of his
great Sunday-schoOl at Philadelphia.
MRS. POLK, widow of President Polk, now
eighty-five years old, wears black kid gloves
all day and walks with a gold headed cane.
HERR KRUPP, the gunmaker, of Essen,
Germany, has an income of 81 800 900 year,
larger than the income of the richest Roth
schId.
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, British Minister
at Washington, is a fine looking man, six
feet two inches tall, black eyed, heavy
browed and bald headed. He has charming
wife and daughter.
SIDNEY BARTLETT, the aged Boston law
yer. whose death occurred recently, left an
estate worth fully $10,000,0)0. His fees, even
for a few words OF counsel, frequently
amounted to $4,000.
NINE MUTsU, wife of the japanese Minister
at Washington, has made 1900 social calls
since the season began. Last spring she
could not speak word of English She
is now a good conversationaIist in our
tongue.
THE new King of Servia is a lad in his
thirteenth year. He is said to be an excsp-
tionally bright good boy, but the chances
now seem to be that, by the time he comes to
years of discretion, there will be no Servia
for him TO rule.
GENERAL JERRY RUSK, of Wisconsin, of
President Harrson's Cabinet, was the tow
path companion of Garfield when the latter
was boy, and has been a stage-driver,
Sheriff. Legislator, soldier, Congressman and
Governor of the Badger State
CLEVELAND was the third defeated cSndi-
date to ride with his successful competitor in
the inaugural procession. One Of the other
two was Van Buren,, who rode with the
grandfather of the present President, and the
other was Audrew Jackson, who rode with
John Lnincv Adams