The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Baptist
PRESIDENT HARRISON rarely attends the
theatres.
SECRETARY OF WAR PROCTOR is called the
silent man" in Washington.
CARDINAL NEWMAN, who is in his eightieth
gear, is the oldest living Cardinal.
QUEEN VICTORIA went to church the other
Sunday for the first time In a year.
NJ. CoNsTANs, who defeated Boulanger, is
said to be the coming man in French poll
tics.
PROFESSOR HUXLEY says his closest COM
| panion for the last fifty years has been dys-
pepsia.
The Pope has made Rev. DR.. Grace, late
Bishop of St. Paul, Mimi, tltular arch
bishop.
ADMIRAL KIMBERLY, in command OF our
Pacific squadron, has been in the service Tor
forty years
MRS. MARY F. SHENDLEY, of London, has
presented Pittsburg, Penn, with 3O0 acres OF
land for park.
STURGEON, the great Baptist preacher.
generally devotes thirty minutes to the prepa
| ration of q sermon.
PosTMAsTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER mas
started a Bible class in the Church OF the
Covenant in Washington.
The Emperor William, of Germany, re-
Gently discharged an attendant for the OIL
tense of reading French novel.
MISS WINNIE DAVIS, daughter Of Jefer-
son Davis. in company with Mrs. Joseph
Pulitzer, has sailed from New York for
| Havre.
| PRINCE BISMARCK recently gave the fol-
lowing advice to his son: "Be moderate Ill
work. moderate in eating, and also moderate
in drinking"
| JOHN FIELD, the new postmaster at Phiia-
| lelphia, was born in Derry County, Ireland,
| ffty-five years ago and came to America at
the age of fourteen.
TENNYsoN selects the Gays when the ele-
ments are at their worst for his tramps over
the downs on the Isle of Wight, on which his
Isolated country house is located.
". PowDERLY, the chief Of the Knights
| Of Labor, possesses a most remarkable
memory for names and faces. Although ne
meets thousands of people every year ne never
forgets them.
KARL FALKENsTE1N, the inventor Of the
famous smokeless powder, was a chemist Ill
Vienna only three years ago. His invention
was scornfully rejected by the Austrian
! Government.
! BARON ALFRED. the pTeSeuI neau VI 80
mouse of Roshschild, is pudgy, bald.headed
and side-whiskered. His years are nine ana
Eorty. and he lives in London, where ne gives
mmptuous entertainments.
CARDINAL GIBBONS not only faVors cap
ital punishment but thinks there is entirely
too much leniency in the treatment OF muir
ierers, altogether too much delay between
the sentence and its execution.
President CARNoT and United States MN
ster Reid have become warm friends IN
Paris. It is rumored that the former has
promised to visit this country under tne
Guidance of Mr.. Reid ut some future Time.
"GENERAL' BOOTH, in opening new sal
vation hall in London, defied any one to point
,ut any authorized doing of the salvation
,rmy not justified from the Bible They had
! 300 societies and 5000 officers. for the most
part se!f-supported, aid the annua! income
was not less ti.an 1000 020.
! GEORGE VANDERBILT. who is about 20
buid the splendid country seat at Ashevll!e,
! n. c., is the youngest son OF the late William
! n. Vanderbilt. He is q bachelor and is now
about twenty-seven years old; is tall and
! slight in figure and of dark complexion, hair
/ and ewes He cares nothing for society, and
| S most happy when in his library with his
/ books His legacy from his father was
! 81. .Or,, 600, together with library and many
! ,f the pictures in the Wand eroilt gallery.