The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-08
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BISMARCK now weighs only 1G5 pounds.
Ii Hi is the name of the King Of Corea.
THE active career of NJ de Lesseps is over.
Mrs. JAMES G.. BLAINE has turned sixty.
JOHN BRIGHT is in his seventy seventh
year.
THE Hon. Lambert Tree has resigned az
Minister to Russia
BATTENBERG, husband Of Princess Beatrice,
is to Le made Duke
CABANEL, the French artist, left fortune
OF more than S400,0O
JAY GOULD Is said to bo completely under
the thumb of his son George.
THE annual income Of the young German
Emperor Is estimated at 81, ,OO0,OW.
CARL SCHURz seems to have regained his
youth since his return from Europe.
CONGRESSMAN w. l.. ScoTT, Of Erie,
Penn, Is worth probably $l5,OOO,OOO.
QUEEN VICTORIA saves more than S5, 500,-
600 per annum from the civil list alone.
DIR. GATIINc, the inventor Of the famous
gun by that name. Is North Carolinian.
MRS. LEVI Z. MORTON speaks and writes
German, French and Spanish With ease and
correctness.
THE Duke Of Sutherland has bought q
property in Florida and renamed it Suther-
land Maj or.
COLONEL FRED GRANT is getting very
much like his father In appearance, although
he Is taller and heavier.
GENERAL LEGITIME. the HaytIan Presi.
dent is described as looking like Sara
toga hotel bead waiter"
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the millionaire iron
founder, began his business career by sweep
ing out an Office in Pittsburg.
THE growing influence in Germany Of
Count Waldersee has brought him into
prominence as rival OF Bismarck
STANLEY BROWN, who married Miss Molle
Garfield, will soon take a position in the
Geological Survey at Washington.
JAY GOULD, Of New York, has resigned as
director Of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad owing to i'll health.
A WHITE marble figure Of the late Emperor
J William, similar to the figures Of his parents
| has been placed in the Charlottenburg mauso
| leum.
| WILLIAM SUNDAY, q well-known member
OF the Chicago Baseball Club, Is conducting
Sabbath revival meetings in the Western
metropolis.
Mr.. ii. Ii. JOHNSTON, the African ex-
! plorer, Is now about forty-five years old: a
small, wiry man, with bright eyes and
| bronZed fare.
SIR MoRELL MACKENZIE has been offered
| $50, 900, with $500 additional for his son,
to come to America for the purpose Of select
ing spot for a sanitarium. This offer was
| declined.
THE widow of Professor Richard A. Proc
| tor, residing in Florida, receives q pension of
| pOOJ yeuT, RTanteu Dy Jne brlClsn UOVeIn-
ment upon the request of tho leading Eng
| lish scientists.
| JOHN MEYERS, who took the chief part in
| the Passion Play at Ober-Ammergau In 1850,
| is getting ready for It's repetition this year.
His preparation consists principally of letting
| his hair grow.
Poor King Otto's latest craze is mania for
skating. This would DO harmless were it not
for tho fact that the Bavarian Monarch takes
| a fiendish delight in skimming over the most
dangerous places, and compsls his agonized
attendants to accompany him.
REV. ROBERT COLLIER, the famous New
York divine, has presented Cornell Univer-
sity with an old factory bell which has an
interesting history. It was the bell that rang
him 70 work every morning In his young
days and fixed the time the DAYS toll was
over. The bell will be used at Cornell for
summoning the students to their CLASSES,