The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
TIE Emperor Of AMMAN is dead.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has insomnia.
GOVERNOR HILL is going West in june.

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 great lover OF
horseflesh.
HENRY GEORGE, the agrarian agitator, IL
in London.
FaoUDE, 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 II. MAY has since 1859 been elected
Mayor Of Augusta, Ga, eleven times.
SENATOR STANFORD paid $500 for windows
from which to view the inaugural parade.
TIE Youngest College President in the
country is the Rev. De Witt Hyde, of Bow
doin.
THE Oldest member of the British House
of Commons is Charles Villiers. He IS nearly
ninety.
Miss PAUNcEFoTE, daughter Of the new
British Minister, is twenty-five years old aud
quite pretty.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK talks Of
making tour in America by way OF sum.
mer vacation.
c. W. GODDARD, Consul-General to Con-
stantinople from 1SGl to 1864, died recently
in Portland, Me.
GROVER CLEVELAND was elected mem
Der of the Bar Association Of New York at
its last annual meeting held.
Miss SCHULzE, who has just taken the de-
gree of NJ. D. in Paris, is particularly
pretty woman Of twenty-one.
The late Captain Ericsson, the inventor OF
the Monitor. left at his death handsome
fortune of not less than Sl50,OO0.
THOMAS w. PALMER, of Michigan, just ap-
pointed Minister to Spain, is familiar with
the Spanish people and language.
PosrMAsTEg-GES WANAstAEER will.
it is said, continue as superintenoen1 OF nls
great Suuday-school at Philadelphia.
MRS. POLK, widow of President Polk, now
cighty-ive years old, wears black kid gloves
ali day and walks with a gold headed cane.
HERR KRuPP, the gunmaksr. Of Essen,
Germany, has an income OF Sl,5o0,o0oa a year,
larger than the income or the rlcnest ho5n-
schild.
SIR JULIAN PAuNcEFoTE, British Minister
at Washington, is O 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 $40 000,0)0. His fees, even
for a few words Of counsel, frequently
amounted to s50,O0O.
NINE. MUTsU, wife of the Japanese Minister
at Washington, has made 200 social calls
since the season began. Last spring sne
conld not speak word Of English. Sne
is now q goo5 conversaaonalls5 IN our
tongue.
THE new King of Servia is lad in his
thirteenth wear. He is said to be an e1cep'
tionally bright, good boy, but the chances
now seam to be that by the time ne comes TO
wears of discretion, there will be no SerVla
for him to rule.
GENERAL JERRY RUsK, of Wisconsin, OF
President Harrison's Cabinet, was the low
path companion Of Garfield when tne laGost
frae n how. and has been stage-drlver,
Sheriff, Legislator, soldier Congressman ana
Governor Of the Badger State.
CLEVELAND was the third defeated candl-
date to ride with his successful competltor IN
iusi the inaugural procession. One of the Other
two was Van Buren, who rode with tne
Grandfather oru of the present President, and the
Other was Andrew Jackson, who roae "''h
John Quincy Adams.
THE first :'Nrs. President Harrison was
never m stress Of the White House. She was
sixty-siS years old when her husband was was
elected President, and quite intlrm. she
dared not attempt the journey TO w, WaSalng- T?ag
ton from her Ohio home Wnen Gtu iiPpst gi,st
nrensring for the trip when thu news OF her
husbands fatal illness came, month after
his inau -urat:on.