The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
JOHN BRIGHT believes in phrenology.

THE Queen of Portugal has a mustache
KING WILLIAM of Holland is reported
dying.
PRINCE BISMARCK is again suffering with
neuralgia.
JAMES G. BLAINE has engaged apartments
In Washington for the winter.
. TIE young Duchess of Braganza is at pres
ent popular idol at Portugal.
The fund for the benefit of Mrs. Matthew
Arnold has now reached $4,000
THERE is probability that Browning will
be the next Poet Laureate of England.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has given up
his contemplated trip to South America
EX-MAYoR HEWITT, of New York, paid out
100000 in his unsuccessful attempt to be re-
elected
EX-PRESIDENT WooLSEY, of Yale College.
though nearly ninety years of age, is still
vigorous.
ANEW statue of the Duke OF Wellington
was rec; ntly unveiled in London by the
Prince Of Wales.
Il. P. CHEATHAM, who has been elected to
Congress from the Second North Carolina
District, was born in slavery.
The Russian Gar deli .hts tn show his
good will toward France by delicate atten-
tions to her distinguished citizens
N. CARNoT, President of France. is first
class carTentsr, and can handle the saw
and plane as we'll as any mechanic.
GEORGE RoUTLEDGE, the LONDON pub
Usher who died the other day. printed and
sold 690000 of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
DON PEDRO, of Brazil. is the Oldest reign
ing sovereign now living. He mounted the
throne in 1881 at the age of six years
THE two most punctual men in the House
n q hf-fIt .hur DfN
Jersey, and S. V. White of Brooklyn.
A Sioux chief named Lame Wolf says that
William +. Cody Buffalo Bill is the biggest
coward of a white man who ever rode over
the plains.
EX-PoSTMASTER-GESERAL FRANK HAT
TOY, who has just bought the Washington
Post, was the youngest citizen ever called to
aposition in the Cabinet
CONGRESSMAN MARTIN, of Texas, is sixty
five years old, the father of nins chi dren
and the owner OF 1000 head of cattle and
10000 acres of ranch land.
BILL NyE the humorist, is now driving
the wolf from the door at the rate Of at least
$50 week, and James Whitcomb Riley's
income IS not much, if any, smaller
RICHARD QUAY, son o. the Pennsvl-
vania Senator. Is partner of Senator
Cameron in the ownership Of a splendid cat.
ranch, eight miles ,uare, in Mexico.
MONTGOMERY SEARS, one OF the richest
young men in Boston, is rated as worth
Ss,Du,U0l His father, Joshua Sears, came
to the Hub without a penny and laid the
foundations of his fortune i'll a,grocery store
GENERAL HARRISON has just had his life
insured for $4,000 in New York agency at
Indianapolis The papers were drawn up in
favor Of Mrs. Harrison. The certificate of
the examining physician was to the effect
that General Harrison has no trace of any
organic disease and is in perfect health.
GEORGE VANDERBILT, the young New
York millionaire, has purchased about three
thousand acres OF fine land near Ashevil!e.
N. MIR. Vanderbilt will not talk for pub
lcation concerning his plans, but there is a
report which he does not contradict that he is
about to establish women's college there
THE International Exhibition or norses
asses, etc., to be held IN Paris in 1889. has
been fixed definitely for the lst to the 10th Of
September. The prizes have been largely
f~o-a,,od ood fbo biohoqf foy the best horse