The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BoULANGER is wonderfully quiet OF late.
WALT WHITMAN, the poet, was born in
1919.
JAY GOULD is going to visit the Paris Ex-
hibition.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE is in his sixty
third year.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is extremely fond
Of yachting.
henry GEORGE, the single tax champion,
is to visit Australia.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, is plan
ming trip to Norway.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has had his portrait
painted thirty-ive times.
Tom MAST, the cartoonist, has resumed
work on the New York papers.
A DAUGHTER of Chief Justice Fuller will
study law after she leaves college.
NJ EEFEL, constructor Of the famous
tower, is a direct descendant of William Tell,
BUFFALO BILL is making even bigger
sensation in France than he did in Eng
land.
The Vanderbilts have given away over
million dollars philanthropically IN the last
twenty years.
PRINCETON and Miami Universities have
conferred upon President Harrison the de-
gree Of LII. D.
SIR JULIAN PAuNcEFoTE, the British
Minister at Washington, is an inveterate
cigarette smoker.
LIEUTENANT POWELL, Of the English Hus-
sars, has spent S5S5, 900 since 1855 and Is now
many thousands in debt.
GENERAL JOHN C. FREMONT, the first Re-
publican candidate for the presidency, IS
seventy-eight years old.
GEORGE VANDERBILT has bought nearly
5000 acres of land in Buncombe County, N.
c., and has paid for it $3.50, 600.
JoHNW BARDsLEy, the man who brought
the first English sparrow to America, died
in Philadelphia few days ago.
SIBERIAN exile is the punishment which the
Car has inflicted upon his brother, the Grand
Duke Alexis, who once visited this country.
Ex-PREsDENT CLEvELAND's fortune,
which has been greatly increased by lucky
investments in real estate, is now placed at
100000.
HENRY VILLARD's return to the dominat-
irg position in Oregon Transcontinental af-
fairs is a remarkable instance of financial re-
cuperation.
AT the present time the most powerful ally
Of Stanley and Emin Pasha is Tppoo lib.
the Arab, the greatest slave trader since the
QayS OIL ldH1eTldne.
THE Duke and Duchess of Portland will
visit the United States at an early date, an
American trip having been arranged as part
of their honeymoon.
EDWARD McGLAcKIN, Jr., lately gradual
ed from West Point at the age Of twenty
one years and three days, is the youngest
officer in the United States Army.
THREE Of the richest merchants in this
country are comparatively young men. Wan
amaker is fifty-one, Marshall Field, OF Chi
cago, f1fty-three, and Phil. Armour, fifty
five.
DR.. PEPPER, Provost of the University of
Pennsylvania, greatly wants to resign his
post, but the trustees will not hear of it. He
gets $4,000 year salary, and gives the
college $40, 900 year from his own pocket.
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH Lo1sINGER, brother
in-law of Prince Alexander of Battenburg,
is about to marry Louise Kopek, daughter Of
the head gamekeeper of the Dagnaiska forest
in hungary, thus allying the English royal
family with tho gamekeeper.
D. z. PEARSON, the Chicago millionaire,
has adopted the plan Of disposing of bis great
fortune before his death. During the last
few years he has given away nearly $500, 900
to educational institutions In the West. MIR.
Pearson lives with his wife in beautiful
home in Chicago suburb. he has no chts-
dren.