Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-29
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
IE Emperor of AMMAN is dead

TIE Emperor of AMMAN is dead
PRESIDENT HARRISON has insomnia
GOVERNOR HILL is going West in Juno
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
horsehesh.
HENRY GEORGE, the agrarian agitator, is
in London.
FRoCDE, 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- NoRJ Il,s.yYe r"'s'-,l--~ ---1
ADMIRAL PORTER and his wife have lust
celebrated their golden wedding.
PRESIDENT HARRISON is the fourteenth
lawyer 10 hoid 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.
THE 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 nsw
British Minister, is twenty-five years old and
quite pretty.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK talks of
making tour in America by way of q sum.
mer vacation.
G. W. GODDARD, Consul General TO Con-
stantinople from 1861 to 1864, died recently
in Portland, Me.
GROVER CLEVELAND was elected menu
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. i'll Paris, is a particularly
pretty woman of twsnty-one.
THE late Captain Ericsson the inventor OF
the Monitor, left at his death a handsome
fortune OF not less than $150,000.
THOMAS w. PALMER, of Michigan, lust ap-
pointed Minister to Spain, is familiar with
the Spanish people and language.
Postmaster GENERAL WANAMAxER will,
it is said, continue as superintendent of his
great Sunday school at Philadelphia.
MRS. POLK, widow of President Polk, now
eighty-five years cid, wears black kid gloves
all day and walks with gold headed cane
HERR KRUPP, the gunmaker, Of Essen,
Germany, has an income Of $500, 600 q year,
larger than the income Of the richest Roth
Schlld
SIR JULIAN PAUNCEFoTE, British Minister.
at Washington, is a fine looking man, six
feet two inches tall black eyed, heavy
| browed and bald headed. He has a charming
wife and daughter
SIDNEY BARTLETT the aged Boston law
yer, whose death occurred recently, left an
estate worth fully Sl00000J0. His fees, even
for a few words of counsel, frequently
amounted to $4,000.
NINE. MUTsU, wife Of the Japanese Minister
at Washington has made 1900 social calls
since the season began. Last spring she
could not speak a word of English. she
is now good convsrsationalist in our
tongue.
THE new King of Servia is lad in his
thirteenth year He is said to be an excep
tionally bright, good boy, but the chances
now seem to be that by the time he comes to
years of discretion, there will be no Servia
for him to rule
GENERAL JERRY RUsK of Wisconsin, of
President Harrison's Cabinet, was the tow
path companion of Garfield when the latter
was boy, and has been a stage-drlvor,
Sheriff Legislator, soldier, Congressman and
Governor of the Badger State.
CLEVELAND was the third defeated candi
date to ride with his successful competitor IN
the inaugural procession. One of the other
two was Van Buren,, VINO roGe with the
grandfather of une present President, and the
other was Andrew Jackson, who rode with
John Quincy Adams,
The first Mrs President Harrison" was
never mistress of the White House. She was
sixty-six years old when her husband was
elected President, and quite infirm. She
dared not attempt the journey to Washing
ton from her Ohio home when Old Tippe-
canoe started February l. 1S41 and was just
preparing for tne trip when the news Of her
husbands fatal illness came, month after
his Inauguration.
The Illinois W. C. T. u, through Super.
intendent Ada H. Kepoy, is making an
especial effort to interest our foregn-spaak
ing people in Temperance. The most plomi-
nsnt method employed is the distribution of
! temperance literature in various languag ges.