The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-17
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
ruE President has an Office cat.

! THE President has an office cat.
PRINCE MAURICE Of Hanau is dead.
KING ALEXANDRIA of Servia is thirteen.
GENERAL BouLASGER will visit London in
| June
The King of Denmark is the Cars father
| in-law.
Miss BRADDoN has written over fifty
| novels.
CARDINAL NEWMAN is now in his eighty
| ninth year.
POSTMASTER GENERAL WANAMAKER is
| Presbyterian.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER is popular with
his colleagues.
SON of Charles Dickens is rising states
| man of Australia.
THE King or Greece is an enthusiastic and
successful fisherman.
THE Emperor William of Germany will
visit Constantinople in the fall.
SENATOR HEARST, of California, has $780,
900 invested in thoroughbred horses.
Mr.. AND Mrs. GLADSTONE are preparing
| for the celebration of their golden wedding.
ATExAy poetsss, Mrs. Elizabeth j. Hart.
ford. is said to be q lineal descendant OF w al
| ter Scott
IT is noted that president Harrison's Sun
| day mail lies unopened on his desk till Mon
day morning"
PIERRE LoRILLARD, the wealthy tobacco.
| mist, is a great bird fancier and delights in
raising pheasants.
ONLY three of tho War Governors are no"
living-Blair, Of Michigan; Curtin, OF Penn
| sylvania, and Kirkwood, of Iowa
CAPTAIN JOHN Ericsson left an estate
! valued at about SlJO,000, which is divided
| among his relatives and business associates
The wedding of His Grace of Newcastle
| leaves the Dukes of Portland aud Somerset
the only bachelor Dukes in the English peer
age
WILLIAM z. BorD1Nor, at whose sugges-
| tion the Signal Service was established, has
| just died at Pittsboro, N c., at thu age OF
! Seventy-five years
MIR, CHARLES JOHNSON, aged twenty three,
| son Of Kansas City grain dealer, mas oeeh
! offered q situation as artist for HdrperS
Weekly at a salary of slO,O year.
The famous French physician, Charcot,
| the specialist in nervous diseases. has roya.
income from his practice His fee from th,
Emperor of Brazil alone amounted to SSOOo.
THE Emperor of Austria intends to visit
| England this year in such strict lncosnlto
that no one but himself and his attendants
will know anything about it TIL he IS at
! home again.
BISHOP LIGHTFooT, of Durham. England,
makes it a rule to spend his Episcopal in
come t$3j,O0J a year. on church and edu-
cational work, and not q shilling of it has
gone into his own pocket.
| DR.. NATHAN HAzEN, of Marshall, ILL.,. is
remarkable as being probably the sole sur.
vivor of the battle Of Lake Erie, fought
SeptenLer 10, 1873. He served on Perry
| flagship, and is now ninety wears cd.
THE annual sales in Marshall Fields great
| dry-goodS store in Chicago aggregate $50,
| 000,O00. This vast business employs 300
people and is personally directed by Mr..
Field, who is at his desk from s o'clock un
til 5.
Mrs. MARGARET E. SANGsTER, has &C
cepted the position of editor Of Hdrper's
Bozdr, made vacant by the death Of Mis-:
Mary L. Booth. Mrs Sangstsr has been fol
several years the "poStmistreSs" Of Harper'S
Young People.
DR.. RICHARD NJ. GATL1NG, the inventor
Of the famous gun, is now over seventy
years old, with full, gray beard and such q
kindly face and mild pair OF eyes that nc
one would ever suspect him as the inventor
Of murderouS war weapons.
PosTMASTER-GENERAL WANAMAKER has
special telegraph wire running from hi
business establishment in Philadelphia di
rectly to his Office in the Postoffice Depart
ment. By this means he is kept informed ol
what is being done in Philadelphia, and car
be consulted at any moment. His CORE
spondence has reached such immense proper
tions that hs still retains in the city his con
fdential clerk, who accompanied him from
Philadelphia.