Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
MRS HARRISON is fifty-seven.


THE Car is expected at Berlin
'tOUIDA's" first novel was sold for $3.50
THE Pope has jcst celebrated his seventy.
ninth birthday.
QUEEN VICTORIA has gone on a pleasure
tour to Biarritz.
QUEEN PA, of Portugal, is very anxious
to come to this country.
THE only son of the Secretary Of Agricul-
ture is named Blaine Rusk.
DAvTTT, the Irish patriot, has spent nine
years of his life in prison for political
offences.
GROVER CLEVELAND was the only Presi.
dent who, during his term of office, wore
moustache.
Mrs. JOHN WANAMAKER was born
Brown. She is a daughter of her husbands
first partner.
THE ex-Secretary of War and Mrs. Endi-
colt, will remain at W ashlngton until April,
and then go to England.
THE country has now two ex-Presidents,
Hayes and Cleveland, and one ex-Vice-
President, Hannibal Hamlin.
THE Austrian Emperor, Francis Joseph,
is said to be able to get through prodigiou.
amount of work without exhaustion.
GOVERNOR BURLEIGH is reported to have
broken the Maine record by mastering and
signing seventy-eight bills in one day.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL will devote the
remainder of his life to travel and reading.
He says that his literary work is all done.
COLONEL NORTH, the Nitrate King, gave 8
waiter at London hotel who had served
him a check for $4,000 before leaving Eng
land
MRS INGALLS, wife of the Kansas Senator
is considered a handsome woman, and her
daughter is of the most charming girls
at Washington.
JUDGE HENRY S. LONG, the last survivor
of the Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven-
ton of 1887, died at Lancaster a few days
ago, aged eighty-ive.
GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, is the
only surviving member of the class Of 1917
at Harvard and the oldest living graduate
in college seniority.
KING OTTO, of Bavaria, has been attacked
by curious malady, his hair having turned
white in single night while all his physical
power has entirely left him.
Miss MINNIE WANAMAKER, the pretty,
dark-eyed daughter of Postmaster General
Wanamaker, has had her life-siZed portrait
painted by NJ Brozik, of Paris.
MRS. MACKAY's dinners in London have
been the most popular events of the season.
The wife of the bonanza CrCesus has won her
way into the most exclusive society of Eng
land.
THE quaint little ladies Of the Corean lega-
ton in Washington are quite pretty and are
very much admired. Mrs Ye is twenty-six
years old and Mrs. Ye Sang Jay only twenty.
and twice as cute in looks and manners.
VIsCOUNT Vaudeville, eldest son of the
Duke of Manchester, has been declared a
bankrupt His liabilities are officially placed
at 5000. 900. It is said that he has been living
beyond his means and has lost money by
betting. Viscount Vaudeville in 1876 mar
ried Miss Consuelo Yznaga, of the United
States.
ONE of the central figures in Administra-
ton circles during the next four years will
be Mrs. j. r. Mckee, the daughter of Presi~
dent Harrison. Mrs Mckee is of medium
height and has pleasant, intelligent face.
She is far more clever than most social
women and has mind and will distinctly of
her own.
SIDNEY BARTLETT, the oldest member OF
the Massachusetts, Bar died recently at Bos.
ton from congestion of the lungs He was
ninety years of age, and with him passes
away that generation of lawyers whose fame
was continental He was a contemporary
and worthy rival of Daniel Webster and
Rufus Choate.
HON. PERRY BELMONT our late Minister to
Spain, was cheered the other day by q
Madrid crowd At one of the Spanish mill
tary reviews an artilleryman was thrown
down and injured by one of the gun car.
riages This happened just in front of Mr..
Belmont, who Immediately alightsd from his
carriage and ordered the wounded man to be
put in it and driven to the hospital some
miles away. The crowd cheered and the
commander-in-chefr rode up to Mr.. Belmont
and thanked him.