Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.


Know-NothiDg.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Amelie Rives-Chanler is going to spend
month in Spain this winter.
Abram and Irving Garfield are Will
Jams freshmen. Irving is captain of his
class football team.
Stepniak, the Russian agitator, has in
press, in London, new novel called " The
Career of Nihilist."
The Emperor of Japan has just taken
possession Of new palace, furnished in
European style. 1t cost him 100000.
The richest heiress of Mexico is Senorita
ISABEL Echequeren, her father having a
fortune of $S0,000,000, of which she will
inherit one-third.
The Presidents speech at the Washing
ton centennial banquet has resulted in the
display of the national flag over many of
the schools of New York city.
The oldest grain dealer in the United
States is Otis Munroe, of the Boston Corn
Exchange. He is 81 years old, and still
active enough to appear on Change.
J. G.. Rich of Bethel, Me-, a vet
eran trapper, is engaged in the novel bus
mess of catching wild hares to ship to
sportsmen who wish to stock game pre-
serves.
james G.. Blaine, Jr., has returned to
Waterville, Me-, and resumed work in the
machine shops of the Maine Central Rail-
road, where he is busily engaged in learn.
ing his trade.
Major Oswald H. Ernst, who succeeds
Colonel John w. Wilson as Commissioner
of Public Buildings at Washington, is
native of Ohio, and entered the Military
Academy in 1860 He is held in high
esteem by his brother officers of the engi
neer corps.
Speaking of Mrs. Mackay a London 90
ciety periodical says: During her brief
stay in America she visited New York,
Bar Harbor and Newport The President
paid her great deal of attention, both at
Mr.. Blaine's lunch and the dinner given
in his honor the same day"
Kate Field has concluded to spend the
winter in Washington. She has a fancy
she wants to start a weekly newspaper, one
not merely polemical but, as she says, that
would appeal to any one with a live mind.
She has trap set for ideas from various
correspondents. She thinks that to be the
true journalism which shapes public opin-
ion, not shaped by it.
Queen Victoria was much pleased while
in Wales with the music of the Welsh
men. She especially liked their singing
and their manipulation of the harp. At
ainy Y,Ia cd a
the banquet. Six of them were brothers,
under the leadership of their father, who
appeared in full bardic costume, with a
cap of antique form, blue robes and red
girdle. On Sunday few choristers were
brought thirty-fve miles to sing at the
Queens private service.
Clifton NJ. Nichols, after a period of
forty years Of active work as newspaper
man, has retired from the editorship of the
Republie-IimeS of Springfield, o. For
thirty-five years he has done continuous
work as editor of daily paper Tor series
of daily papers, in Springfield, the much
larger portion of the time on the Republic.
His career as a journalist has covered
years that have been most remarkable in
popular movements, and he has always
fought good and faithful fight for every
good and wholesome cause.
iss$1Iiss Mary CARROTS new college build
ing, Baltimore, is about completed, and
will be opened in short time. The only
daughter of John W. Garrett has deter
mined to devote large portion of the for
tune left her by her father to the higher
education of her sex. Several other char
table ladies of Baltimore are interested in
the development of the school, which is
conducted after the style Of the Bryn
Mawr College. Miss Garrett gives the
building, costing nearly s250,0O0.
Two young men have just sailed from
New York who will find what they are
going after, and lots yet, too. They are
Royal Carroll Phelps and Harry Carey,
and they are bound for Africa for big
hunting. At Zanzibar, where they push
into the interior, Willie Chauler awaits
them. Carey and Chauler are nephews of
John Jacob and William Aston. Phelps is
a grandson of Ex-Governor John Lee Car
roll of Maryland Their outfit will be
only less than Staniey's when he started
from the Congo.
The late Frank E. R Whitney, of San
Francisco, was for many years Chief En-
gineer of the Fire Department of San
Francisco. He it was who, after a long
carousal one night, exclaimed to the COM
pany: 81 will drink no more. Let us all
dash away the cup" Out of that remark
grew the famous Dashaway Association OF
which he was President many years. He
was one Of the founders of the Cali
fornia Society for the Prevention of Cru
city to Animals, and was identified with
other philanthropic societies, one Of which
was the Temperance Legion, organized on
semi-military basis, during the war of
the rebellion.
To emphasize the detestation in which
the farmers of North Carolina hold the
jute-bag trust, William NJ. Bateman, a
young farmer of Washington county, and
Secretary of the Farmers Alliance in that
county, was publicly married last Tuesday
week in the State Fair grounds at Raleigh,
dressed in a full suit of cotton bagging,
the bagging material which the farmers
propose using in fighting the jute trust.
His bride wore white cotton bagging
trimmed with buff satin. Mr.. Bateman
wore cotton bolls in his hat, and his
groomsmen in all respects initiated his at
tire. The four bridesmaids wore cotton
bagging sashes. The bride was Miss jose
phine Knowles. Governor Fowle pre-
sented the wedding gifts.
Exercise and Beauty.
The great beauties who take the social
prizes IN marriage saws London letter in