The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE,

"EuFFALo BILL" is said to be worth st.
0O,OOO
PRIVATE SECRETARY HALFoRD has taken
to horseback riding.
GENERAL BoULAGER denies that he intends
to lecture in America.
BENJAMIN F. BUTLER's law practice is said
to bring him in s100, 600 year.
PARNELL, the Irish leader, says that the
downfall of the Tories is at hand.
SECRETARY RUSK has become q great
friend Of the new Chinese Minister.
JUDGE GRESHAM was arrested in Chicago
recently in mistake for an insane man.
SENATOR INGALLS, was attacked by Rus
sian Influenza at his home in Atchison, Kan.
E.J. PHELPS, formerly Minister to Eng
land, has returned to his duties at Yale Col
lege
MINISTER WK1TELAw REID and wife, who
spent Christmas in Rome, have returned to
Paris.
DOM PEDRO, ex-Emperor of Brazil, is an
honorary member of the New York Historical
Society.
CHARLOTTE M. YoNGE, the historical
writer has written and published exactly
100 books.
CHAUNcEY M. Depew, the brilliant New
Yorker, drinks no wine at banquet when
he is to make speech.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Minister to Hayti,
writes to his friends in Washington that ne
is socially tabooed at Port-au-Prince.
PRESIDENT CARNoT, of France, took ad-
vantage of New Years Day to bestow a
number of decorations upoh foreigners.
MARK TWAIN has spent about $1OO, 600 in
| perfectine type setting machine, and he is
| the principal owner of the company that Will
manufacture them.
Ex-SEcRETARY BAyARD has accepted the
invitation of the Huguenot Society of South
Carolina to deliver the anniversary GRAFTON
in Charleston on April 13.
CONGRESSMAN BLAND, of Missouri, is am
I bilious to have one Of the biggest orchards in
the State He is setting out 10000 apple
trees on his farm this season.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS (''Uncle Remus')
was a typesetter on a Georgia country news
| paper before he became an author His first
venture in verse was made in the days before
the war
GENERAL HANNIBAL PRICE, the new
Minister from Hayti to the United States,
| is a tall, well-proportioned man, with fair
| Caucasian features and perfect knowledge
of the English language.
SPEAkER REED mas Ulaue d COucCGlOu VI
newspaper pictures of himself and on his
desk is a large pile of these cuts. He takes
pleasure in showing to his friends how many
! different faces he turns to the public.
Rev. C. H. STURGEON, the English
| preacher, is suffering acutely from rheuma'
| tism. His throat is now attacked, and 1t IS
| feared, even at the best, that his magnlt.
cent voice will be irreparably injured
ANDREW CARNEGIE, the Pittsburg iror
, king. has authorized the officials of the Cam
bria Iron Company to draw upon him for
funds to rebuild the Johnstown public libra
| ry building, which was destroyed by the
flood.
The late Henry w. Grady was rapid
writer. At the time Of the Charleston earth
quake he did not reach the stricken city unit
10 o'clock at night, but by o'clock the nex1
morning he had report eight columns II
length on file in the telegraph Office.
THE Emperor of China since his marriage
| has become cranky and unreasonable. He Is
| restless under the control which his mother
| seeks to exert over MIN, and has now practi,
! calIy cut himself off from everybody except
ing his Prime Minister and few courtiersY
CARL ScHUEz is spare, hump-shouldereo
and curly headed. He was once the favorlte
! butt of every cartoonist, for during his one
| and sixty years he has played many parts,
| having been successively prisoner at Ber.
lin, Minister at Madrid, an editor at st.
| Louis and Senator at Washington, before
! the gray began to show on him.