Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-01-10
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

MARX TwAr1's income is said to be 81. 600
per annum.
REPRESENTATIVE BULLOCK. Of Florida
Is the father of family OF thirteen chill
dren.
SENATOR GEORGE, of Mississippi, joined
the Baptist Church before he left home for
Washington.
COUNT WOW MoLTKE, the hero Of hun-
dred pitched battles. has been Frustrated by
the influenza.
THE King Of Italy has renounced his cigars
and substituted for them toothpicks filed
with camphor.
GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER weighs 2l5
pounds, and is a vigorous man yet in spite of
his advancing years
HENRY GEORGE, the single tax agitator,
announces that he expects 10 sail for Aus
tralia on February s
CONGRESSMAN TURNER, Of New York, the
ex-iceman, is a man of stalwart build, with
a bushy, brown mustache-
CHARLES CRAMP, the ship builder. says
that his firm can build all OF the new United
States war ships in five years.
Mr. STEAD. the former editor of the Lon
don Pail Mall Gazette, thinks that Cardinal
Parvechi viii be the next Pope.
EDMOND YATES, editor of the London
World, confirms the story that the Prince Of
Wales is dying of Bright's disease.
GEORGE W. CHILDS, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, is fond OF collecting authors manu-
scripts and the letters of great men.
THE youngest member of the present
House of Representatives is Mr.. StTs&h-
! bridge, of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS years.
SENATOR ALLIsON's engagement to Miss
Theresa StOughtOn, q niece OF Senator Hale,
is announced and the wedding viii occur
soon.
w. CLARK RUSSELL, the marine novelist,
! who is now hOpelessly crippled by rreuma-
tism, spends most of his time III a wheeled
/ chair.
/ PROFESSOR VOLCKMANN the famous SUI
! geOn. who recently died at Halle. Germany,
/ introduced the antiseptic system of treating
wounds.
I THE Emperor Williams ear is troublesome
! again. 1t has recently grown worse. He is
under treatment all the time and Is in con-
slant pain.
THE Rev. Lester L. Potter of Hartford,
/ Conn, has prize of $500 for the best
/ translation into English verse OF the
| 'PrOmetheus' of 1Fschylus.
THE Connecticut Historical Society viii
ask Congress to appropriate money for bring
ing back the body of Joel Barlow, the poet
and diplomat, who is buried in Poland.
SENATOR BLACKBURN of Kentucky, wears
broadbrim sombrero that is said to make
him look more like a cowboy than man
who has spent half lifetime in Congress
PROFESSOR PAOLI BOSELLI, Minister of
Public Instruction in Italy, has appointed "A
committee to select the model of the statue TO
be erected to Christopher Columbus III New
| York city in 1892.
SENATOR STEWART, Of Nevada, was a gold
miner in California in the ArgOnauC days.
He after1Card studied law, and is au-
thority on the rights Of the Government to
its mineral lands.
COLONEL JOHN c.. BOONE, grandson of the
pioneer. Daniel Boone is living, friendless
and needy, near Sulphur Springs, Ark, and
a movement for his relief has been started
in Missouri. Arkansas and Kentucky.
Mr.. GLADSTONE speaks frequently in the
open air without his hat on, but seldom OF
never feels any bad effects. He attributes
this immunity from colds to the fact that
while on his farm at Hawarden he has beer
accustomed to chop and do other outdoor
work bareheaded.
ARAB PASTA, once the ruler of Egypt, but
now an exile on the island Of CeylOn, !:
fretting himself into early old age. Hei
only forty-nine years old, but he is gray anC
thin, and much unlike the jovial and we'll
conditioned fellow he was before ne fell under
British displeasure.