The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-03-12
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GENERAL RoDRIGUEs ARIAs has been ap-
pointed Governor of Cuba.
WILL CARLETON, the poet, is getting stout,
lives in Brooklyn, N. Y, and Acknowledges
to five and forty.
THE Mikado OF Japan is described as cor
pulent man, about five feet seven inches tall
He is forty-five years old.
V1cE-PREsIDENT and Mrs. Morton are e1-
pecting to spend several weeks in the South
in search of rest and pleasure.
LORD STANLEY, the Governor-General Of
Canada, is broad shouldered, patrician man
nered, and nine and forty.
IT is gravely asserted that Lord Randolph
Churchill, the English politician, has never
crossed London Bridge nor visited the Tower.
KING CARLOS has subscribed S45, 900 to the
Portuguese defence fund. The Queen and
Queen dowager have subscribed $50, 600 each.
PRESIDENT GILMAN, of Johns Hopkins
University, writes from Algiers that he is re-
markably we'll and delighted with his travels.
WHEN Ezra Cornell opened his first tele-
sraph Office in New York he was so poor, it
is said that he could afford but one meal a
day.
MARK TWAIN expects to 60 to London to
participate in the reception to Stanley, to
which he has been invited by Sir Francis de
Minton
SECRETARY TRACY has recovered suff1-
GENTLY from his recent severe afflictlon to be
able to resume his duties at the Navy De-
partment.
RUSSELL SAGE, the New York millionaire,
is said to pride himself on keeping more
ready money ON hand than any other man in
the world
THE last surviving sigrer of the Texan
Declaration of Independence Colonel 5. w.
Blount, has died at his home in San Angus
tine, Texas.
GENERAL N. P. BANKS began life as bob
bin boy in a Waltham (Massl factory. He
afterward became an editor and then dane
ing master.
JOHN d. WILLIAMSON, who is at the head
of the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus
Railroad, is the youngest railway President
in the country.
COUNT HERBERT BISMARCK, tie Chancel-
lor's oldest son, hiss strongly chlseled feat-
nres, heavy cavalry muStache, ana tne
bearing of his father.
THE death ofSappovonao, the most infuen-
tial of the Utes, calls attention to the fact that
Sitting Bull is now the Oldest Indian or prom
inence in the country.
1T Is 1nnOullceu lHdG tt' Nhi iiiSiot
second son of the late President, is to marry
Miss Helen Newell, daughter of John Newell,
President of the Lake Shore road.
REAR ADMIRAL LEWIS A. KIMBERLY, un.
! til recently the Commander of the Pacific
Squadron, but now waiting orders, has taken
up his residence in Boston until he shall be
oruered OH duty again.
x-EMPERoR Dom PEDRos mind is partly
unhinged by nervous disease. He lives in
daily expectation of being recalled to Bl azil
and refuses to diminish his former expendi.
ture. He is in danger of bankruptcy.
BARON RoTHscHILD, the Paris banker,
lives in fear of the Commune. His cellars
are almost impregnable, and his pictures and
Jewels are protected in such way that the
most grasping mob could not reach them.
RIGHT Rev. JOHN STANLEY, the new
Roman Catholic Bishop Of North Dakota, is
having railroad car built in which to make
his episcopal visitations, so scarce are spare
beds and accommodations for strangers in
his diocese. ..... -. -.--.---