The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-01-27
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

CoNeREssMEN Mills, Hatch and McMillin
hail from Kentucky.
"GoLD CURE KEELEY's profits have been
estimated at 81, LIS, 000 a year.
W. D. HowELLs, the novelist, Is to get
81, 900 a year for editing the Cosmopolitan.
GLADSTONE is said to be the greatest, as
we'll as the most versatile, talker Of the cent.
ury.
Mn. CRISP is the thirty-second man who
has been elected Speaker Of the House OF
Representatives.
LORD SALISBURY has been at the head Of
the Conservative government OF Great
Britain since July 81, 1885.
THE late Senator Plumb, of Kansas, would
dictate one letter, read another and carry on
two conversations at the same time.
SENATOR C. N. FELTON,, Of California, Is
the richest Of the new Senators. HeI has
s l,000,0 00 to every three OF Senator Stan.
ford.
LIEUTENANT ALNsKI, the inventor Of the
pneumatic dynamite gun, is seriously Ill In
San Francisco, Cal, with some mental
disease.
HENRY P. ALDEN, who died few days at
Duxbury, Mass, was a direct descendant In
the seventh generation Of John Alden, the
Puritan.
In becoming Bishop OF Massachusetts, DR..
Phillips Brooks exchanges q salary Of SIC, 900
as the incumbent OF Trinity pulpit, Boston,
for one Of $4,000, the salary allowed the
Bishop.
M. Du MAuR1ER, the famous English so
cial caricaturist, has for some time been
without the sight Of one eye and the other Is
considerably affected. His work is done On
q large scale and reduced by the engraver.
M. JULES PATENoTRE, who succeeds d.
Theodore Roustan as French Minister to the
United States, Is a tall, distinguished look.
ing man about forty years otage. His COM
plexion Is dark and he wears q black
mustache.
Ex-MAYoR CAMPBELL, Of Youngstown,
Ohio, though blind since he was five years
old, became musician enough to teach the
study Of it, studied law and graduated from
the Harvard law school, and successfully
edited a paper in Ohio for eight years.
ANTHONY J. DRExEL, whose name has
been made famous beyond the banking cir
cles of the world by his magnificent endow-
ment of the Drexel Institute, at Philadelphia,
Penn, Is a vigorous-looking mar of high
forehead, fine, bright eye, and straight,
powerful nose. ....'.
Some idea Of the tremendous strain under
which the late Senator Plumb, Of Kansas,
labored can be gathered from the fact that
there are now more than six thousand claims
for Kansans pending in the Pension Bureau
which had been filed and pushed forward by
Senator Plumb.
JAMES WHITcom RILEY is said to make
5000 a year from his poems, and $4,000
from his readings. When visiting New York
he spends a good deal Of time in old book
stores, or walking up and down Broadway
watching the people and looking in shop
windows. He accepts very few OF the In
vitations which are showered upon him. but
likes the company OF a few chosen friends.
PRINCE GEORGE, Of Greece, who saved the
Czarewitz from a Japanese assassin several
months ago, has recently performed another
heroic deed. While on board a vessel in the
Bay Of Pireus during a heavy storm he saw
q boat capslze, In which was a sailor bound
for his snip. Instantly the Prince sprang
overheard, seized the drowning man and
swan with him to a point where help was
possible.
CONGRESSMAN McMILLM, Of Tennessee,
says that he was q physical wreck at nine
teen, though now he is oneof the mostrobust
members OF the House. In his youth he was
q martyr todyspepsia and had the additional!
ailment Of weak lungs. BY means Of dieting
tor o few years and taking a daily walk fol-
lowed by a cold bath he cured himself SO
completely that nowadays he compares his
stomach to that or an ostrich.