The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1892-05-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SIR EDWIN ARNOLD has returned to
Japan.
SENATOR SHERMAN, Of Ohio, is steunch
defender of the Chinese.
THE Queen Of Portugal invariably sits by
her husband while he does all his work.
GEORGE E1rFEL Is said to have made SO.
600 600 as his share in the Eiffel Tower at
Paris.
WILLIAM AsToR CHANLER, OF New York,
is going to Africa on an exploring e1pedl'
ton, with an army o. 200 men
THE Prince of Wales attended an agri-
cultural society meeting the other day, his
first public appearance since his sons death.
COLONEL JEROME BoNAPARrE is described
rs man with the most correct taste IN tho
matter OF dining o. any man in Washing
ton.
A HOME for the homeless poor OF all
classes and all nations to be built In East
london as q memorial to the late Cardinal
Manning.
when six wears old. At twenty-three he
was Professor Of Music in the Conservatory
Of Strasburg.
GEEAr preparatioas are being made at
Rome Italy. for the Pope's jubilee next
IT,
presents will be sent him.
CHARLES HENRY HARRIS. the humorist
Known as Carl Prstzsl," editor Of the
National Weekly, died in Chicago few
DAYS ago. He was fifty -one years old.
Is1poRE RAYNER, the Maryland Repre-:
sentative, is one of the most promising OF
the Younger orators in Congress, so it is said.
But as he is forty years old, he has had time
10 win his spurs.
WHEN Rudyard Kipling was sixteen he
had written quantities Of stories and columns
Of verse. 1t was at that age that he was
engaged to 90 to India as the sub b-editor OF q
newspaper there.
The death at Chicago, ILL.,, Of Henry B.
BRYANT, founder Of what has been called the
sbusiness college," accentuates the curious
ulace that institution has in American life
which gave it birth.
THE wife Of Ex-Governor Campbell, Of
Ohio. is not only one Of the brightest
graduates from Vassar, but she has con-
fributed not a little to her husbands poll
teal advancement.
, SENATOR RANSOM, Of North Carolina,
had first one son and then another for
Private Secretary in Washington. The
sscond one looks so much like the first that
most people fail to discover the substitution.
The Senator'S oldest son is now practicing
law in Asheville.
JAMES GILLESPIE, whose body is to be re-
moved from the abandoned cemetery in
Georgetown, D. G., was famous man in the
early days Of the century, when he was FIVE
times Member OF. f..Congress from North Caro-
Ena. II he has any fame now it lies in the
TACT that he was Mr.. Blaine's nsmesake.
CHARLES GAYARaE, the historian, Of
Louisiana, ia living in state Of destitution
In New Orleans, and the press of that city
calls upon the people to rescue from want a
man whose ripe scholarship and comprehen-
i've works have reflected honor on the State
Mr.. Gayarre is more than eighry years OF
ase.
IT is more than fifty years since General
Zachary Taylor was elected President and
terminated his brief career in that Office.
His daughter. Bette, now Mrs cambridge,
Of Winchester, Va, presided over the White
House in these days. She is still living and
n visiting friends in Baltimore at the pres
mt time. The Monumental City, by the
way, is the home Of another mistress Of the
Presidential mansion, Mrs. Harriet Lane
johnson.