The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-01
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GLADSTONE smokes an occadonl cigar
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THr salary of the King Of areecs is $780,
900 year.
LORD SALISBURY is the first British
Premier who has set foot on Australian
soil.
TIE Oldest American citizen now In pub
lie life Is Senator Morrill,, Of Vermont, who
was born in 1910.
MnLroHArRE JOHN HUNTINGDON, Of
Cleveland. Ohio. lett over $3.50, 600 to
science and charity. f
WHEN Governor Lewelling, Of Kansas
was seventeen years old he shoveled dirt as .
laborer in the employ of an Iowa railroad.
RUDYARD KpLINa's father Is a man OF
great ability and holds an important posi-.
ton as art director Of an East Indian
museum.
TIE will Of the late James g. Blaine con-
veys all the estate unreservedly to Mrs.
Blaine. The property Is estimated at about
$1,000, 900.
PRzsDRNr-ELKcr CLEVELAND has offered
agold medal as prize to the winner ot an
international chess contest, to be held in
New York next May or June.
TEE late Senator Kenna, Of West Vir-
tempt Is being made to secure place for his
widow in one Of the departments at Wash
ington.
J. NJ. BARRIE, tbs Scotch novelist. Is
little nan with large head aud luminous
eyes. He Is one Of the most modest aud diH-
dent of British authors and quite unspoiled
by success.
GENERAL GEORGE w. JONES, Of Florida;
James W. Bradbury Of Maine, aud ex-
Governor Felch, of Michigan. are the only
living e1-members Of the United Statea
Senate in 1S48.
JAMES A. BAILEY, the circus manager,
began selling spples and peanuts, then DO.
came the owner Of side show, and went on
until he is now the foremost man In his limo
Of public amusement.
EDWIN HoLMns, the discoverer Of the
comet in Andromeda, which has attracted
much attention during the last three or four
months, is an amateur astronomer, living
in Islinaton. London. 80
DocroR W. W. ALLEY, who died at
Moravia, N. Y, aged ninety-une years, was
the oldest homeopathic physician In the
country. he had been In continuous pra:-
tice for sixty-six years.
MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is good
friend Of Marshall P. Wilder, and her nus
band gives him an annual SalRrY Oh 4SUo,
in return for which the little humorist gives
occasional entertainments in different chill
dren's hospitals.
JAMES WHrrcoNB RILEY derives his larg-
est profits from England. The publishers
there have brought out eight editions OF his
poems and pay him by nero courtesy q
larger royalty than he gets at home where
he is protected by copyright.
THE Khedive Of Egypt who is making the
present trouble in that country, Is youth
OF nineteen. who was taken from school last
year in Vienna. Austria, to sue ,eet his
rather. The wonder is, therefore, that he
has not before now got to loggerheads with
his British guardians.
MRS PEARY, who shares in the fame OF
her husband, Lieutenant Peary, the famous
explorer OF Greenland, said in conversation
O few days ago that she thought she felt the
cold mere here during our recent siege OF
severe weather than she did last year up
where zero temperature is considered mod
crate.
The Rev. Byron Sunderland, D. D., has
tust received congratulations on the COM
pIetion Of his fortieth year Of service as pas.
tor Of the First Presbyterian Church OF
Washington, which was attended by Pres1-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland during their resi-
dence in Washington, and with which It 10
expected they will again become connected.