The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-03-22
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

GRESHAM Is credited to both Illinois and
Indiana.
GENERAL GRANTS widow Is In California
visiting her son.
ALLEN MARVEL. President Of the Atchi-
son Railroad, is dead.
THE tide Of popularity in Gladstonss favor
continues to swell in Eag!and.
THE Gear of Russia is said to get great
deal Of enjoyment out Of sboveling snow.
sENAToR-ELKcr W. N. RoAcH, Of North
Dakota, is an entsrprisiES wheat farmer.
GOVERNOR Hoaa, OF Texas, Is only thirty
nine years of age, but weighs 375 pounds.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND t.lls his friends
that his health was nsver better than 1t Is
now. :.
AcounrY in Wisconsin has been named
Villas, after the senior Senator from that
State
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the novelist
has left the Samoan lSIal Is and Is now In
Australia.
IT was the policy of tho late ex-President
Hayes never to sell real estate that he bad In
any way acquired. he -
MRs. w. R. WH1TsEY's Will, leaving
s., 500, 900 to her husban I, was written upon
single sheet Of paper. ~
GOVERNOR FLOWER has given his check
for s5OO to the building tuna Of the Albany
IN. Y, Girls Academy.
= SARAsATE, the famous vinlinist has thir-
ty.two valuable watches which have been
presented to him on different occasions.
PRINCESS KA1uLANL OF Hawaii, is tan
and slender, with the eyes Of a gazelle and
features that suggest suspicion OF hanaka
origin"
KIRBY SMITH, professor in the Uni.
versity of the South aJ Sewanee, Tenn, u
the only full general OF ths Confederate
Army living. a
Ex-SKcRKEARY WHITNEY and family
have started in their yacht from Jackson-
Vile. Fla, for their cruise among the West
Indian Islands. -.
VERDI was almost sixty yearao ago when
he wrote "Aida.n seventy-dve wnen he
brought out ''Osello," and now at eighty hs
produces .Falstaff." ~
A1rxANpnR RUSSELL WEDB, ex-Consul
to the Philippine lslanas. has returned @
literally supplied VITA funds BY Moetem
merchants OF Bombay.
Mrs. MCKINLEY, the wife OF the Govern.
49, of Ohio. is the daughter Of Mr.. Saxton,
who in his time was wealthy banker O
Canton. Ohio. For many years she has been
an invalid. She is the trusted podttcai ad-
visor of her husband.
WuIIAM J. GAYSoR, the leading lawyer
/ of the Brooklyn bar. WIS the youngest man
In his profession who ever received zee o.
| 500, O6O for single casa at law. Ems Mas
| a baking powder case two years ago. de
was a newspaper reporter fifteen years ago.
TIE final settlement Of the affairs Of tho
| late Samuel J. Randall soows that the value
of the estate left by him is S7S9.H, whichh y
not enough to pay the bills OF the physt-
clans who attended him during his last W.!
mess. OF this amount S5SJ.4 was due by
the Government for salary, leaving the
total value Of his property SO0 at the time
| of his death. This is rsmarGable. showing
| for man who spent thirty years OF bis hfe
in the most responsible positions In the pub
| lie service.
PApERswsK1 was invited to tea by New
York millionaire and the pianist coldly re-
ferred his intended host to his agent. When
the agent was seen the first question he
asked was: II suppose Mrs..V. will expect
Paderewski to playr " suppose So.
!NThen M. Paderewskf will accept your inyi'
tation as an engagement" ''0h, very well.
| if Won prefer to put it that way" returned
| che millionaire. "What are the termsr
| !.tThree thousand dollars for one ptece ana
M Paderewsh will consent to q single en-
'corew The terms were not accepted.
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