Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-07-06
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

AT Washington, ex-United States Senator
Bishop ". Perkin, of Kansas, expired sud
denly few days ago.
DIR. J. B. PIoDA, Secretary Of the Swiss La-
CATION in Rome, has been promoted to the
post of Minister at Washington.
SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, is said to
know more about Parliamentary law than
any other Senator on the Democratic side.
THE oldest Ex-Governor in tho United
States is Alpheas Felch, Of Michigan. He
lives in Ann ArDor and is ninety years of
age.
SAILOR JOE" SKERRErT, who was recently
promoted to the post of Rear Admiral, is said
to be tho best navigator in the American
navy.
WILLIAM DEERING. the harvest machine
manufacturer Of Chicago, has given $50, 600
to the Medical School of the Northwestern
University.
WILLIAM HART, N. A., tho well-known
landscape artist, died at his residence, Mount
Vernon, N. Y, u few days since, In his seven
ty-secon4 year.
EMPERoR WILLIAM, Of Germany, has hal
suitable apparatus ri;ged up in the palace at
Berlin and practiSes the movements of row
ing every morning.
JAMES Stokes, OF New York City, was male
a Knight of the Legion Of Honor by tho
French Government. for his services in estab-
fishing the Y. NJ. G. A. in Paris.
JOHN F. ANDREWS, of Rome, N. Y, now in
his njnety-flrst year. claims to b8 the oldest
living cA-Congressman. H9 represented the
Steuben District from 1887 to 1899.
TIE honorary degree OF =. C. l.. was con-
ferrad upon Captain Alfred 7. Mahan. OF the
United States cruiser Chicago, by the Univer-
sity of Oxford at its commemorate festi-
val.
HERE are the ages OF four notable New
York men: Roswell P. Flower. fifty-nin9
wears David B. Hill. 4fty-one Edward Muir
phv. flfty-six, and Grover Cleveland, fifty
seven.
THE Emperor of Germany has new gala
carriage that is lighted by electricity an1
with the harness studded with tiny lamps.
! The carriage is also covered with little
lamps.
Mr.. GLADSTONE IS finding solace in tho
| quiet ana darkness nece5sitate by his fill
| ing sight, in TRANSMITTING, with tho all Of an
amanuenSis, the OicS OF Horace into English
| verse.
SIR JOHN DUKE COLERIDdE. Lord Chic!
! Justice of England, who has just died, has
| been for many years one Of the most proTni-
| nent men n England. His father was a
! nephew of tho poet Samuel Taylor Cole
| ridge.
T. W. DAVIS, of the Dickinson College
! Prohibition Club, who was flvo years ago
| picking slate In coal mine anl coul1
! neither read nor write. Won the first Orl-
torcal prize at Williamsport, P}nn., few
! weeks since.
| IT Is expected that Dr. Z iward Nettleshi2
will receive 910.0 900 for his operation on Mr..
| GIadstone's eye. Moreover. he is almost
! certain to become the fashionable physician
| of London, and il is not unlikely that he will
| be made barOnet.
| COLUMBUS DELANo, who was sent to Con-
gress in 1944-the year Major Mckinley was
| born-and was Secretary OF the Interior un-
| der Grant. is able at the ago OF etghty-si4
years. to take saddle exercises on his farm
| near Mount Vernon. Ohio.
JOHN W. Corr. Of New York. is making so
| muoh Of q reputation as counsel for the
| Lexow Investigating Committee that ho IS
! talked OF as the probable successor Of Re-
| c0rder Frederick Smytb. He etartod out as
| salesman in clothing store and Obtainol
his education at Cooper Union between bust
| ness hours.
! GOVERNOR GREENHALGE. OF Massachusetts.
| who was for several years President of tn,
! Lowell Humane Society, trie to buy q horsa
! in Boston the other day, but was told at
| every place he visited that it was next to i'm
. possible to obtain an animal with an "un.
| locked" tail. 'Tken," said tho Governor,
81 will walk.
W. c. Fits, the Democratic NOMINEES FOX
| kttorney-General in Alabama, and W. S.
Reese. the Jcffcrsonion Cor Kolb) nominee
nre both less than thirty years ofage. They
were born within two days of each other,
entered the State University on the same day
| md cot their law diplomas on the same day
They arc said to be personally the best O
friends.