The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-07-11
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

AT Washington, ex-United States Senator
Bishop W. Perkin, of Kansas, expired sud-
denly a few days ago.
DE. J. B. P1opA, Secretary of the Swiss Lea
cation In Rome, has been promoted to the
post OF Minister at Washington.
SENATOR HARs1s, OF Tennessee is said to
know more about Parliamentary law than
any other Senator on the Democratic side
THE Oldest Ex-Governor in the United
States is Alpheas Felch,' Of Michigan. He
lives in Ann Arbor and Is ninety years Of
age.
''SAILoR JOE" SKER2ETT, who was recently
promoted to the post of Rear Admiral, Is said
to be the best navigator in the American
navy.
WILLIAM DEERINa, the harvest machine
manufacturer of Chicago, has given $50, 900
to the Medical School OF the Northwestern
University.
WILLIAM HART, N. A., the well-known
landscape artist, died at his residence, Mount
Vernon, N. Y, q few days since, In his seven
ty-second year.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, Of Germany, has had
suitable apparatus rigged up In the palace at
Berlin and practises the movements Of row.
ing every morning.
JAMES STOKES, OF New York City, was made
a Knight of the Legion OF Honor by the
French Government, for his services In estab-
fishing the Y. n. C. A. In Paris.
JOHN F. ANDREWS, Of Rome, N. T., now In
his ninety-flrst year. claims to be the oldest
living ex-Con2ressman. He represented the
steuben District from 1887 to 1889.
THE honorary degree OF D. c. L. was con-
ferred upon Captain Alfred T. Mahan. OF the
United States cruiser Chicago, by the Univer-
sity of Oxford at its commemoratton festi-
val.
HERE are the ages OF four notable New
York men: Roswell P. Flower. ffty-nine
wears David B. Hill, ffty-one Edward Muir
DIV, flfty-six, and Grover Cleveland, fifty
seven.
The Emperor OF Germany has new gala
carriage that Is lighted by electricity and
with the harness studded with tiny lamps.
The carriage Is also covered with little
lamps.
MR. GLADSTONE Is finding solace In the
quiet and darkness necessitatsd by his fall
ing sight, In translating, with the aid Of an
amanuensis, the odes OF Horace inao English
verse;
SIR JOIN DUKE CoLERIDdE. Lord Chief
Justice OF England, who has just died, has
been for many years ons OF the most promi-
nent men In England. His father was q
nephew Of the poet Samuel Taylor Cole
ridge
T. ". DAVIS, OF the Dickinson College
Prohibition Club, who was five years ago
picking slate in coal mine and could
neither read nor write, won the first ora
torical prize ut Williamsport, Penn, few
weeks since.
IT is expected that Dr. Edward Nettleship
will receive 100000 for his operation on MIR.
n Morp0rar ha ia almost
certain to become the fashionable physician
OF London. and it is not unlikely that he will
be made baronet.
COLUMBUS DELANo, who was sent to Con-
cress in 1s44-the year Major Mckinley was
born-and was Secretary Of the Interior un-
der Grant. is able, at the age OF eighty-six
wears. to take saddle exercises on his farm
near Mount Vernon, Ohio.
JOHN ". GorF, of New York, Is making so
much OF q reputation rs counsel for the
Lexow Investigating Committee that he Is
talked OF as the probable successor OF Re-
corder Frederick Smytn. He started out as
salesman in clothing store and oDtalnea
his education at Cooper Union between busl'
ness hours.
GOVERNOR GnEEyHALaE, of Massachusetts,
who was for several years President OF the
Lowell Humane Society. tried to buy horse
in Boston the other day, but was told at
every place he visited thar it was next to i'm
possible TO obtain IN animal with IN ''un-
dockcd" tail .'Then," said the Governor,
81 will walk"
". C. FITS. the Democratic nominee for
Attorney-Gnneral in Alabama, and W. 8.
Reese. the JefTsrsonan Tor kolb) nominee,
are both less than thirty years ofage. They
were born within two lays OF each otner,
entered the State University on the same day
and got their law diplomas on the same DAY;
They are saidto be personally the best OF