The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1895-10-25
PROMINENT PEOPLE.

General lord Wolseley is an amateur art-
81 Of great ability.
Ambassador Eustis Is one OF the latest men
in Paris to learn bicycling.
The German Emperor has limited HIS chap.
lain TO twenty-minuto discourses.
sheffield. England, pays tho Duke OF Nor
folk rents at tho rate Of $500 900 a year.
Senator Knute Nelson, OF Minnesota, oc-
casionally amuses himself cultivatlng farm
OF 400 acres.
The recent visit OF Kaiser William 20 Lori
Lonsdale the British peer, COS. the latter, Il
is said, 5000, 600.
John L. Hudson, President Of the Bell
Telephone Company, is one OF the best Greek
scholars in America.
Mrs. Sallie Hogg, wife Of Ex-Governor
HOgg, of Texas, died suddenly at the home
Of her nephew in Pueblo, Col
Mrs. Mary Daily Crook, widow OF General
George Crook, the Indian fighter, died in
Oakland, Md, OF heart failure.
An English theosophist announces that
W. w. Astor, the American millionaire, has
become Il convert to that belief
Christopher Columbus. a direct descen-
dant Of the great Genoese navigator, is in
Cuba, serving as an officer in the Spanish
| army.
Bouguerau has signed his name to 429
canyases. This number, OF course, does not
Include sketches and other miscellaneous
/ work.
Although Rev. DR.. Newman Hail. the IA
| nous dissenting minister of England, is sew
/ enty-tlye years old, he walks dozen or more
/ miles every Sunday so ehurch.
DR.. Conan Doyle, the English novelist, is
an extremely systematic man, and paste5
over his mantelpiece q table OF the principal
things he intends to accomplish each half
year.
The founder Of the Geneva Rcd Cross So
| ciety Henry Dunant, has spent all he had in
the promotion of his plans, and is now at the
age of sixty-seyen in poverty that borders on
starvation.
"a great. big, good-naturel man, six feet
six, weighing $50 pounds and fond Of talk
ing, is the description of Ii Hung Chang,
the Chinese Viceroy, given by John W. Fos-
ter's Secretary.
The death in Washington OF tho late Pro-
lessor c. v. Riley, entomologist of the Agrl-
cultural Department, was caused by q bicycle
accident. His fame as n naturalist was
| known the world over.
Mrs. J. II. Brown, of Springfield, ILL.,, died
at Duluth at the age OF seventy-two. She
nois. She was a friend of Abraham Lincoln,
to whom she was distanty related.
NJ. Alvarez, the French tenor, has been en-,
gagged for three years by Sir Augustus Har
ris, the London impressario, at a salary pen
month during the season. Of $4,000 the frs
year, $4,000 the second, and $1,000 the third
Ambassador BaYard's family have beer
holding office continually under the United
States Government for leo years, james
Bayard, ;he Ambassadors grandfather, hay
ing been elected q delegate TO the Fedora
Congress in 1896.
A new use has been found for British peer
by employing them as Mayors for towns anC
boroughs. Warwick has chosen the Earl 0
Warwick. Sheffield the Duke OF Norfolk, anC
now Longton, in Stoffordshire, is about t
elect the Duke OF Sutherland
The Spanish Duke Of Alba, now VISITING
this country, holds six dukedoms and twelv
marquisates. He is nine times grandee 0
Spain and fourteen times a count. He
tho nephew OF ex-Empress Eugene, and wa
great favorite with Napoleon III