The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-26

1t is to the second daughter of the
Due de Montpensier that the King of
SPAN is betrothed, Mercedes, seven
teen years of age.
Gen. Sherman will shortly remove
his family from Washington to st.
Louis. He will, from time to time,
visit the capital and remain there as
long as official duties require his pres
ence.
The Khedive OF Egypt is about to
visit France. He gill leave Cairo on
the fifteenth of MAY, and, after a short
stay in Constantinople, will proceed to
Vichy-for the benefit of his health, 1t
is said.
Packard eats and sleeps in the State
House, and will continue to do so un-
til his case is disposed of, one way or
the other. His wife and chIldren-he
has a very interesting family - visit
him every Sunday.
Mr.. Rudolph II. Witthaus, for many
years one of the most prominent mere
chants in New York City, committed
suicide on Monday last by cutting his
throat with a razor while an inmate OF
lunatic asylum at Flushing, Long
Island.
1t may be that Gen. Joseph Z. John
ston will become president of the East
Tennessee University. He likes Ten
neSsee and its people, and would have
gone to Nashville at the close Of the
war if it had not been for better tinan-
clal prospects in Savannah.
| The Presidents mail is something
surprising. Usually the letters for the
Executive mansion are carried from
the postofiice by a messenger on horse
back, by an orderly who waits at the
Presidents door to do his errands, but,
since the fourth OF Marc ', it has been
necessary to send it down in wagon
specially detailed from the postofiice
department for that purpose.
The Modoc Indians, now numbering
fifty four males and sixty-thlee females,
are located on a very fertile tract con
tanning four thousand acres in the
northeast corner of the Shawnee re-
serve, Indian Territory. They have
engaged energetically in labor during
the past year, and, as result, have a
large and valuable crop on their farm.
The government has expended $lSS2
for their schooling for ten months,
which is under the supervision of the
Society of Friends.
A curious statement, regarding the
Patti.Caux affair, is given by the vi
emma Fremdenbldtt. After the little
prima donna's breach with the Mar
quis, the Gear, says the journal in
question, sent Count TrepoG to Nine.
Patti, telling her to embrace the Greek
faith and become a Russian subject.
She could then marry Nicolini, the
tenor, as in Russia divorce is easily OBJ
tanned. More incompatibility, with
out any other reason, is said to be suf-
ficient, provided there are no children
by the marriage. The dipd is said to
be seriously meditating this step.
Ross Winsns, engineer, inventor and
millionaire, who has just died at
Baltimore, was a remarkable character.
Perhaps his most notable invention was
the ''camel back engine" used to take
trains across the heavy grades of the
Alleghanies. He was invited, thirty
years ago, to build Russia's railroads,
but declined, sending his sons, who
planned and executed the Russian rail-
road system. He went abroad because
Of his Southern sympathies during the
war, and since his return had written
several books. The mechanical genius
of the family has developed itself In u
score of inventions, more or less i'm
portant.
Bertha Won Hitler, the walker, has a
beautiful figure. She has long and
steady stride. She has long step and
firm tread. She looks in perfect
health. She walks with her mouth
shut, with no painting and no hurry.
Her gown is short and blue, her stock
ings are Of the heavenly color, her
boots are without heels, her hat is
, small and gray. Her face is frank, in
telligent and pleasant. Her hair is
light and massive. Round and round
she goes with the regularity Of ma
chine. She is very attractive to every
} body who sees her. In Boston she has
just walked fifty miles in tritle over
eleven hours.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, the rebel OF
the harem, in her "Wife No. 10" tells
of a cousin who had married Gentle.
Tho girls parents were devout saints,
, and grieved over their daughter as one
dead. The disconsolate father con-
suited the oracle of the Lord, who gave
him the following godly advice: "Put
, Hatten out of the way; it is a ain and
a shame TO have so good a woman
dragged around the world by q Gen
tile" OF course, the voice of the Lord
spoke in his chosen servant, and in a
y few days came the startling news tina,
this audacious outsider had been killed
by Indians.