The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-29
Foreign Notes.

is said, has eclipsed the gayety of the
house of Levy in London, the publish
ers and proprietors of the DAILY Tele-
graph. The diva used to dine there al
most every Sunday during her London
engagements, and it was the only house
in England in which she ever conde-
scended to sing in private.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Pans,
in his Lenten Pastoral, states that mar
riages with nieces and slsters-in-!aw,
formerly almost or quite unknown,
have lately increased in melancholy
proportion. His anxiety has been
aroused by the demand for dispense
tions for very near degrees of consan-
guinity or affinity, and he exhorts the
faithful to n strict observance of the
laws of the church on marriage.
The number of lost objects found
and brought to the chief officer of
police In Paris increases wear by year.
Between January l and December 81,
1876, 1929 articles were thus brought
IN. They are kept for year and then,
II unclaimed, given to the finders. 1t
is very desirable to have a place to
which to take an article found, or to
know where to go and look when YOU
lose one.
There has been mild sort of revolu-
ton at the Junior Athenmum Club, in
London, which goes to show that John
/ Bull Is no more indifferent to the
''color-line" than other people. 1t
seems that a certain japanese, by name
Nj a "a
prince of AVA" was put up for men,
bership. II the "heathen Chinee"
himself had been proposed with three
packs of cards stacked up his sleeves,
there could not have been greater CON
sterna:ion. 1t was clear that a Japa-
nese invasion was threatened; prince"
HachIsaka would at once introduce
japanese manners and customs, and as
many of his cOuntrymen as he could
collect, into the club. \ grand re
monstrance was drawn up and signed
by forty members. For days there was
no peace at the club, owing to this con-
founded japanese. F,nslly he was
elected, and great was the indignation
among the anti.Japs.
At Lue Saint Remy, in Belgium, an
appalling sensation has lately occurred.
il young man of IS years, who was
believed to be dead, was placed in
coffin end buried. A great number of
mourners accompanied tae funeral.
One of them pronounced a eulogium
upon the character of the deceased,
the usual prayers were recited, and the
coffin was lowered into the grave.
The grave diggers had begun to fill it
in with clay when they heard several
knocks given within the coffin. Ter
ritied, they ran to call the citrate and
inform the mayor, in the presence of
both of which personages the coffin
was opened. Horrible spectacleI"
says the paper from which this is trans
lated. ''The unfortunate youth, who
had been buried alive while in state
of lethargy, had made desperate eff
forts to break open the lid of the coffin,
but uselessly, and had died of as
phyxia." =.
During February evidence was taken
in Dublin by commission in q remark
able Australian estate case. Patrick
Coady, or Buckley, died lntestate in
1872, leaving a fortune of $3.50, 600.
The attorney general claims the estate
on the ground that deceased was born
out of wedlock. Nine claimants, liv-
ing in Ireland, Canada, Newfoundland
and the United States, assert that he
was born in wedlock, aud that the es-
tate belongs to them as his kinsmen.
In 1909, according to their theory of
the case, Eleanor Collins married To-
bias Coady, fellow servant in Dublin.
Several years afterward Eleanor stole
some plate from her employer and was
sentenced to seven years transportation;
and, while awaiting In Old Newgate
the arrival of a vessel that was to con-
vey her and other convicts to New
South Wales, gave birth to a child, who
was christened in the Roman Catholic
Church opposite the Jail. Mother and
son were shipped to the penal settle
ment, where, after serving out her time
she married a freed convict named
Buckley. Her son was one of the ear
hest settlers in Gipp's Land, and made
a handsome fortune, being esteemed
for his rectitude and liberality. When
his mother died he erected monumen-
tai tablet in the cathedral at Sydney,
celebrating her virtues in prose and
verse. After his death one Thomas
Maher produced will alleged to have
been made In 1S43, but it was pro-
nounced forgery after a protracted
tIial in the Melbourne courts. The
evidence taken in Dublin in behalf of
the claimants was 10 ainlY documentary.
On registry of haptisms in the parish
church, near the prison, appears the
entry, 'tpatrick Coady, son of Tobias
and Eleanor Coady." A list of con-
victs, shipped in 1917 to New South
Wales, has the name Eleanor CoadY,"
and an account for baby linen provided
for twelve children who sailed in the
vessel has been brought to light. The
solicitors have been searching for evi.
dence in the four quarters of the globe,
and the bill of costs, if the claimants
gain their case, will leave only a small
margin Of the inheritance.