The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-07
Personal.

nc new i OIk IIcTutd wants MIS-.
Hayes to issue manifesto against pies.
Grace Greenwood and Gail Hamilton
are sewing on buttons for the Blame
party.
Stanley was last heard of in Jzjzjzjz-
jsjzjz, on the southern shore of Lake
Nyiyiyiyiyiyi.
Nine MacMahon sent her own car
rage to fetch Mile. Albani to ball at
the Elysee.
President Hayes rises at Q A. NJ. This
is new phase of sir heWes-ism in the
White House.
Linguists are urging that people stop
saying "depot" and use the more proper
word Station"
Mr.. Bennett has been entertaining
Lord and Lady Vaudeville at his new
residence in Paris.
Edwin c. Thayer, aged fifty-two
years, city attorney in 1858 and 1859,
died in Buffs lolately.
Mr.. Littlepage, who has been con-
demned for forgery in Richmond, Vir-
ginia, wants to turn over a new leaf.
Johann Strauss has been created an
officer of the Legion d'Honneur by the
President of the French Republic.
Mr.. Ritchie, the husband of the late
Anna Cora Mowatt, the actress and
writer, has just died in Virginia.
People complain of tax being too
high everywhere-except along the
edge of the carpet, house-cleaning
| time.
President Hayes declines the Invita-.
ton of the Boston Board of Trade to
visit that city during the present
month.
The President has commissiond Owen
N. Denny, of Portland, Oregon, to be
consul at Tien-Tsln, China, to fill
vacancy.
A three year-old, who noted his father
saying grace, held out his own plate,
with the remark: ''Please, papa, pray
on my plate, too"
Mast has caricature OF himself in
Hayper'S Weekly, advising himself to
keep cool and see how the Presidents
policy turns out.
Robert G. Blaine, brother of Senator
Blaine, has been appointed Assistant
Superintendent Of the Senate Docu-
ment Room.
Henry Sawyer, United States Consul
at Surinam, died last week at Hudgar.
He was formerly resident at Charles
town, Massachusetts,.
Capt. Hamilton, aid de- camp to Gov
ernor-General Lord Dufferin, has been
ordered to join his regiment, and pro-
cecds to England at once.
President Hayes is expected in Phils-
delphia as the guest of the Hon. John
Welsh, on his way to meet the Cham
Der of Commerce IN New York.
An oil painting OF Governor Hamp-
ton has Just been sent to Germany to
be Autographed. More than 5000
copies have already been ordered.
1t is rumored that DIR. Hans Won
Bulow, having recovered from his
,, severe indisposition, will pay a third
visit to London this season, and give
further recltals.
Contributions to the proposed monu-
ment to DIR. Louis Spohr, at Cassel,
, can be forwarded to the Chairman oi
! the Committee of the "Spohr Monu-
, ment," Cassel, Germany.
! Major George L. Gillespie, of the
E Engineer Corps, aud an officer of Gen
Sheridan's staff, left Chicago a few
! days ago with one years leave Of abb
, sence to visit the scat Of war in Europe.
= Henry Wstterson, editor OF the
. Louisville Courier-JournaL, has &C
4 cepted an invitation to deliver an ad
y dress on the occasion OF the decoration
of the graves Of Union soldiers at Nash
vile.
Bull Run Russell declines, on account
o of age, to go to the wars and chreeiel
4 the present struggle for the Londor
8 Times. The hard work during thI
: Franco-German campaign used him al
r sorely.