The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-14

ned TO death recently by having tight
ness in her chest.
Henry Ward Beecher has made owe
$40, 900 this season by lectunug, an,
| yet these are "hard times"
II. II. Emmons, Judge Of the Sixtl
United States Circuit Court, died il
Detroit, Michigan, Tuesday.
Orange peel on the sidewalk cause,
the death of a well known medica
publisher in London, Mr.. Kimpton.
The sensitive HorlI remarks
"Brownlow was an unclaimed savage
whose death can not be regretted"
Clusters name is being conferred OIL
no end of Western towns and counties
Colorado has just set apart Custer
county.
Governor Fairbanks has appointed
Walter &. Dunton, of Rutland, sixth
Associate Judge of the Vermont
Supreme Court.
Pay Director Rufus Parks. of the
United States Navy, was married Ia
Allne Petty, of Norfolk, Virginia, in
that city lately.
Sir Il. Drichur, weIl-Known Arcuc
explorer, who commanded the expedi-
ton OF 1872 in search of Sir John
Franklin, is dead.
A bronze statue of Thomas Campbell,
at Glasgow, his native place, will be
unveiled on July %, tie hhndredth
anniversary of his birth.
Lille Eldridge, the actress, was mar
ried in ''the little church around the
corner" in New York last week to T.
Ryan, Jr., of the Union Place Hotel.
Tweed apparently expects to stay in
Ludlow street jaIl some time vet. He
has just laid in new supply of liquors
for the entertainment of his visitors.
General Joseph E. Johnston, a few
days ago, told friend that he would
not have accepted the Secretaryship of
War had Mr.. Hayes offered it to him.
Oakley Halls standing text for con
ISOLATION: ''The wise man foreseeth
the evil and hldeth himself, but the
simple stay at home and are punished. :"
Oakley Hall refuses to look at an
American newspaper. This is an un-
kind cut; but he may be afraid of news
paper war maps-the unkindest cuts of
all.
The Mexican Presidents message
says that his whole country is at peace,
but he doesn't explain what prepara-
tions have been made to meet this
novel crisis. " -s
John Brougham declares that the
pervadlng dramatic current "seems to
be flowing pretty close to the muddy
side of the stream" John believes IN
honest women for heroines.
The Russian officer who recently
eloped with a San Francisco girl is
said to have paid restaurant $3S for
chickens for his bride. Turkey would
have been more patriotic, if not cheaper.
The city of Mexico has been captured
sixteen different times, and is there
yct.-Detr0it Free Press. The result
would be different if an American boss
mad captured it that often.
Talmage has been visiting the Nam
moth Cave. He is remarkable for the
freedom of his pulpit limitations, but
will hardly undertake to show how a
sinner gets through ''Fat Mans Misery"
Mrs. Rslston, widow of the Califor-
MIA banker, has married, in Paris,
man named -Elapatalae,ns5 & IFIte,i iiaonT a1Ioar,
= 1T uvruS VIII probably be
London or Paris.
Little Pearl reappeared with her
violin at Steinway Hall, New York,
This little mink, who is not
much bigger than cologne bottle,
lays hold of the masters, as if, indeed,
she were one of their favorltes.
Moody has succeeded so we'll that
one Boston railroad has discontinued
its theater trains, and a pious CORE
spondent says the former theater-goers
now fill in their evening at the prayer
meeting and sewing circle.
The jewels in Queen Victoria's crown
were estimated at ELL, 900 forty years
ago-au the time of her coronation.
Since then they have much increased
IN value; four diamonds at the top of
the crown are worth Sic, 900 each.
Mrs. Gen. Sherman is a deYout Cath
olic, and 1t is said has been managing
with great success the contributions of
her fellow -Romanists in this country
for the Pope, SO that she now has on
hand about $3.50, 900, to be forwarded
to his Holiness.
Chicago is trying to find out how she
came by all her fine parks, and in the
search she has run afoul of some politi-
clans and journalists who know more
than they care to tell. Rich land grabs
are spoken of in this connection.
Ex-Mayor Lambert, of Brooklyn,
New York, who confesses to have mis-
appropriated the funds of the estate of
his widowed sister-in-law, has been
suspended from the Presbyterian
Church, of which he was member.
Gez. W. W. Loring, one of the Khe.
dives American officers, now wears
two stars of brilliants surrounded by
crescents-the order of the Mejidle.
He has received also the Osmanli deco
ration, which is only conferred on com.
manders of an army in the field.
Field Marshal Wrangel celebrated
the ninety-thlrd anniversary of his
birthday on the sixteenth Of last Apri'
and received visits Of congratulatioI
from the German Emperor, the Crown
Prince and a number of other member!
of the Imperial family.
care there two SIS IN dlssipatedl' n
inquired South Side husband, look
ing up from his paper yesterday morn
{ \ L
turned his wife, with q touch of sarcasm
IN her voice, "there is no advantage il
a man being on the ground floor all his
life to find out"
A correspondent, writing from Cairo
exposes the humbug of the Khedive il
pretending to suppress slavery, anC
says that at the very time he sent al
expedition for that purpose down thu
Red Sea at the instance of the English
Foreign Office, he was selling 40C
female slaves, while every one of hi
palaces overflows with them, ''to ssI
nothing of his cruelty pressed, forced
laborers."
Apropos of the French dancing
masters feat of wsltzing five consecu
tive hours at New York the other day
a BufIalo man recalls the achievement
Of Lena Schmidt, blind German cir
of that city, years ago, who often KEEP
up her waltzing six or seven hours il
succession. She had been q famou
dancer in Strasburg, and had beer
known to waltz the shoes off her fee
at the great yearly fairs. 1t was saIc
that her blindness was consequent OF
the incessant whirlipg, and her pas
sion for this pastime was almost