The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-12
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poses the introduction of postal cards
serving for all countries in the postal
union at the price of one penny each.
Minister Washburne is said to have
received from Hayes a positive assur-
ance that he will be retained at Paris,
and Webb Hayes, son of the President,
will return with him as one of the sec
retaries of legation. .e.-. ss-
A number of Church of England
clergymen have formed church league
for the separation OF church and state
las the only practical means tbe the
temporal consequences what they may |
of preserving the sacred deposit of
faith and worship"
The Roman Cathohc peers in Eng
land now muster exactly three dozen,
including one duke, two msrquises,
seven esrls, four viscounts, twenty-one
barons and one countess in her own
right; in addition to which there are
forty-seven Roman Catholic baronets.
The British Parliament, taking its |
cue probably from events in this coun-
try, is agitated upon the subject of |
stock gambling. Notice has been |
given of motion to appoint royal |
commission to look into the rules and
usages of the London Stock Ex-
change, and see if there is not some
way of reducing by legislation the
swindling and scandals that now form
a part of the current history Of this IN
stitution. 1t is stated, with probably
a great deal of truth, that this Ex-
change is the focus of a great deal of
cheating and corruption, and the
steady going Briton has come to con-
slider these practices a reproach upon
his nationality.
The cost of the French government
is far less at present than under Louis
Napoleon. In 1870 the Emperor, the
| Senate and the Chamber of Deputies
absorbed 80, $50, 400 francs. In. 1877
the President of the Republic, the Sem
ate and Chamber of Deputies require
but IL. 726, 200 francs. In addition to
the %, 900, 600 year received by Louis
Napoleon, there was also the revenue
from the palaces, chateaus, farms and
sheep walks of the State, which how
reverts entirely to the State for public
use. Each senator in Napoleon's day
received 80, 900 francs year, and each
deputy $4,000 francs, Senators and
deputies are now paid but 5000 francs.
The London Times keeps special
reporter for Lord Beaeonsfield, Mr..
Nelson; and wherever the Prime Min
lister is heard speaking, there is to be
seen an old, gray-headed man, with
goldrimmed spectacles, with his note
book and pencil. He is perhaps the
best reporter in the Gallery, and it is
remarkable fact that he has taken"
every speech, or nearly every speech,
that Lord Beaconsfield has made in or
out of the House of Commons. He
took Mr.. Disraeli's maiden speech, and
Mr.. D. was SO pleased with the fair
ness and accuracy of the report that,
} if we may credit the tradition, he
called the next morning in Printing
House Square to see and thank the re-
porter. '1f ever come to the emil
nence hope to reach" said Mr.. Dis
raeli, shaking hands with Mr.. Nelson,
II can only hope that I shall be as
we'll reported as you have reported me
to-day" ...-...... ......sE SD s-.i.
A few months ago paragraph in the
London papers described. melancholy
accident which befell a young man
while out shooting. A stray shot en-
tered one of his eyes and extinguished
it. This gentleman was highly edu-
tated and connected, though without
fortune, and he was only twenty-three
: years of age. He was brought to bis
= lodging no aso-II IIOn don ,@,vlloIv Ire
Icy suffering. But wealthy and
handsome young widow, on, whose es-
tates he happened to be shooting when
the accident occurred, came and took
up her abode n the same house in OF
der to nurse him. Her care was ex-
tended through several weeks, but alas,
the other eye sympathized with that
which had been put out, and it, too,
was extinguished, leaving the youth
and scholar totally and hopelessly
blind. But the pretty widow was
equal to the occasion. She proposed
to hlm-marriage. The result was a
splendid company alighting' at the
door of fashionable church; a beau4
tiful dame of thirty, attended by her
two little children, leading blind
youth OF twenty-three to the altar,
there to endow HIM with all her ex-
pensive worldly goods, and; the two
are now enjoying the honeymoon on
the fine estate where the gentleman
may mediate on the ancient sayings
which declare misfor tune and fortune
to be near neighbors. ysi
GossipiDg about English statesmen,
a London correspondent says Mr.. Rob-
ert Lowe, while Chancellor of the Elk
chequer, used to snub every deputa-
ton that came to his official residence.
| Ar nlaAcfnpa ho1 N nj A,
Populations, but Lord Palmerston was
the minister to go and see. He would
receive you with the poker in his hand,
stirring the official fire, and he would
chat about the weather and the crops
like Zine old English gentleman"
and send you away so much impressed
with s gentil.ty and his power of tell
ing good story that you would go off
forgetting pretty well what you had
been to say, and what he had said in
return. You only felt that, whatever
his views might be on the subject near
est to your heart, he was good fell
low, and that you were proud of him.
Here, for example, is a story of which
Mr.. Lincoln might have been the hero:
A persistent ofiicesceker found an ap-
pointment that would suit him, and he
had political influence. It was neces-
sary, however, that he should learn
Spanish. ''Come to me when you have
got over that obstacle" said Lord Pal
merston. Six months hence the Office
seeker returned, when the noble lord
had to regret that there was now no
opening in the direction in which tho
oficeseeker sought promotion. "ADd
| have been at the trouble of learning
Spanish for nothingi" SAID the disaI-
pointed applicant. "No," said Lord
Palmerston t'on the contrary, i con-
graduate you on an acquisItion which
will afford you the delight of reading
Don Quixote in the original 7"
Lucy Hooper deposes as follows:
"Paris is still discussing the Patti af-
fair, though the fair prima donna her
self has wendell her way to Vienna,
where she is now singing with Nicoli-
nj at the Imperial Opera House. The
true story Of the case, as stated to me
by distinguished Partisan lawyer, is
as follows: For some time past Nine
Patti has been extremely desirous OF
getting rid OF her titled husband, and
before going to St. Petersburg to- fal-
I'LL her late engagement there she con-
suited her lawyer as 70 the most feasi-
BILE method Of obtaining separation.
: Write no letters, was her oounseilor's
advice, and create no open scandal,
Mt contrive 40 that he shall uaraon.l