The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-30
Editorial Notes.

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Charles Wise, q son of Prof. Wne,
the aeronaut, has given up all hopes of
eyer hearing from his father alive.
Eight coach horses. costing $500
each, were sent last week from Lexing-
tor, KY, 10 Alfred Withers in London.
This year is, perhaps, the first in
half century that the Comte dc Cham
bord's birthday has been publicly and
freely celebrated in France.
Senator and Mrs. Baysrd, the latter
much improved in health, will sail for
home in the steamship Mosel, from
Southampton, on the twenty-slxth in
staut
Bishop Payne, of the N. E. Church
South, who is in his eightieth year, is
still vigorous mentally, and is now
presiding over the Tennessee Confer
ence.
Mr.. Parnell, the leader of the Irish
rent agitation, is land owner in Wick
low, and is said to be zone of the hard
est of landlords" exacnng unusual
high rents.
Mr.. Gla1stone's contribution to the
Nineteenth Century this month is on
"The Olympian System versus the
Solar Theory" Goodness knows what
he will tackle nextl
judah p. Benjamin, the remarkable
man, who has made name and fortune
over again siDce the end of the war, re-
Gently sent poor ccuntry editor in
Louisiana check for $500.
Queen Victoria has offered to the
widow OF the late Major Cayugnari,
who CALAMITY lost his life at Cabul,, the
next vacant cutie of rooms at Hampton
Court Palace, near London.
Undaunted by his loss of $50, COO at
Drury Lane Theatre under Boucicault's
direction in 1878, Lord Londesborough
has again taken the theatre. His OBJ
ject is to advance young artist, Mics
Fowler.
The defeat of Gen Ewing and Gan.
Ricc-both federal soldiers-has some
what dashed the hopes of those Demo-
Gratis who believed that military can
didate like Hancock might capture the
presidency in 1880.
The Paris PAlais Royal Company
have been engaged for q series of per-
formances at the Gsiety Theatre In
London next year, and Mdlle. Sarah
Bernhardt will perform there from the
first till the thlr,y-first of May.
Benjamin Clark, a New York law
yer, residing at New Rochelle, made a
terrible mistake the Other night, shoot
ing and almost instantly killing his IN
Gle, who resided with him, under the
suoposition that he was burglar.
The rich Englishman, Thomas Hollo-
way, is erecting at his own expense an
institution for the higher education of
girls. The building alone, which has
been begun, is to cost 81, 3S5, 900. 1t
is four hundred and ten feet In length
Alderman Sir Francis Wyatt Trus-
colt hes been unanimously elected Lord
Mayor OF London for the ensuing year.
1t will be remembered that he was a
successful defendant in q recent uDjusti-
fable prosecution fer libel which at
tracted much attention.
Eastern Siberia is menaced by fam
inc, the prices of grain are higher than
were ever known before. and the poorer
classes ere suffering severely. Tae
harvest is extremely poor and cattle
plague has increased the evil, there be-
ing in many villages not one beast left
alive.
The Vienna correspondent of the
London Daily Telegraph says: "Fhe
Gar is suif, ring from mental fatigue,
and hear, from trustworthy source,
that his condition is daily getting
verse; hc is so nervous, frttful AMI
petulant that he csn rcarcely tt.end to
business
The r publican vic DRY in Ohio loses
nothing by The latest returns. The
Republicans have mqj rty of eight
lin the Stata Senate and maj of
thirty-eicht in the Legislature on j1int
ballot. In the last Legislature the
Democrats had majority of forty four
on joint ballot.
Joe Geiger took his pick of the pews
la a fashionable church one fine Sunday
morning.. Later handsomely dressed
man enters an d scoul s OF the occupant
with no effect. Then he writes on
card and hands 1t to Geiger: "This is
my pew" G, adds and returns:
Damned fine pew How much do you
pay"
Col. Robert nj. Douglas, who drew
$5S,000 from the treasury the other day
on cotton claim, is having a word of
trouble with the Washington sharks.
Several lawyers aided HIM and now
charge such enormous prices for their
services that Col. Douglas refuses 10 pay
them and will contest their demands in
the courts.
Blondip, in his Vienna exhibitions,
uses n rope stretched at length of $50
feet, aud walks blindfolded, without q
balance pole. No net is spread to
break fall, and death would be inev-
liable il he tumbled. 10 this respect
his feats are more dangerous than at
Niagara, where drop into the water
might not have killed him
A privats letter tells that Frank
Dawson, editor and proprietor of the
Charleston Is. c. Neics and Courier, al
most lost his life on the eighteenth in
slant when he ventured within the era
ter of Mount Vesuvius. When re-
moved by the guide he hal swooned
and was helpless. He was confined
several days to his hotel in Naples, but
IS now en- route to the United States.
The Moscow journals relate an extra
ordinary escape of young Nihilist
girl named Gobieslswska from the
hands of the police. The latter had
discovered the house in which she wss
concealed, and were about to make the
arrest, when, to their surprise, they
saw balloon rising from the garden
containing the object of their search
and two men. They rapidly disap-
peared for some unknown destination,
leaving the gendsrwes to gaze discern
solately after them.
Miranda Is Central African chef
whom the missionaries are trying TO
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