The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-12-29

w est DllOIc EdllTOaQ luDOTcIS Ut
Cornfall, engaged in row last
night, and an Italian was shot in the
leg, and an Irishman was set upon
by Italians and seriously stabbed.
He will probably die. Several others
were injured. Fearing another out
break, the authorities this mo ming
ordered two companies of military
to repair to the scene, but every
thing was quiet when they arrived
A VALUABLE LAND TRANSACTION.
New ORLEANS, December 90
Phillips, Marshall 81 Co., of79 Mark
Lane. London, have just concluded
purchase of 100000 acres of land
from the state of Mississippi, 100000
acres of which is known as the
levee lands, and located mostly III
YaZOo Delta, comprising the richest
cotton and timber land in the south.
Their intention is to improve. colo
nize and cultivate these lands.
THE RED DEMON.
CINCINNATI, December pa
dispatch from Sullivan, Indiana,
says: At half-past ten O'Clock last
night a fire broke out i'll the notion
store of The Kallensky Bros. The
fire department of Terre Haute left
on a special train at eleven o'clock.
by one o'clock a. III. twenty or TWEEN
ty-five buildings had been de-
stroyed, and the fire was spreading
rapidly.
a CHRISTMAS ACCIDENT.
CHARLESTON, S. c., December 26.
Christmas was generally observed
here to-day, and business was al
most entirely suspended.
An Italian boy was playing with a
pistol here, yesterday, when the
weapon was discharged, the ball
entering his abdomen and killing
him instantly.
HEAVY LOSSES BY FIRE.
New YORK, December 26.-It will
probably be three or four days be-
fore a correct statement of the losses
bv the South street fire can be made,
the books of many firms being so
badly saturated with water that
they will have to be dried before
they can be examined. The loss, it
is thought, will be about $2,000,0OO.
THE MISSING MAN TURNS UP.
PETERSBURG, VA, December 90
Harry Oliver, stamp clerk in the
postOffice in this city, who has been
missing for q week past, and who, it
was feared, had been foully dealt
with, has returned safely. He had
been to Richmond to undergo a
medical examination.
A NEGRO KILLED.
COLUMBUS, GA, December 90
A young man named Charles Cade,
while DRINK, shot and killed a negro
i'll Chattahoochee and escaped.
AN ATTEMPT TO AssASSINATE THE
CZAR FRUSTRATED.
LONDON, December ga Daily
Telegraph correspondent at St.
Petersburg says plot has been dis
covered for the assassination of the
car in Karairnan street, in which it
was expected he would travel while
proceeding from the palace to
Michael's riding school on the occa-
sion of the recent fete of st. George
1t has not yet been possible to OBJ
tain the full details of the plans of
the conspiratOrs. who were all ar
rested few days ago at meeting
of revolutionists in the outskirts OF
the town. From information which
the police possess, it is automatically
stated that nothing could have
saved the life of the car had he
passed along the street when he was
expected to pass.
A CATHOLIC APPOINTMENT.
New YORK: December ga ca
bic dispatch from Rome to the Free
mans journal, announces the ap-
pointment of the Very Rev. Nicolas
A. Gallagher, now vicar general of
Columbus, Ohio, lately vice vicar
administrator of the Columbus do
cese, to be bishop of the same see
in the partibuS, to be the admins
traitor in SpiYitUdlO and temperate of
the see of Galveston.
MEXICAN MATTERS.
CITY OF MEXICO, December 90
At 10 O'Clock this morning General
Trevino resigned the portfolio of the
war department. General Naranzo
was appointed as his successor. Cen
eral TrevinO will resume command
on the 18th. This command is eX-
tended to include Chihuahua and
Sonora. Other cabinet changes are
rumored, but nothing else is def
nitely known.
A DEATH AND A SUICIDE.
PARIS, December 26.-General
Jean Augusta Berthoul is dead.
NJ. Pin, Republican minister of
the senate for Vauchuse, while suf-
fering from delirium at fever hos
pital, threw himself from a window,
and was killed.
ADMIRAL JAUREZ RESIGNS.
PARIS, December 26.-It is stated
that Admiral Jaurez, the French
ambassador at Madrid, has re-
signed. because of his family be-
reavement.
THE AssASsINs TO BE TRIED.
ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 26.-An
official messenger announces that
the Emperor has decided that the
twenty-three recently arrested as
political criminals, who are believed
to be leaders or principal members
of the Terrorist party, shall be tried
together before a special sitting of
the senate, at which representatives
of local criminal assemblies, are to
be present.
THE WARSAW CHURCH PANIC
LONDON, December ga dis
patch to the Reuters telegraph COM
pany from Warsaw, reports that
forty deaths have so far resulted
from the panic in the church of the
Holy Cross, on Christmas morning.
Sixty other persons were injured.
a dispatch from Cracow 10 the
Vienna Presse, states that the per-
sons killed were mostly women.
GUITEAU's CHRISTMAS.
WASHINGTON, December 25.-
Guiteau spent Christmas very quiet
ly at the Jail to-day. Late in the af-
ternoon he partook of hearty meal,
which some friends had sent to the
Jail for him. He has prepared
another statement for publication,
which he intimates contains import
ant and interesting revelations bear
ing ON his case. He does not pro-
pose, however, to distribute this
document gratItuously among rep
resentatives of the press, but is wait
ing for a customer who will pay 800
for it. -
A CHRISTMAS TRAGEDY.
New ORLEANS, December 25.-
The day passed off quietly, and it