The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-10-05
PERSONAL.
Nine. Modjeska has arrived in


Nine. Modjeska has arrived in
New York.
Cassius M. Clay's two daughters
are practical women suffragists.
Julian Hawthorne intends to bring
out in November "Dr. Grimshaw's
Secert," the novel said to have been
lett IN manuscript by Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
Mrs. Mason, the senior member OF
the "Bettie and the Baby" firm,
writes to a friend in Washington to
remark that she does not understand
why her husband is not allowed to
visit her.
Senator Logan went to the Ar
kansas Hot Springs few months
ago for the cure of a rheumatic af-
lection. AS the result of his visit al
army hospital is to be established
there, at a cost of 100000.
Ex-President Hayes ran up bill
of 1886 with the Yosemite stage
company when he visited the Yose
mite Valley. The other day the
Yosemite commissioners refused to
pay the bill, which the company had
presented to them.
The Rev. DR.. Norton, wife and
children, Rev. q. L. Wharton and
wife, and Miss Mary Graybill, Buff
falo; Miss Ida Boyd, Kentucky; L.
V. Kinney, Indiana, and Mary
Kingsbury, Illinois, missionaries to
India, have sailed for Europe.
DR.. Norvin Green, who is to re-
tire from the presidency of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
is said to be worth as mnch as S10O00,-
600. His salary is only $4,000 a
year and his immense fortune has
been made in stock maniuulations.
A monument to Rouget de PIsle,
the author OF the "Marseillaise," has
been erected at his birthplace, Ions
le-Saulnier. The poem composed
for the occasion by Louis Ratisbonne
pointedly apostrophises "Sainted
Alsace," whose voice still joins in
the chorus: GALLONS, enfants de la
Patrie ~
Nine. Gonzales, who has been Wis
iting Senior and Sonora Roa, at the
Mexican legation, Washington, is
the wife of the president of the re-
public, and has come to this country
to perfect herself in the study of
medicine and surgery. She learned
the rudiments of both on the battle
fields of Mexico, where she won the
name of the "Modern Joan Of Arc.n
Her name and deeds are favorlte
themes for song and story
among the writers of Mexico.
Ghirann rannrfor
glimpse of the Princess Louise as
she passed through that city on her
way to the Pacific, thus describes
her: "She Is a well-formed, hale
woman of thirty-five or Whereabouts.
She has the features of her mother
and a modest yet frank demsanor.
That she is her mothers daughter
there is not the slightest doubt, and
among the other ladies she would be
identified in an instant. She has
bright, intelligent face, which lights
up pleasantly when she converses.o
Capt. Mayne Reid, the novelist,
who lives at Frogmore, England,
has been granted pension of fifteen
dollars month by the United States
government He was a second lieu
tenant in the First New York Vol
unteers, who went through the STIR
ring scenes of the Mexican war, get
ting bullets at Chepultepee and other |
impressions for future use in story !
books. His claim was filed about |
two years ago. He sets forth in his |
affidavit that he is quite poor, living
on a small hired farm, and that the |
fifteen dollars month will help out |
his meagre income and make him
comfortable. He is sixty-three years
old. 1