The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-12-21
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

oICstlllS d DIlCh pavement. Sle uSeO
the material to build chimney in her
house.
Mr.. Dam, of the Wasp, has been APP
pointed secretary to Governor-elect
Stoneman, of California. Judging
from this appointment it would ap-
pear that Gen. Stoneman intends to
keep things warm in his office.
The strange news comes from Alex
andria that FL Medhi, the false pro-
phet, who is warning in Soudon, is
none other than the slave dealer,
Hadji Zechy, who has been ravaging
Upper Egypt these twenty-five years.
In the tax sale case, United States
against George Washington Curtis
Lee, involving the title to the Airing
ton estate, the United States superior
court has affirmed the Judgment of
the court below, in favor of the Lee
heirs.
a Pullman sleeping car was blown
to pieces in st. Louis on Thursday
last, the report sounding like the eX-
ploSion of cannon. The "baSS drum"
connected with the heating apparatus
OF the car had cracked and caused a
large amount of gas to ignite and ex-
plode.
Fourteen thousand pounds of poul-
try, provided by the commissioners of
charities and correction of New York
city, proved to be ample cheer for tho
inmates of the different hospitals, asy-
lums, warehouses and prisons. The
inmates united in pronouncing it a
great day."
Sergt. Ballantine, the distinguished
English barrister who defended the
Guikwar of Baroda in the famous poi
soning case few years ago and cham
piOned the Tichborne claimant at the
first trial, has arrived at New York.
Ballantine got fee of $4,000 in the
Guikwar case.
MeSsrs. J. and w. Seligman & Co.,
the well-known bankers of New York,
who are financial agents of the Pana-
ma canal company, paid to the United
States trust company eight million
dollars balance due for purchase of
Panama railroad company stock by the
canal company.
DR.. Frank III. Hamilton, one of Gen,
Gartield's physicians, is seriously ill in
New York from helnorrhages result
ing from a bronchial affection. He,
as well as the physicians in attend
ance, are confident of his recovery.
He does not talk to anyone, but writes
replies to questions.
One of the new judges in Wisconsin
found on opening court that he had
been attorney upon one side or the
other in thirty-tiVe of the cases on the
calendar before him. He will find it
necessary to exchange" IN the minis
terlal sense, with SOME OF his brother
Judges for some time to come.
Col Keyser made an interesting ex-
pertinent in signaling by sunshine
during the recent Egyptian campaign.
Ascending one Of the pyramids near
Cairo, by means OF Monograph mir
ror he reflected a ray OF sunshine to
Alexandria, l2O miles away, sending
message from Gen. " oIseley to the
khedlve.
The San Francisco Alta says that
turf sports are i'll such state of de-
cadence in California that unless some
thing is done to lift them up and give
them responsibility the tracks may as
well he plowed up and sown to wheat,
while the breeders of fine stock ship
their horses east and go out of the
business.
A Londoner makes a suggestion in
connection with cremation. AS the
ashes left in the crematory is phoS-
phate OF lime, he thinks 1t would De a
good idea to treat it with sulphuric
acid, and thus convert it into sulphate
OF hme-plaSter OF pariS-from which
4 II nf Al luf
parted could he made.
A company is being organized in
Toronto, Canada, to build railway
along the edge of the Niagara river.
from Horseshoe Falls to Queenston,
and also railway from the edge OF
the river through a tunnel to the top
of high bluff In the rear of the mu-
scum, and to own a park at Niagara
Falls and Queenston.
The divided skirt has been voted a
failure in England, and now the Wo-
mems Dress Association, of London,
will give handsome prize for de-
sign intended to do away with the in
convenience of the present styles,
without making too marked depart
ure from 1.-The distinguishing charac-
teristics of female attire"
The Buffalo Commercial-Adverti
says that the eastward movement OF
flour and grain from the west through
that city Tor the month Of November,
1882, shows an increase of 101 ,8o9 bar
rels in the receipts of flour, and an in
crease of 1,43S,2l1 bushels in the the
receipts of grain, estimating flour as
wheat, as compared with the same
month last year.
A tramp offered to drink as much
liquor as anybody in an Evansville
barroom would pay for, and he proved
it by emptying a full tumbler. He
then said ne would drink twelve glasses
OF beer as fast as they could he
drawn, and succeeded in that under
taking. A few minutes afterward,
in another saloon, he drank two brinl-
ming tumblers OF whisky. lie then
died.
The Postal Telegraph company.
which has been recently organized Ill
New York, has 700 miles of poles
erected ON which the wires are being
strung, and will be in working order
as far as Cleveland by next month.
The rates are to be put so low that
long letters and messages can he sent
and delivered through the local post
office at the place Wnere they are re-
ceived,
The new ship canal which is to con-
meet the Baltic and the North Seas
will save near 600 miles of the water
journey now made around the Danish
peninsula. The cut, as proposed, will
be from GluckStadt to Kiel, and the
length will about half that of the
SueZ canal, or some fifty miles. AS in
the SueZ canal, there are several small
lakes lying in the way, which will be
utilized 10y the engineers.
The cellars under the apartment
houses on Seventh avenue, between
Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth streets,
New York, have been blasted out OF
solid rock, entailing a cost of nearly
half million dollars before the struc-
lures reached the grade on the avenue.
There are to be eight of them, and the
total cost will be 100000 each. They
are to be named after European cities
Madrid, Lisbon. Cordova and BARGE
lena being selected for four of them.
An attractive street suit is of rifle
green brocaded velvet and ottoman
silk combined. The short skirt is of
the silk with three narrow knife-plait-
ings around the bottom; the over
dress, made of the brocaded velvet, is
of the simple round shape, with very
little drapery. The basque, also of
velvet, is close-fitting Jersey. and is
buttoned to the throat with small,
round, bronze buttons. The cunning
capote bonnet is of the velvet, with
strings of repped silk.