The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
PERSONAL.

The Martin Luther statue to be
erected at Washington will cost
$4,000.
Gen. Basil Dukes l4-year-old daugh-
ter figures in Cincinnati as a musical
prodigy.
EX-Cadet Whitaker has started a
military school for colored youths in
Charleston, S. c.
The Rev. Robert Collyer saws that
"novel-reading is only a stepping
stone to higher education"
Gen. Roger Pryor, while waiting the
| opportunity to defend his Irish client.
is sightseeing in London and is a
frequent visitor at the law-eourts.
Countess d'Edia, wife of the ex-kinQ
of Portugal. who is in Paris, was Miss
Hansler, whose father was a tailor in
Springfield, Mass, thirty years ago.
Leo Tolstoy, the Russian novelist.
refuses to serve on a jury because his
religious convictions forbid him to
serve as judge over his fellow-men.
Howard Kretschmer, sculptor, of
st. Louis, has taken a clay model of
Gen. Sheridan that he may make
bust of that worthy warrior for the
Union Veteran Club, of Chicago.
Rear-Admiral Worden, who COM
manded the Monitor in its gallant
fight with the Merrimac, is still in the
service, though age and infrmities
prevent him from doing active SER
vice.
Belva A. Lockwood, Esq, has been
restored to the rolls of pension attor-
tho ChDrnaC opr0ircf ha- hOr
been withdrawn. We intend to do the
colonel justice in this, though the
heavens fall.
William NJ. Evarts is getting thin
ner and more nervous than ever, and
now weighs scarcely 100. Neverthe-
less, the eX-secretary is a hard worker
and reaps over 100000 year from
his law practice.
Crown Prince Carlos, of Portugal,
it is reported, is about to be betrothed
to the Archduchess Maria Valeria,
the Youngest daughter of the Empe-
TOR of Austria. The Archduchess is
sixteen years old.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina,
is reported to have said recently, in
speaking of his career in Washington:
" was mighty nigh dead to get here,
but I'll be hanged if L am not higher
dead to get away"
Robert Burns granddaughter re-
sides in Cheltenham, England. with
her half-sister. The house is said to
be filled with relics of the poet, and
his memory is cherished as devotedly
as if he had died but yesterday.
Prince and Princess Albert, of
Prussia, while returning from Frank
enstein, SiIesia, after attending the
Reformation memorial services, lost
their way in thick fog. Their car
rage was overturned and the right
ankle Of the Princess was fractured
The Marchioness Lansdowna, the
wife Of the encouragement of Cana
da, is said to bear wonderful re-
semblance to Charles l., of England,
from whom she is a descendent. This
is very CALLING to the descendants of
the highly-pious Mr.. o. Cromwell, if
any of them happen to be in Canada
this season.
The third son of the old Duke Of
Argyle, Lord Collin Campbell, who
disgraced himself and his lineage by
marrying the daughter of the notori-
GUS Victoria Woodruff, is now reap
ing the consequence of his folly. He
has brought his sorrow and disgrace
into the divorce court "for cause" and
is striving for freedom.
President Arthur's cabinet is thus
described by a writer in the Troy
Times: brewster is the most pune
tilicious member, Frelinghuysen the
most aristocratic, Lincoln the quietest,
Gresham the ablest, Folger the most
judicious. Teller and Chandler are
the two who keep track of things
generally and the hardestworkers."
The Marquis of Lorne, before leav-
ing Canada, shipped to his fathers
estate, in Scotland, two dozen musk
! rats. Scottish and English farmers,
| one would think, had suffered enough
already from the depredations of the
rabbits with which landowners stock
their estates, without having another
nuisance saddled upon them. The de-
scendants of Macallurn More must
however, have sadly degenerated
when they hunt such small game as
muskratS,