The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
PERSONAL.

Sullivan has slugged together for
tune of $4,000.
jeff Davis has made 100000 out of !
his history of the rebellion.
Pere Hyacinthe, it is stated, has a |
stepson in the treasury department at |
Washington.
Ex-Secretary Window made love to |
his present sister-in-law before he |
married his wife.
Senator Williams, of Kentucky, has
tobacco farm that brings him in $780,
600 income annually.
Modjeska never changes an old
dress, but sends them home to Po-
land, to be packed away for her grand
children.
Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
is going to convert his cotton planta-
ton on the Savannah into a grass and
horse farm.
Gov. Butler bought the finest Cots
wolds at the New England fair, and
sent them as present to Gov. Jarvis,
of North Carolina.
The wife of Lieutenant-Govern
Ames, of Massachusetts, has given
$35, 600 TO the Boston Free hospital
for women during the past year.
Before lady Rosebery, nee Roths-
| child, left San Francisco for China,
she visited the synagogue, and after
passing sometime in devotion she left
800.
Longfellow's eldest daughter is
studying the higher mathematics at
NEWMAN College, England, and Miss
Annie, who is with her, is studying
art and the classics.
"Gath" gets $1,000 a year from the
Cincinnati Enquirer, has steno-
grapher furnished him, and is allowed
to write the 'Lounger" column of the
New Y ork Tribune.
The wife of Mr.. w. H. II. Murray
has just returned from Europe with a
diploma from the Vienna Medical
College both as physician and sur
geon, being, her friends say, the only
woman in the country with this GER
tifcate.
Summit, Miss, has twin "infant
phenomena" Della and Maggie
Bridges, who, though not seven years
of age, sing the most difficult pieces
with the ease and melody of expert
enced singers.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett has re
sided in Paris a long time, and he is
studiously polite in dealing with his
contemporaries. He has the savoil
faire which comes from contact with
upper European society.
Mr.. Hartwell Grisell, who is {
wealthy cousin of Mgr. Capels prize
convert, the Marquis of Butte, offers
if Oxford be agreed on as the site Of
hn Hofho1io TTniuorcifry =
bear the cost. Cardinal Manning
wishes the university to be in Lon
don.
Vennor, the Canadian weather
prophet, has rival in the South in {
Professor Gather, OF Alabama, who
) publishes the statement that the com
ing winter will be distinguished by
its phenomenal seasons of cold, in
terspersed by paroxysmal spells Of
heat"
The presidents sister, Mrs. Noel
roy, and her daughter are with Mis-
Nellie Arthur at the Soldiers HON,
cottage. The White House is nearly
ready again for occupancy, the cas-
room having received Tiffany's arts
: tic touches, and everything looking
! especially nice and cosy.
Edwin Booth, who is growing NOR
, and more aesthetic in his tastes as h,
grows older, has made up his mind tt
reside in Boston. Mr.. Aldrich, tn,
editor of the Atlantic Monthly, ha'
!, selected house on the slope of Beacon
! Hill. and Mr.. Booth wilt hereafter b,
known as Bostonian and one of tn
= illuminate.
> Ephraim Keyser, of Baltimore, i
D to be paid $4,000 by the government
for bronze statue OF DeKalb. Tn
= figure will be nine feet high. Tn
shields of Maryland and Delaware vii
figure in the side panels of the dis
The baron will be represented as
, continental general leading the Blu
Hens Chickens and the Maryland
> Line.
. Mr.. Beecher travelled 1880 mile
. during his tour that ended in Brook
S Ign on Saturday. His reception il
g the South gave satisfaction. GA
a Macon, Georgia" he said to a reporter
"a fellow wanted to shoot me, but h.
was safely locked UP. l guess he wa
too drunk to have done much execu
ton" Otherwise the southern peopl
} treated him very courteouSly.
The story is told of Senator "Zeb
: Vance. of North Carolina, that soo1
after his second marriage he remarked
to his bride: "My dear, 1 am stub
born fellow, and you may anticipate
trouble. Now, in the beginning
while am submissive, l want to Civ,
you piece of advice. If you follow
it well get on mighty well. 1t il
this: Make me do as [ darnet
please"
The "tramp king" is goblin dwar
named Sandy Moore, who has been ;
vagrant in every state, who has Tough
under four fags-the American
: Cuban, Confederate and English
who has twice walked from San Fran
cisco to the Atlantic, and who is now
an inmate of a Washington jail. Ht
is forty years old, and although b.
travels from town to town on freight
car, is rarely without money enough
to "put up" at some cheap hostelry.