The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-04-19
Personal.

AOAOA nutlAOL anu JOuIud1lSG, Is Q6tlu.
Ex-Secretary Evarts is said to bear
strong likeness to Pope Leo XIII.
1t is said that in London every
fourth person receives gratuitous
medical attendance.
Mr.. Henry Bergh fell while getting
off street car in New York, on Fri
day, and broke his collar-bone.
Gen. Rosser, the cavalryman, ex-
poets to buy a farm in the valley of
Virginia, there to pass the rest of his
life.
The empress of Austria has taken
to fencing-two hours a day general
ly-to keep herself light weight for
the saddle.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island,
has not been well since the adjourn
ment of congress. He has arrived at
his home in Providence.
Kalakau;s the Sandwich Island
ruler who recently got a new crown,
has asked the United States govern
ment to permit him to coin his money
at the American minis.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, of
Boston, Task week completed his sew
enty-fourth year. Physically and
mentally he yet seems as vigorous as
he was thirty years ago.
Congressman J. G. Carlisle, of Ken
lucky, whose name is so prominently
before. the public, is forty-eight years
old. lie was born in Kentucky. He
has long been lawyer in that state.
Mr. Julian Hawthorne expects to
finish his biography of his father in
July, and the book will probably be
published in the autumn. 1t will
contain much interesting correspond
ence.
Interlaken, the beautiful cottage
owned by the late Frank Leslie at
Saratoga Lake, has been sold by Mrs.
Leslie to party of New York gen.
tlemen, and will be converted into
lakeside resort and club house.
DR.. Calling, the inventor of the
famous gun, is a southerner, born in
North Carolina, but looks like an ell
derby German. He is still hard at
work on other inventions and prom
ises to again surprise the world.
Miss Mary A. II. Gay, of Decatur,
Georgia, who raised money enough to
establish the Confederate cemetery at
Franklin, Tennessee, is travelling
through Georgia to collect a fund for
the Ben Hill monument at Atlanta.
Senator Sherman, who has just re-
turned to Washington from Ohio,
said to reporter: Il am not can
didate, never have been and could not
accept the gubernatorial nomination
under any circumstances. 1t is out
of the question
Herbert Spencer is very punctual
man. In his boarding house the la
dies set their watches by his comings
and goings. Once in great while
Mr.. Spencer smokes part Of a ciga-
rette, but he does not like to have
| much tobacco smoke about him.
Randall ID. George is the most pros
porous colored planter in South Caro-.
lima. He recently bought the Rene
ker lands, in Colleton county, for
$4,000 cash. He offers to subscribe
$1,000 toward the construction of a
branch railroad through the section
in which he lives.
Rev. Henry Clay Dean is now sixty
Years of age and is in excellent health.
He says that he was wrong in de-
nouncing President Lincoln for the
emancipation proclamation. He has
| lost his bitterness and has made many
new friends in Iowa and Missouri by
his lectures on christianity.
Ex-senator Humans recent seri-
Gus accident occurred as he was hur-
rying down stairs to get paper from
a newsboy. His foot caught in the
carpet and he fell forward two steps
to the hall floor. He was carried to
his room. when it was found that his
left arm was Squarely broken just
above the elbow.
Madame de Neufville, of New
York, gave a dinner on Wednesday
evening last, when ner guests ap-
peared, by request, in the costumes
| they had worn at the famous Van
derbilt ball. Egyptians and Persians,
princes and peasants, all met around
the hospitable board and enjoyed
equally the viands and wines of
modern menu.
Four years ago Peter Cooper gave
$1,000OO apiece to Edward Cooper,
his only son, and AS. Hewitt. He
reserved for himself an income of
about 100000, the most of which he
gave away, During the war his in
come from his iron works, which are
among the largest i'll the country,
averaged $500 a day, but during the
last few years the losses have been
heavy, the firm refusing to discharge
any of their men.
Mrs. Gladstone received, a fortnight
ago, letter from Sir Henry Posonby,
the queens secretary, written by her
| direction, advising her to urge her
husband to accept peerage. The
queen has of late frequently publicly
expressed her wish to visitors that he
should accept peerage, which. while
lessening his labors, would enable
him to continue prime minister. He
prefers to remain in the house of COM
mons. but retire from Office.
Charles G. Fulton, the proprietor of
the Baltimore American, published a
card In that paper yesterday. an
nouncing that he had conveyed the
American property, for the use of
his four children, to his son-in-law,
Gen. Felix Agnes. The transfer was
made ain view of the uncertainties of
life and recent severe admonition that
death may come unaWares." Never
theleSs, as Mr.. Fulton adds, he now
has strong hope Of re-established
health and prolonged life"
Judge Hammond, OF Cincinnati, adj
ministered the ''iron-clad" oath to
George r. Sage, the newly-appointed
United States district judge, in that
city the other day. The oath recited:
81 do solemnly swear that l have
never voluntarily borne arms against
the United States" etc. Judge Ham
mond himself could not have so
sworn, for he was a Confederate sol
dier, and the 7th of April, when Judge
Sage took the oath, was the anniver-
sary of the battle of Shiloh, in which
Judge Hammond fought against the
union.
An old story is perhaps worth re-
telling to indicate what sort of man
the acknowledgement is. Once when
he was on the United States circuit
court bench the district attorney an
nounced that certain important case
just called would be withdrawn from
the docket. "By whose authority 2"
inquired Judge Gresham. by in
structions. from Washington" "But
whose instructions 2" The answer
was unsatisfactory. 1--WE do not rec
ognize the right of anybody at Wash
ington, even the president himself"
said Judge Gresham, "to interfere,
whether by instructions or requests,
in the trial of cause before this
court. Proceed with the case" The
trial went on and n conviction was