The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-08
PERSONAL.

Gen. Gordon, OF Georgia. has pur
chased 196, $50 acres in the Mississippi
delta.
Bismarck reads and writes withou
/ spectacles. and his hearing is very
acute.
j. Gould and g. Washington Childs
NJ. A., each have sent $1,000 to In,
Ohio freshet Sufferers.
Miss Susan b. Anthony finds thai
women show much more tact in pub
lie offices than men do.
VIM. E. Dodge owned vast tracts OF
land in Georgia. county of Dodge
which was named after him.
Gov. Jarvis, of North Carolina
thinks of accepting the presidency OF
Trinity college, in that state.
Gen. Wolseley spent two months in
choosing a coat-Ot-armS to hand down
to poSterity along with his baronetcy.
Francis II. Pierpont. who was gov
ernor of Virginia at the close of the
the war, Is an internal revenue collec-
tor in West Virginia.
Mrs. Mary Austin. of Washington.
Georgia, died recently. She had been
the mother of fOrty-fOur children, in
Guiding six sets Of triplets.
Professor Swift, of Rochester. is
anxious to accompany the govern
ment party to the South Pacific to
view the eclipse of the sun.
Gen. Joseph L. Johnston has been i'll
at Charlotte, North Carolina, whittier
he went on business. He thinks that
he was poisoned from the dye used to
color the hose worn by him.
Gen. Cook, of Georgia, went to a
dog show in Washington the other
night. 1T reminds me of congress"
he said, because the little dogs make
ali the fuss, and the hitler they are
the more fuss they make.
Gen. Grant, Mr.. Conkling, Jay
Gould and other dignitaries and mil
liOnaires We're so unmindful of their
duty as citizens as to refuse to re-
SpOnd to the summons of the New
\ DIRK coroner to serve on jury.
Ex.Khe live Ismail is going to live
in England, and has spent half mil
lion on an state, Caen Towers. Queen
Isabella, it is reported, has also gone
to London. Is Eng and to become
the camping ground of eXiled or de-
thruned monal Chs?
Samuel MedilI, the managing editor
of the Chicago Tribune, dying at
Quincy, eagerly looked over the pages
of the newly-arrived papers. Our
boys have beat them on the Braid
wood business" he said smiling, and
soon afterwards died.
Col. Marsh L. Polk, the defaulting
treasurer of Tennessee, who is in jail
ut Nashville, cannot speak above d
whisper. He is emaciated, dispirited
and evidently getting worse. His
friends SHY he can live but few days.
His case was called in court Tuesday,
and he was unable to go into the
cou trOOm.
The Hon. Clifton r. Breckenridge,
who was elected ongressman-at -large
from Arkansas, at the late election, is
10 deliver the annual address before
the alumni association of Washing
ton and Lee university, Virginia, at
the commencement in June. He is
the son of the late John &. Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky.
Bishop Ridley, of Caledonia, British
Columbia, recently tried to settle a
dispute between some Indians about
a drum. For some reason the bishop
himself got into the quarrel and he
used his fists right and left. Shortly
afterwards two of the Indians knock
ed the bishop down and put his life in
jeopardy, so that the reverend man
went to Victoria to borrow gun
boat.
Miss Catharine Wolfe, for whom
the most costly house at Newport is
being built, has caused two large
beech trees to be moved from West
chester, New York, to Ochre Point.
These trees were planted by Miss
WOlfe's father many years ago. One
of them is thirty feet high and the
other twenty-seyen feet and the
weight of them is about thirteen tons.
The cost of transporting is several
thousand dollars.