The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

Each convict in the Massachusetts,
penitentiary is presented with copy
of the Christian Almanac.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is in Nashville
Tennessee, in the interests of the
Southern Historical society.
The public charitable hospitals OF
New York city have BIOS beds and the
private hospitals 1902 more.
y burglar at Ovid, Michigan, used
fifty cents worth of chloroform on q
man from whom he stole thirty-five
| cents.
Clinton, Massachusetts,, manufac-
lures more wire cloth than all the rest
| of the manufactures in the United
| States.
Some one stole the socks off the feet
of dead Indian who was being taken
to Otsego Lake, Michigan, for burial,
last week.
Gen. u. S. Grant has been asked to
| accept of the presidency of the Ma
tional Rifle association. 1t is thought
that he will do so.
The Pullman Palace car company
has built sleeper with buffet at the
end, where tea, coffee and refresh
ments are to be served.
Despotism can no more exist in a
nation until the liberty of the press
be destroyed, than the night can hap
pen before the sun is set.
California is destined to become one
of the greatest wine-producing dis
tricts in the world. Every year thou
sands OF acres are planted with vines
King Kalakua, whose coronation
will take place on February IL next
is to make another tour of the world
this time taking the queen of Hawaii
with him.
Baron Nordensjold's interesting
narrative of the voyage of the Vega
the only ship that ever made the
northeast passage, has been published
in eleven languages.
Charles w. Cook, who has just died
in the state prison at Concord, New
Hampshire, confessed that he com.
mitted a murder for which a man
Joseph Buswell was hung.
In st. Louis it has been discovered
by polling the Langtry audience, that
the women are generally jealous OF
the Jersey Lily and the men over.
whelmingly envious of Freddy.
OF the large number of citizens
whose names appear in the Philadel.
phia directory, fifteen are Large, six
Bigger, fifty-five Small and 1872 Little
but there are only two Littleboys.
When the mayor of Lebanon, In.
diana, was called upon at banquet
to speak for his town, he began by
remarking that eighteen sets of twins
had been produced in the place during
the past year,
Dos Palmas, station on the South.
ern Pacific railroad, in the Colorado
desert, Southern California, is 200 feet
below the level of the sea. The mer.
curry there in the summer stands al
125 degrees at midnight.
A tender conscience is like the ap
| pie of mans eye-the least dust in
| it affects it. There is no surer and
better way to know whether our con
sciences are dead and stupid than tC
observe what impression small sins
make upon them.
The Germans of Brooklyn,N. Y, are
to hold master Saengerfest in that
city in the latter part Of June, 1885
1t is expected that 10000 singers will
participate, exclusive of the instru
mentalists. A temporary building tt
cost $4,000 will be erected.
United States Senator Isham G
| Harris, of Tennessee, recently re
elected, was born in a log cabin il
that state, in a district known a:
1.-The Barrens," Franklin county. Hi
father immigrated to Tennessee wher
the Indians were still at war with tn,
authorities.
1t is costing the Chicago street cabl,
railway company great deal o
money to construct its system. Th
total expenses thus far have beel
nearly $3,O00,000, but travel has in
creased, the dangers are passed, ant
the future of the plan is encouraging
in the extreme.
Sir Edward NJ. Archibald, who ha:
resigned the position of British con
sul-general at New York after a ser
vice of twenty-five years, has accepted
the tender of public dinner from
leading men of that city, to come OF
at Delmonico's on the 29th instant
Hon. VIM. NJ. Evarts will preside.
Edward V. Valentine, the Rich
mond sculptor, is engaged modelling
the statue of John G. Breckenridge
which is to be erected at Lexington
Kentucky. This artist is also a
work on bust of Hayne, and hi
recumbent figure of Gen. Robert L
Lee is to be unveiled at Washington
and Lee next summer.
NJ. de Lesseps announced at a pub
lie dinner the other day that Com
mandant Roudaire's scheme for tn
creation of an inland sea in the soutl
of Algeria and Tunis, which has bee
condemned by the government as to
costly, has been taken up by privat
company, and that the originator o
the enterprise was on the point O
starting for north Africa.
Car ventilation, the Railroad Ga
zette says, is imperfect because "com
mon people," by which is meant thOs
who are not habitually clean," don
know bad air when they breathe il
"a dog which can scent game well,
says the Gazette, 'we say is of goo
) breed. The sense of smell is some in
dication of the breeding of men an
women as web as dogs" Until th
public breed is improved, the Gazett
advises ventilators in the end, not to
of cars.
There is more railroad track to th
square mile in Massachusetts and Nel
Jersey than in any other states in tn
Union. Ohio is ahead of Maryland
and Pennsylvania has more track
the square mile than New Yorl
This being the fact, it is less surpri:
ing that New York has built NOR
railroad during the past year tha
any other state east of the Mississippi
and more than all the other states eS
cept two. Illinois still remains th
state with largest mileage.
The suit of Miss Mary Alice A
mont Livingston against Henr
Fleming, president of the New Yor
Petroleum exchange, claiming $500
damages for breach of promise, is o
trial in the Kings county suprem
! court. The plaintiff is accompanie
by a pretty infant boy, the son of tn
parties. The defense in the case
that Miss Livingstone was the occl
pant of a disreputable house kept b
, her mother, the divorced wife of Her
nv Bliss. There are several othe
charges of unchaste acts. Both pa
ties are wealthy and the trial attract
crowd.
John F. Antisdel, principal proprit