The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-06-21
PERSONAL.

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taken charge of by the sheriff.
William Henry Hurlbert expects
to start daily newspaper of his own
in New y ork next year.
Chief Justice Waite to a Chicago
reporter: 81 have no opinions in
politics. In my situation that sub
ject is out of the question"
DR.. McCosh is said by the New
York Evening Post to have secured
the full endowment of $4,000 for the
School OF Philosophy at Princeton.
Mr.. Bryant, the poet, is to be hon
ored with a statue in Central Park,
New York. The statue will be in
bronze, life size, and will cost about
$4,000.
District Attorney Bliss got the
start of the rest of the government
counsel at Washington by drawing
the last of the appropriation available
for their pay.
Mr.. w. W. Cocoran has been delug-
ed with poems relative to the home
bringing Of john Howard Payne's
remains, and threatens to have them
all published to the utmost rhyme.
Senior Camacho, the Venezuelan
minister. announces that his govern
ment will present to the city of New
I DIRK an equestrian statue in bronze,
of the Hberator, Bolivar.
Annie Louise Cary has refused an
offer of one thousand dollars to sing
at the first Brooklyn Philharmonic
concert, although in fine voice. She
has sung at these concerts every sea-
son but one for the last twenty years.
Miss Teresa Adams, an American
pupil of Nine. Marchesi, will sing
under contract at SpeZzia, the Italian
watering place, this summer. She will
make her debut in La Somnam-
bula."
Mr.. Schwabb denies the report that
Mrs. Langtry's supplementary en-
gagement has been unsuccessful, and
asserts that her profits for the five
weeks, tour will reach from $4,000
to $4,000.
The Rev. S. G. Green, whose death
in London at the age of ninety wears
has been announced, was one of the
best known Non-conformists in Eng
land. He preached the last sermon of
his sixty-three years ministry last
summer.
Mr.. Whalley, a Liberal member of
the British house of commons, has re-
signed his seat in that body. He is
interested in financial enterprises in
America. and he wishes to attend
personally to the business.
Pierre Lorillard has presented to
the Smithsonian Institution at Wash =
ington the collection of antiquities
brought from Mexico and Central
America by Desiree Charnay. Mr..
Lorillard kept the Charnay eXpedi-
ton in the field for three years at his
own expense.
According to a correspondent of
the Pittsburg Dispatch, Mr.. Wander
bits trip to Europe was for the pur-
pose of tracing the family from Van
Der Bit, Dutchman of high dis
tinction, whose armorial bearings he
desired to assume.
Col. Bob Ingersoll did very sur
prising thing when the verdict was
rendered in the star-rOute cases. He
actually kissed his own wife, when
there was Mrs. Dorsey equally
anxious to kiss, but Dorsey was i'm
perturbable.
Loco, whom Gen. Crook captured,
is lawfully the head chief Of all the
Apaches. When he was gilded youth
of the Notwithstanding period he got
the name of Loco, or "'fOol," but dur
ing recent years his ability as scalp
taker has been proven more than
once.
Mr.. CARROTS horse Damascus which
Mr.. Story. the sculptor. is to present
to King Humbert, of Italy, has been
shipped from New Y ork to Genoa. 1t is
said that Mr.. Story has received an
order from King Humbert to repro
duce the animal in marble, FIR which
he is to receive $1,000.
Henry B. Beecher, a son Il lie dis
tinguished Henry Ward Bee. her fig
ured as aprincipal in an ass ait and
battery case before a police .'.iiit in
New Y ork recently. He had !. pped
an insurance agent, and upoi, r!.arly
understanding that fact tli.. JUICE let
young Beecher go scot fire..
Governor Butler addressed tx Gov
ernor Rice in the Tewksbury investi-
cation the other day as DIR. Rice
meaning TO be grimly humorous over
the Harvard degree conferred upon
that predecessor. "Templeton" writes
to the Hartford Courant that the de-
gree matter gals Butler a good
deal"
Mrs. William Howard Hart has
presented $4,000 to the Rensselaer,
Polytechnic institute, of Troy, New
York. The gift is intended to endow
the professorship of rational and
technical mechanics, as memorial Of
her late husband, whose name it will
bear. The chair is now filled by Viii
liam Herbert Burr, G. E.
While attending the funeral of
Miss. Clara Cook, at Crystal Springs.
Mississippi, last Sunday, who was
killediby lightning on the previous
day, a horse attached to a buggy con
tanning Mr.. and Mrs. BriIey was
frightened by clap of thunder a d
ran away, killing the lady and dan
gerously wounding her husband.
Gen. Sherman has been acting as
secretary of war during the absence
of Secretary Lincoln. A day or two
ago friend asked Sherman how he
was getting on. oh said Gen.
Sherman, quick as lightning, 81 am
R0ltluS dlOuS opltuIiu1y. am liOW
acting as secretary of war, and for the
first time since came to Washington
there is a perfect harmony between
the general of the army and the secre-
tary of'war."
Ella Wheeler, whose love poems
have been severely censured on the
ground of their supposed immortality,
in the course of a spicy reply to her
critics. says: MY friends have adj
vised me to wait and not have my
poems appear in book form until I
am, to use their words, married or
dead But so long as [ believe the
poems proper to publish at all. do
not feel the need of husband or
tombstone to shelter me from further
criticism
Bad Taste.
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