The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-05
Personal.

Hoadly studied law with Salmon P.
Chase.
Charles Backus, the dead minstrel,
was nephew of Gerritt Smith.
Judge Luxe, of st. Louis, decides
that dealing in options is illegal.
Oscar Wilde imagines that he looks
like Nero. Somebody ought to in
form Oscar that there are many
kinds of lunacy as well as of fiddling.
James w. Poe, a popular colored
speaker is about starting on lee
turing tour through the south, intend
ing to talk about 1.-The COlored Vote
in 1884"
Unless Mr.. Dorsey's judgment is
grossly at fault, he possesses the doc
uments to lay out as many Republi-
book of Cakes Ames
The Richmond Wing says that Dr.
George w. Bagby, one of the best
known newspaper men in Virginia,
long the editor of the famous Lit
erary Messenger, is in very bad
health.
Baron Rothschild's carriage has
been lighted by electricity. The ac-
cumulatorS are placed under the
coachman'S seat The electric lights
are inside the usual lamps, and will
burn for 100 hours.
Chas. Lanier, son of the late Sidney
Lanier, the eminent poet, and grand
son of Col. Robert Lanier, of Macon,
Ga, has borne off the honOrs of his
school near Baltimore, making the
highest mark in scholarship distinc-
ton ever won there.
The tallest princess in the world is
the crown princess of Denmark. She
is six feet two inches high. She is
very fond of dancing, but has often
to forego the pleasure, because, being
keenly sensible of ridicule, she does
not wish to have an inadequate part
ner.
Marcus Thrane, who once beheaded
the Socialist party in Norway, and
then despairing of effectlng reVOlu-
ton there, came to the United States
10 study Republican institutions mere,
has returned to his old home. well
cured OF the rabid notions of his ear
lier years.
An American young lady singer
went to Europe bearing the name of
Mary Jane Boggs, and her cognomen
now is Miss Nina Lafonti. 1t does
twist some persons names most terri
bly, out of shape to travel across the
ocean with them. 1t must be in the
saline qualities of the water.
That handsome but very eccentric
woman, says the London Truth,
Princess Pignat ELI, is about to be-
come public singer, to the great dis
gust of her relations, whom she de-
lights in tormenting. She is the sister
of the beautiful Countess Potocka, of
Vienna, with whom she is at daggers
drawn.
Mr.. George Bliss says that he read
from the faces of the jurors in the
star route trial that three were Origi-
nally for conviction and the rest for
Washington think of this. A man of
Gus antagonist to inveigle into game
OF draw poker.
Once, when Judge Story was called
upon to defend woman accused of
numbering her husband, he adduced
as one of the proofs of her innocence
the fact of her having attended him
on his death-bed, and said unto him
when he was dying: Goodbye,
George" The counsel for the plain
tiff declared this ought to be taken
as proof of her guilt, and that the
words she had used were: Good
by George ~
Wellington spoke of Abd-el.
kader as "a captain WHO, with more
troops and better arms, would have
made Algeria unconquerable." Mar
shall st. Arnaud is alleged to have
said unhesitatingly to Napoleon III,
"Ah, il Abd-el were Frenchman, we
should never have another Napoleon -
perhaps it is well for me then that
he is an AraE,' was the dry and i'm
perlal rep.y.
The government of Italy has
awarded contracts for 100000 kilos
(about 10000 hogsheads) of Kentucky
tobacco, and 100000 kilos (about
5000 hogsheads) of Virginia tobacco.
The purchase of the latter will be ex-
ecuted by Messrs. Ricard, Leftwich
& Co., of Baltimore, who will repre-
sent the contractors at Lynchburg,
and d. Tiedeman & Co., of Richmond,
who will operate on that market.