The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-08-02
pERs0NAL.
James NJ. Priest, justice of the SUI
preme court of Liberia is dead,

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Queen Victoria is four feet eight
inches high. Prince Albert was fif-
teen inches taller.
b. II. Bristow, ex-secretary of the
treasury, will go to the White Noun
tains this week.
Gov. Butler says that verse writing
is one of 1.-The most worthless eXer-
cises of the human mind"
Gen. Sherman is expected to ioin
his family about the 1st of August at
Bar Harbor, Mount Desert.
Cardinal Manning is seventy-three
years old, and'became a Roman Cath
Ole when he was forty-three years
old.
John Kelly is said to be worth
100000. This is probably an eXag-
geration, but he is known to be very
rich.
Col. Killebrew. of Tennessee, has
gone to Mexico to work the Polk
mines. He says they are worth 3d.
00OOU0.
Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton are speaking
for American women before English
audiences
Gen. Sibley, a prominent figure in
the pioneer history of Minnesota, now
20 years of age, is reported to be dying
at st. Paul
Remember that limestone localities
and dirty people are very fascinating
to Asiatic cholera when the same is
on its travels.
Noah Brooks and Charles Francis
Adams, Jr, have been made cores
ponding members of the Maine His
torical society.
Samuel L. Clemens is slowly recov-
ering from an attack of malarial
fever, caused by his last trip down the
Mississippi River
Mr.. James Otis Fifth avenue resi-
dence, in New York. was purchased
for $4,000 by Mr.. Belmont as a we'd
ding present for his son.
Oscar Wilde describes the American
girl before his London audiences as
"a pretty oasis of unreaSonableness in
a desert of common sense"
At recent party in London the
Baroness Burdette-Coutts wore
single diamond worth $l25,O 900 upon IL
strip of plain black velvet aroundh her
neck.
Gen. Grant, it is said, now uses
Mexican cigars altogether, and de-
clares that they are fully eqnal in
quality to those which come from
Cuba.
Vassar college graduates are anus
ing themselves helping the family
cook, and the demand for dyspepsia
medicine is rapidly exceeding the
supply.
Gen. Toombs, instead Of "making
preparations to resume the practice of
law" as reported in a thousand news
papers, has all the legal business he
can attend to without resuming."
When young man David Davis
used to buy piece of land every year
and now he is worth several millions,
mostly in real estate, having never
specialized or owned any stock except
some in bank he helped to start at
home.
Prof. L. Bachus, principal of Packer
Institute. and Miss Helen G. Hiscock,
a professor in Vassar College, were
married at the residence of Frank
HiScOck, at Syracuse, on Monday
morning. Family friends only were
pres ent.
Bishop Wigger, of New ark, has Or
dered that no Catholic picnic shall be
continued after dark nor fair continu-
ed later than 1880 p. M: nor shall
any society, fair, picnic or excursion
be held without consent of the parish
priest.
Babu p. c. Mogoomdar, the fore
most preacher and writer of the Brah-
mo SOmaj, of India, is now lecturing
in England to large audiences. He
will spend the coming months of Sep
TENDER and October in this country,
lecturing and preaching.
The emperor of Russia was believed
to be safe at Moscow only when the
empress was at his side. She went
everywhere with him, bowling and
smiling to the people as he was driven
unescorted through the streets, as if
she knew she was his safeguard.
Wilbur F. Storey, of the Chicago
Times, is said to be wrecked in mind
and body, and to control his paper
only in name. He has to be carried
to his Office, where the word of his
wife reigns. She has made large re-
auctions in the papers expenses.
The story goes in London that
PATHS voice is giving way. She has
not sung on several occasions when
announced, and an apology had to be
made for her non-appearance at the
last Queens concert, at Buckingham
Palace, for which she was engaged.
Gen. Ramon Leocadia Bonachea,
chief of the Cuban Vanguard, was at
one time one of the wealthiest men in
Cuba. He fought nearly twelve years
in the war of the patriots. He be-
lieves that the people of Cuba are
ready to throw off the Spanish yoke.
Mr.. John Mccullough, the TRACE
dian, was in st. Louis, a few days ago,
and a special dispatch states he was
chilled by a sudden drenching while
fishing a week previous, and was so
Frustrated that by the advice of his
physician he has Cancelled all his en-
gagements for next season.
The eX-Empress Eugene is describ-
ed by writer who has lately seen her
as ga rather stately woman, in deep
black, not bit of color anywhere,
about her eyes the tWinkling rippleS
that the years make, around her
mouth the deeper drawn lines of sor-
row, sallow face, hair with gray in
it."
The lightning was not satisfied
with striking and killing Nil hazel
Poets, of Albany, but stripped his
clothing off his hack and liberated
his flesh. He was, by the way, read
ing the Bible at the time, which fact
won't be mentioned by an revivalist
when they are trying to scare sinners
into repentance.
"Sam" Newell. an old miller On
Rocky Fork, Ohio, says Foraker
wouldn't have been nominated for
governor if it had't been for him. He
wasn't at the convention, and took no
part in the preliminary canvassing;
but when BEN was four years old
and fell in the mill-race, he pulled
him out and saved his life.
Florence Marryat has large scrap
book filled with authors autographs
and specimens of their MSS. Her
fathers copy was all written on paper
about the size of commercial note"
and averaged twenty-four words to
the line and eighty-three lines to the
page. A magnifying-glass is almost
needed to read it.
Mr.. Carroll D. Wright, the labor
statistician of Massachusetts, has just
returned from Europe, where he went
on two misSions-as an agent of the
fOroinp oUbibifiOn fOSDpon in ROcton