The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-15
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

PNEUMONIA Is unusually ldCdl III
New York.
Bank presidents must default to
become famous.
A woman at New FORK was cut in
twain by a rip saw.
Vas in die Zeitung ist, ist oftmals
NIGHT sO.-Dr. Krack.
The Impeachment of the Norwegian
cabinet is threatened.
The Brooks murder trial has been
begun at Logan, Ohio.
The deficiency appropriation bill
makes total Of S2,O62, 1893.
Tennessee is to have colored SUI
perintendent of public schools.
In Chicago last year 4017 perso ms
died of throat and lung diseases.
San Francisco has adopted the new
charter by very small majority.
-Four persons were burned to death
in dwelling at Montague, Michigan.
The Clark's Fork division of the
Northern Pacific railroad is compile
ted.
The New York Herald fund for the
Ohio flood sufferers has reached $780,
0O0
A Chesterfield county, South Caro-
lima, farmer murdered his wife with
rat poison.
1t is said the Irish InvincibleS have
filled places of the prisoners now on
trial in Dublin.
Gustave Dore's will directs that his
paintings be kept two years and then
sold by auction.
Baron Nordensjold claims the Dutch
prize of 1896 for the discovery of the
northwest passage.
The pope's legate has left Chill, and
church diseStablishment has become
a national question.
The men suspected of stealing the
United States treasure at Panama
have been captured.
The Connecticut theatrical man
ayers are preparing bill to permit
moral concerts on Sunday.
Some men are born rich, some have
riches thrust upon them, and some
become newspaper editors.
Three of the detectives on the
Washington force have been indicted
for conspiring to rob citizens.
Schellor, the bar-keeper indicted on
the charge of having burned the New
hall House, has pleaded guilty.
Gen. Porfirio Diaz was given a
grand banquet at New Orleans and
three receptions during the day.
The liabilities of the firm of w. T
Allen 81 Co., the insolvent Chicago
grocers, are found to be $240,OOO.
Two prisoners escaped from the
Salinas, California, jail and had to be
shot before they were recaptured.
The Courier-J ournal says real estate
has been rising along the Ohio and a
great aIxof it IDS been for SAIL
Pittsburg iron and steel manufac-
turers say the passage of the tariff
bill makes reduction of wages neces-
sary.
A new book is entitled ''Short Say
ings of Great Men," When are we to
have the Great Sayings of Short
Men,"
When drummer gets the mumpS
it increases the size of his face with
out adding anything to his inherent
cheek.
The Rev. CassiuS Ma son, colored, of
Baltimore, has been ordained priest
of the Episcopal church at st. Louis,
Missouri.
The Catholics, at Lexington, Ken
lucky, threaten to kill the eX-prieSt
O'COnnor, if he attempts to lecture in
that city.
S. G. w. Benjamin has been APP
pointed minister resident and consul
general to Persia, and Wickham Hotf-
man minister to Denmark.
The secretary of the interior decides
that it is the business of the land
grant railroads to prosecute timber
trespassers upon their lands.
The Irishmen of New York were
very angry because the mayor refused
to preside over a meeting that had for
it's motto, Ireland for the Irish
A burglar in Brooklyn has shot
an exceedingly enterprising thief to
get so near a pair of detectives.
Women not only manage their hus-
bands, but good deal else. Twelve
of them are managing us many the
atrical companies in this country.
Fifty thousand pairs of shoes daily
are made in the prisons of New York.
The outside manufacturers claim to
be unable to compete with the con-
tractors.
During the session of congress just
closed 1880 bills and resolutions
were introduced and about 1000 are
left upon the calendars and upon the
speakers tables.
Baron Nordenskjold VIII start this
spring on new Arctic expedition up
the eastern coast of Greenland, a di-
rection in which few attempts have
hitherto been made.
The French senate has adopted the
bill to modify the oath in courts in
order to satisfy the conScienceS of
men who do not believe in the ordi-
nary religious formulas.
Shawneetown, Illinois, was com
pletely destroyed by the flood. Several
hundred houses were swept away.
There is great destruction of property
and suffering. The loss exceeds $780,
600.
The 'V" on the new nickel seems
TO be meaningless. 1t may stand for
V cents, V dollars, V anderbilt, or
perhaps Alabamians wouldn't mind
if it stood for V incent-[ Hartford
Pest.
In four weeks the Postal telegraph
company will have a conduit laid I'M
der the streets of Chicago from the
city limits to the central Office on La
Sale street. 1t will contain five hun
bred wires.
Further introduction of smallpox
by immigrants seems inevitable. The
immigrant inspection service, which
opposed the only barrier to the
scourge, is no longer sustained with
any efficiency.
The dynamite explosion in Belgium
is connected now with the discovery
of Socialist plot in which Louise
Michel is said to be implicated, and
which involves among other plans
the murder of the car.
The New York superintendent of
public school buildings testifies that
narrow stairs with hand-rail on