The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-11
AUsTIN's GUESTS.
Prominent People Who Are Visiting
the CAPITAL City.

Capt. J.V. Hutchins, of San Marcos,
is in the city.
Senator A. w. Terrell returned from
his trip to Galveston last night,
w. A. Williamson and wife, juno
ton City, are stopping at the Carroll
ton.
Hon. John d. Templeton will re-
main in the city until after the inau-
guration.
S. w. S. Duncan, a brother of the
famous Texas detective, "Jack," is
stopping at the Brunswick.
Joseph Key, Burnet; e. NJ. Venable,
Brennan, Texas; Col. Lockitt, Wash
ington county, are booked at the Car
rollton.
Mr.. William Bowen, the insurance
man, left for Georgetown yesterday,
to put his son in the Southwestern
university.
The STATESMAN received pleasant
call yesterday from DR.. a. I. Jones,
representative of the Times-Democrat,
of New Orleans.
r. A. Allison, supreme grand lee
turer of the temperance reform of
Dallas. arrived Wednesday and Will
remain in Austin during the winter.
]. F. Shinkard, Bloomgeld, Missis-
sippi, A. b. and j. 2. Shinkard, New
bury, Indiana j. d. Mcdaniel. Wash
lngton, are registered at the Carroll
ton.
Messrs. J. n. Preston 81 Son. ar
chitects of this city, have established
branch Office in San Antonio. Mr..
Samuel Preston, the junior member of
the firm, will stay in the Alamo city.
Mr.. VIM. Fife and wife, of Sherman;
E. B. Dana, of New York; A. F.
Jones, of the New Orleans Times
Democrat; S. l.. Drake, of Rock
Island, Illinois, are at the Brunswick.
Little Edwin Nixon, one of THE
STATESMAN folding boys, came near
meeting with serious accident yes
terday. He fell down the stairs and
struck his head on some planks, cut
ting deep cash.
Miss Mona Vernon, leading lady in
the Hidden Hand" is compelled to
wear smoked glasses on account of
having recently had an operation
cold while in Dallas.
The following visitors are at the
Raymond house: Hon. John d. Tenn
pleton, of Fort Worth, attorney gen.
eral-elect; Chas. Pierce, Providence,
Rhode Island; W. H. Hooker, New
York; Jack Snider, Kansas City, Mis-
souri,.
Hon. W. o. Davis, of the 18th sena-
torial district, is here. He was elected
to fill a vacancy in the extra session
of the seventeenth legislature, and al
though the youngest man in the SEN
ate. was one of the foremost in all
that pertained to the good of Texas.
Hon. c. NJ. Rogers, member elect to
the house from Nueces county, and
who left for Vanderbilt university,
Nashville, Tennessee, last night to
place his son, w. NJ. Rogers, in school,
will return Tuesday in time to answer
here !" to the roll call of the house.
Hon. J. Q. Chenoweth, who has
been confined to his bed for several
days with intiammatory rheumatism
in the feet, was much better last even
ing. He told The STATESMAN re-
porter that he would be out at roll
call Tuesday, he thought, which every
one who knows him wishes may be
fulfilled.
DR.. A. E. Goodwin, who returned
from Burdette's school house yester-
day morning, where he had been to
marry Mr.. V. s. Burlington and Miss
Mary Tweedle, says that the roads are
almost impossible. The people down
there, he says, report that the roads
were never known to be in a worse
condition for travelling.
Mr.. Geo. w. Deyo, leading man in
Whiteley's Hidden Hand" called at
The STATESMAN office last evening.
He says that the management are
well pleased with Texas, and Austin
in particular, notwithstanding that
their former treasurer, j. S. Cum
mings, skipped with fifteen hundred
dollars while at Dallas last month.
THE STATESMAN was favored by a |
call from Mr.. John Whiteley yester- |
day. Mr.. Whiteley is the proprietor |
and manager of the troupe that
played here last night, and is the pro-
prietor of another now playing in
Lincoln, Nebraska. He is a perfect |
gentleman in every respect, and fully |
deserves the praise he gets from the |