The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-22
PERSONAL.

John Russell Young's infant child
has been taken charge of by Mrs.
Mackay. Mrs. Young's remains are
to be forwarded to New York.
Ex-Congressman Alexander Nit
chelI, the Railway King" of Wis
consin, is talked of for secretary of
the treasury under Democratic pre-
sident.
Senator Don Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania, will visit Germany, Italy and
Spain before returning to America,
and therefore he will not be back be-
fore next spring.
Josiah Hurd and Mrs. Hurd. of
Sandgate, vt, recently celebrated the
Mr.. Hurd is 90 years old, his wife 80,
and both are in good health.
Mr.. w. S. Gilbert, the operate part
ner of Sir Arthur Sullivan, has just
built himself a new house in South
Kensington, costing. exclusive of fur
niture, etc. more than $4,000.
Queen Victoria has been over
whelmed with poems commemorative
to the death of John Brown, and &C
knowledges them with her autograph;
so if any one desires it he has only to
send an elegy.
Miss Bonnie Jones is the editor of a
wild Democratic newspaper at Ath-
ems, o., but she is describedias the "the
wittiest and brightest girl that can be
found between the rising and the set
ting of the sun"
Miss Mary Anderson's phenomenal
success at the Lyceum theatre, Lon
don, continues to increase. The
nightly receipts now exceed by fully
$1,000 those taken during the per
Torrance of the same piece, "The
Lady Of Lyons" by Mr.. Irving and
Miss Terry.
James Gordon Bennett, Buffalo
BilI'' Cody, Sir William McCormac,
who is Queen Victoria's Doctor, Tom
Sun, an old trapper, Capt. Bogardus,
the crack wing shot, "Boney" Earnest,
the wealthy ranchman of Rawlins, W.
r., and DR.. Carver, the markSman, are
about to meet in Chicago to go hunt
the wild whangdoodle and the grizzly
bear in the Rockies.
The little house in Baker street,
London, wherein BulWer was born,
has become milliner's shop. The
novelist, who looked younger than he
was, nOuriShed his natural vanity in
this particular by ignoring the year of
his birth. He never cared to know it,
his son declares in his preface to the
forthcoming biography. eff some Gu
rious impertinents," Bulwer himself
says, "are anxious to know what year
of the Lord that event took place, let
them find out for themselves" And
when questioned on the matter he
would answer with laugh: cit is a
Cretan mystery" After this fashion
the veteran dandy maintained with
out direct assertion the pleasant fic-
ton of youth.
According to Comte Vasili, in Nine.
Adams Nauvelle Revue, the Crown
Prince Of Germanyis unable to appre-
ciate the full responsibility of his
high station; he is a paterfamilias and
nothing more. He is passionately de-
voted to his family, with the eXcep-
ton of his eldest son, of whose hardy
spirit he stands in awe. His adora-
ton of his English wife has given
him an English air, and as he is an
admirer of art and science his father
and Bismarck regard him as an ITO
plan idealist. But the people OF the
empire in general regard think well
of him. His one ambition is to reign,
and Comte Vasili thinks that the
greatest good fortune that can befall
France is that the reign be prolonged
for there will be peace in Germany
while he is on the throne.