The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-14

Ex-Congressman Jay Hubbell is
att ending to his stock farm in Ne
braska.
Gov. Cleveland, it is said, will make
an extensive tour through the South
in the gentle springtime.
D. r. Locke is regarded by New
Orleans -. reporter as the "Shaggies'
aid most uncouth licking journalist
he had ever seen.
The Portuguese explorers, Senhores
Capelos and Ivens, have just sailed for
| West Africa 1t is expected that they
will be absent for about two years.
Baron de Waggstaffe, 4 Russian
nobleman, now in Chicago, has been
sent to this country by that govern
ment to study the American railroad
| system.
Senator Hoar has an abiding faith
| in woman suffrage. He objects to the
| new anti-Mormon bill only on the
ground that it takes away the ballot
from the woman, and such women,
too!
Count Herbert Bismarck, the first
secretary of the German embassy at
st. Petersburg, greatly resembles his
father. AS diplomatist he is man
of promise. German royalty watches
him with great interest and hope.
at Schenectady, n. Y, Nicholas
Sauerborn, in discussing politics with
John Steffens, a cripple, said that Pres
ident Arthur was genuine dude" "
| Steffens called SauerbOrn liar and
was knocked down. Sauerborn was
fined So.
An interviewer who spent day
travelling in Pullman car With Sen
ator Logan, says: Later on l smoked
a cigar with the senator, and found
him brilliant, affable. although it had
not escaped my eye that he was just a
trifle shy until a nod of consent from
his wife melted the frost of his re-
serve"
Boston has had little experience of
the Charley Ross order. A boy named
Jesse Dean disappeared from his home
and, after keeping the police and the
newspapers agog for week, coolly
returned with the story that he had
been on a trip to the provinces, beg
ging his trip both ways with tale of
distress.
A sensation was caused in Nashville
last week by the arrest of a beautiful
young woman who for a week had
been acting at the Buckingham thea
ter under the name of Nellie Palmer,
who proves to be an escaped nun of a
Fort Sernia, Ontario, convent. She
had been acting four months on the
variety stage and had just been traced
down. Her right name is Nellie
Tromby, and she has been sent to her
home in Detroit under escort. She
and her stage sister, Mamie Palmer,
wept bitterly at parting.
John Harris, the Cornish poet, who
was the author of one thousand and
one pieces OF Thyme and prose, which
was highly praised by Longfellow,
has just died at Falmouth, aged sixty
three. The son of miner, he often,
in his early days of poverty, used ink
made of the juice of blackberries. In
1864 he got the prize for the best poem
on the tercent;iry of Shakespeare. Six
years ago Lord Beaconsfield secured
him a grant of $1,000 from the Royal
Bounty fund, but most of 1T was lost
by the suspension of the Cornish
bank. Mr.. Gladstone then made him
a grant of $500 from the civil list.
M. Ruel is a sort of French Hollo
way. He began life by selling
matches, and then became the largest
manufacturer of them in France, his
wealth being estimeted at 25,OOO,OOO
francs. One of his charitable enter
prises was to start restaurant for
the pooI in the Rue de Rochehowait,
Paris, at which a hearty dinner can
be obtained for 10 cents, and of which
an average of GOO paupeIs avail them
selves daily. He has now, from
equally humane motives, built the
Hotel Bevaurerage at Cannes. where
Invalid, compelled to go there for
thrir health can have board and
iodeiag for from seven to twelve
francs a day.