The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-17
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS AND
THINGS.

LY6Tg wing 10 luicU at fcoulclOn,
oregon.
Edward Greaves waylaid and muir
lured near Jackson, Miss.
There are now 14,OOO men en-
lloyed on the Panama canal.
J. II. Rothschild suicided at Brook
yn While temporarily insane.
The wreck of large steamship
was seen near Cape Hatteras on the
10th.
Heavy snow storms are interfering T
with railroad traffic in New York
state.
The silk-weavers in New jersey
will strike against reduction of |
wages.
The Baptist church at Evansville.
Wis. was destroyed by fire. Loss |
$4,000.
The Catholic Total Abstinence IN
ion Of Illinois endorse the high Ii |
cense law.
The orange groves in southern Ala
bama have suffered greatly by the
late frosts.
-Four members of the salvation
army in Paterson, n. j., were arrest
ed for disturbing the peace.
Leonardo Giama killed fellow
Italian, at Erie, Pa, shooting him in
the breast after brief alteration.
Frank Taggart and Geo. Cleveland,
two more OF the Southern Pacific rail
road train wreckers, have been cap
tured.
The funeral OF the unidentified vic
tins of the convent fire q, Belleville,
Ills, took place Sunday, and was very
largely attended.
1t is reported that Speaker Carlisle
will not allow his name to be used in
connection with the United States
senatorship of Kentucky.
The foreign exhibition in Boston.
open since September 9th, closed last
night. It has been failure financial
ly, the deficit being $4,000.
1t is stated that Emperor William
has refused to allow divorce between
Prince Frederick Charles and his wife.
and separation is mutually agreed
upon.
John Tennis and Daniel Riordan
had fight in Galveston in which the
latter got seriously wounded. Frank
Anderson, a sailor, was dangerously
cut by Robert Manning in the same
city.
During a quarrel at Mauch Chunk,
Pa, between John Lendermuth and
John Ormble, in the house of the lat
ter, both were seriously stabbed.
Ormble s injuries are fatal. Lender
muth has been jailed.
On application to the Central Trust
Company Of New York Judge Nc
Creary. of the United States circuit
| court at koekuk appointed w. r.
Woodland receiver of the Texas s. st.
Louis narrow guage railroad,
Hon. John Kasson declares that he
is not candidate for United States
Senator from Iowa. Allison will IN
doubtedly be reelected. The Demo
Gratis will probably vote for a. Il.
Kline, late candidate for governor.
Whats phrenology. MAJ" Bumps
on the head, my dear" WAS pa phre-
other morning and you were putting
vinegar and brown paper on his head,
MAJ"
In New York the fashionable thing
on runners is the Russian vehicle,
with plumes on its front corners, and
drawn by three horses abreast, the
middle beast bearing high arch of
jingling bells. Great quantities of
costly fur are in and over the sleigh,
and on the harness.
| Moses Levy & Co., bankers, London
commenced suit in the United States
Court 1T Denver against Ex-senator
Stephen W. Dorsey for over $4,000
and interest for eleven years. Dorsey
in an interview said that the suit
grows out of a transaction in 1871 in
Arkansas State and Arkansas Central
Railway bonds, of which company he
was then President.
Europe produces 3.00O,500,00O gal.
Ions of beer annually. or 56,25 gallons
per inhabitant. Americas product is
376, 775,0OO gallons per annum, OF
2015 gallons per inhabitant. The
highest consumption in Europe is that
of Belgium, 6325 gallons pei inhab.
liant, and the lowest that Of Russia
rs gallons per annum.
Mr.. Jon Shirley. one of the largest
landowners in Australia, has just
purchased from the Southern Pacific
railroad all the camelS used by that
company in carrying goods and freight
across the deserts of Arizona. There
are about 500 animals now living. Mr.
Shirley intends shipping them to Aus
tralia, where he will use them fol
carrying purposes on his cattle
ranches.
The day Of cheap libraries" il
quarto form has apparently gone by
Shortly before the end of the year the
| 4 Nnuyo Torornnu I'm n
to the publishers of the Seaside Ii
brary" 100000 copies of books which
had been placed in the hands of thu
company and distributed by theil
agents on sale. The effort is now be
| ing made to revive popularity in this
cheap reprint business by issuing
standard works and new Engllsl
books in duodecimo form, an attempt
which is proving but mildly success
full.
The quarterly return of marriages
births and deaths in England, ending
|, September, 1888, shows the resident
, population of the United Kingdom t.
be 35 $50. 800 persons. that of England
and Wales being 26, 770,774; of Scot
land, 1926, 744, and of L. Gland 5,042,
582. Total births in the United King
, dom, 271, 1892 children; deaths, 1927
marriages, 119,428. Birth rate, 80 OF
: death rate, 1876; marriage rate, 1874
| The annual death rate from diarrhRa
, diseases as compared with continental
: cities is given as follows: In twenty
| eight large English towns, 81 per 1000
} Breslau, 80; Munich, 8.4, Berlin, IL
Railway cars drawn by camel
/, would overturn- the equanimity o
even an Englishman, trained to SHOW
surprise at nothing. Yet such ar
, soon to be in use in Central Asia. L
is proposed by the Russian govern
ment to build line of rails iron
Khiva, which is south of the Sea o
!, Aral, in Turkestan, to Taschkend.
place of 10000 inhabitants, nearly 60
miles further east. The road is to b
built on the Blecher system kim
of raised railway resting on peculiar
ly placed sleepers--and will follow
the course now taken by caravans
: Probably the number of camel
thrown out of employment us carrier
will be large enough to supply tn
force required by locomotives.
Who's Dat KnOckIn'
Washington Republican.