The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1885-02-05

l. mocratic national committee, &c
cidreS that the story that the commit
tee owes $4,000 is fairy tale.
Mrs. Hatton. the widow of General
Robert Iatton. Of Confederate fame,
has been elected librarian Of Iennes-
see. Texas legislators, please make a
note.
Schuyler Colfax left an estate VII
ued at S55O,OOO. The family mansion.
at Sou h Bend, together with half the
rest to Schuyler ColfaX, jr.
Thomas a. Edison says that in a
years time the New York elevated .
railway trains will be run entirely by /
electricity.
President Arthur, it is said, will
resume the practice of law III New /
York after March 4. He has re
Gently given ord rs for the TeitIting OF
his Old quarters III excellent style.
Voltaira's private correspondence
has Just been sold at auction in Paris.
The prices ranged from $40 to Sl60 !
per letter. The manuscript of Tie
tragedy of Irene brought S4S.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild has
been given the grand cross of the
order of the Iron Crown by the En-
peror Francis Joseph, for his services
in retundins the six per cent. Hun
gariar gold rente.
Lieutenant Schwatka's request to
be allowed to withdraw his Feslgna-
ti0n from the army has been refused
by the secretary Of war, and SchWatka
will leave the service on the 3lSt H.
slant.
From Mr.. Doiby's Renaissance of
| Charles Dickens last American tour
it is learned that the total profit, after
paying all expenses, was $4,000.
| Two counterfeit notes, one for 81 and
one for $40, were received during the
tour.
Gen. Rnsecrans "makes Il" bCnCs,
as the boys say, about his I lid 3a,'
for the place now held by Sec. u-.,Ty
Lincoln. 81 think l ought to be ap-
pointed secretary of war" says he;
Il want the office, the people want me
an my experience fits me for it
Leland Stanford, the senator-elect
from California, has arranged to leave
| his fortune Of $i5,000O00 to the state
| Of California. The state debt Of Cali
fornia, $3OO0,0OO, is TO be paid and the
large balance is to be used as fund
for thorough system Of popular edu-
cation.
Simeon Ballou, of Keene, n. H, was
relating the particulars of the death
OF his brother, which occurred sud
denly frcm appopleXy, when he fell
and Immediately expired from the
same cause, Deceased was about sew
enty-three years of age.
OF j. N. Nesmith, once a United
States Senator from Oregon, who is
in an asylum in that state, the San
Francisco Call says: His condition
grows daily more hopeless. His in
sanity was brought on by domestic
troubles. which occurred less than
three months ago.
Mrs. Hunt, the widow of the late
| minister 10 Russia, thinks that she
should be paid by the United States
government $3.50, or one-foUrth OF
her husbands yearly salary, and
proposition to that end has been repor
: ted favOrably from the senate com
2 mittee on foreign relations.
Senator John Sherman is now men
toned as the most available republi-
can candidate for governor of Ohio a
: the next election. As his term in tn
senate expires in 1887, he will be eX
? pected to carry legislature which
T would be republican, and insure hi
j reelection as his own successor.
Miss Anthony, Mrs. Stanton, Mrs
9 Sheldon, Mrs. Blake and the others o
i the woman's suffrage convention nov
8 sitting at Washington, are describes
+ by the Washington papers as beini
most deliberately clothed; so eXpenslV
), as to raise the query whether any poo
v women are seeking the ballot.
e FIomen Ball. who died at Glendale
= Ohio, lately, was for twenty years tn
It law partner Of the late Chief JuStic
= Chase In 1867 Mr.. Ball was appoint
}. ed register of bankruptcy, which otliC
II he continued to hold until the Iepei
IS of the law Since then he has lived
o retirement. He was quite wealthy.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe. who is
II the head OF the Women's exhibit
y New Orleans, is anxious to make tn
y literary department most importaI
Sc feature OF the women's exhibition
g She is DESTROYS of making as complet
D. collectian as possible of books an
1T pamphlets written by women. In o
der to accomplish this she invit'
authors and publishers throughol
the country to lend her their assistant
by sending to her at the EXpositio
D. without delay, any contributions
in women's literary work which The
~ can make.
~ A writer in Temple Bar, writing
-, ~ The late Mark Rattis0n, says: "One
al al the last letters I had from him was
no thank me for few samples OF son
% cigars l had had given to me. '4o1
oF cigars are far too precious to smoke.
10 am going to nail up one Of them as
Of trophy in the smoking-room. One n
no business to liVein the world as 1t
now unless one is millionaire
w the same letter, speaking of the deslT
% bility of condensing as much as pos
ne BILE in writing, he says: L think
ot must have been the scanty supply
lg paper which made the classics VIII
Al they are.
ae Mr.. Sala is not troubled with mu
y conceit, but he is nevertheless pro-
on of his truly British appearant
a every person." be said during t
rt lecture the other evening, "resemb!
"a. some animal. One has the points
tn a horse, another looks like a goat,
ed Sneep, pdrTot OF cow IL
~ always appeared to me that the hui
- bic Individual now before you resel
s. bles to marked degree thoroug
er bred British bulldog" And as y
ID Sala smiled over the reading desk u
d on his audience there certainly was
Use decidedly buil-dogglsh look on
~ round, rubicund, though nathless jo
u countenance.
~ STATE NEWS
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