The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-21
EDITORIAL Netes.

EDITORIAL Netes.
The Democratic majority in Arkansas is
Al, 900. --
Bob Ingersoll is sure that there is no God
and that Hayes will be elected.
Stearns and ConOver, rival Repub lican
candidates for Governor in Florida, have
coalesced. D.. . T.
Guerrilla Mosby hanged six Michigan
soldiers, and Zach Chandler seems to think
that constitutes good ''wsr record"
Cremation furnace is being built at
Washington, Pennsylvania This is the
first thing of the kind in this country.
The Boston Post says of Jim Blaine: che
begins to realize the fact that from being ~
man of mark he has become marked man."
Whenever Mosby aud Longstreet pass by,
| the Republicans lower the bloody shirt to
half mast as special mark OF honor and
| regard. s.i-- 50 r,h'r
The Washington authorities have issued
| orders that the income returns of R. B.
Hayes shall not be subjected to the inspec-
ton Of the press. This is sacred
thing"
Sitting Bull is now unemployed, and the
Richmond Enquirer suggests that it would
perhaps be we'll for ecretarv Cameron to
engage his services in the prosecution OF
the Southern campaign.}
Fred Grant, lieutenant colonel, is dis
playing extraordinary valor in junketing on
government vessel with half dozen COM
panlons. This is the kind of experience
that fits young man for distinction in the
army.
The Danvllle Times, after having inter
viewed one hundred and four tobacco plan
ters, expresses the opinion that not half a
crop of the weed will be raised in the five
tobacco sections of Virginia and North
Carolina.
In Indiana the political fight is growing
fiercer daily. New speakers are entering
the lists on boch sides, and the State is in a
| blaze of excitement The impression is
universal that we will carry the State by a
splendid majority. .............
Republican negroes of Charleston, sup
piled. with arms and ammunition by the
United States government, shoot down ne
groes who dare to join Democratic clubs,
and this is the kind of peace that Hayes is
expected to give US. no .t ....-
Brigham Ioung's wife No. 10 is Civ
ing him a great deal of trouble. She has
obtained a divorce and alimony, and has
attached among other things his carriage
and horses to satisfy her claims. Brigham,
1t ia said, now advises the faithful to dis
continue their matrimonial alliances before
they get to No, 10. ...s-- ff.. ..,s..s
! 1t was intended 70 he grand occasion,
the one at Dayton, Ohio. Carl Schurz was
to be the orator, and it had been ad vertised
pretty extensively. Bands were kept NOV
ing through the streets, stirring blood for
the occasion, and when the hour arrived the
meeting was adjourned in consequence of
the scarcity of hearers. .t...-..
There has been a stampede from Savan-
nah, Georgia, on account of yellow fever
Some days as many as seven hundred per-
sons would get out of town, cars being
crowded on every road; and to create alarm
in the interior, the physicians of Augusta
announce that yellow fever can be carried
In trunks and hat boxes.
The late general conference of the North
ern Methodist Episcopal Church, held in
Baltimore, made provision for an Episco-
pal visitation of the missions on the west
coast of Africa. Bishop Gilbert Haven has
been selected to perform that duty, and ex-
poets soon to leave FOR England, where he
will take ship for Liberia, the field Of
his labors. .llj ihsIlo7 ,'-'i rF.'' 1850
: Governor Dorsheimer, of New York, will
, enter upon the campaign in Ohio, about the
fifteenth. 1t is intended to give him a num-
her of appointments, both in German and
English, he speaking one language as well
as the other, and he will doubtless be OF
/ great service in the State campaign. The
, appointments for him will be made out in
g day or two. ., ,.t D. t.s 1.a.
Fx-Uuited States Senator Underwood, Of
; Kentucky, whose recent death was an
nounced by telegraph, is said 10 have beer
the last surviving member of the Congress
which passed the Missouri compromise
He was in the lower house then, where hi
served at least six terms before his election
in 1847 as Mr.. Clay's colleague in the Sen
d ate. During the war Judge Underwood
s was staunch, outspoken Union man.
e 1--WE win go to war before we will allow
J the Democrats to obtain control of THU
i governmeut; all who oppose Hayes ar'
J traitors, rebels, secesh and copperhesds
e all Democrats are disloyal, and war is pref
q erable to their control of the national gov
e eminent. ~ The Peoria Democrat report
J, the above as portion of speech mad
u by Governor Beverage at Princeton lately
Fifteen hundred Egyptian troops, to
e gether with the commander, Rabibe Pasha
/. nave been massacred in Abyssinia. Th
It AbyssinisDS afterwards proceeded TO Mas
J. socroa, which they seized. The garrison
u and government officers escaped on boar
t some ships which happened to be in port
|, and arrived safely in Sucz. The Egyptis
s. government is contemplating revenge. an
st is sending fresh troops to the scene of &C
lie ton. The cavalry and artillery are also be
a. ing reorgaDized. na1.i .... i
1t The meeting of Greenbackers at Louis
vile, called by Blanton Duncan an
A. others TO elect delegates to the Green
he back State Convention, to be held 6
Is Enzabethtown. was q signal failure. Thu
ct ty-tive persons, including six newspapt
as reporters and about fifteen TO twenty Ii
" den advocates attracted ny curiosity, wei
" present. The delegates, shout twenty j
ut number. most of whnm were absent, wei
= elected, Hlsuton Duncan and T. j. KEY
Ie editor OF the Agricultural, being on III
h. lis'. Blanton Duncan was the leader of th
In anti-Greeley movement, aud the above NEE
re ing reminds us somewhat Of a State cor
T. vention once held IN the city of Austir
re This convention was smaller than the on
Is held At Louisville, aud its operators mol
Insignificant,
in The vote in Vermont indicates Reput
. Iican gain on The. vote of 1874 Of II, 90:
rs aud q Democratic gain of 7776. The n.
Is increase Of Republican majority in the ele,
be ton of 1874 is 3203 The vote Of bot
4, parties was small in 1874, and the eompar
be son with 1874 is not = fair one. Even cou
II pairing with lS74 the percentage Of increaI
n is largely with the Democrats As COZ
On pared with ie72, the Republican gain
NJ 2eaa and the Democratic gain 44e2. and ii
ey decrease IN Republican majority 1906. Tn
Im is quite - favorable 10 the DemocracE
Re The most ssnguine Democrat could have q
ed pected in Vermont The New York Sx,
al before the election, claimed that maiorfl
Iot Of les shsn ef.eaa would Dc Republics