The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-07
EDITORIAL Notes.

Macmillan Joseph Chelius. the great
physician of Heidelberg, is dead.
b w. F. Slemmons, present incumbent,
hss been renominate6 for Congress by the
Democrats of the Second District of Ar
kansas. t,su .rstr r.r
Gen. Sherman is of opinion that the hos
tile Sioux have determined no; to fight,
and that hey will attempt to cross the Vel
lowstone. ii
Louisville editors explain the anomaly
that more of them do not die from water
on the brain By the statement that they
don't absorb any Of the stuff into the sys-
tenn.
The ship Golden Gate, which sailed from
New York for Shanghai, took out $500 bales
of domestic drillings and sheetings, the
largest shipment of American goods since
1868.
DR.. Shoots name is still travelling the
round of the press. The New York World
says thst minister can take course which
would unfit him for political, but not for
divine service.
The Danville Times, after having inter
viewed 102 tobacco planters, expresses the
opinion that not half a crop of the weed
will oe raised in the five tobacco sections of
Virginia and North Carolina. Is ...
Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, whom
the Radicals so bitterly denounce, was an
earnest opponent of the African slave trade
when its reopening was proposed, Many
of the negroes will vote for HIM.
A water spout burst over the Humane es-
adjustment at St. Psul's Island, the eigh-
teenth inst, DESTROYING five buildings aud
killing one man. Two storehouses and one
dwelling stand, much shattered.
When New York railroad company
fails to have drinking water in its cars, it
becomes subject to SIS fine for each Of
tense. Some of our Texas railway COM
panles ought to exist under New York
laws. .-.a.. 81 .HI Ht
The question has never yet been settled
why it is that the woman who wears false
teeth and store hair always occupies the
front seat at campmeeting and shouts glory
the loudest when the preacher says truth is
mighty. 5Al '''- .'
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany arelreducing the pay of their work
men, The daily pay of engineers has been
reduced from 81 tn So so, conductors from
So 80 to, So, firemen and brakemen from
So. 2s to $1.75. ..-,.. IAN. ,....
An editor illustrates the prevailing ex.
travagance of the people of the present day
by calling attention to the costly baby car
riages in use now, while, when he was a
baby, they bauled him around by the hair
of his head. r 4 ar.
British explorers are now at work in
Chatham county, North Carolina, prospe Ct
ing for copper, gold and silver ORE A
smelling furnace costing 800. 900 will be
built; and 600 skilled operators brought
from England. y ,Jr, lou p'auha
China has 113 youths in Connecticut un-
der course of study, which is to cover
fifteen years., embracing an academic, COL
legiate ana professional course. TIE Chi
nese governmt Mt has appropriated 81, $780,
600 for this purpose.
President Porter, of Yale College, says
that billiard tables should be provided for
the students. whereupon the Presbyterian
exclaims: Shades of the Puritan found
ers! Billiard tables for Yale Collegel Men
of God, think of it,"
'SouHdings preliminary to the undertake
ing of connecting England and France by
submarine tunnel are about completed.
The engineers-are satisfied sbodt the feast.
bility of the enterprise. When completed
it will out rank any enterprise in the world.
Sitting Bull has eysded Crook and Terry,
and now all his wild bulls are with him in
mountain Businesses, and it is thought the
campaign for this season is at an end. The
buffalo bulls will be in Texas in large herds
this fall and winter, and Sitting Bull may
remain in reach of them. .ri'1r. 81 r al
The South has really more fu2aaces in
blast in proportion to her number of inhabi-
tants than the North has, and very few are
losing money. 1t is asserted that the only
mill in the United States running exclusive
ly on railroad iron, which declared legiti-
mate dividend for 1875, was the one in
Chattanooga. ...,,. s.- -al
Women are slowly but surely getting full
control of the schools of the country.
Women may now serve as school officers III
many of the States. In Pennsylvania there
aie several women serving as directors, and
one as Superintendent In Iowa and Hi
nois there are twenty of them serving at
county superintendents. In the former
State local court having decided women
ineligible to any school Office, before night
of the next day the Legislature of the State
passed an act giving them undoubted right
to serve in that capacity. 4.,,-r
That funeral at Davenport, Iowa, was
turned into laughable affair. The driver
of the fifth carriage struck hay stack
which he was passing, with his whip, and
large colony of hornets happening to be
disturbed thereby, and becoming immedi-
ately aroused, came out in full force and
made furious attack npon the procession.
The scene was fearful one. Horses ran,
drivers swore terrible oaths, the men be-
came, desperate, and all this time the
corpse was as serene and as even-tem-
pered as though nothing extraordinary had
happened. s
Since September the Columbus. Geor-
GA, mills have taken 10, 454 bales Of cotton
against 1899 the same time last year, show
| ing an increase of 1856. Adding the 150f
bales, furnished in our market for the Au.
gusta factory makes the total home-taking'
in Columbus, for home manufactures
IL, 900. This cotton realized to the plar.t
er about eleven cents per pound, aud it
value has been trebled by passing through
our mills, and sent out 10 the world a
yarns, cloth, striped goods and cassimeI ,es
thus bringing to Georgia, above the ne
price of the raw staple. 81. 315 600. Tina
| is much better than sending cotton bal, IS h
the North. .r..,. ir,s,..r ffs 1rn .peYfT
The Hon. John W. Foster, United y ate
Minister to Mexico, IN q letter TO the 8 ecre
tary of State, calls attention TO the cut tivs
ton of coffee in our neighboring rept iblic
Mexico, he says. is exporting very littl
cUffee, but it has agricultural capacir y 70
producing all that can be consumed 10 th
United States, and Of quality, too, equi
to the best grown in any CT untry
'sMexico," he says, 'for three CT ntunt
past has been famous for its great lIrodut
ton and exploration Of silver. But In col
fee alone il possesses far greater source {
wealth and prosperity. Its natural capacit
for its production is at least equal 70 tia
| of Brazil, yet the value OF the C flee ANNA
| " exported from Brsz is more than tl3rt
times as great as that Of the silver and gol
product of Mexico" Agriculture req Dir,
| something besides natural condition
soil and climate in order 70 become gre,