The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-09-28
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EDITORIAL Notes.

The Woman's Suffrage Safe Convention
N Massachusetts has made State nouina
tiOns. as~i
The first religious newspaper ever putt
lished was the "ReligiouS Messenger" 1t
appeared in Philadelphia in 1913 and was
u Presbyterian enterprise.
The revenue of England for 1852, the
last year before the period of the French
Revolution, amounted to fl5 500, 600 sIer-
imperial taxation.
The health of Count Won Moltke is de-
clining. He caught severe cold, which
turned to intluznZa, while ON the excursion
of the general stall short time cince. He
is now in his seventy seventh year.
The death rate in England rs we'll as in
Americas has been greatly increased by the
intense heat during the last summer. Nearly
the whole of the increase occurred among
infants under, one year of age, and eighty
per cent. OF the Increase is referred to cases
of diarrh9a.
There is u great change in dances. The
galop has become glide waltz. and the
waltz has a brisk exercise, cross between
and hop scotch set to music. The polka i,
in high favor again aud the minuet is to b,
danced at all balls and parties next winter
Why can We not dance as we used to-say
ten years a9ol
A curious calculation has been made by
some lazy printer. Assuming that good
compassion handles 24,000 letters day.
and his hand moves one tont with each let
ter in taking and setting the type, it will
be seer that his hand travels 4S, 600 feet
or nearly rem miles day and in the cours,
of wear, xcluhirg sundays travels fully
the stance from PARIS to New York.
This is the obituary OF the late Genera
JEFF Thompson in the New Orleans Times
| Seen. JEFF Thompson - dead. At st. 10
seph, Missouri, ut O'clock last evening
that genial, wbole-souled, drvil-may- cal,
peTsonitica,ioD Of ,ccenuricity climbed IN,
| golden stair Known and very generally
! liked the length and breadth of the land
scarcely an act OF his life challenged crit
cism, and certainly noLe WIS prove cativ,
of lasting enmity.p SEQ
An English gentlem N residing near Lon
dol recently applied Tor SUNNI. ms agains
a neiehborf VIM had a cnrk which c,m
menced growing at a'clock in the morn
1 ing. TIE magistrate adviser the applIcAn
10 SEND All officer 10 fke uwnrr Of tie fowl
and explain that 1t w1s great nuisance
| then, If no attention were paid to tn
notice, snme action might I've taken. A
the time the last steamer sailed the bird
life was not thought to be worth insuring
New York pays its Governor an annua
salary OF $40, 900, which is the highest pail
in the Union; Louisiana pays IS, 0O0. Cal
iforniss $1,000. Nevada $1,000. Seyei
StAtes-kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri
North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia an,
Wisconsin, $4,000, Maryland s450O. Fou
Stapes-Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Ohio
$4,000. Arkansas, South Carolina an,
Fiofida $500. Kansas. Indiana. Mime
sofa, Mississippi. New Jersey and Tennes
zee each pay $1,000. Illinois. Iowa an,
Maine $500, West Yirginis $27O0, Con
necticur 5000 0regon $500. DelAEAn
$500. and ATchigan, New Hampshire
Rhode Island, Nebraska and Vermont ps.
their Governors respectively 3 salary o
just $1,000. $ tse
Income tax has always been Regarded
with dIsfavor by peoples sadsiled with sucl
burden. Ia England the least reduction
proposed by the Budget was hailed a.
most popular measure, and the party max
ing il was pre1fy sure 20 reap reward il
any eIeciions that followed. In this eoun
trT. although the exIgeneles l1i the govern
ment were known to be great the pe0pl
ln.ser submitted 70 the imposition Of ia