The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-15
EDITORIAL Notes.

SIS. 900.
Brigham Young is now so feeble that L
he has to be rolled about IN an easy c
chair, being unable to walk.
Minnie Dyer, the divorced wife Of $
Joaquin Miller, has been married in {
Oregon to Thomas Logan, prOsaIc ex- I
chief of police.
The tumble in prices continues. Bar i
NUNS, so long known as tie hotel of
Baltimore, has reduced its rates to
50 80 and So day.
II is stated as a matter of much i'm
portance that Mrs. Hayes's fsvorite
color is light blue, and that consequent
IL the White Housed is to be refurnished
in that color.
The people Of Sherman vote on the
third of April on the proposition for
the city to assume control of her own
public schools. The Register is
strong advocate of the proposition.
A Philadelphia manufacturer wears
face like rainbow. Since getting
his medal at the exposition, he has
shipped his drills, cultivators and hoes
to Russia, England, Denmark, Austria
la and the Sandwich Islands.
The awful sensation of being caught |
fast by the foot in the frog of rail |
road switch, of seeing a train approach, |
of struggling in vain to get free, and
of being crushed to death, were en-
dured by Edward Hammond, in Gin
| cinnati.
1t is impossible to feel much respect
for the man who whispers in your ear
that "this is critical period, sir, in
your nations existence, sir, and then
follows 1t up with request for the loan
of quarter and subsequent invita-
ton to drink.
Among DR.. Schllemann's latest dis
coveries is small scrap of parchment,
which proves to be letter to Aga
memuon from his mother-in-law. Sac
warns him that the next time he stays
out late at night she'll lock the front
door on him, without fai'.
The Improvements in the long range
firearms have made the bayonet and
sabre comparatively innocent play
things. During the Franco Prussian
war only twenty-one men were killed
on the German side by the bayonet and
lance, and but SIX in cavalry charges.
The battle of Bennington is to be re-
| produced in all its details at the cen
tennial celebration there next Angus.
This will please the Vermonters, who
will doubtless go Stark-mad over it,
but the event won't Molly-fy the feel
ings of their Canadian neighbors any.
The New York Legislature has be-
fore it a, bill, reported from its judi
ciary committee, which proposes to re-
peal the compulsory pilotage law on
the ground of It's injustice. A similar
request was made by former legisla-
ture of Massachusetts,, and the shipping
, men in all parts of the country that
have anything to do with New York
, harbor have intimated that they con-
slider the invidious system that is
practiced by the New York pilots un-
just and unreasonable.
} The prospectus of Coming Ecents, a
new London daily paper, promises Eek
elusive information on everything that
3 is of interest to the general public of
London and suburbs of the occurrence
: of which previous information is to be
obtained" The contents will be ar
ranged under three heads To-day"
! The new journal will take no account
9 of past events, with the exception OF
9 births, marriages, deaths, English
! stock and funds. This must be the
. journalism of the future.
r A New York letter of Thursday says
: ''It looks to-day as if the Gold Room,
e so famous in the history of New York
. nnanccs Tor the past sixteen years,
would close its existence as a separate
institution IN few days, and become
, a part and parcel of the old Stock Elk
: change. Many of the members of the
: latter arc also members of the former,
It and there is a majority of fully three to
one in favor of the union of the two ex
: changes. The question is to be de
3 cided by the eighth of March, and
h those in favor of the union will nc
e doubt carry the day. Othello's Occu
d patton will then be gone to all mem
# bers not connected with the Stock Elk,
h change, as there is really no business
l. left for them to do. 1t has been &
lie wearing and tearing life, and not {
few have been laid in their graves
through the excitement and losses that
> have been incurred since the Colo
:; Room was opened"
,s Not long aftert the stealing OF Charley
d Ross, little son of Henry Doch
a mueller, of st. Louis, was stolen. Thu
1t father had but little property, and wa.
r unable to pay the expenses of an ex
& tenslve search; but he shrewdlY hi
&c upon a plan for accomplishing the OBJ
=. ject effectually. He read the newspa
n pers carefully, and whenever he saw al
re account of the finding of supposed
Is Charley Ross, he sent to learn il the
:. boy was not his lost one. At length
n two years after the kidnapping, he saw
~ an account of stray boy in Illinois
and, on going there, he found what ht
IL had been so long in search Of. Thu
= child's hair had been dyed, and he hat
:, changed much through sickness anC
= deprivation, but there was no doubt a
9. to the identity. He had been stoleI
70 by wandering begg2Ss, who had mad
- his pretty face profitable in exciting
- sympathy. The father is now prose
70 SuSihs shO ouPPOSCN hiuboPpSiS'
k The New York World says: "Thi
E IS an extraordinary piece of news abou
o. Gen. Garfield, that he has sued some
d body in Ohio for libel, for stating tina
d he attended quadroon ball in New
s. Orleans! Why shouldn't Gen. Gar
II field have attended quadroon ball
!. Are not qnadroons women and sisters
,t as much MS Eliza Pinkston herself /
D. Is notorious that the blacks hate al
m the mixed bloods worse than they d.
IS the whites, and the history Of Hayti
N shows that whenever the blacks ge
!. the control of things, no lighter hues
D. can live and thrive. But ought not
o Gen. Garfield to be above those Low
5, jealousies and these cutaneous spites
As Other generals, as black as Gen. Gar
e. field. have attended ,quadroon balls
A. in New Orleans, if history can b,
1. trusted, and no man has been sued TO
mentioning the fact. We really fai
to see why the accomplished membe
y from Ohio should discriminate in thi
u disagreeable way against sex ant
e shades after dining with Packard anC
conspiring 20 make a president will
II j. Madison Wells
: Although the scientific study of tn,
1. | fyraeshnnner NAV mt immad;atol,y aa,,