The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-15
Editorial Notes.


again by Kentucky sheriff.
There are said to be one hundred
and seventy-fve applicants for the first
vacancy tbat may occur in the police
force of Richmond, Virgins.
There is a cheerful side even TO the
great Brooklyn fire. The coroners get
S5562 for fees, which is said to be the
largest sum that any American INQUEST
ever yielded.
Governor Hayes is now stating it in
this way: ut has now become a law
suit, and We have good case, good
lawyers, good court and good pros
pects." This is just what Governor Til
den thinks.
The recent New York charity ball
was success despite the hard times
more so than last year. The net re-
celpts will be over $1S, 600. The most
notable display of diamonds Was $780,
900 worth by the wife of Charlie
Backus, the minstrel.
Homeopathy is steadily making
Roadway in France. There are now
seventy doctors of that persuasion in
Paris, and 800 in the provinces.
Within eight years, three hom@o-
psthic hospitals have been founded
two in Paris and one in Lyons.
Some of the Philadelphia papers are
nearly filed with advertisements of
real estate in that city to be sold at
public sale under the sheriff's hammer.
The sales to large extent are to Sc
cure mortgages and taxes. Real estate
in Philadelphia, as in other cities, has
largely Deprecated in value, and will
not sell for much more than half what
it would three or four years ago.
A Washington letter says: 1T is
understood that one of the discoveries
of rhe House South Carolina commit
tee is that there has really been no le-
gal election in that State since recon-
struction. The new constitution has a
mandatory provision for the regis
tration of voters. The carpet-bag and
coiored legislatures have never passed
any registration law, as directed by the
constitution. This may make another
point for the electoral commission to
unravel."
The great white whale in the New
York aquarium died last week. Pre-
vious to his death, instead of swim
ming in circles as was his wont, he
crossed from side to side and dashed
the water into foam, and then, gradu-
ally becoming less and less violent,
dived beneath the surface and died.
The white whale was captured after
months of patient waiting on the coast
of Labrador, about SIX months ago, by
special expedition dispatched for
that purpose by the aquarium.
The verdict of the coroner's jury on
the Brooklyn disaster has just been
rendered. 1t censures in the strongest
manner the business management of
the theater for negligence and culpa-
bility in failing to take proper precau-
tons against fire, and to provide the
proper means and appliances to check
by prompt action the spread of the
flames. Beyond this the verdict of the
jury does not go, but it is clear that in
the hands of counsel it can be used
with great effect in the suits for dam
ages that have already been instituted.
Counterfeit SO bills on the First
National Bank Of Charleston, South
| Carolina, are in circulation. A $40
counterfeit bill on the Union National
Bank of Mount Holly, New Jersey, is
also out. The imitation has ''B. Redg-
way, president; G. M. Herker, cashier,
series of 1885, upon it. The paper is
quite soft in comparison with the regu-
lar government paper; the engraving is
darker and the green of the back is
dark and dull. The fibrous imitation
appears upon the back, but not on the
| front.
A curious rumor is ahoat that the
Porte, in its eagerness for money, has
offered to sell the Hereditary Pashalic,
or the Holy Land, to any candidate &C.
cepted by the Jews, in return for a
loan. The transaction would be one
of the most singular in history, but it
is not beyond the range Of possibility.
Palestine needs nothing but irrigation
and trees, and, although the Jews dis
like agriculture, feilaheen sufficient
might be attracted from Egypt. The
restoration of the Jews, with Lord
Beaconsfield for first king, would be
an incident romantic enough to satisfy
even the Imagination of the author OF
"Alroy."
Washington telegram to the New
York Herald: "There is a story hIgh-
ly creditable to sir. Charles O'Conor.
Some time ago he wrote very violent,
though brief, letter on the political sit
uation, in which he spoke with ex-
treme harshness Of the President. To-
day, the story goes, he asked Secretary
Fish to accompany him to the White
House, where MIR. O'Conor was pre-
sented to the President, and made him
an apology for what he owned was in
temperate and uDjustifiable language.
The President, it is said, met him
frankly and confessed that he had
never seen Mr.. O'Conor's letter, but
had seen allusion to it in the newspa.
pers. He received Mr.. O'Conor's apol-
egy in the same spirit in which it was
given, and it is said the two spent
some time in general conversation.
The incident has been the subject OF
conversation here this evening, and
everybody is gratitied at Mr.. O'Con or's
course as manly and in accord with his
straightforward character and nice
sense of honor"
The american Culti1at0r, a Boston
paper you may be sure, says: "Thc
hay crop of New England is OF greater
vsiue every year than the entire cotton
crop of the Southern States" The
New York World facetiously replies to
this: Doubtless, TO hungry horse. y
II the census tables of the United
States arc worth anything. they will
tell US that the six New England States
harvest annually about 4, 900, 900 oil
tons of hay. The world knows thai
the Southern States export annual,
over 4, 900, 900 of bales of cotton. New
England Consumes about one-half o.
her hay crop, or converts it into dairy
products. The cotton crop is sold FOL
money. A ton of hay is worth in New
England about an average Of ten dol
lars $40. A bale of cotton during
the past year was worth as an averag,
forty dollars $40. 1t needs no doubl,
rule OF three to tell which is the NOR
valuable of the two crops, and vet the
dupes in the land of God and moral
ity" will gulp that assertion of the Cal
tirdtOr as gospel truth.
The New York Graphic accounts fol
the strong Republican opposition to
Conkling as a member OF the electoral
commission, upon the ground that il