The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-01-25

which Is right, and will submit :,
nothing that is wrong" The MAJ
who demands more OF will submit Il
less is not Democrat.
4 colrrej lawyer was, on Monday
admitted to practice in the SUPREME
Court of the United States. Two O.
three Others of the race have been al
mitted within the last ten years, bU
none had been previously.
The defunct Security Life Insuranc,
| Company of New York leaves Owe
nine hundred policy holders in low,
alone 10 mourn 1t collapse. Their az
Gregate insurance is 81 32I, orc. 0l
which the premiums amount to $50.
455.
Some idea of the immense yield o
wheat in California may be gained
from the assertion made in san Fgsa
cisco paper that after the mex y
. months at least a cargo day oj Cag
foruia wheat will be landed At v4ri.u,
European ports.
Freight traffic is still very heavy
/ On some road engines are not ruu inll
EnGses at all. As soon rs they srr.v,
a; terminal pOiat they are urucl
around and seat cut in charge Of
another set of men. Ga some of III,
through lines cars cannot bG had in
sufficient quantity 10 carry all the
goods presented for shipment.
The directors of the National Bank
of Commerce of New York are polling
their stockholders on II proposition t.
reduce the capital stock of the bank
from SO, 900, 900 TO S., 900, 900, on &C.
count of the excessive taxation. The
| bank has the alternative TO abandon
! the national system altogether and pur.
sue purely credit business under the
old State law, under which the Bank
of America still employs Il capital oi
SO, 900, 900 and surplus of s., 600, 600
Steps have been taken to acclmatize
the Florida cedar IN Bavaria. The
over all other kinds of cedar is well
known, and the demand for the
| species in Bavaria, where immense
quantities of lead pencils are made, has
| induced manufacturers to venture on
the experiment. Seeds have been s6wn
in the royal forest, and about 5000
young plants are now thriving in one
batch.
Icebsrgs fifteen feet high have been
passing down the Mississippi, and
| Armstrong, q great photographer, has
I been taking pictures of the mighty
river IN Its mad majesty and splerdor.
The spectacle presented is sublime be-
yond conception. The broad, bolster
Gus bosom of the mighty drain of the
continent, its moving islands OF ice
glistening in the sunshine, its shore s
hedged in by impenetrablc forests or
crowned by splendid city, constitute
picture that should make an artist
immortal.
Mr.. Bennett was only trying TO test
bis mother-in-law, and he thought he
would begin early. The Baltimore
Amcrlcan says: "Mls. May desired
her daughter to be married In we'd
ding dress, and Mr.. Bennett insisted
on travelling costume. Mrs. May SAID
1t was usua. to leave such details TO
the brides mother, and Mr.. Bennett in
his wrath declared that things should
be as he wanted them. and he was GO
ing to be married privately, and would
not have any Of the May family present
anyhow, and more to that effect"
A New York letter of SaturdG~says
''The Liverpool news for cotton as
tonished the exchange-such thing
as sales of 80, 600 bales on a Saturday
being almost unprecedented in the an
mails of the trade. Prices, too, were
again higher, and the market closes the
week with an advance Of a half penny
per pound. The reason for the i'm
provement abroad is the small receipts
at American ports and the interior
towns, coupled with the prosperous
condition of the trade IN the mGnufac-
turing districts"
The Kansas and Missouri Associated
Press Association held its annual meet
ing at Leaveaworth on the seventeenth
instant. Nothing except routiEe bust
ness was transacted. The following
directors were chosen for the ensuing
year: John A. Martin, d. w. Wilder,
I:aac p. Moore, NJ. Mrnford, S. 4.
Gilbert, +. p. Baker, 4. ID. Thacher,
y. S. Elmer and D. r. Anthony. john
4. Martin, PRECEDENT, and d. Il. An
tlony, secretary and treasurer, ware
unanimously reelected. Might rot
the Texas press get its dispatches from
the association What does Muniord
ssy about 1t?
Henry Meigs, the railway contractor
Of South Americs, has made en- i'm
mense fortune. He left California a
bankrupt. He owns two Residences
one N Lima and the other in the sub
u. bs - where he dispenses hospitality
to every American or foreigner, and
especially to Californians, on every oc-
cPsion. His "Quinta," or private
dwelling houle, is situated in the midst
of sixty acres of pleasure grounds,
filled with the rarcst fruits and flowers.
Half OF the entire product of his or
chard he gives to the Sisters of Charity
in the city, who come and gather 1t
themselves every year. NIeigs is about
sixty five. He has several children.
A New York letter says: ''New York
pastors, with very few exceptions,
complain of the difficulty of getting
enough money to pay the current ex-
penses of tiIir churches, and many are
obliged to 'shIn around" as they say,
in the street, to obtain cash Often by
loan) to square up on settling day. A
good deal of money loaned on church
| buildings by savings banks and in
| i'll Ia.
unsafely placed. know one church,
with a congregation not over-wealthy,
which carries mortgages to the amount
of $50, 1000. The property would
hardly bring that amount if it were
offered at auction. Another church,
still less wealthy, is mortgaged for
$40, 600.
Patrick Donahoe, the Boston pub
Usher, who failed about a year ago,
owed nearly 500, 900 to depositors IN
the saving bank which was one of his
business enterprises. Donahoe's pa
per, the Pilot, was bought by its edi-
tor, Mr.. John Boyle O'Reilly, in con-
nection with Archbishop Williams.
Although in no way legally or moral v
responsible for the losses suffered by
Mr. Donahoe's depositors, the new
proprie;ors of the Pilot assumed the
debt. Mr. O'Reilly has so managed
the finances of the paper that he is
now able to declare first dividend of
ten per cent. to the depositors. The
course of the new owners of the Pilot
is so honorable, and, unfortunately, so
unusual, that we notice it here.
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