The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03

for our goods, we SIX ore Co.
ton mills. Indeed, we III prudent
and well informed cotton manufactu-
rers who believe that if the Southern
troubles are happily settled, and
speedy return to specie payments were
probable, it would be safe and protita-
able to invest money in new mills at
once, selecting the most favorable 10
calities and putting In the best ma
chinery, so as to compete on the most
favorable terms with the old mills.
The government will find some diff
Guilty in getting the 81, 500, 600 that
Joseph L. Lewis, the eccentric Hobo
ken man, left it. The woman who
claims to be Mrs. Lewis, and therefore
entitled to third of the money, says
she was married to him in 1857, but
lived with him only year, as they
quarrelled constantly. Lewis's old
housekeeper and the servant-maId are
dead, and not even his intimate friends
ever heard him mention his marriage.
The woman shows marriage certlf-
cate, but the officiating justice died
three years ago, and the two witnesses
cannot be found. A daughter of the
justice is said to be willing to testify
to the marriage, and an expert exami-
nation of the certificate gives no COM
fort to the government lawyers, who
are evidently nervous about the matter.
Meanwhile along cones another party,
George Cathcart from Belfast, who
says he is able to bring abundant proof
that he is a legitimate son of old
Lewis's sister, and the rightful heir.
The lawyers in reply to this give
romantic story, to the effect that Lewis
and his sister were the illegitimate off
springs of wealthy planter of Jamaica
and his quadroon housekeeper. The
daughter married an English army off
Ger and settled in Ireland, and Cath
cart is her son. But as both Lewis and
Mrs. Cathcart were illegitimate, the
lawyers contend there can be no recog-
nizable heirs.
The Paris Exhibition of 1878 will
not only be in a beautiful and commo-
dious building, surrounded by foun-
tains and gardens of loneliness yet
unknown to the most experienced
sight-seers, but the exhibition will be
only one of the new things now in
preparation to attract and fascinate all
the CAD about world, whether grave or
gay. In 1867 folks went to see a new
and more splendid Paris than was ever
imagined twenty years before, called
forth out of narrow streets and fetid
alleys into space and light. The people
who go thither in 1878 will behold the
fairest city of the earth. finished and
dressed as though for bridal. The
stately plan of the new "Hotel de
Ville," now rising fast on the noble site
of that destroyed by the Commune,
will complete the magnificent line of
public buildings on the right bank of
the Seine. which begins with the
Tuileries. to terminate with grand dis
play of architecture which includes the
new courts of justice, the prefecture of
police, and the ancient towers of Notre
Dame. The spacious hospital of the
hotel Dieu will be finished in 1878;
and the Louvre will stand proudly out
from her ruins. The avenue de POpera
will be opened; and SO will the new
boulevard st. German, called after the
name of forgotten abbot, yet destined
to be one of the busiest thoroughfares
of city now hardly sufficiently i'm
pressed. with respect for benefited
clergy men highly connected. Tram
ways from every point of the compass
will be forever on the move; and there
is confident talk of an underground
railway, which will relieve the streets
of superabundant traffic, to the joy of
all shOrt-sighted or feeble persons at
crossings Paris is also to be so illu-
minated by central electric lights set up
in exalted positions that the night will
be as clear as the day, and much mer-
rier, with all kinds OF music.
The well informed New York cores
pendent of the Philadelphia Ledger
writes: 1.-THE fact has already been
mentioned that some days since an in
vitation was extended TO Wade Hamp-
ton to visit this city after he had dis
posed of his business at Washington.
The impression at the time was that
the invitation came from some of the
bankers and merchants, and that the
real purpose was to hear his views with
reference to the State debt of. and the
business situation in, South Carolina,
matters in which her numerous credi-
tors here have a direct interest. It
transpires now, however, that there
was political motive at the bottom of
it. The story, as told By the knowing
ones az the clubs, Is, that certain Of
the Democratic leaders here have their
eve on Hampton as the most available
candidate for the next presidency, and
that It was really for the purpose of
sounding him on that point that his
preseace was requested in New York.
The men who are parties TO the intrigue,
it is scarcely necessary 70 say, have
never been the real friends Of Mr..
Tilden, though nomiDally support
ing him, and they are anxious
now to somehow commit the party in
advance against joining its fortunes