The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-08

Inc excitement IN Europe mas proven
a very material stimulant of the flag
gIng industries OF this country. The
orders 70. war material will, 1t is said,
yield SIS. 600, 900 OF exchange to the
cities of Hartford, New Haven, Spring
field and Providence.
The rival schools of medicine are
likely to join battle in Buffalo over an
appeal of the homeopathic doctors to
tho city government for representation
in the city board of health. The doc
tors in their petition say that out of a
population of about 100, 900 in the city,
30, 900 are treated By homGopathists.
An attempt is making to cheer up
the English people from the despond
ency into which they have been
plunged by this dreary winter by sug-
costing the possibility that our sun is
rapidly burning up. It is said that
sun in another system, Composed of
much the same chemical substance as
our own, has now suddenly assumed Il
brIlliance which implies an enormous
addition to the intensity of its heat as
we'll as its light. rs planets, if it has
any, are probably now undergoing COM
bustiOn themselves, while the inhabi-
tants have ceased to he. In any eX-
preston of opinion on this interesting
subject it will be well for each reader
to consider whether he would prefer to
be frozen CT burned to death, and then
put his house in order with a view to
either contingency.
Rowel's Newspaper Reporter and
Printers Gazette confirms other evil
dence IN reporting the newspaper bust
ness in New York City at Its lowest
ebb. Never year, it says, in the
memory OF the oldest printer has the
business been more Improbable; the
circulation and advertising patronage
of the newspapers have fallen off
alarmingly; not one of the large book
and job offices has even fair supply
of work; competition was never SO az
tive, and prices are absurdly low.
There are now in the city five hundred
| printers out of work, and, though the
nominal prices for piece-work range
from 40c to 45c a thousand, many
offices pay but SOC, and weekly wages
range from $15 and $40 to $19 and
$40; and first class Adams pressmen
are down to $50. Combinations ID
printers have no power, if they had the
disposition. to resist this fall in wages
| there are enough outsiders eager tc
take all vacant places at almost any
price.
Toledo, Ohio, has set en- example il
its daily newspaper business tina. is
likely to be followed, sooner or later,
IN many other of the third and fourth
class cities of the country. Its morn.
ing and evening papers, the Con'Her'
erciGL and the BiQde, have been united
into one property, and a single office,
but their separate publication is con
tinued with independent editorial man
agement and distinct matter. BY this
combination there is great saving in
the machinery and expense of publish
ing and printing and reporting, oil
which the public ultimately reap the
chief benefit of getting better newspa-
pers for the same money. When
journalism fully respects itself, and is
followed for Itself, and not as a tender
to party or lever to Office, such
economical combinations of its ma
chinery will not only be feasible, but
popular. Meantime, there will be 6
great deal of waste of raw material fol
which, in one way or another, the
public will have to pay.
The life.work to which Deronda con.
secrated himself may not have been a:
visionary as most readers of the move
suppose. An English traveller, who
has recently returned from the Holy
Land, informs the London Times thai
everywhere from Dan to Beersheba'
he saw signs of strange activity Oh
the part of the Hebrew race, and tina,
from all the countries of Europe 1t i.
flooding back, IN great numbers, tt
Palestine. In Jerusalem ana its neigh
borhood, especially, every plot o.
ground for sale is eagerly bought up by
them. NIerdecai, TOO, would hav,
taken heart if he could have witnessed
the recent Paris conference OF dele
gates from Jewish associations all owe
the world. The Examiner says thai
there has been no such gathering anC
organization OF Jewish opinion since
the dispersion of the nationality
"What the conference decided upoI
doing on the Continent beyond gener
ally watching after Jewish interests wa
not made public, but their action il
England was extremely moderate. Thel
simply sent deputation to Lord Der
by to urge upon his attention that il
Roumania the Jews had been treated
for series of years with great bar
barity, whole villages burned and popu
lations outraged and put to death; anC
that IN Servia also they had undergon,
persecution and deprivation of ciyi
rights"
Five converts were baptized in tn,
Schuylkill, near Norristown, by Rev
Jacob Gotwals, Dunkard minister a
the Green Tree church. Where tn,
ceremony was performed, the rive
runs so swiftly that no Ice had formed
The water was extremely cold, apC
there came near being a serious acci
dent. The Dunkard ceremonial differ
i'll some respects from that of the Bap
lists. The convert enters compare
lively shallow portion of the water anc
kneels down. They are dipped tire,
times, immersed once in the name o
the Father, once in the name of thu
Son, and once in the name OF the HOLY
Ghost. Between each immersion tn,
convert is given time 10 recover breath
One of the novitiates in this case wa
3 stout lady. When she entered thu
wa er she lost her balance. Mr.. Got
walls is not very strong, and was prett,
thoroughly chilled, and when b,
caught her he too was carried
away. \ thrill Of horror ran through
the crowd as the pastor and the lady
were about to be swept swiftly uude
the solid ice. Two gentlemen on tn,
bank plunged boldly in, caught then
and saved them from their peril. An
other lady, when she had emerged
from the water, came near falntin!
from cold and exposure. The cere
mony would not have been performed
until warmer weather. but the convert
were not willing to wait.
1t is insisted that Senator Christianc,
will have to rise to personal explana
ton in the Senate. A paragraph ha
been going the rounds of the press 70
several weeks to the effect that his re
| cent wedlock has been blessed with al
offspring. The sex of the child, tn,
weight and even the name have beef
mentioned by painstaking and accurate
paragraphs. The friends of Mr. ant