The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-03-22
Editorial Notes.

NC ANS'' Joun MOODY Is IN prison In
Cincinnati for approprlating to his own
use money that he had collected osten-
sibly to build a church.
Robert Browning, il is rumored,
means to make translation OF the
"Agamemnon," with Photographic il
lustrations of the Myceue relics.
The Queens state saloon on the
Great Western Railway, England, is
made entirely of boiler plate, and so
lined aad padded that if the carriage
were to so over an embankment and
roll to the bottom the chances are that
the occupants would escape uuinjured.
Somebody in Boston said to John
Weiss lately: do you think that the
intelligence Of Boston is iusulted by
this Moody and Sankcy enterprisel"
No." responded Mr.. Weiss; "for
don't think the intelligence of Boston
has been address ed."
Peter the Great, it has been discov-
cred, was the founder OF the first Rus
sian newspaper and also the first editor
ever known in Russia. He WAS his
own foreign correspondent, translating
from the foreign journals, and correct
ing and preparing the news for the edi-
tcation of his subjects.
In the United States, where a whisky
shop, blacksmith's shop, a grocery,
and two or three residences constitute
many city, it is strange to read that
the English are only now talking of
nlaVntlnO pf
to civic dignity. Yet such is the fact,
Liverpool is only town.
A clerk in the Russian ordnance
office at Alexandrspol has just been
condemned to penal scrvitude for life
for selling plan of the fortress there
to the Turks for the sum of 600 rubles.
The Russian military police arrested
the clerk In question on Turkish terri
tory before he had time to part with
the plan.
Louise Pomeroy, wife of the noto-
rious editor, Is on the stage in Chica.
go. The man of the Inter Ocean goes
into raptures over her hair, surround
ing her like mis-, four feet long, fine
as spun glass, thick as the name of
young lion, and in color that peculiar
ly lovely blonde tint that has softer,
warmer look than that we call gold
en-"
Professor Z. B. Taylor said, in a re-
cent lecture son Philosophy of Ian
guages," at the London Institution
"Should the extraordinary increase of
English-speaking people continue at
existing ratio, there will in twenty
years be $50, 0O0,OOO Of them, as
against so, 900, 900 of French or Ger
man. The English language bids fair
to overwhelm all Others"
The entire cost of moving the ODE
lisk called Cleopatra's needle from
Egypt to London is to be borne by an
eminent English surgeon, Mr.. Erasmus
Wilson. He has made the necessary
arrangements with Mr.. Dickson, the
civil engineer, at an estimated cost of
$50, 200. The obelisk will be sur
rounded with water-tight and alright
casting of boiler plates; will have
wooden keel and an iron deck, and
will be towed through the Mediteira-
mean by powerful steamer.
One of the peIils of matr.mony has
recently been disclosed in a London
court. a married lady owned race
horse, upon which she had given sew
eral mortgages. The horse was en-
tered for various races, and the mort
cages were pressing for payment; the
trainer claimed hen for his expenses,
and by way OF settling all these con-
flicting claims it had been suggested
that the horse should be sold. A law
yer, who appeared for the lady's hus-
band, stated that his client knew moth.
ing about his wife's race horses, and
cared less, and that he begged that
the application as against himself might
be dismissed with costs. The Master
of the Rolls replied that the unhappy
gentleman was responsible for his wife's
acts, and that If the lady sold the
horse, or otherwise parted with it, he
would be liable constrrctively for her
contempt of court, and would have to
go to prison accordingly. II man
chose to marry lady who owned race
horaes he must take the consequences.
Readers of edwin brood" will re-
member the description of Opium Sal
and the den in the East End of Lon
don,, at Blue Gate Fields, in which
that extraordinary character lived.
Through the kindness of clergyman's
wife, who had heard OF her, Sal was
recently offered a comfortable home
in the country. She will not accept
it, as she says she could not live with
out her opium. She has smoked OPT
um for twenty years, and without
opium no nourishing food would make
life endurable. She still lives in the
room where Dickens found her. Her
chief support is the opium which she
sells to Chinese sailors, and the gifts
which she receives from stray visitors.
These are mostly Americans, who seem
to be more interested in the scenes of
Dickens's novels than Dickens's coun-
trymen. SAILS bed, which Dickens
described and made famous, was pur-
chased some months ago by an Ameri-
can, who gave her about ten times
more thau it was worth.
The Changers and others of Texas
will be pleased to know that the Lon
don Iia:es says that an association has
been formed at Edinburgh for the pur-
pose of purchasing and Strengthening
cattle and other stock in the United
States and Canada, and also purcbas-
ing farm and dairy produce, for sale in
Edinburgh and other parts of Great
Britain. 1t is intended to dispense
with middlemen and to open premises
in Edinburgh and Leith, in the first in
stance, for the sale OF meat. This is
liable to be an important movement,
and shows the public attention which
il bestowed in Great Britain on the i'm
portation of American food. The
Times recently gave the following as
the prices for which American beef
sold at Edinburgh: 6tewIDg pieces,
or s pence, or IA to 10 cents best
steak, 81 cents; best roast, IS to 20
cents. There was lively agitation
going on at this time against the exor-
hitant retail charges of the butchers,
and American and Scotch beef whole
sailed at the same prices, the consupp-
ton in Glasgow and Edinburgh being
about 800 quarters Of American.
Joaquin Miller has written sort Of
Song Of Sunlands on the inauguration
nf Haze Tho A..