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


at home.
Fitzhugh, the ex-doorkeeper OF the
House OF Represent atives, who was ga
bigger man than old Grant, is still in
Washington, where he keeps board
ing house.
Mrs. Myrn Clark Gaines began her
suits afresh in New Orleans last week.
They have been before the courts in
one shape or another Tor nearly half
century.
The Baroness Burdett Coutts urges
ladies TO use ribbons instead OF feathers
for their bonnets, az it hurts the birds
less. How can "a duck of a bonnet"
be made with ribboDsl
Secretary Chandler has pronounced
bis 'money and troops" dispatch
deliberate forgery" But why did
not Mr.. Chandler deny it when he was
first questioned about it week agol
James Gordon Bennett has sent to
la Crosse, Wis, a check for $500, TO
used for the support and education Of
two little girls, children OF Mark II.
Kellogg, the correspondent of the Her.
aid, who was killed in the Custer mas
sacre.
The ice crop is enormous this season
and suggests the probability that the
consumption OF water IN liquid state
next summer will be proportionstely
less. at we can have cheap ice, " said
u mar with blossom on his nose, ave
don't really need any water"
: thanks, and thousand of them, to
the unknown genius who intrusted
trunk, with hive of bees in it, to the
tender mercles OF Il Syracuse baggage
master, the othe. day. The company
will pay for the bees, and the doctor
thinks his patient will be around again
in fortnight or so.
A country pastor said to one of his
feminine congregation:
''Are you happy"
''YeS SIR" SIZE replied, 81 feel as
though were in Beelzebub's BOSOM"
''Not in Beelzebub'sw
"Well, some of the patriarchs;
don't know which,"
Memphis is spending $50, 900 on
..gew-gaws and trumpery, and on masks
dances and dress for Mardi Gras a
I million. One hundred thousand
,ple, 1t is SAID, will be drawn to the
Frth. mad city. The carousal lasts
twenty-four hours. There is no law
but fun, and the police are everywhere
10 see that there is only fun and not
vice or crime that reigns.
The hard times which are affecting
the newspapers everywhere are felt so
sensibly by even 50 prosperous n paper
MS the New York Sun is reputed to be,
that that journal mas adopted type of
larger SIZE than that formerly used,
in order to cut down expenses in com
position to meet reduced receipts on
account Of falling off IN advertising, of
which it never had great deal, even
10 prosperous times.
In New York, on Monday, a couple
OF faro dealers were arraigned before
Judge GIlderslceve and pleaded guilty,
expecting to pay small fines and return
- TO their business as usual, but were
somewhat taken aback when the Judge
sentenced them to the penitentiary for
six MONTH. The judge intimated, too,
that longer terms would be imposed III
future cases, which will doubtless cause
the sporting fraternity to be more eau
tious in their movements.
The meanest man in America lives in
Lodi, Ohio. lie is q well-to-do farmer,
and his mother lives in small house
near his farm. He supplies her with
fresh milk from his dairy and makes
much milk-only enough to dilute her
tea morning and EVENING" few tea
spoonfuls day. He has ascertained
how many spoonfulls quart measure
contains, aud keeps count of the num-
Der which she receives daily. When
the quantity consumed approximates a
quart he presents his bill. Milk cells
tor three cents quart.
- Rents suffer another ten per cent. off
at New York, this year, this being
about the average conceded on the As
tor property, which had already low
cred its rates from twenty to thirty
five per cent. The total sum of reduo-
ton in the four years of depression is
not likely to be much less than one
half. Handsome brown-stone houses
ON Madison avenue can be had for
$1,000 . year. At the same time, the
cheapness OF building is likely to null
tply shelter in the coming season, and
thus aggravate the present supeIiluity
The heavy taxes and CONTEMPLATING
rents are likely to bring municipal re-
form and retrenchment sharply to the
font.
As the rettenness of the management
of the Security Life Insurance Com
pany is developed, it becomes more
and more evident that criminal indict-
ments should be found at once against
the officers OF the company. And yet
they are said 10 be honorable men, no
would scorn to fly the country, and
would face jury with firm hope in
aspeedy acquItlal. II this is So, they
certainly ought to have the opportunity.
Meanwhile, the stockholders who have
regularly received their annual twelve
per cent. dividends have been called
upon to refund, though SGG, 600 is but
drop in the bucket that holds def.
cheney of over two millions. The latest
revelation is that the officials, besides
their salaries, divided among them
selves a percentage of the gross re-
ceipts, q scneEnc modelled upon the
Tamulany ring steal. These last dis
coveries have an effect far from soo;h.
ing on the feelings of the unfortunate
policyholders.
The, Methodist ministers Of New
York are discussing the question:: rs
there any cause To have evanselists
among us" TIC room was crowded
with anxious listeners. Dr.. Kittell ar
gued there was no necessity for either
revivais or evangelisis, aud that they
did more harm than good. The ideS
OF sudden saoeiiication he regarded as
absurd. DIR. Scudder had similar views.
DIR. Crooks thought evangelism had
done much for Christianity, and its
principles were good. DIR. Curry said
eyangclists and missionaries were al
most similar, and great works had been
done by them for the church, but pas
ter should be an evangelist; many
eyangelists do good abroad which could
work no good ut home, owing to their
character; weeping, singing aud mes
merle evangelists he deplorcd; they
pass over districts like fire over pra,ries
aud leave nothing but ruin behind
them.
The sherman Register says that Gen,
VIM. b. Bate. one OF Tenuessee's
noblest and trurst sons and most bril-