The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-02-01
Editorial Notes.

tTeu DOuSldS is ucspOuuSuI anu
says: "Tilden's inauguration will COM
pletely unchain the devil, and think
he will come in great wrath"
Robert Bonner has just bought of
Col. r. S. Strade, Lexington, KY, the
bay gelding Eric, who has the fastest
time on record for four year-old-
2.2S IA.
Judge McCue, of Brooklyn, has re-
fused to send a case of divorce to re-
fierce on the ground that he thought a
few trials would serve to diminish the
number of divorce cases.
NJ. Quad, of the Detroit Free Press,
has taken to himself wife. When
they have twins The family will be
Quad rilateral, and if the little fell
lows, slightly bull-dozed, ever play at
leap frog and go on all-four, We might
Cali them Quad-rupeds.
Governor Hendricks, on the last day
of his official term, pardoned a man
who was under life sentence. The
prisoner fired a pistol at one man and
killed another. He studied so much
upon the matter in prison as to become
partially insane upon that topic. The
Governor and he had been school-fel-
lows in early life, and this fact joined
with others produced the action of the
former.
Robert II. Mari, one of the Associate
Justices of the new Supreme Court of
Louisiana, is a native of Tennessee and
53 years of age. To his perseverance
and ability The bar of the South is
chiefly indebted for the decision of the
Supreme Court of the United States re-
storing the right of Confederates to
practice at the bar of the United States
| Courts.
Capt. Smith, of the Fourth Artillery,
United States Army, passed through
Omaha lately on his return from the
Powder river expedition against the
Indians. He had not slept between
sheets for over four mouths until he
struck the Pullman GERS on the Union
Pacific. At one time during the expe-
dItion the cold was so intense that the
mercury froze, and the army had moth
ing to burn but sage-brush.
1t is charged in Democratic circles
that the delivery of kilograms to the
SeRate committee by Mr.. Orion will be
complete as to the Democratic tele-
grams, but that the most important
| Republican dispatches have been spir-
tied away. At all events, the en-
| ployees of the Western Union Company
say nothing vital will be found in the
Chan Her kilograms, except one or
two, which Chandler will show were
sent by Jay Gould in his name, and
without his knowledge.
Says the Louisville Erening Nccs
of Friday; "The boldest, most de-
termined expressions that were uttered
before the Democratic convention, yes
terday, fell from the lips of those
speakers who were decided Unionists
during the recent war. The speeches
John B. Huston and Major VIM. r.
Kinney, when compared with those OF
Governor McCreary, Boyd Winchester
and Gen. Preston demonstrated this
fact"
The amount Of snow which ut pres
ent covers Northern, Central and West
err New York has not been equalled
since 1857, if even then. Throughout
great portion of this region 1t lies
three feet deep on the level, and IS fire.
quently drifted to a height of ten or
fifteen feet. Fences are buried to their
top rails; roads are almost impossible,
even for the heavy country sledges,
and the various railways are obliged to
reopen their buried tracks day after
day.
The Boston Post says: 1.-THE busi-
ness men of Boston are eager to signify
their approval Of the measure agreed
upon By the joint committee for the
settlement of The presidential question.
Numerous memorials TO Congress, urg-
lug the adoption of the plan, were cir
culated and signed yesterday, and some
are already on the way TO Washington.
The Legislatures of other STATES are
speaking out 10 the same tone, and the
country expresses universal satIsfac-
tion."
Bill Clark, q colored class-leader in
Georgia, visited brothers hen-roost,
fell and broke his neck. The pastor
of his church was terribly bothered TO
get his funeral sermon in proper shape
30 that brother Ciark's character would
Lot suffer. He went at the job in this
manner: "rheTe are circumstances
connected with bis death that are per-
picking. II, after he fell and before
he struck the ground, he repented Of
his sins, there caR be no question but
that be is now N glory; but there was
mighty little time for him TO think
about II"
The New York market is now glut-
ted with butter Of Western manufac-
ture, and consumers wonder At It's stiff
price. Good butter is sold AZ from forty
to forty-fVe cents pound at retail, and
at from thirty-eight TO forty cents
pound II wholesale. II has been said
that the high price of butter IL due TO
the heavy exports 20 foreign countries.
A vast quantity was recently shipped