The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-01-03
Editorial Notes.

Wife-besters are to be logged on the
bare back in California.
The Post credits paragraph to "the
late Senator Morton's organ" What
does he want of an organ9 We
thought they used harps over there.
Blaine says neither Hayes nor any
other man can disintegrate the Repub-
lican patty. Butler says il Hayes does
not surrender at once, there will be
grand breaking up of parties.
General Butler of South Carolina
shares the opinion of General Butler
of Massachusetts regarding President
Hayes. They haven't been fully in
sympathy before since the Charleston
convention, in 1860.
1t is to be hoped the atlantic Month.
~ will not be milk-and-water publ
cation hereafter, though it is rather
suggestive to see that the GALAXY,
which is the Milky Way, has been min
gled with the Atlantic.
Says General Butler: ''There GER
tainly Is q disposition on the part of
the representatives from other parts of
the country to legislate against the
East" Then these papers and people
are not wise who arc constantly berat-
ing the people of the South and striv-
ing to excite hard feelings against
, them.
In the partition between two of the
cells at the couRty Jail, Paducah, Kea-
lucky, is q small, round hole, about an
inch and half in diameter. On one
side white man was confined, and q
negro woman on the other. The other
morning the man called the woman,
| and when she looked through the hole
he spit tobacco juice in her eye, pain
ing her very much. Elated with the
sport, he called her again in the after.
noon. Instead of putting her eye in
range again the woman jabbed a sharp
stick through the hole, which, enter
ing his eye, caused him to roar with
pain and rage. The doctors think the
ball will haYe to come out, and the
general verdict lie, served HIM right.
The following advertisement appears
in German papers: Wanted, Paulus
Melchers, Doc. Theol., and formerly
Archbishop of Cologne. He was com
demned by decree of the Chamber OF
Correction in Cologne, dated July 2s
of this year, to subsidiary punish
ment of 30 days imprisonment for un-
authorized exercise of ecclesiastical
functinns. He was born at Munster,
lately resident at Cologne. aged "a,
light hair, brown eyes, pale features
and thia stature. call on the police
authorities to watch for the said Melch'
/ 90 IA he -
produce him before me. Cologne,
November Il, 1871, the Chief Pfocu
rator." Imagine such IN advertise
msnt for the Archbishop of OAnter-
buryl Yet the Archbishop of Cologn,
was almost as great.
At the dinner in New York on Fore
fathers day, the toast, mot left ,
purse alive in the whole army" wal
responded to by Commodore Nichol
son. He said, in substances: ~ will
but say few words. and charge yoi
to lay them to heal t, for they are word
of wisdom. Laughter. The noun
tain riYulet winding its way through
the valley can be easily forced in tn
! summer, but when the storm cloud
descend it becomes q mountain torren
. and rushes. with RESTLESS force
: Travellers don't then attempt to ford il
\ They 60 to the bridges built in tn
time OF peace, every plank of whicl
has been securely riveted. The arm
and navy are the sefety bridges of thi
q land. lApplause. You cannot lie
them be sspped by the dry rot of neg
b lect. [Applause.l We must take car
: of them in peaceful times, and then i
a the storm OF war, of rebellion, Of riot
: you can depend upon them. ZAP
q plsuse. The nation has depende'
on them in the past, and never IN yair
4 The army and navy added Texas an
4 California to the Union. Last year th
little army protected civilization froI
: the ssvages, and, later, when th
. sailors had to 90 on shore and d
: soldiers duty, they protected your fir,
o sides. Applause. The army an
navy have always been true and loya
4 and what has been their Teward1 OF
: law makers left them and their famill,
: destitute for months, but they didn
4 complain, and they don't now. tt
: sons Of New England have always bee
4 in the front Of battle. Now 10 the tin
n TO encourage and strengthen the arm
. and navy, and they will be TO you 9
; honor. glory and 5 safeguard. lAI
, plsuse.