The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-09-04
Editorial Notes.

ed the fund by 500 600 Of the Wander
bit UsIversIty, II Nashville, Tenn,
endowed by his father.
The immigrants arriving At the pori
of Nv Y rk during July 1879. num-
bered ~ 7l0, an increase of 031 oYsl
tee corresponding ronth of 1873
The steamship Scythia brought
$265 600 from Z Irope in gold bars and
Am-rr-n eagles. Another shipment
Of $500 600 In American eagles is or
the way over.
The Right Hon. W. 81 Smith. news
dealer and sea-ruler, says that Mr.
G 4dst mes pamphlet in the Nineteenth
CeRtury on "rhe Country TN the CIV
errmeut" is ''most unreasonable and
u j Ist."
The Philadelphia Record says tha,
the female face on the new silver dol
lar, as in'eaded to represent the typical
American woman, was nodded from
he face of a school teacher IN the Phil
adelphia House of Refuge.
The French mint is issuing a silver
coin of the same value as the United
States dollar, for circulation in Cochin
China, where the regular French 6vt-
franc pieces have deprecated ON ac-
/ ct uut of the fall in the value of silver.
Vermont papers report the trade in
Merlno sheep as improving. -Four car
loads were shipped at MIddlebury il
| one week recently, q sheep man at San
An'onio, Texas, coming for q car load
f fine animals for himself and neigh
bors.
At the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs Sunday there were thirteen
nundred people seated at dinner at ont
time, and then there were hundre6 or
so outside. This shows that tn.
soriDgs are fl ,unshiDg uow if ever they
f urished.
Henry Watterson writes to his paper
from Block Island alb, ut the CoDkling-
5prague business: az wish I may be
hsrpooned, says he, ''if ev.r l heard
of anything ike it in all my perusal OF
wicked history from ClaudIus down to
Henry Ward Beecher."
About three weeks ago the large car
Det in the adjuster's room of the San
irst time In five years, and burned for
the purpose of reducing the sccumula-
ton of filings. The value of the bull
lion obtained was 81. 400.
The st. L1uIs Cotton Exchange
character .s the action of the xecu'iv.
council of the National Cotton Ex-
change IN changing the place of b lid
iog the next convention of the Na,Iona
Cptton Exchange from St. Louis I,
NV York, as unwarranted and unfair.
Tue disinfection of New Orleaps
with chemical preparations of iron and
zinc has been completed and Is to b,
repeated every two weeks. The Vol
untsry Sanitary Association of the city
seem fairly to have deserved the high
encomiums that have bsen bestowed
IN thrm
Ia 1873 the gross railroad earnings
we're S36, 900 600 greater. than In 1873
but the net .srnIngs were 81 900 900
less. nee 1873. II 563 miles OF new
railways have been constructed. at
which 1884 miles were bu It in 1878
There IS also been an increase OF fifty
per cent. in the freight tonnage.
When the lad L us Napoleon went
10 South Africa commIttee of Paris
'ans was formed to collect money for
the purchase of suitable souvenir for
him on h:s return. The sum ob AIMED
WAS $3.50: It will be devoted to buy
ing u Commemorative tablet for s..
Msry.s Chapel, at Chiselburst.
a young man who went to circus
and stepped too near the monkeys
cage had his arm selzed aud savsgely
j rked by one of the monkeys. He
would have escaped safely had he MOI
laid sit was merely monkey wrench, u
but when they heard that the infuriated
crowd threw him into the lions cage.
The two new SIS ,unterfeits on the
GlJoe National Bank, of B ,ston, II ,ss.
aud the Dedham National B .nk, OF
Dedham, NJ .ss., ire Photographs OF
genuine notes, and are likely to de.
ceive, the work being we'll done. Il
would be well to refuse all notes o.
these banks of the denomination men.
toned.
Prof. Mayer of B )ston recently put 9
soft shelled potsto-bug lsrvs into car.
bolic acid for three days and boxed II
up and sent it 10 Europe for q 'ologl.
cal specimen. Nothing daunted by the
Is daJS journey under such discourag
ing circumstances. when it reached the
old country the bug vas found able to
eat potato vine as cheerfully as ever.
The scale on which expenditure Il
pitched in England is fairly illustrated
bv the TACT that the late COustess o.
Waldegrave is spoken of ss having haC
small income, Lord Lytton as too
poor to become an carl and Lore
Chelmsford ss the poorest peer Of th'
realm The firss had an annual incom'
Of $50, 600, the next has one of $50, ,00l
and the last $4,000.
NJ. u Lssseps has issued the pros
pectus of the Dirien Canal Company
rne capital IL fixed at 400 900 00'
francs. Only 1875 francs per share vii
be called up in toe first instance. 10
rerest at the rate of FIVE per centum viii
be paid on the actual money receive
during the course of construction. NJ
d Lesseps estimates an income of 90,
900 900 francs from the canal.
TIE production of rails nf all kind
IN he Uniied s ates in 1873 wSs SS I,
6S5 tons. an increase nf III, o76 ton
over 1877, and grea' er than the produc
of any year since 1873, when II amount
ed TO $50, or tons. the maximum pr"
duct In one previous sear was in 1872
when it reached 100 600 tors, a
amount which WI oe exes6ded tbi
year shau,d the same <fzte Of incress
0s maintained.
i Grant BE remarks 70 the Vicero
q oI ientuiD, paid the very highest com
2llment possible 70 the Oonfederas
, soldiers, when he said: THE soldiei
of the S1ut7ern armies have show
themselves by all odds the best part
the Southern population. Our armis
were not mercensry On either side, an
no people are more pescsable IN CIV
life than those who have seen wa
j Tney know what war Is.
D During the f4csl year ending Jur
' 80, 1879. 5000, 600 acres OF eoyeii
. meut land we're taken - honest sol
rufs is an area larger than the whol
. Stge of New Hampshire. The pumb'
Il of families thus edded T. the popu
e tiou of the West 10 not ess than 90
j, 600 Adding the number OF seftle
Who bought their lands from rsiIW'
= corporations and private holders ~
Vase the aggregate 70 1t least $50. 0s
q persons.
\ The new EnRlish goddess, Berl
hardt, will not be presented for Amei