The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-11-13
RditorIal Notc,.

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The increaSe of the National bank
ciFcu 'aiinn tor Oaober, is said, will
resch 81 coo 90.
j Gc'son D.vis is threatened with
b :Loness, and both he aud his wife
nave been much bT. ken in health slace
the recent death Of their son.
The tItsl regu'a- aitepdance at the
Nav York CRY schools during Scptem
Der was l27 4s0 pupils, the large on
T cord. The city has II COS persons in
its night schools.
The commerce Of the United States
with Japan is increasing. During the
past year the imports from this coup-
try t, Japan amounted To 63 500, 600,
and The .xpor.s from Japan TO the
United States to 81 500, 900.
Mr.. Horace White has written from
London a letter to the Independent
(scralchinc) Republicans OF New York,
commanding their movement to defeat
Cornell and S 'ule, and subscribed one
hundred dollars for their cause.
India ranks fourth among the couu-
tries OF the world for the extent of coal
deposits. She has &c. 900 quare miles
OF coal heldF the United States, 500, =
900; Chine, 400. 900; anu Australia,
240 900; but only 500, ,O00 tons are an
nually mined in India.
Ella Judd was clerk in the post
office at West StockOndge, Mass. she
could not bear to let the letters sent by
Mr.. PauldiDg to young lady pass
through her hands without reading
them. Sac Was caught opening them,
and will be prosecuted.
Assistant Postmaster New, Of ?. it's
field, Mass addict 5000 to lis income
in year by removing fresh postage
stamps from letters, putting on those
that had been used, and selling the
stolen ones. IL: used the money in
maintaining his social pr, tensions.
Secretary Sherman Is quoted as say
ing that probAbly Mr.. W II. Vauder-
bilt and MIR. J. w. Mickey are the
richest men in this country. e sch of
them owns about SIS 600 900 in the
bonds of the United Sts;es-and they
are the only two idIviduals known to
hold that amount in these bonds.
Each of them receives $50. 900 in interest
eYerv three months.
The members of the National Board
of Health are at loggerheaGe with the
Treastry Department. Ole of John
Sherman's subordinates has refused to
audit the payment of bill for wash
ing, presented, among other items, by
somebody connected with the board.
The subordinate In question sensibly
suggests that the National Treasury IS
no more responsible for the Laundry
bills of the members of the board than
for their cigar bills. There is no pre-
tense that the public health has been
to any appreclable extent benefited by
the personal cleanliness of the Irdlvid-
ual whose wash till was presented at
the treasury, and the refusal to approve
the claim is proper. Il is singular that
John Sherman's department should
strain at wash bill and pay without
wIncing the big printing and other ex
penses incurred by tins feeble concern.
- World.
There is fine contrast between the
apeeches which WARE mad ct tho -Brook-
lyn Democratic meeting, on Monday
night, where Speaker Randall address.
ed the crowd, and the New York meet
ing, where John Sherman addressed
the Stalwsrts. Mr. Randall pointed
out what Governor Robinson had done
10 the way of publication of the State
how he had reduced S ate.
taxation from $15, 900, 900 to SO, ,000,-
600; how he had wiped out the floating
debt of the State; how he had lowered
the canal tolls to one-half a mill, and
yet saved the State over three millions
per year in its expenses, and how he
had put down the rings that infested
every department of the State govern
ment. What had Mr.. Sherman to say
but to go over the resumption
question agAin-and to revamp the stale
lies about ''Southern outrages" and the
bloody shirt.
The New York Graphic has been do
ing public service In exposing the
in'quities practiced by the so-cslled
"dIvorce lawyers" 1t cleims, and Of
fers substantial proof in support of IFS
that these men wilfully per-
NcIJ luC ldW6 va Viz - 9LCt 6uOW
ready to manufacture evil
dence in advocacy Of suit for divorce
whore the facts in the case are not suf-
ficient In themselves for their purpose.
The expose of the Graphic is startling
one; but it is much harder to point out
the evils of practice than to correct i.
It would seem as though the bar asso-
citation of New York had sufficient
strength to investigate and punish those
who were thus degrading the legal
and, after what the Graphic
hes done, it cannot be SAID that the
necessary evidence is not obtainable.
The trial of the Rev. Mr.. Hayden,
at New II sveD, Conn, on the charge OF
killing Mis- Stsnnard, by poison aud
the knife, turns upon the question
tho srfenic he is accused OF
poisoning her with, aud of which no
less than ninety grams were found IN
tho yiscera and other parts OF the body
Of the deceased by Prof. Johnson, is
identical with the arsenic thst the Rev.
Mr. Hayden confesses he bought at
drug store on the morning of the MUIR
der, but which be alleges was put away
unused on beam IN his barn. A pais
eel of arsenic OF the full weight of the
ounce be said he bought was found in
3 tea box at the place indicated by
him. The State is nov endeayoriBg to
prove by the evidence OF Prof. Dana,
Of Yale College. that the arsenic found
in the barn is different In the form of
It's crystals from the arsenic sold at the
drug store from which he said he
and that the drug store ars,-
mic Is in every respect similar To that
found In the stomach of the murdered
woman. To study the point thorough
", for upon it the guilt or innocence
Of the accused is supposed TO turn,
Prof. Dana was sent to England at the
expense Of the State TO investigate the
process OF manufacturing arsenic there,
none being made in this country, and
TO ascertain the differance, IL any, be-
tween the product Of one mandatory
and anv ofher The caae fheraforr