The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-23
Editorial Notes.

Europe, Will ~ ~ A>6yPb W 81 y 49,
Suez Canal. He val want gov
eminent appropriation when he gels
home.
B.ains count in war more than ever,
in spite Of breech-loade.s. Sir G met
Wolseley did IN Zlluland with 5000
men what Lord Caclms ord lsi ed to { o
with $4,000.
Wealthy begga-s are becoming quite
common in New York. An old wom' n
mendicsnt was arrested d Gu lday last
whose bank book showed tie sum Of
$50, 900 to her credit.
Philsdelphia is waging war In favor
OF cheap gas. They pay 81 10 per
thousand feet for gas and thousands of
small consumers are falling back on
kerosene and coal oil.
AS q rule neither the German army
nor the Austrian carries tents. At the
nightly peril of their health the soldiers
bivuuac. Lat year, in Bo. mia, the
Austrials # ,red terribly.
At Republican mass meetings at New
York City portraits Of Grant and Cor
nell flank the platform. Tnis would
give point to the promised speeches of
Evarts, Blaine and Sherman.
Between 80 and 80 young Indians
have arrived at Carlisle, Pa, In charge
of government officers. They are
mainly from Dakota, and are to be
educated at government expense.
There has been a remarkable REVIVAL
OF wheat growing in the State east OF
the Observation-Disclosures, Ohio, In
diana, the Yirginias, ETC., and also in
Missouri. The immense yield of this
year is largely owing to this feet.
It Is said that over fifteen miles Of
the Utah and Northern Railway will
1t will be necessary to blast the rocks
nearly all the distance in order to bring
the bed of the track to proper level.
1t will make the eyes of old fisher
men glisten to read of remarkable
haul of of blue fish off Westhamp-
ton, L, l., last Saturday, when no less
than twenty tons were secured. The
fish ranged in weight from FIVE pounds
upward.
Cincinnati, which has quiet way Of
doing big thing, is having an exposi-
ton, all by herself, whose attendance
for the first twenty three days has been
$40, 951; the paid admissions at the
CentennAal Exposition for the first nine
teen days were Only BIS, $50.
The Paris Unigers asserts that the
Emperor and Grown Prince of Germany
have seeded from the Free Masons on
account of their resistance to an inspec-
ton into their archives by DR.. Schiff.
mann, whom the Crown Prince wished
TO inquire into the origin and secret
tendency uf Masonry.
An enormous increase Is reported In
the indoor and outdoor pauperism of
Ireland during the last six weeks. 1t
amounts to about 5000. During harvest
there has usually been q decrease of
psuperism, and no parallel for the ex-
listing state of the pauPer roll, IL Is
said, osn be found since 1861.
The quarrel between Fechter's wives
has commenced in earnest, aud the one
in Paris, through her attorneys In Phil
adelphia, has commenced proceedings
to set aside the appraisment of the per-
sonal property made by Miss Price.
Mr.. Fechter seems to have left very
lite beside lot of quarreling wives.
Under the absurd order of the post
Office department forbidding letters to
be forwarded to town In which the
postoffice has a different name from
the town unless the letter is addressed
to the posioffice, q letter addressed to
Saratoga, N. Y, would not be for.
wsrded because the name of the post
office is Saratoga Springs.
Three Italian bicyclists have just per-
formed the journey from Milan to L7-
ons IN five days. The distance exceeds
slightly $50 miles. They therefore
travelled at the rate Of 10 miles each
day, and kept up this extraordinary
speed for FIVE successive days, travers-
ing the rutty, lll-paved roads and the
worst paved streets Of villages and
towns.
The New York Bullion, q trade jour-
nal, publishes q letter from Secretary
Sherman favoring an international con-
ference to devise currency for national
exchanges based on bullion certificates
issued by different governments, thus
introducing in international trade un.
der mutual government supervision the
gold and silver certificates to be our
currency.
People in Paris hear very little of
either their last or present President.
u. Grevy is silent sensible man, but
the Psrisians would prefer a more gilt.
tering one. They even hint that he
does not spend half his official income.
NINE. and Mile. Grevy are at one OF the
watering places, where they only oc-
cupy couple of bedrooms ct hotel
and keep no carriage. The President
10 going down to the Jura to shoot.
8. d. McEnery, Democratic candi-
date for Lieutensnt-G Governor of LOUISE
ana, is native of the State, about
forty years of age and well-establish-
ed lawyer at Monroe. He studied his
profession at Poughkeepsie, N. Y, and
for the first tive years of his practice
resident in Missouri. Edwin II. Fay,
the nominee for superintendent of pub
no instruction, is an Alabama man, OF
much educational experience and 9
graduate Of Harvard.
Brazil il about to send envoys to
China for supply OF coolies. Slave
labor Is not 30 profitable since the late
famine has reduced the population; 10
some provinces the country is not suited
to European emigration, and unless
supply of good labor can be obtained
from some quarter the Brazilian reve.
nues seem likely tn fall of. It is quite
probable that the Chinese may find not
Only In Brszll, but throughout South
America the outlet they need for their
surplus population.
Miss Jennie Flood, who. according
TO report, Is betrothed to U. s. Grant,
Jr., is the only daughter OF James G.
Flood, the head Of the Bank of Nevada, /
and, mex to Mscksy, the richest man
on the Pacific slope. Miss Flood il
about twerty-sour years cid, has dark |
brown. iuxursnt hair, blue eyes. full |