The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-01-16
NO. Is
Editorial Notes.

Wade Hampton received clever
wounds during the war, one Of them 8
sabre thrust.
LAST year ST. Louis received zoo, O0O
bales of cotton. The receipts this year
are expected to reach 500, 900 bales.
Charles NJ. Stagg, court stenogra-
pher, at Indianapolis, has gone mad
through excessive and constant men,
tai labor" in reporting scme recent
murder trials.
Since the Illinois BoArd of Health
has been at work, period of eighteen
months, it has reduced the number OF
doctors" in the State by 30 per cent.
from 1000 to 5000.
A paper read before the London Sta
tistical Society last winter showed that
England had 81, 500, 900, 900 in public
and private banks and an annual accu-
mutation of over 81, 900, 900, 900.
The female chimpanzee of the Phila
delphia biological Garden is dead, and
students OF the Darwinian theory are
interestedly watching the strangely
manlike expressions of grief by her
male companion.
New York ladies talk about taking a
''prom" on "Broad, :" meaning a prom
enade on Broadway, and now some
one suggests ''Going to take the LIZ"
instead of "Are you going to take the
elevated railwayQ" Life is short, and
abbreviation is the order of the day.
DR.. Schliemann has made contract
with the Turkish government, binding
him to give the Imperial Museum al
Constantlnople two-thirds of all his
discoveries from his excavations ON the
site of Ancient Troy, and bear all the
expense of the excavations. The la
ter amount to about $4,000 per
month.
"a wealthy lady of New York,
known for her charities and benevolent
works" proposes to give the city of
New Orleans several public fountains,
TO furnish pure water to the poor dur
ing the hot season. The city promises
to give the plats of land on which the
fountains will stand, and the eo-opera-
tion of the water department is all that
is needed.
At the opening of recent session
Of the New Hampshire Supreme Court,
the following model petition was Of
fered, it being known that the docket
was crowded: go, Lord, bless this
court; bless these lawyers, and make
them know that life is short and time
ls precious and not to be wasted in
empty declamations; for Christ's sake.
Amen"
Three tourists undertook to walk be- |
hind Niagara Falls a few days ago. |
The danger is great in winter owing to
the ice. One of the trio, in picking
his way over the slippery path, ran
against huge icicle, which broke off |
and fell on him. He was badly cut |
and has since been insane, but whether |
from blow on the head or from fright |
IS not settled. He was an original ma |
mac or he would meyer have gone be- |
hind the falling floodtide of the mighty |
river.
The Lee Monument Association,
chartered by the Legislature of Vir-
ylnia for the purpose of erecting in
Richmond monument to Gen. Robert
9. Lee, proposes to take up on his
nineteenth of January
l collection throughout the South in
aid of its undertaking. 1t is suggested
also that entertainments be given
throughout the South on the night OF
The nineteenth for the same object.
The association has large sum on
hand, but not enough to erect fitting
monument.
Here Is a hitherto unpublished letter
written by Abraham Lincoln. 1t was
iound amongst the archives of the Chi
,ago and Alton Railroad Company, in
,he Bloomington, ILL.,, office, a few days
lgo. The note is characteristic Of the |
great "rail-splitter" as to style, and
shows that "Aben was aot averse 10 |
,raveling dead-head, probably because
ne found it necessary from a financial |
point:
: SPRINGFIELD, February Is, 1885,
g. p. Morgan, Superintendent G. d 4.
DEAR SIR-Says Sam to
John: ''Here's your old rotten wheel
barrow. I've broke 1t usin' on 1t. /
wish you would take it and mend it,
case shall want TO borrow it this sf-
ernoon." Acting on this as prece-
lent, here's your old ''chslked hat"
wish you would take it and send me
/ new one, case shall want to use it
he first OF March. Yours truly,
A. LINCOLN.