The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-21

SOH1i Anu iht ECmalLe OF theodore
Pa'a)logus. descended from the last
iuhentors Ct the Eastern Roman En.
pire, have = right 10 lie IN the Abbey.
since he fought in st. Johns regiment
at Naseby. There are also in the Abbey
memorials To Sir John Chirdip, the
celebrated explorer Of Persia; u Pasca
Psoli. the Ieco of Corsican ipdepend-
ence; to Stri2ger, a young Bernese Nc :
bl u the nephew Of the great Tu-
rsnne; and to Armand de Bourbon.
Mr.. TIlden is quoted as talkiag over
other candidates, dIsqualitylng DAVID
Days because he has not always been q
Democrat, and expressing preference
for Judge Field, whose relatives cruld
Afford t. spend million or two in iS'
behalf. Mr. T;lien naturally oteyryei
IN conclusion, ;ha. nobody q1ite Fl led
- h.li or candidate but himself.
A writer 10 the London Builder com
plains tia. an English patent costs in
government du les S125 within the fist
six months. then $3.50 with three
years, then $500 within folr muTe-tC-
tai, S8i5 LIVED in Sven years for a
patent during fourteen years; while a
patent 10 America costs only $35, in one
payment, for seventeen years. Thus"
he adds, ''aTe the brains of En2 lisbmen
handicapped against those Of their great
rivals in the proportion Of 17j 10 T."
Times 60 by turns. L. is moi so very
long ago since the commercial and in
dustrial news in the daily papers was
but common story of failures and the
closing OF factories of various kinds.
Now one can hardly open paper with
cut seeing an account of good crops,
the resumption OF work in woClen and
iron mills, the revival of industries and
trades of nearly every class, and the
prospect Of good times once more
based, too, on a solid foundation.
The society of n hich Anthony Com
stock Is the head has succeeded, after
Eve years tifjrt and the expenditure
Of $4,000 in travelling bills alone, in
capturing one of the most successful
dealers IN obscene literature in the
countIy-Wiliiam f. Babcock, OF Hoo
ssc, New York, who used such methods
Of conducting his nefarious business as
10 render his apprehension extremely
difficult. B,b:ock was widely known
and generally respected in Rensselaer,
county, nobody suspeo ting the nature
of the business in which he was en-
gagged.
The supervisor OF The Atlantic, Mia
sissippi and Ohio Railroad has had
built for his express use in travelling
over the road for purposes of inspect on
vehicle which may be called a rail-
road veIocipede. 1t has three wheels,
two of which run on one rail of the
track and one on the other. 1t has a
seat for one man, though it might car
~ two. | is very easily operated, and
is run on almost the exact principle of
the ordinary velocipede. With strong
muscular man to move it it will make
speed of fifteen or eighteen miles an
hour.
The New York police have just done
clever thing in the arrest of the coun-
terfeiters of the notes of the Brazilian
Empire. All the work of the counter
feiters had been finished. The genuine
notes had been closely initiated, then
traced on stone and reproduced on pa
per, giving an exact representation of
the original, and one of the principals
was in the act of packing his trunk
with rolls of counterfeits, preparatory
to sailing for Rio Janerio Tuesday,
WHEN he was arrested. Two more con-
federatCs were subsequently arreste !.
Dom Pedro ought to send the de-
tectives who worked up the case a car
Of ID
cleveTness.
The Tllden men and the Tammany
men in New York who have been ear
pulliOg for sometime, are now getting
at each others Threats. The Irving
Hall Democrats formally denounce
Ohm Kelly and Tammany Hall for their
opposition to Governor Robinson's re-
nomination favored by Mr.. Tilden }
and resolve that the Tammany dele
gates ought not to be admitted to the
State Convention. John Kelly, on the
ether hand, has issued call upon the
twelve hundred Tammsny Democrats,
requiring them t. call at the captains
office and swear allegiance to him 10
his fight against Tilden, under penalty
of beng spotted as dlsaffected If they
fail to respond.
Joaquin Miller, speaking of Sitting
Bull, thus explains how his s oux
highHess came by his name, the key to
the cJnumdrum having been impaired
to him by the Indians themselves:
'An Indian is never is honor.d
with distinctive name" said Mr. Mil
l5r, until he has done something
noteworthy, and which reveals mark
Ell trait of character. When Sitting
Bull was young man he was shot in
the legs in battle and disabled, but he
sat bolt upright on the ground and con-
tinued to fight with the the ferceness
of wounded buffalo bull, and it was
this incident which drew from the tribe
the appellation of Sitting Bull"
Tne Maine elections, If the Republic
cans are to carry it, must give them
G5, 900 votes, or 10, 900 more than they
got last year. They must bring out
all their reserves and win back some of
their revolters who have joined the
Greenbackers. Wel'-infoImed New
England journals seem to doubt their
ability 20 d this. They say that the
canvass Is lapguid, and that Sherman's
BOOM" while 1t may hsYe helped him
personally in Blaine's stronghold, GER
tainly did not help the party much,
the issue in Maine being local exclu-
sively, not national. There is also said
to be decided reluctance in some
quarters to drill under Bisine's lead, and
this may prevent the full vote from be-
ing brought out.
A pathetic suicide occur red at New
York the other day. A poor old man,
whom want and starvs ton had made
desperate. procured pistol and went
up to Central Park. He went to the
building where the song birds of all
countries have their domicile. He
wished t. die, IT seems, on the green
grass, looking at the bright skies and
listening to the songs Of birds. He
made pillow for himself Of soft herb
age, and then lay quietly down and
blew out his brains. A letter in his |
pooktt made clear his motive. He was
poor, he said, very sick and very old,
and too proud too beg. So he thought |
it best that he should pass away. |
Therefore he chose the most secluded |
spot he could find, and, surrounded by |
the loveliest sights and sounds, he |
Quilted the Earth.
The Washington correspondent Of
the New York San and World unite in |
reporting an interview with President |
Hayes in which he denied that NJ. de |
Lesseps had any authority for saying |
in his speech at Nantes that the Ameri- |
can government is unopposcd to canal