The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-14
Editorial Notes.

The B shop OF London has two
houses and $50, 600 a year. He will
soon be receive of one-half of his la
bora wi;hou. decrease of houses OF sal
airy.
The exports of locomotives from the
port of New York from January t.
June 80 were forty-fve engines, valued
at S312 900, against only thirteen last
year, valued at $l15, 000
Complaints come from Scotland that
American cheese is being imported into
Ayrshire in such quantities that much
of the home produce of last year is still
unsold and likely to remain ursold.
Mr.. John Welsh, lately Minister to
Eugland, viii DE formally received on
his ar Ival at Philadelphia, by a Com
mittee of the Board OF Trade. He is
expected to arrive about the first OF
September.
President Hayes may pcssioly go to
the Indiana State Fair. He said, half
in joke and half in earnest, to the man
who carried to HIM the formal invita-
zion: "If | come, you won't ask me
10 make aly speeches, will you?"
The leading New York gambling
houses are connected by telephones, and
when the police come TO one place all
the rest are notified. This saves the
police from previously giving n 1tice
themselves, which they have had the
c-eiit of doing.
Road locomotives are said to be CON-
ire w 80
II twelve-ton locomotive portable
engine) was harnessed to a piece of ar
tiliery weighing forly-fve tons, which
it brought from Fincennes to the Point
d'Austerliiz
The ex-Khedive, Ismail Pasha, is
reported to have been so afraid of p"i-
son during the past few years that he
ate only OF food prepared by his OWL
mother and conveyed to him in a box
of which she and he alone kept keys.
North Carolina contributed one Gen
erAl, two Lieutenant Generals. ten
Major Generals and twenty-four B-igs-
der Generals to the Confederate army.
Braxton Bragg was the General, and
Leonidas Polk and T. II. Holmes the
Lieutenant Generals.
Robert Blrns, a gran isln of the
poet, died lately Ii hospital in Dam
fries, S o.laRd. H. rcscmblcd the
poet IN flee and figure, and curiously
enough was married to Mary Camp
bell, the name Of his grandfA.her's
"High!and Mary" Mr. Burns was
very poor.
Mr.. A. B. Alcott, although now n
his eightieth year, Is said TO be In feel
ing and spirit the youngest man in The
faculty of the Concord School of Poi
osophy. During the discussio rs fol
lowing the lectnr, he shows himself
to be extremely happy; his face is radI-
ant and glows with enthusiasm.
The Prince of Wales's young sons,
Albeit Victor and George Frederick,
have finished their education on the
school ship Britannia. They have both
passed firs;-class In seamaGship and
conduct, thereby gaining six months
time, which will entiilc them shortly
to become midshipmeD.
Building in New York city has about
got back 10 aCt3-panic conditions.
The number Of buildings for whose
erection permits were b all ed during
the first six months of the current year
was 1853. larger number than in any
half year since the real estate bubble of
1871 was blown. On the other hand,
the buildings put up there were largely
stores and big blocks, while the build
ing Low is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dwell
ing houses, flats and tenements. The
total estimated cnst of the buildings
now under construction, 81 600, coo,
is t9o-thIrds that of the buildings ten
years ago, due in part to greater cheap
ness in material and labor, tut also to
be attributed to the change in the
character af the buildings themselves.
The arrangement between the Rus
sian and German courts seems to cluse
great satisfaction in England. The
most preposterous IumoTs are received
with the utmost gravity. For exam
pie: The Examiner hears on good au-
thority from ST. Petersburg that :he
Russian Inte ligeuce Department is at
present engaged upon the task of draw
ing up plan for the invasion Of Ger
may, in order that Russia may be we'll
prepared for any events that may occur
in the future. Some such plan was
drawn up 10 1871, but since then Pfus-
STA has erected o series of fortresses
along the Russian frontier, while in the
Visgula and Baltic Provinces series of
strategical railways have been complei-
ed by Russia. The arrangements for
the defense of the froatier are also be-
ing revised.
or General Washington's dislike fer
profanity picturesque story is related.
In the summer OF 1871 man who was
ploughing in d field near Fishkill
read became very impatient with some
difficulty IN his work. and began TO
pour forth violent oaths. Just then
three horsemen in military undress,
who were riding by, paused, and one
of them asking for information con-
corning the road, thanked the plough
mau for his answer, and added: My
friend, am older than you, have many
times been placed in posit Ols of diff
Guilty and danger, and have had many
things to p,rPleX and annoy me, bat
have alw ays found that it did no good
to get angry; and that neither broken
ploughs no- anything else can be
mended or made better by the use of
pro!ane language" and with a bow he
rode or. 1t was Gen. Washington.
The men employed making furniture
at Chicago, after dong what they could
to drive trade from Chicago by striking
for eight hours work at ten hours pay,
have resumed work at the old rates.
Their employers at the opening Of the
strike offered to give piece work, and
leave every man to work as he pleased,
ten hours if he chose, two hours if be
preferred that. The woIkmen were no
friends of this form of personal liberty,
however, and insisted on a general
strike unless all, good and bad alike,
were paid q full days pay FOR eight
hours labor. As it was out OF the
question for Chicsgo manufacturers to
pay % per cent. more for their labor
and sell furniture as chesply as manu-
features elsewhere, the Chicago employ
ers refused 10 yield, and 500 men were
out of work for nearly fortnight, los
ing $40, 900 week.
Herbert Spencer, the profoundest of
thinkers and modern philosophers,
says be is opposed to State education
because the State must proportion bar-
efi.s to merit or capacity, whereas the
parents increase benefits whore capac-
ity is weak; the adults and the child
requiring opposite treatment. Educa-
ton by the State or by the church is
not the only alterD ltiYe, ut rather
educatian by agents of the 5 s'e or by
agents of indIviduals; and evolution