The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
EdI,OrlnI Notes.

ent Of the census. thin As the next count
will show an increase of 10. 900, 900
Deople in the United States during the
d cade ending next year.
It is not much fun holding office in
LeadvIlle, the great mining centre OF
| Colorado. The citizens almost univer-
sally refuse to pay their taxes, and the
members Of the city council, having
got tired of working for nothing, now
propose TO dissolve the city govern
| ment.
The GreenJaek Chronicle says: SIT
has fallen TO the State of Maine to
bear the disgrace of having in Con-
gress the only Greenback representa-
tive willing to use his influence to de-
fest the Greenback candidate for Gov
ernor Of Ohio, and this man is George
W. Ladd. He has written a letter,
published in all the Democratic papers,
vehemently urging GreenoaGkers in
Ohio TO desert their candidate and
vote the Democratic ticket"
There is perfect glut of silver in
New Orleans, and the clerks At the
United States sub-Treasury are overrun
with people who demand paper for their
ccin. Silver is pouring in at the rate
Of four or five thousand dollars almost
every day, the vault is already j4mmed
full and still crowds of people present
more. 1t is not only the dollar of the
daddies that the applicants want to get
rid OF, the greater part of the coin pre-
sented consists of halves, quarters and
dimes. Nobody seems to have any
theory TO account for the apparently
universal desire to unload silver.
The Charleston Meas anil Courier
says that Texas papers admit that the
rush OF immigrants to their State is
oever, and say they are not sorry. The
glowing pictures drawn by railroad
agents of the certain wealth that
awaited every conner attracted thou
sands of shiltless people, who, Of
course, have found that it was neces-
sary to work for living in Texas, as
we'll as in other parts of the country.
Even the railroad companies now see
that immigrants OF this sort are worse
| than useless, aud there is general
disposition to stick a little more closely
to the facts in immigration circulars,
and get better people If fewer of them.
Mr.. Lorenzo NJ. Johnson, General
| Manager of the Cairo and st. Louis
Railroad, has recently give some facts
and figures in the matter Of narrow
gauge railroad expenses. during pc
Rod of six months. He says: "fhc
locomotives consume one ton of coal
per seventy mlles, one pint Of oil for
| thirty-elght miles, one pound of tallow
| for seveBiy-seyen miles of running.
Engine repairs have cost $40 cents,
the wages of engineers, tiremen and
round house men have cost ) $40 cents !;
| fuel has cost l 2 cents, and oil, tai
| low and waste haYe cost one-quarter Of
a cent per mile run by the engines,
making total for engine services of
twelve cents mile; result which is
seldom equaled in the direction of
economy" The above estimate Is the
average performance of nineteen loco
motives for the month of June last.
One day last week a passenger on
board one of the harbor steamboats, of
New York, which was then carrying
seven hundred passengers, rushed up
from below shouting Fire" There
was a panic for n few moments, but the
officers of the boat soon secured quiet,
treasured the passengers, and took the
person who raised the alarm into Gus
tody. There had been no fire, nor any
thing to justify the alarm. The cry
was uttered to give thieves an oppcr-
tunity to rob the passengers. He was
taken before police court and given
the extreme penalty the law allows in
such cases-he was fined ten dollars.
The New York Herald, noticing the
affair, remarks that the next person who
repeats the otfense "will go overheard.
We are stating merely fact. We do
not propose justifying the drowning
even such a wretch as this Stuhr; but
we are quite certain that the man who
ventures to repeat his trick will not
live to pay a fine of ten dollars" This
the Herald calls "a fair warning"
Scion Chase called on Secretary
Sherman at the Falmouth Hotel, at Port
land, and had very pleasant interview
with him. 1t is understood that Mr..
Chase called MIR. Sherman's attention
to several points on which he differed
with him, and explained to the Secre-
tary what he should do if he were in
the Secretary's place. AS Mr.. Chase
was about 20 leave Senator Blaine came
in, and remarked that Mr.. Chase had
not always been as insane as at present
in regard to financial operations. and
that some ten years ago he wrote and
published one of the best hard money
essays that the Senator had ever read.
MIR. Sherman expressed himself as be-
ing gratitied to know that Mr.. Chase's
head had once been level, and request
ed HIM to mail copy of his hard money
tract to him at Washington. Mr..
Chase promised to do so, but said that
he had changed his views in respect to
the money question since he wrote the
article: "You see, Mr.. Sherman, said
the old man, "a man can change his
views, while mule won't" The call
appears to have been pleasant one to
all parties.