The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-10-02
Editorial Notes.

morphine to Il pstient. The indie
ment charges mlnslsughter.
Mrs. Cornell, the wife of the Repub.
licau candidate for Governor, is men.
toned by the Auburn -AdUertISer as the
daughter of Mr. George Covert, al
IthacaD, who formerly lived in Auburn,
and was there engaged in the business
OF manufacturing morocco.
The exodus of backs Northward has
commenced early and In earnest. One
hundred have left Nashville for Kan
sas. Gen. Conway says that 100, ,00O
negroes will leave the South the COM
log winter if they have to travel over.
land like the children of Israel.
Gen. Conway is still firm In the faith
that the exodusting business will pay
and that the movement, instead OF
abatiDg, has only just begun. He es.
Inmates that the immigration this fall
and next winter will reach at least g
hundred thousand. These are of course
to be placed where the will do the most
good, but the plan OF distribution il
not yet fully determined on.
Some notion of the desolation OF
Memphis may be cleaned from the
fact that on Sunday last, the seve nth
Sunday since the outbreak of the cpl
demic, net church bell pealed forth
upon the air aud but one service OF
any kind was held, and that at the
fernando Street Protestant Episcopal
Church, where DIR. DalzelI, the minis
ter, with two ladies and q gentleman,
held morning service.
East Indian advices report that the
British resident at Mandalsy is about
to retire, much 10 the satisfaction OF
the burmese monarch, who desires
nothing so much as to be left alone
with his jug aud the corpses of his
relatives. He need not filter him
self, however, that John Bull j,
through with him yet. His case will
be attended to, no doubt, as soon as
the Afghan job is disposed of, and
perhaps before.
The provision merchants of Chicago
are negotiating for the sale of the Great
Eastern to yun. from Portland to Eng.
land, in the interest of the the Grand
Trunk Railway. The new refrigeratipg
process by which fresh meats and dairy
products are conveyed across the At
lantic will be employed. The great
docks and storehcuses built for the
Grea. E:stern's accommodation long
ago, at cost of $50, 600, it is reported,
will be again used.
A polo accident, similar to the one
which ought to have put an end to thit
dangerous game in Buffalo { although,
strange to say, it has not }, occurred
recently in Phenlx Park, Dublin, dur.
ing a match between the Fusiliers and
the All Ireland Club. Robert Saunders
barley, about forty years of age, waE
heavily thrown from his pony, which
rolled over him, causing very severe
fracture of the skull. Every remedy
was tried for restoring consciousness,
but without avail.
A man in Kansas who represented
himself as "practical farmer" visited
all the fairs with prize pumpkin, anC
took the premiums ever time.
measured seven feet around ant
weighed 230 pounds. Several day
ago, at Council Grove, a rival farme
attempted to tap the pumpkin, in th'
absence of its owner, to get some o
the seeds, and he discovered ttat i
was made of wood. This beats tn,
Ingenious Connecticut invention o
bass wood cucumber seed
The poor of England who desire t,
reach this >untry, but whose mean
are too limited to pay their way acros
| I'm A 10 ha1 do r,
"pooling their Issucs"-makiDg up
common fund-from which the passag
money is taken by those who are luck,
enough to draw a prize number. Tn
plan is very popular, as, by diminish
ing the number of laborers, it has
tendency to advance the price.of labor
For this reason many subscribe to tn
fund who do not wish to leave the oil,
country.
Gen. Butler affects supreme con
tempt for the newspapers, and de
nounces them as savsgely as ever, ye
with true martyr-spirit he submits t
the remorseless interview on all occa
sions. In fact we are rather inclined
t. think that he is peculiarly fond O
the notoriety which he gets in his wa
aud would consider himself slighte
were the reporters to let him alone.
can certainly be said of the irrepressi
BILE Ben that whenever he opens hi
mouth he says something-and it. is a.
ways something that the papers ar
glad to get hold of.
Thomas Wilson, the Baltimore mil
lionaIre who died recently, was of tn
opinion hat large fortunes should b
cut into small slices and passed around
His estate is estimated to be worth be
, tween two million and three millio
dollars. By his will, just admitted t
probate, few dozen nieces, nephew
and other relatives are enriched j
sums that ,un from $4,000 up to $50
900, but not beyond. Besides th
personal bequests, there are charitsbI
bequests-one of $500, 900 to tn
Thomas Wilson loan fund of the cit
of Baltimore, for the benefit of strue
Cling young men and poor widows
another of $500, 900 to the Thoms
Wilson sanitarium for the children c
Baltimore, and smaller sums to five c
six asylumns and homss.
A soldier of the garrison at Stettir
in Germany, at company drill, wa
struck 90 violently in the face by b
] sergeant that he became permanetl
deaf. The sergeant was punished wit
a fortnight's imprisonment, and th
soldier was sent home as no longer
for military service. He was informe
by the commandant of the army corr
that he had no right to peneion. Til
decision was, however, reversed by tn
ministry of war, and the soldier We
granted q pension. 1t is more tha
probable that il the sergeant had M
hit so very hard the public would new,
have heard anything of the mstsel
The recent case of systematic cruz
treatment of soldiers at WuIZburp, Il
which lieutenant and several sergeant
: were sent to prison, also goes to sho
that corporal punishment in it's wori
aud most arbitrary form exists still
the German army.
The Sand Lots party in San Francis
co appear to have secured control of th
: disbursements of the public moneys
/ but at the same time they failed to g
control of the levying and assassin
power. They have elected their caud
dates for mayor, sheriff, auditor, treai
urer, tax collector, public sdministrs
tor, surveyor, district attorney, cit
and county attorney, police judge, boar
, of education, and railroad commission
er for the city district. But at the sam
time they only elected enc member c
: the boarIl Of supervisors, and will cor
seouensiy be unable TO make q singl