The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-07-03

Dr.. Russell. the c-l. braie1 war cor
responder Il n T. ,ndon Times. after I
thirty eight geat- uuDrokru service,
has sev ri for re hr.t I;me hIs CD
nectiou viii lh4, nrn>i ,o@ acc1m- /
panied G .rnet Wp>ei, { Ziuiss
"a specla C frTsp Bfent vI I &c Val
Telegraph ii Is 1.-TWO years old.
ana OF ia.e has fallen II considerable
from his Crimean form. When young.
be was ''m.icS" ~ the b -itish navy
Although the new III m1rr fr II
Clare calls hiIs II tn orc rm1.
| MahOn," his claims t. chieft4Isey Az
not recognized by very coneidab!.
class oil his countrym@r. None, how
ever. dispute the right Of he Rnigh
OF Kerry, the O'Connor Dou, tn
Knight of G.Io, the MaceillIcudiy OF
the Reeks, aud the Old Jnoghue to
| those ancient tries. The last no longer
owns his ancestral acres. Tue Kuighs
of Kerry owns nearly sli V4lentie
where the Atlantic ib'e lands on the
other side, and the condition Of the
island r'f cts great credit upon him.
| He Is Constant resident, -f..
During the debate on the Eastern
| question. while Lord b ,seoI s1eld was
ia the II use of Commons, 1t was d
fsvorIte Occupa'ion among members OF
| sporting habits 10 lay or take odds that
( Disrseli would cnnc!u Re bis speech
wi b the word, ''empire.p Eventually
| tue Ds4ctinn became such q Certain
| thing that no odds would induce q
man TO lay against the ''empire.
is an interesting fact that the last sylla-
bles Disrseli uttered in his speech in
the twenty minutes before he passed
forever out of the House of Commons
were the two waich formed this sonOi-
Gus word. ~.
Regarding the eruption Of Mount
| Il ma, it Is said that q considerable
| portion of the bed of the A
csntara river is covered by. lava.
The damage to agriculture is already
very serious. Inhabitants have been
forced t. abandon the village OF Mxjo.s
The volcano is 81 citing enormous vol
umes of ashes. The destruction of
property is immense. The commune of
Majo has been obltterated and Costello
is threatened. Many large and valuable
estates hare been destroyed. The four
main crsters continue to pour forth
streams of lava, while many of the
smaller ones have become inactive.
The stream of lava which has interrupt
ed the road at Passa Pesaro Is half a
mile wide and one hundred feet deep
| The eIuptiOns of this historic volcano
| known from the ancient historical peri
cd, and the tact that they are less fire.
| quent than those of Mount Vesavlus
and the violence of It's eruptious, has
| given it especial interest. The great
e of Mount II na-tie height of the
cone being nearly II 900 feet and its
circumference 81 miles : renders the
OVERT wv of its lava often most destruct-
! i've. The following short historical
record will be il resting: During one
of the earlier eIuptions, the lava, when
checked by the walls of Csntanis, fifty
feet in height, accumu ated II it actu-
ally OVERT owed them and devastated
the entire town. The earliest recorded
eruption of Il ma is metiOned by Didor
| Gus SIculus, - cOeval with the Z. oj4n
war. The next are three eTuptions re-
ferred TO by Thucydides, 425 and AIS
B. c., aud one AT an earlier time lot
sneciied. These, added to the latter
recorded eTup,ions to the present time,
make seventy in all. The most impcr-
tant are those of 1I69. 1863, 1906, 1887,
1892, 1852 and 1868.
George Francis Train says that Alex
snder, the copqu'ror Of Persia and
Philips son, 10, ks six feet high!
The whole army of Alexander would
not fill decent siz ID Secesh graveyard
10 our civil wa Wtpt because he had
no more worlss To col Querl Bah Sit
ting Bull or CetywayO would have
whipped him out of nus sandalsl The
great Alexander of Babylon fame
didn't Wear bootsl Was his massacre
of 5000 citizens of Thebes ard selling
30, 600 into slavery any more uoble than
Cromwellism in lrelano 2 His greatness
consists in having ArIsio lie, his old
Greek teacher, ms blngrsDher and eu-
logisi No doubt his Persian cam
paign, paid by the X ue, helped him
publish his History of Animals, which
ended in the qreat Museum of Alexan-
dris. M doupt his "trip to the Caspian !
his intertransplsnting of vegetation be-
tween Europe and A7Ial his expedi-
tions to Africal his enormous staff of
scientists in Persisl all show that he
sought knowledge; but 1t was the
sword that gave Alexander fsmel But
was it grand thing 10 burn Persepo-
lis in drunken spree2 to slaughter
prisoners in honor of Hephr &c 'ton9 hang
Aristotle's pupil, Ca'lesthenesG Qrom
whom we get the werd 'csllesthenlcsO.
i 4
at Sussl Did he not rob Persia like q
bandit2 Was he not the Dick Turpin
of Macedonia the Fra Disvolo of
Greece l. was robOing age, and he
was the head pirat. -.