The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-19
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Christ.
Mrs. Msckay, the wife Of the bonarza
is said by Paris gossip TO
haTe purchased the title of Marchioness,
either in Spain or ksly.
A sacrifcial service by Ira Stewart, q
religious fanatic st Castle Grove, lows,
was interrupted just IN time TO save his
little daughter, whom he was about to
slsy on an altar.
Hon. p. Gratz Brown SAYS, ''the
power of the printed page so far trans
cends my personal speech, in these
days Of universal reading, that any
comparison would be futile.
Some ships carry strangely dispropor-
Tomato cargOes. The Boston AdUertiSer
says that vessel lately left the shores
of the new world for benigbted Africs,
carrying 5000 gallons of rum and
one missionary.
Recent calculations represent that the
Italian workman receives II and 20
per cent of the profit of his work the
Frenchman AZ per cent, the English
man so per cent and American 72 per
cent.
Matrimonial managers classify Mr..
Tilden as q good catch because he is
sIxty-fve, and worth twenty millions.
Most young ladies would consider him
a better one with about ten million 6
knocked eff and ten years added to his
age.
1t is reported at Dallas aud gener.
ally believed that the Dallas and WITCH
ita railroad company have secured
means to complete the road to Denton
and thence to Whitesboro, which will
give the NJ. K. and I. road a terminus
at Dallas.
A stock company has been formed in
Leavenworth, Kas., representing $25,
600, for the purpose of manufacturing
sugar and syrup from corn. 1t will &C
into operation at once, will employ
about $50 hands, and consume 1000
bushels of corn daily.
In Georgia there is a minister of the
primitive Baptist denomination who
has five churches under his care, max.
ing it necessary for him to preach all
day long on Sundays. During SIX days
of the week he goes into the forests
and chops wood TO earn living. Aud
be ls II years of age at that.
Mrs. j. J. Astor has Just sent Que
hundred more of the homeless children
of New York to homes in the west ans
south, at cost of $500. During the
last seven years she has found homes
for six hundred and seventy-seven pool
lads and has expended on them $975O
The old soldiers of both causes arr
about equally represented in Congress-
there being 6S Union men and 81 Con.
federates. The blue scores 10 generals
Is colonies and 81 of other grades; the
grey, II generals, % colonies and % o.
other grades-the honors being thus
singularly even.
1t Is estimated that this YEARS croI
of grain, the world over, will be 1870,
600, 900 bushels above the average, Of
about 10 per cent, and, as the stock
carried over in this country is likely t.
be larger than ever before, cheap food
is tolerably certain to be therrule next
summer and winter.
BY singular coincidence it was il
the heat of deer hunt that the son anG
namesake of Senator Wade Hampton o.
South Carolina contracted the disease
which resulted IN his death, and deel
hunt was also the occasion of the acct.
dent which necessitated the amputatior
of one of the Senator's legs, and for 6
long time endangered his life.
California fruit growers are expert
nenting with new variety of peact
which comes from China and is called
the Peen-too or Chinese flatopeech, anC
is very different from the common sort
1t is described as follows: "Frui
three inches In diameter, very fiat
white, with red cheek. Peels rapidly
when ripe. Flesh fine-grained and
juicy, dissolying with very rich, deli
cate aroma. Very early"
It s thought that a crisis in the his
tory of VeauVius is approaching; eitheI
there will be drest discharge, such al
will terrify the neighborhood, or, as il
more likely, there will be az. overflow.
ing of lava, covering the cone with
mantle Of fire, and silently inflictine
more destruction on property than
grand eruption. Vesuvius has been il
an active state now for several years
and Prof. Palmieri has from the frs
prophesied that the eruption would con
sist in the Overlooking of lava.
Metternich relates of Napoleon
"One day at St. Cloud he had had
dangerous fall-he had been throw
from carriage on to post, whicl
nearly entered his stomach, and the mex
day, when l asked him how he was, h
answered with the utmost gravity ::
81 yesterday completed my experiment
on the power of the will. When m
stomach was injured l felt life escapin
from me; had only just time to say t
myself that l would not die, and an
alive. AIRY one else would have died.
The natives residing in the neighhor
hood of MonrovIa, Liberia, until lately
were accustomed. to visit the city dress
ed very much in the style of our frs
parents. Mayor Leon, civilized emf
grant from the United States, issued
proclamation to the effect that the mel
should wear breeches and womel
should wear gowns to the knees, c
they couldn't attend market. The q,
cree is now observed, but IN the r'dr,
regions the primitive costume OF. I'll
feathers of the Republic remsi. rs i
vogue.
Mary Burbage, a sixteep.-year-o l
white girl, saw 3 dark Object in ht
room the other night and screamed lu;
tily. The men of the housa-Burbage
hotel at Stockton-rushed in &C th
door as negro named Spences mad
his exit at window. Chase was glver
the negro was caught, and, in the be
lief that he meant to commit som
worse crime than theft, he was punish
ed then and there. Beng stripped {
the skin and tied up by his thumbs,
was lashed with ox-whips until bloot
stood about his feet in pools.
The high price of corn in 1870, a
compared with that of 1878, has evi
IDENTITY, says the Chicsgo Nescs, cut shor
the hog crop of the West considerably
The SIX large pork cities, and the int
rior points, 1t is now estimated, will
pack, the present season, 6, $50, 00I
hogs as against 7,4s0, 900 last season
this Is net decrease of 500, 900 il
round numbers the present season
The six large cities, Chicago, Cincin
nati, st. Louis, Indianapolis, Milwau
kee and Louisville, packed 8, 800. 00t
hogs last winter, and but 4, SOC, O0t
this s decrease of 200. 900. ChicaQs
packed 2. 500, 900 this winter, or NOR
than half the whole number packed o.
the SIX cities. The Cincinnati Peic
CRyTsat says that the average net weigh
Is placed at about s07 pounds, and th,