The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-02-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The widow OF ex-President ryler has
s.si-d C'pgresS for pension, on the |
z oand Of imuerse depression in the !
value Of her real estate, the mortgages /
on her northern II perry having betn
forec.osed, and those on he- southern
property consteIt'y troubling her.
She Gays: 81 find / have sesrcr'y any
t re Whatever left to 1--we upon
Oae Of the most infamous acts OF
General Grant while be was President
was the part he took II the conspiracy
which brought about the memorable
Black Friday IN NeT York in 1859.
Many will remember how j. Gould and
Jim Fisk gave Grant a tree ride 10
B son, osteusibly t. attend the peace
jubilee, but really to pump the PresI-
| dent concerning his views upon pr
CT they had originated 10 make nil
lions for themselves by creating ,
cpruer il the gold market.
Whatever faults the Irish people may
haze there can b. no doubt that tn y
are generous and disposed to help each
other. 1t may reasonably be expected,
the efore, that the sum of money which
will be Contributed 70 the sufferers in
Ireland by the four million Irish men
and women in this country will be very
large. The machinery OF the Catholic
church here has been put ii, !, operation
fr The collie, ton of iuods, ana it will
b particularly successiul, because it
can reach all CLASSES, from the rich man
down to the poor servant girl.
The evaugeilc | ministers OF B ,ston
have decided TO insugurate a crusade
against the DISSERTATION OF the Sabbath.
| Among the business and other enter
| pFises of which they will eDdtavor to
cause the suspension on Sunday, are TIT
running OF lailrosl trains, the employ
ment oil men, women and chi dren 10
do any kind of work, the pub icstion
| OF sale OF newspapers, the traffic in
merchandise, the keeping open of places
of entertainment, indulgence II games
Of ball and the sale of LIQUOR. We are
not informed how these ssnctimopious
B ,stonians propose to do all of this.
tbs astonishing how easily people of
this country forget the questionable
and outrsgeously fraudulent acts OF
public men. a, the last Republican
| National Convention the memory of
Grants corrupt administration wa,
fresh IN the minds of ali, and the re-
suit was Is consignment to the shades
of D ivaIs life. sThen be went to
Eurap-, leaving his Jsusted hencbmen
oehihd 20 woIk upa 80 IN for $50,
| and teach Tic enyie iorgetfn ness of
the pas. L % cerJsin extent the cOa-
spiraoy succrSdt q. bu the old scandals
are now being revived, aud the C n
sequence is t,c Grsbt 10 m is
rapidly growing wo.krr end We. ker
After New Y Z Bal n, re does
larger exporting business than any
other American city. Ia 1879 the va
ne of it's exports amounted 70 SOS 493 :
S92, an increase of S13. 237 geo as Gem
pared with the preceding year. Wheat
and corn mRFe up the bu k OF IFS ex-
ports. Il 1879 tie grain shipped from
BAltImore, am uniting in the aggregate
IN SO 480 34i bushels, exceeded by
) 900 900 bushels the total grain tx-
ports of Phiadelphia, 3 ,ston and New
Orleans. The imports landed at Balti-
more last year were valued at SIS 241,
666, which show a pretty fair impor,
business, though it is less than that OF
-Pnilaoelphis and b ,stou. The proba-
bilities are, howev +. thai before many
decades have passed the principal i'm
porting, az we'll as exporting business,
OF the Atlantic seabosrd will be done
at points on or near Chesapeake bay,
on which Baltimore is situated.