The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-04

considerable interest is felt in
the litigation now pending between
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and
Pullman Palace Car Con1jany,
touching the validity of the patents
claimed by the latter. The Pullman
company has managed to monopo-
lie about every improvement that
contributes to the comfort of mod
ern railway passengers, anil, as Is
usual in such cases, ii has mad.
them paw extortioBatera rates for such
accommodations as it afforded. and
with which travellers could not very
well dispense. II it shall now be
shown, as ii probably will be, that
the most of its claims can not be
sustained, and that every railway
company has the right to build and
put upon its line substantially such
cars as it pleases, a great point will
| be gained. at least the excuse OF
royalty TO be paid can no longer be
put forth for charging rs much for a
mere sleeping berth for single
night as will pay for comfortable
lodgings and full board in respect
able hotel for twenty-for hours.
"A cablegram 10 the New York
Herald, dated Paris, October 9th.
| says: THE life of a French project
is not without thorns nowadays.
esterday il was learned that one
project, VI. Andre, after eXpelling
the Carmellites at Rennes had his
coat tails ANONYMOUSLY torn off in
the streets by an Infatuated clerical.
To-day the GGuloiS informs us that
VI. Montiuc. Project at Vannes, is
besieged in his hotel by an anti-Re-
publican mob and is unable to obey
the order summOning him to Paris.
Still more absurd is the case of the
Project of Morbian. A public sub
scription Is being organized in his
department for the purpose of pre-
senting him with trirolOr and gold
cravat embroidered with emblems
of the locksmith's trade and an ex-
tract from a profession of faith in
which he once declared himself the
ardent defender of religion and
property. Into-day's Figaro several
more admirers of the Jesuits offer
asylums to the victims of the gov
eminent DEGREES. 1t is extremely
chic just now, as Figaro would say,
to have a Jesuit for boarder"
The secret of the recuperative
power displayed by France after the
disastrous Franco-Germa" war is
made manifest in statistics showing
the status of her agricultural inter
ests. The total rural population is
put down ut 25,000,O00, of whom
100000 are directly engaged in
agriculture. The land. is largely
owned by those who cultivate it,
and in this respect France possesses
a great advantage over Graf Brit
ain, where comparatively few ha-
ronial proprietors. own more than
half the land of the realm. In France
there are 100000 district estates or
properties in land. OF these it is
estimated that $4,000 average an
acreage of 600, while 100000 average
so acres, and the remainder of over
100000 represent small farms of six
acres each. There are 100000 in
habited dwellings in France, 100000
uninhabited and $1,000 in course Of
constructions The entire popula-
lion is 37,000,000, showing nn aver
age of over four and less than five
persons o a dwelling-not a crowded
state by any means. These figures
show that nearly two-thirds Of the
population of France are agricultur-
alists, the pursuit which produces
the real wealth of a country, and
also, that those who are thus en-
gagged, as a g, neral thing, own the
soil they till. In the face of these
facts it is not surprising that France
is vastly more prosperous than
Great Britain. t.,. t-....