The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-06-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Speaking of the recent Chicago con-
vention, ex-attorney general Taft said:
Money spent at Chicago. should say
so. Oceans of it. All the revenue
officers were opposed to Grant. 1t twas,
perhaps, the most corrupt convention
ever held in this country. Notwith-
standing that Gen. Grant was defeated,
Pm not sorry was there, as it was
memorable event-one that can never
forget. There never was a convention
that approached it but one, and that
was the Charleston Democratic conven-
ton when the great split occurred on
the slavery question.
A general Presbyterian council is 10
be held in Philadelphia next Septem-
Der and the preparations for it have de-
veloped difference of opinion among
the members of the church as TO the
kind OF lynans il Is proper for Chris
tians to sing. One branch of the
church holds that psalms are the only
fit songs to sing in worship. They
cling to the old Hebrew songs of praise
as inspired, and the modern hymn
books as human productions. They
want all psalms or no singing in the
meetings of the council, They declare
they will not meet with the other Pres
byterian shades and colors unless their
favorite psalms are used to the exo!u-
sion of human hymns, they will not
allow mixture l.,tlre 81 psalms and hymns
printed in their books, because that
would be acknowledging ap equality
in the authorship and COMPOSITION.
The psalm singers threaten to keep
away from the council unless they car
~ their point on singing, and the only
compromise possible is an agreement to
have no singing at all. ~
1t was midnight and foggy when
the NarTaganset went down, and the
burning vessel cast red glare upon
the water, teeming with struggling
people who had fed from fire to the
waves. Life-boats were dsrtiDg around
among them picking them up. One OF
the boats took q rare spectacle on
board which caused the life-savers to
suspend operations for minute. 1t
was fat lady with nothing on but
life-preserver. She was hard to handle
on account of her bulk, and the fact
that the life-preserver prevented her
being pulled in head first by catchibg
upon the gunwale. Several tines she
slipped back. The men told her to
throw up her feet which she did, and
they succeeded In hauling her in feet
foremost. No sooner was she on board
than she knelt down in the bottom of
the boat and uttered pious prayer for
others to be saved as she had been.
She was totally oblIvious of her con-,
dition in the excitement of the scene.
Her prayer ended, she keeled over, IN
sensible, and the amazed men tenderly
covered her with blanket and went
on with their work of life-sayipg.
The Paris correspondent of the New
Orleans Picayuqe says: 81 gave you
recently an account Qt was intention,
ally far from full eccountl OF the Dis
tress into which Prince Pierre Bona
parties family he's fallen. They are
again on fortunes crested wave. Ro-
land Bonaparte is to mary daughter
of Blanc, toe farmer of the gaming Ia
bles of Baden and Monaco, who, be-
sides the fortune 10 his children, left
his widow $50, 600, 900. Roland b.
nsparte is to N ery her daughter. He
has bought San Donate, Prince Demi-
doff's palace, near Florence. The King
of Italy, at Prince Napoleon request,
has given him the title of Prince Of San
Dons,o. The estate OF San Donate
contains seTenty.6ve acres; tho palace
has a marble terrace and gilded dome:
has stables for atty horses, coach houses
for thirty carriages; riding school;
hot, temperate and cold greenhouses;
orangeries; greenhouses of orchids; q
conservatory 400 yards long; pigeon.
shooting lawn; steam bathS, Turkish
baths, Russian baths; is hghted by
gas has lawns, lakes, bridges, islands,
aviaries, gruttos, swimming school Of
1600cubIc yards orchards, olive groves,
kitchen garden, vineyard. dairy. Nine.
Blanc has paid $500, 900 for ii. The
family Of Roland are, Of course, de-
lighted. His sister viii no longer try
to get bread by sculpture, aud be VIII
no longer look forward eagerly to the
$50 bank note which Prince Napoleon
sent him occasionally"