The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-09-16
sbifosiat NOTES.

nominated for Congress by the
Greenbackers of the Elmira dis
trict, New York.
| Only a few months ago the
Northern Pacific railroad estab-
lished a land Office at Colfax in
Washington Territory, and since
that time it has sold $124,038 worth
of land. During the month of
June this road sold 1926 acres of
land near the line of the Pen
fOreille division, mostly in quarter
sections. for .S24.494.47.
Concerning quarantine the Mo-
bile Register remarks: "The advo-
Gates of national system are not to
be driven from the ground by false
application of the theory of home
rule. DR.. Cabell no doubt repre-
sents the popular feeling when he
says that the Mississippi valley will
never rest content to leave this ques-
ton in the hands of local board in
New Orleans, however distinguished
may be the members of that board"
Representatives of three Amer
lean railroad companies are in Mex,
leo endeavOring to secure recogni-
IL.
and permission TO extend their lines
into the territories of our neighbor.
These ambassadors represent three
interests, one Jay Gould and the
Texas Pacific, the other Huntington
and the Southern Pacific, and the third
q certain Boston capitalist who con-
trolls the Atkinson, Topeka and
Santa Fe road. The latter appears
to be most in favor. and the one
most likely to secure official recOg-
milton.
The Wall street operators and
brokers take most lively interest
in the situation, and are prepared
to back their views with their
money. All along the Garfield men
have found ready takers TO all offers
to make even wagers on the result,
and now Mr.. John G.. O'Keefe of
Tammany Hall, wagered $1,000 that
Hancock will be elected against
$500 put up by Mr.. Ed. Gilmore
that Garfield will be elected. The
money was deposited, and, this bet
being latest quotations, the Han
cock men now aver that their can
didate is the favOrite in the Wall
street betting.
One of Improbable results of the
present land agitation in Great
Britain and Ireland is the abolition
of the House of Lords. 1t is a COM
mon question for which no salts
factory answer is given, "why should
men no better or wiser than their
fellow men be irresponsible legisla-
tors by heredity" They have even
been called "a trades union of land
owners" That their position and
influence are Fictitious even to the
bounds of absurdity is suggested by
the well known fact that it is only
by the infusion of fresh blood that
the lordlings and lords are saved
from idiocy at one end of life and
govt at the other. .... 1
The Rev. DIR. McCOsh speaks of
the death of the Princeton students
who fell victims to the foul air. as "a
dispensation sent to chasten and to
humble u.s." The COngregatioadliSt
dissents. from this theology. II says
that 1.-The calamity at Princeton was
due, as clearly as anything ever was,
| to human carelessness. 1t might
have been and ought to have been
prevented. For example. the fact
that the drain pipes led into cess
pool which had no outlet, and never
was cleaned, might have been dis
covered by examination as easily be-
| fore the fatal consequences occurred
as afterward. But nobody felt
enough responsibility about the con-
| f.f IN A |
has been, or will be, put right now,
but the deed is done, and the respon-
sibility for il is not to be avoided.
Ii was not misfortune but Il crime.
AT Ounalaska it is now believed
that the Bennett North Pole eXpedi-
ton steamer Jcannette has been lost
in the Polar seas. The only basis for
this belief is the faet that nothing
has been heard of the expedition
since it entered the frigid zone, and
that last winter was peculiarly Sc
we're one. These reasons will not be
convincing to those who remember
that the Jeanette was fitted out
with the expectation that she would
spend one winter in the ice and
probably two, and that every neces-
Sary arrangement was made TO guard
against all the contingencies that the
experience of other Arctic cXpedi-
tons have shown 10 be possible. 1t
is too soon. therefore, to give up all
hope of the ,Ieannette. although it
is by no means impossible that the
Bennett expedition has met with the
late that has overtaken so many
others in the far northern seas.
The fact that a large number of
English people are about to settle
on the Cumberland plateau in Ten
nessee is not extensively commented
upon by the stalwart press, 1t is u
reply to their bloody shirt and other
stories of the South that they do not
care to give place to in their coll
umns, and for obvious reasons. The
English projectors of the scheme of
colonization in Tennessee had heard
of the charges made by the Repub-
lican papers angainst tho South, rs q
matter of course, bnt they were too
fair-minded and intelligent to accept
them rs true without investigation.
They soon satisfied themselves that
the stories were political scareerQws,
circulated to frighten weak-minded
suffragans st the North, and there
fore proceeded to purchase the land
they had in view. There is every
reason why tho Republican organs
should remain silent concerning the
matter So f- l