The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-10-21
EDITORIAL NOTES.

-1ucEc are over lOOO IacIOTlee III
Philadelphia and adjacent districts
engaged in the production of textile
fabrics.
1t is estimated that the total pro-
duction of coffee throughout the
world in 1873 amounted TO 1885,
O75, 900 pounds.
His excellency G.W.Des Veaux.
Governor of the Fiji Islands, with.
his wife, two children and three SER
wants, arrived at New York on the
Abyssinia from Liverpool.
Freeman, the Pocassett child
murderer, escaped from the DAN
vers Mass }, insance hospital a few
days ago, and is still at large. al
though a vigorous search has been
made for him.
The English Bank Of san Fran
cisco, with a capital of three millions.
has returned one million of dollars
TO its shareholders. The great fall
ing of in business does not afford
profitable employment for their
former capital.
Mr.. II. Fl. Mcdonald of San Fran
cisco offers 100000 towards an en-
versity on condition that an equal
sum shall be rai.cd by the Baptist,
Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Congre-
gational and Methodist denomina-
tons.
"A new placer has been found in
Montana. a butcher killed an OK
whose stomach contained five or six
dollars worth of fine gold mixed
with sand. The OK was evidently a
good prospector, aud found pay in
the grass roots. The event created
stir at Fort Mcleod.
An innovation has been intro
duced in New York, and it appears
has already made rapid headway,
in the serving of hot tea and coffee
in tumblers to their customers by
druggists at their soda water
counters. Some are talking of max
ing n change in this respect, and
using cups and sauccrs. By calling
in the aid of science for the extrac-
ton of the real essence of the tea
and coffee, superior article Is pre-
pared, and altogether the new
custom meots large approval from
the public.
An English manufacturer trav-
cling in America for the purpose OF
inspecting various industrial estab-
lishments wrote as follows: II spent
some hours at the Cleveland rolling
mills. They have a wire mill at
tached for drawing nothing but
Bessemer steel wire, of which they
turn out IS tons per day, and have
one room with 1000 small blocks,
each man tending 80 blocks, whereas
in England we consider man that
runs 8 blocks of steel is a wonder
So much for your country. saw it
with my own eyes, and was never
more astonished."
Perhaps the most remarkable
execution that this country will
ever know will take place in At
lanta, Georgia, during the present
month. The person to be hanged Is
mere child, a colored boy eleven
wears of age, and the crime for
which he is under sentence is the
brutal murder of a three-year-old
infant whom he had been set to
mind. Notwithstanding his ex-
IRENE youth, the decd was 80 fiend-
ish in conception and so utterly uu-
provoked that the jury could not
find a single eXtenuating circum-
stance in the case.
"A few years ago the greatest
steamers did not exceed $50 feet in
length, IS feet in breadth, $500 tons
in tonnage, or 1000 horse power.
Now the City of Berlin OF the Inman
line il 1873 feet by AL feet, and their
new steamer, the City of Rome,
building of iron at Barrow, will be
still larger, having q length Of SIC
feeI, breadth of so feet, tonnage
of 90O0 The Cunard steel ship, the
Servia, now building at Glasgow, is
500 feet by 30 feet. with over 10000
indicated horse power, and will
doubtless possess speed i'll q lyance
of the very fastest ship at present
ailoat in the mercantile marine.
AS Congress, ut its last session,
made no appropriation for begin
ming the plan of Improvement rec
commended by the Mississippi river
commission, the estimates first SUBJ
mitted have been again sent for
ward. They amount to $4,000,0OO
for works of hank protection and
channel Improvement nj points en-
bracing about 200 miles Of the worst
navigation below Cairo, namely,
near New Madrid, Plum Poinl, Mem
phis. IIclenS, Choctaw Bend and
Lake Providence Tho shoals at
these localities have only five to six
feet of water OH them at low river
stage.
"A Madison, Wisconsin, young man
will never carry package through
the street. He made a purchase the
other day of six collars and a neck
tie, and, as usual, ordered them to
be delivered at his residence. Soon
afterwards two-horse freight
wagon was backed up TO the door
and the package laboriously placed
on the steps by the driver and an
assistant, who inquired whether it
should be left in the hall or carried
up stairs. a certain ex-judge, well
known in Austin, carries such snob-
berry so far as to order pair of kid
gloves TO be taken by carrier from a
store to his apartments.
"A few years ago the greatest
steamers did not exceed $50 feet in
length, IS feet in breadth, $500 tons
in tonnage, or 1000 horse power.
Now the City OF Berlin of the lnman
line 1873 feet by Az feet, and their
new steamer, the City of Rome,
building of iron at Barrow, will be
still larger, having length of $40
feet, breadth of ~ feet, and a gross
registered tonnage of 5000. The Gu
nard steel ship, the Servia, now
building at Glasgow, is 500 by so
feet. with over l0000indicated horse
power, and will doubtless possess a
speed in advance of the very fastest
ship at present aflo.t in the mercan-
tile marine.
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