The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-08
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4 New Yo.k letter says: II, Is
stated on excellent suthori that with
in few days $500 hiss been offered
for shares OF the Edison Electric Light
Company which originally sold for
$ICO
''Edison's mind" says the Chicago
Times, ''sppesrs to be duplex, or even
qusdrupIex, like his system of tele-
grePhy; he cannot invent one thing
without inventing two or three Others
simultaneously"
Deposits of gold hsve been discover
ed IN the Modoc Distiic', Canada, which
are said to be the richest yet made.
Six iron manufacturers from Toledo,
Ohio, are prospecting in ModOc, and
others are expected.
Dakota had population of IA 600 in
1870. It's population now Is 100 900,
and it i believed the census of 1880
will show $50. 600. l. looks as if
Dakota would be the thlrty-ninth State
admitted into the Union.
By decision in the Ohio Supreme
Court, it is declared that trade unions
are against the laws of Ohio and the
federal constitution, and all members
of such unions are permanently sDjolu-
ed from interfering in any way with
manufacturers, Or their employees who
do not belong to such IN, ons.
From experiments made by Arloing,
it sppesrs that chloral does not act 9
an ar Sc sthetic on the sensitive-plant,
while ether and chloroform have an ef-
feet upon il similar to that which they
exert on animals. NJ. Arloing in his
experiments caused the snelthetics to
be absorbed by the roots of the plant.
OF the total of S431 sets of wooden
machinery in the United States, 141S
are in Massachusetts, 331 in Maine, sos
in New Hampshire, 175 IN Vermont,
AGO IN Rhode bland, and $50 in Con-
necticut-a total for the New England
States of more than 43 per cent. of the
wooden machinery i'll the entire coun-
try.
There is bill before the Virginia
legislature to appropriate $75, 900 for
the purpose of penslonipg Confederate
invahds and the widows and orphans
of Confederate soldiers. This bill is q
measure of the Readjusters. The debt
payers ridicule it, and insist that the
amount is wholly inads quate. AS a
cons, quence they favor much larger
appropriation.
Capt. F. NJ. Mahan, formerly citi-
zen of Memphis, has invented steam
circular dredgeboat. 1t is clsimed tn, t
this boat will cut through a sandbar,
and thus give channel of any required
depth. Many old river men have in
dorsed the Captains scheme as practi-
cal, and Congress will be asked to en-
pIoy two of these dredgers in the Mis-
sissippi river.
The project for a monument to
Adam at EImira, New York. is taking
definite form. A sum of not lees than
$40, 900 Is to be subscribed. and Thos.
X. Beecher, M. Ii. Arnot and Henry
E. Drake are corresponding with
sculptors in Europe fora design as near
as possible like the first man. 1t il to
be of bronze, and unveiled in June
with a dedlcatory address by Mark
| Twain.
When Sam Houston, of glorious
memory, was occupying the guberna-
torial mansion at Austin, he gave a
levee one evening. Among the visi-
tors was Col. John Forbes. of NaCog-
doches, veritable "Old Texan" Col.
F. Always talked very deliberately,
and he was urging Governor
H uston to visit Nacogdoches.
He said: "YCu ought to come
to Nacogdoches-Go Governor. That's
the first place in Texas you made
your home. You have hosts OF friends
there-Governor. You really owe us
"a visit. Why, Governor. you have a
great many children in Nacogdoches
named after YOU" Old Sam, who
had Strengthened up wonderfully
toward the termination of the remarks,
SAID: Colonel, put your words just
little closer together-if you please. "