The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-25
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Leadville mines turned out 10, =
43S tons or $40, 504, 100 worth of silver
last year. This beats the record of any
mining locality in the world. Other
Colorado mines yielded about SO, 600, =
900.
The public debt, less cash in the
treasury, March l, was 81, 995, 112, 221
"a decrease so Mr.. Secretary Sherman
says (Which is doubtfuD during Febru-
s-y of So, G72, 019, and since June 80,
1879, of $50, O95. 054.
Whalebone is not bone at all, nor
does it possess any of the properties of
bone. 1t is substance attached to the
upper jaw of the whale, and serves to
strain the water which the creature
takes up in large mouthfuls.
One,third of the gold that is mined
goes to wear and tear, one-thiEd goes
into circulation, and one-third into the
arts and manufactures. All the gold
In the world would make a pile only
% feet wide, 45 feet long and 25 feet
high.
1t is announced that the government
of Germany has resolved so far to re-
trace Its steps on the question of re-
monetization of silver as to increase sill
yer circulation to twelve marks per
head for the entire population of the
empire, or to about the gross amount
OF $120, 900, 900.
There is at present $45. 900, 900 worth
Of gold bullion in the New York assay
Office ready to be- transported to the
Philadelphia mint for coinage. The
appropriation made for this purpose for
the present fiacal year was but $4,000
which is already exhausted. The di-
rector of the mint has made application
for an additional appropriation of
$25, 900.
The Treasury Department at Wash
ington announces the existence of coun-
terfeit 800 bills on the following
banks: National Revere Bank, Bos-
ton; Pittsfield National Bank, Pitts
field Merchants National Bank, New
Bedford; Second National Bank,
Wilkesbarre; Pittsburg National Bank
of Commerce. The counterfeit notes
on the banks mentioned are 80 admir-
ably executed they are liable to deceive
even experts.
Rev. DR.. Talmage of Brooklyn, N.
Y, on the twenty-ninth. of February,
preached a sermon on "Golden Calves"
in which he compared the gold gam.
blers of Wall street, who, in their wild
excitement, rave like hyenas, and stamp
like buffalo, like. the devotees of every
heather temple, who cut themselves to
pieces and yell and gyrate. This, he
says, is the worship of the golden calf,
which God will ultimately grind to
pieces and burn and compel the idola-
tors, in their agony, to eat.
Certain mining stock dealers, which
the New York Times alleges Dennis
Kearney's new California constitution
has driven out of San Francisco, are
about establishing a Mining Stock
Board in New York, to be composed of
not over 800 members. The first 200
members arc to have seats at $1,000
each, the next 800 at $4,000 each. The
remaining 800 ale not to be sold until
January 1881, and not then for less
sum than $4,000 each. L. Van Hoffman
s. Co., have been selected as bankers
for the corporation.
some three hundred tobscco dealers
of New York met in that city, on the
third instant, for the purpose of form
ing a combination to put up the prices
of manufactured .tobaccos, cigars, etc.
They propose to select managing
committee who shall establish q scale of
prices, and then the organization will
"freeze out" all dealers who sell below
the scale, by establishing stores along
side of them and selling below cost,
until the recalcitrants come to terms or
quit-creating an ariatocratic band of
monopolists, as it were.
A curious phase of the marriage
question has just come to light in Eng
land. A Mr.. John Edwards, of Ched-
dar, losing his wife, thought that his
sister-in-law would make him q good
wife, and accordingly married her.
Whereupcn the Rev. Richard Beadon,
Vicar of Cheddar, refused Mrs. Ed
wards the holy communion. Then the
puzzled Mr.. Edwards went to the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, and asked him
kindly to prescribe course for the
lady. The primate, replying, says:
In similar circumstances my advice
has been that persons so circumstanced
desiring to communicate should go to
some church where their history IS not
known" Whereupon Mr.. Edwards
writes an open letter to the Arch
bishop, in which he says: ssThis adj
vice is somewhat startling, as it recon-
mends persons so situated to obtain the
benefit OF the church sacraments, If not
by false pretences, at any rate by con-
cealment of the truth" There the mat
ter rests, and the people of Cheddsr are
not little exercised over the matter.
A correspondent writing from Fort
DAYS., Texas, to the Nescs SAYS: The
mining excitement in this country has
not abated IN the least Some few
months since certainly. thought that
this mining s'boom, sits called, would
blow over IN few days, for I verify
thought that there was nothing In II.
and that great many had pictured TO
themselves fortunes which never would
be realized; but day after day, as the
specimens come in, rich with the pre-
cious metal, and after the assays that
are, so to speak, made right under my
nose by men that are known In Texas
and other States as high-minded and
honorable men. then begin to realize
the fact that ] have been doubling
Thomas too long, ana can see now
what any man should have seen long
since, that mineral ore in paying guam