The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-12-02

aIfaileF eays.tlsat.special reports are
10 ~ made of Investigations in the
folIoWmx important departments :
On the wealth. debt and taxation of
churches. schools and libraries, on
social and industrial statistics and
Indian tribes; on popularity, indus
try and resources of Alaska:
ON newspapers and periodicals and
book publishing interests, on tobac-
CO culture. on chemical manufacture
ing industries. on ship building, on
quarrvin@ interests. etc. Accounts
OF 2S.4io- enHmerators have already
been settled, ,involving an eNpentli-
ture of nearly S2.000.000. Only about
200 accounts remain madjusted.
The. number of employees now en-
gagged in the work of the census is
1851.
WESTON. Ont. November 3O.-The
wooden mills owned by Oliver VIII
hey X Co. NJ this place. were burned
this morning The fire is supposed
to have started from a belt becom-
ing heated. The loss and insurance
as not Snown. Three hundred en-
-ployees are thrown outof employ
ment.
LONDON. November S0.-The Ad-
mirality have received a telegram
eoniirming the report of the muir
der of the commander and six of
Her Maiesiy's schooner Sand Fly nc
Solomon Island, in the South Pa
ciiic. The party were attacked while
some of them were bathing. A par
" from the schooner under SUBJ
lieutenant landed and recovered the
bodies and destroyed the village.
losing one seaman killed and one
wounded. The commander of the
South Pacific station viii dispatch
another man-of-war TO the island.
LONDON, November S0.-At ameet-
ing held this evening Mt the Sports
mans Office articles of Agreements
were Signed for the sculling match
between Laycock and Hanlon over
the Thames championship course.
to take place January 18th, 1881, at
2,s0 a.. NJ, for eco a side, the Sports
9,aIi challenge cup and the cham
piQnShip. The parties deposited
fc50 side. the balance 10 be posted
on The 9th of January. The presi-
dent of the American company stat
cd that rs tire men were able TO OBJ
tain the funds for the match he did
lnQtsoonsi,ler the offer of purse of
E,tO00 necessary.
LONDON, November S0.-A Paris
| dispatch says the promotion of the
Panama canal scheme has been re-
sumed with extraordinary vigor.
LoNpoS, November S0.-The pre-
! lliAinaries of the sculling match for
| 5000 y side. between Hanlon and
Laycock. We're not settled at the first
meeting held. Al the Sportsman
Office to-day there viii be another
meeting at 3 O'clock, when the arti-
cles viii doubtless be signed,
LONDON, November S0.--The Times
\ says the appointment of Mr.. Shaw
I4efevre, secretary TO the admiralty
To-. succeed the Right Honorable
| VIM, z. Adams.as first commissioner
! of works. is significant of his views
in regard 10 the Irish land league
are we'll known He has made him--
self champion OF the clauses OF tho
jdaHd act of 1880.
A dispatch to the Times from Paris
says NJ. Rochefort invites signatures
for application TO the municipality
for the site for monument 10 the
communists killed in 1871. This, of
course, is mere brayado, but IL shows
the present temper of the extreme
party.
TEHERAN, November 30.-A re-
port has been received that Sadik,
one of Sheiks Abdullah, with sew
eral thousand Kurds, advanced close
to Urmiah and captured two guns.
The Persian commander left Urmiah
| to enga"e him in battle.