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

The engagement of Jesse, the
youngest son OF Gen. Grant, to Liz
zie, daughter of W. S. Chapman. a
large California landholder, is an
nouneed.
And now the BARRIERS have start
ed a national organization, called the
"Grand Association of Masters and
JourneymenB BARRIERS ofNorth Amer
iea.-- Ii is beneficial in its nature,
and is, besides, directed against the
five-cent men.
One of the attractions at the
Minnesota state fair this fall viii be
a twenty-five mile race between two
women on horseback. The prize is
$1,000, and Miss Belle Cook of Cali
fornia and Miss Emma Jewett of
Minnesota will contest for it.
When the French chambers
meet, a bill for the sale of all the
crown jewels not considered of ar
tistic value will be introduced.
These relics of royalty are estimated
Mt 75,000,000 francs, and it is pro-
posed to devote the proceeds OF the
sale to the purchase of works of art.
The wealth which Viewpoints
summer residents represent may be
estimated from their tax list, which
we reproduce in tO-day's paper, the
valuation aggregating an enormous
sum. Sixteen are over S100, 900 each,
eleven are over $150,OOO, six are of
100000 or more, four are above
100000, and three are above $780,
900 each.
The Catholic Archbishop of Bal
timoFe is about to return to Ameri-
ca. There are men who remember
when the archbishop was clerk in a
grocery store in New Orleans, and
was known as Jimmie Gibbons" a
very honest boy, who rolled the SUI
gar barrels and tied the -four pack
ages with greater conscientiOusness
than usually belongs TO grocery
clerks.
-Yung Kwai, the Chinese lad who
graduated from the Springfield Mas
sachusetts) High School, last June,
with the salutatory, has since got
into good deal of trouble, which
will doubtless attract wide and in
terested attention, because his case
may possibly effect the policy of his
government regarding Chinese stu
dents in this country. While in
Springfield, Yung Kwai became a
Christian, and wrote home to his
father, who is one of-the highest of
the Chinese mobiles, though not of
very indignant letter to the boy,who
was transferred to Hartford after
and ordered him to re-
turn home at once, threatening to
starve and beat him into renoVpcing
his nonsense. As the boy was de- |
termined to be true to his new faith |
at all hazards, he looked upon |
his return to China as going
to almost certain death; but he |
started quietly with other boys Sat
urday for Boston, whence they were |
to sail for home by way of Europe.
But Yuug Kwai stepped from the
train in Springfield on the plea of
goodbye to his friends, and
that is the last that has been seen ST
him. Where he is nobody seems to
know. He is twenty years old, and
he is evidently hoping to keep hid
den for year unil he becomes of
age and can become citizen of the
United States. He has lived in
Springfield six or seven years, and
was much loved for hfs personal vir-
tues and admired for his intellectual
gifts, being considered one of the
most industrious and talented of all
The Chinese students in the care of
The commission. This and his high
birth would doubtless have opened
FOR him way to special advance
nent in the public life of his native