The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Crossings, . 4 y 695 bales nT an excess
over the year before of 636 910 bales.
A Wheeling cispatch says the nail
m-nufsctaryrs OF tbst city have sd-
vanced nails 20 Ev7 dollars, with the
usual disc ua-s. THIS action was taken
on acc uur "f the s1v-ucing tendency
u iron, end d r-iUc.asce 70 book fur
ther or1els as the late card.
The miraculous release of Charles F.
Freeman, who sacrificed his child at
POcasset, is predicted by one OF the
principal sdventis,s cf that piece. Ac-
cordIng to this authority, the early
resurrection nf the girl is expected by
freeman and his religious friends.
The foreign shipments OF corn from
Baltimore lsst Wednesday amounted to
234 ,095 bushels. One steamer, the
Thanemore, cleared for Liverpool with
a mixed cargo valued at $11s, 314, in
Guiding 81 42S bushels corn, 5000
bushels wheat, 5O7 sheep, 3s5 head OF
beef-csttle, and 10 pigs. The ship
meut OF cattle and sheep to England is
an ordinary event, but sending pigs
from Virginia TO that country is q
novelty.
Most interesting of all the measures
yet considered by the Kentucky Legs
lature Is one looking to the repeal of all
all laws agains carrying concealed dead
ly weapons. AS If ''the dark and
bloody ground" wasn't yet hesthenish
enough, it looks as though the Legisls-
ture will do that very incomprehensible
thing-give the lawless n still better
show. The Kentucky lawmakers have
refused to consider ,womsn's suffrage
propositions.
1t is estimated that the amount of
new rails required for railroads in this
country is l, 500, 900 tons per snnum-
500, 600 tons for new roads and ,000,-
900 for relaying old ones. The amount
is twice greater tfan the capacity of
our domestic steel-rsll establishment to
furnish; so that if the present excess
sive duty (S29 per tori on steel rails
shall be maintained, a very large ex-
tent of railroad line must be laid with
iron. The great cost of steel rails will
prevent companies from using them.
The Boston Herald makes the fol.
lowing estimate If the expansion of
the currency during the first year of
resumption:
Increase of gold. ..... $40. $50, 191
Increase of silver dollars. $500, 900
Increase of national bank
notes. ............. 1898, 1862
Practical increase of gresn-
backs -. ........... 5.O1e, $50
Total expansion of year. $164, 013, 552
At the session of the )wa Legislature
which began on Monday, strong eff 8
will be made to secure preliminary &C.
ton in the matter of the right of suf-
frage for women. The members are
said to look with favor upon the propo-
si:ion to grant women the right to vote
FOR state, county and town school Off
GERS. This, indeed, appears to be the
programme of the suffragists through
out the aountrY-to get the wedge in
on the school business.
A curious bill has been introduced
in the Ono Legislature, creating
board of psrdons. All the board has
to do Is to recommend to the Governor
the granting or rejecting of an spplica-
ton for pardon. For every petition
submitted TO them, esch member of
the board is to receive So, and for each
pardon granted So additional. 1t is
probable that if the law went into OPP
Grafton the Ohio penItentiary would be
without any inmates in remarkably
short space of time.
There is hullabsloo IN Tennessee in
regard to MemphIs-the very Job of
cities. DR.. D. 7. Porter, president of
the legislative council, has resigned be-
cause one of his pet sanitary schemes has
been tebooed by the uDderling mem
bers. Il IS likely that Tennessee will
pick away in the matter of legislation
uutil the dog days GENE again, in spite
of the advice of Col. Warning, who
stands as about the frat sanitary engin-
eer in the country. Meetings of citl-
zens are being held in Memphis, and
great excitement prevails.
The members of the Michigan Legis-
isture are Interested in scheme to let
nature have its way in the division of
that state. 1t is proposed to form two
states out of the territory now drawn
together by very long, irregular and in
convenInt lines into one. The upper
peninsula, which Is cut off from the
body of the state by Lake Michigan,
claims that it is put to the greatest pos
siblc Inconvenience because all the pub
lie institutions of the State are really
''across the sea-" Two Michigsns very
likely will exist in the early future.
Grove L. Johnson, who is regarded
as possible successor to Senator Booth,
has introduced in the California Lsgis-
lsture "a retraction bill" in regard to
newspaper nbes. The bill (Which ap-
pears on its face to be unconstitutionaD
provides that on complaint of any per-
son alleging himself libeled the Judge
of the Superior Court must issue an
order to the proprietor of the newsps-
per TO show cause why he should not
retrsct the libelous article at the expl-
ration of ten days, or in case an adj
journment is allowed of twenty days,
when hearing must take place, and if
the court or jury decides that the pub
licstion is untrue, retraction must be
made in terms prescribed by the court.
There is now no doubt that the Nor
mons are endeaYoring to make terms
with the Mexican government, aud will
move to Mexico if they receive favor
able answer. A Mormon agent has ar
rived at Mexico and has held interviews
with number of leading officials, who
appear fsvoIably disposed toward the
members of the "Church of Latter Day
Saints" Promises, however, are free
ly made in Mexico, but seldom kept,
aud the Mormons would probably find
themselves in hot water within q very
short time OF their removal to this coun-
try. Mexican politics are rscy enough
and mixed enough at present, but with
tie addition of 200, 600 oigsmous blgots
they would probably grow little more
exciting ana tumultuous.
Mexico has been so long out of the rev.
olution business that many people had
actually begun to believe that the days
of revolution and riots were over for
the Aztec republic. A young Ameri-
can, who has been trsvt ling through
that country, claims that the present
quiet is the calm that precedes the
storm, snd predicts a disturbance IN
our sister republic as soon as Disz's
term of Office is over worse than any
thing that has occurred there since the
time OF Santa Auns. There are dozen
presidential candidates in the field,
each with numerous supporters and an
army to back him, aud civil war
throughout Mexico is bound to ensue
as soon as ID AZ retires and these chiefs
/ put in their rival claims for the Presi-