The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-15
FDITORIAL NOTES.

King Alfonso hss given ten thousand
marks for the benefit of the famine
stricken in Upper Silesia.
Al Alexandra dispatch says Ismsil
Eyoud Pssha has been appointed Gov
ernor Of the Soudar, vice Gordon
PAsha, resigned.
The London Standards Vienna ccr-
respondent empbstically denies that
the Austrians have established reign
of terror in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
BrigAdier General Sir Evelyn Wood.
one of the commanders in the Zulu
war, by the QIeeD's desire will accom-
pany the Ex-Empress Eugene TO Zulu
land in February.
The report of the State treasurer of
VI ssouTi for the past year foOts up, re-
ceipts. IS. 534, 9Gj 81; disbursements,
So, 3Gs, s57 AZ; credit balance to the
several funds, $63S, 573 90.
Commissioner LeDuc, who has been
making an estimate of the crops during
the past year. finds an increase in their
value over 1878 of $500, 900, 600. Both
the corn and the wheat crops are the
largest ever raised in this country.
Edison has little respect for the opin-
ions of scientists. He asserts that a
good deal of ''science" in scientific
books is mere matter of hearsay. A
Professor, so-called, will prove out of
the books that thing can't be thus
and So, when the authors of the books
did not know anything of the subjects
they were writing about. Says Edison:
Il never take anybody's word that
certain thing can't be done, if l as
much as suspect it can"
The riot losses at Pittsburg, which
Allegheny county is forced to shoulder,
are likely to be settled by compro-
mise. 1t is found that the railroads are
willing to take 81, 600, 600 instead of
So, 1872, coo, and private losers 5000, 600
in place of twice the amount. At this
rate, in spite of PittsbuIg's immense
debt, it is thought that the country
may be able to take up the burden, with
some hope that in the future the State
will aid.
A boar's head is usually sent to
Queen Victoria from Germany each
Christmas. For fourteen Christmases
from 1887, 1t was the custom Of King
Ernest of Hanover to send one to each
of his political friends in England. His
| list was q somewhat lengthy one when
he left the country, but if man absn-
doned his rigid creed of High Torylsm
in church and State, he was at once ex-
plunged, and at his death it had dwin-
died down to very few names indeed.
The Sun says the prosecution of lot
| terry men seems now to have been un-
| dertaken in earnest. One of the posi-
BILE results of breaking up the business
generally is curious to contemplate.
We refer to the effect of it on lotter ca
at church fairs and festivals. Tie
profits of these, by making them the
exclusive lotteries allowed, might be
greatly enhanced. This is o view of
the matter which, so far as we have OBJ
served, those engaged most actively in
the prosecutions have hitherto over
looked.
The number of hogs SLAUGHTERED up
to December 81, in Chicago, since No
vember 1, the opening of the regular
winter packing season, are returned at
1, 347, 900, against 1856, 900 for the
same time in 1878. These figures show
Chicago is 209, 600 behind as compared
with the same time last year. But for
the strikes the number killed would
undoubtedly have been greater than
last year at the same time; for it is cal
culated that at least $50, 900 hogs have
been held back or turned to other points
on account of the disturbance.
On Sunday, the eleventh instant,
there will be total eclipse of the sun,
which, however, can only be observed
to advantage on the Pacific coast, as
the path of totslity is across Central
California. The time OF total obscurs-
ton will only be thlrty-fve and half
seconds, but several astronomers haYe
made their arrangements to take obser-
vations, among whom are Prof. David
son, of San Francisco, and Prof. Frisby,
of the United States Navy. This Is
the last total eclipse which will be visi-
BILE in any part of the West until May
30, 1900.
This is Mary Anderson painted in
Louisville colors: "Can you imagine
some drifting cloud of evening crystal
lized in mystic limpidiness into that
of the Maker that we call humanity
pellucid, lit with azure fire! 1t may
suggest a dream of that vision of loVeli-
ness which l have seen, and which
shattered ones soul to pieces. Tall,
slender-but slender like one of those
threads of steel that carry trains across
Niagara step as graceful as the wild
cats, and that neck! aspiring as the
Alexandrian shaft that lifted Pharos to
light up the sea-commsnding as the
tower of ivory that looketh towards
Damascus"
A Battle creek, Michigan special tells
the story eff the death of Theodosia
Burr, who sailed from Charleston, South
Carolina, December 80. 1919, on voy-
age to New York. The vessel Patriot
never being heard from afterwards, a
sailor, Bepj4min F. BuIdlck, lately
deceased in a poor-house at Csssopolio,
Michigan, confessed on his death bed
to having been one of the piratical
crew who overlook the Patriot January
3, 1918. The captain. crew and pas
sengers were made to walk the plank.
Mrs. Aston, who was among them, ar
rayed herself in white and made the fs-
tai walk with her bible in her hand
without tremor. It wss fine dying sail
or's lot to pull the plank from beneath
her. Her face haunted him ever after
ward.
President Seelye, of Massachusetts,,
who served as a Republican in the
Forty-Fourth Congress, made a speech
at Boston dinner the other day which
is full of meaning to the American peo-
pie. He is afraid that we have elected
our last President by the people, and
there never has been time when such
feeling of restlessness prevailed the
public mind as at present. There is
the coolest speculation as to the proba-
bility of great party doing great
wrong, such as counting in President
who was not elected, and the country
is In a critical condition. President
Seelye denounced the frauds in Louisi-
ana and Maine and called attention to
the fact that the greatness of country
In wealth, population and territorial
extent had never saved il when virtue
wss lacking. 1t is probable that the
people of this country do not realize
the danger they are now in, but it is
none the less very great danger.
Mr.. Henry Ward Beecher, some two
or three years ago, got himself into a
peck Of trouble by remsrking publicly
somewhere that poor men ought TO be
satisfied with bread and water and
kisses. II was at once observed that,
| khouoh Mr. Raecher annaarad IN oon