The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

ii transpired in q Keokuck law
suit that the defendant had sent his
wife to the poorhouse and married
his fathers divorced wife.
The sale of gold" bricks, made
principally of brass, is brisk in the
West. One corner is pure gold, and
from that is Clipped the sample to
be sssayed.
1t is said, and is doubtless true,
that Protestant sisterhoods are be-
cvming very popular, and many well
Born and rich women are giving
their fortunes and entering these
Episcopal converts
"A very old man voted three
times at Washington, Indiana, in the
recent state election. On his trial it
was convincinglv shown that, though
sober, he had been so carried away
by excitement as to forget he had al
ready voted.
President Eliot has sent to the
parents of Harvard undergraduates
an inquiry whether their sons have
been accustomed to attend prayers
at home, and requesting opinions on
compulsory attendance in the chapel.
This is a possible preliminary to
making religious worship voluntary
at Harvard.
More than $4,000 immigrants
landed at Castle Garden in October.
1t was the largest number on record
for any one month, and for the first
ten months of this year there is an
aggregate of nearly 100000, an in
crease of $50 per cent. above the
arrivals for the corresponding
months last year.
"A society of Mormon girls, hav-
ing for its object the securing of
m0nogamic husbands, has been dis
covered and broken up at Salt Lake.
The members took VOW to marry
no man who would not pledge HIM
self to be content with one wife.
Five granddaughter of Brigham
Young had joinedit it.
-HdrpeI's Weekly says testimo-
NAL to Mrs. Hayes has been arranged
in recognition of her services to the
temperance cause in banishing intoX-
icating liquors from the White House
table. Commissioners for the collec-
ton of subscriptions have been APP
pointed in the different states, and
it is proposed to place a full-length
portrait of Mrs. Hayes in the White
House, and to establish a fund,
known as the Hayes fund, tor the
circulation of total abstinence liter
allure.
When the Amerique, bearing
Bernhardt, reached her wharf, it is
stated that Mrs. Lincoln, "the widow
of the ex-President, took the liberty
ofattempting to pass out of the front
gate at the end of the dock, but was
promptly checked by policeman,
who, placing his hand on her Shout
der, roughly ordered her TO stand
back and make way for Bernhardt,
the actress" As this incident oc-
Cured in New York very little is
said about it. Had ii occurred in
New Orleans the whole North
would haye been wrought up to
fine frenzy over the "rebel outrage"
"A motor yacht without steam
now makes her way about Boston
harbor. 1t illustrates the principle
of compressed air petroleum en-
CINE. No smoke-pipe is visible, for
there i'll none; nor any need of any,
for there is no smoke and not 80
much flame as the flame of an ordi-
nary Kerosene lamp. The whole en-
CINE and running machinery are. con-
tanned in long, low box in the bot
tom of the boat, occupying scarcely
more room than would BIO required
for the ballast of a sail boat of its
size The popularity OF this engine
is that common match brings it in
stantly into full working power.
The rumor is already rife that
Mr.. Evarts has been offered the Eng
lish mission. Republican represen-
tatives to England have inauguratcd
most costly system of living and
entertaining that would be difficult
to be discontinued by Mr.. Evarts
without wounding the sensibilities
ofthe British aristocracy. Mr.. Evarts
is a money-making man, not mon
cy-spending one, and he is not like
ly TO accept position in order to
maintain which, with Republican
aristocratic dignity" he would have
to lay out more money than the gov
ernment allows to its Representatives
at the Court of st. James.