The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

: San Francisco, over the new routC
5 reached Kansas City on time on tn
23d ultilno.
The Chief engineer of the Mexi
can government, having surveye,
the Tehuantepec route, reports Capt
Eads' project entirely practicable.
The new prohib;tory liqour Law
IN Kansas compels every physician
to take An oath not TO prescribe an,
, article into which alcohol enters.
"A negro has been elected mem
Der of the national association o
Mexican Veterans. He is very black
and was given his freedom by Henr,
Clay, for gallant conduct at Bucns
Vista.
Commodore Robt. w. Shufeldt
OF the United States navy, has nc.
cepted the command of the navy OF
ihina, at a salary of $20. 900 a year
Secretary Blaine aided The scheme
as a blow to England's supremacy
in the East.
The rural newspapers of Can
ada complain of general exodus OF
Young MEN TO the United States.
Towns, in many cases. loose all their
unmarried males, which makes il
bad for the manageable females
and for the future general prosper
ity of the community.
Turkey is preparing for the in
eYitable. Ii has entered into con-
tracts with a Newcastle (Eng.) firm
for the delivery Of supply OF coal
at Scio, Rhodes, Crete, Volo. Sa-
lonica, and the Dardanelles $4,000
troops are massed at the frontier
and great activity is apparent at all
military points.
The burning of the opera house
| ut Nice was caused by an explosion
| of gas at the back of the stage.
The audience were soon left in total
darkness, and a wild panic ensued-
BY midnight thirty-six bodies had
been extricated. A lady committed
suicide on finding that her husband
Lad been burned to death.
In his apology for the tamper-
ing, by the socalled revisers, with the
Holy Bible, President Chase, lectur-
ing recently, SAID there were no Tess
than 10000 errors in the King James
Bible. This Is startling, considering
tie length of time unsuspicious per-
sons have been trying to be saved
by the now discarded work. The
next thug we will be 'old that the
entire book is fiction, fraud and
cheat.
The telephone in the East is
rapidly taking the place of the tele-
graph for business purposes, and for
moderate distances is much more
convenient. Lowell, Mass. Is now
connected with over one hundred
cities, the longest line being that TO
Exeter, n. H., distance of $50
miles. One company in the Eastern
states uses 1900 telephones, controls
1900 miles of wire, and pays the
American Bell Company a royalty
of $1,000 per month.
An Italian writer saws that our
modern millionaires are nowhere
in comparison with some. of its
countrymen rs follows: Mare An
tony spent $1,000,0O0O0O in merely
sowing his wild oats; Nero gave
$10O,000,0O0 in presents to his
friends; Hcliogabalus gave din
ner that cost 100000; the toilet of
Agrippina OH special occasion |
footed up 81 100000, and her box of
jewels at home was worth 100000,
600.
-"The empire is peace" and ROus
sakoff is actually ON trial in st. Pc |
tersburg. Having survived the UNI
known terros of "electricizing"h he is |
now enjoying the exquisite pleasure
of formal trial to ratify the tor
lures worse than death to which he |
was putwithout trial and to give the |
forms of law to an execution foreor-
dained without any forms, and which |
no machinery of the courts could |
avert. That is peace, the peace dis
pensed by an autocratic emperor.
"A refugee Nihilist says: dur
ing the last few years there has not |
been prominent political criminal
arrested in Russia who was not sub
iected TO torture by the Cars hang
men. karakosotf, who was the first /
to attempt the Cars life, was fed on
Oversalted food, without receiving
drop of water. When nearly crazed
by thirst, he was placed, hand and
foot, before large basin full of
clear water and examined. lie 'di-
vulged nothing. Then the Cars
own physician, Mr.. Edekaner, Ger
man, was consulted, and he was the
first to introduce, according to all
scientific rules, galyanic torture.
The returns of the election ex-
ponses TO England show that the
Conservatives spent more than dou-
BILE the outlay of the Liberals, and
that the English members spent on
an average more than ten times as
much as the Irish. For instance one
of the ten boroughs of London cost
the JOINT candidates last time near
ly $5OO,O0O, whereas Whitworth's
entire expenses at Drogheda were
only $3.50. Mr.. Senten's (the Land
Leaguer) expenses to Sligo were
only thirty-nine cents vote, while
King Horman's were $5.42 a vote IL
no purpose. Mr.. Parnell and Mr..
Metges spent in Meath only 5000
between them while their unsuccess-
ful opponent spent $4,000.
Maud S, the celebrated trotter,
who is at Cincinnati, passed her
seventeenth birthday Tuesday. She
is in fine trim, the only possible
blemish being small splint ON her
right fore leg, which is rapidly dis
She has grown consid-
erably In the last year, ana her
trainer says he is confident of max
ing 2:07 with her before the season
is over. lie says that with her adj
dltional age, experience and educa-
ton, and without an adverse wind,
against which she made her record
ut Chicago, she is sure of making
time. Capt. Stone goes
to New York next week to arrange
the summer programme. She will
only trot, it is announced, against
time.
The late Prof. Henry is quoted
AS once saying that there was not
city in the world that could produce
so many able, cultivated and learned
men as Washington; and in support
OF his statement he said that he had
occasion TO have scientific docu-
ment translated INTO thirteen differ
ent languages, and he had not the
slightest difficulty in finding indi-
viduals connected with the admins
tration ofthe government who were
able TO translate quickly and easily ,
The document into all those lam
guages. This boast could also be
applied, we feel satisfied, 10 Austin. ,
The Capital of Texas, without con- ,
lining the experiment, however. 20 :
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