The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

-MI. John L. RaVmOnd has
scored Il great success in New York,
in his new play. Fresh. the Ameri-
can"
Madame Anna Bishop reap
peared in concert i'll New York,
Monday evening. after an absence
of many years.
--Ex-GOv. Seymour does not give
up life and hope. lie says he shall
live to see a Democratic President
in Washington. ..,
1t has been decided that the
seat of New-I ork's state government
shall remain at Albany until, the new
capitol building falls down.
-Stationers lind that postal cards
have decreased the sales of cnvel-
opes and writing paper to the
amount of $12,000,000 annually.
in 1880 the savings banks in New
York city added S45,000,000 to their
deposits, whereas in 1879 the increase
in the savings banks of THE city was
only $10,OO0,OO0.
-Attorney-General Devens says
that the English mission will be
vacant soon, as Mr.. James Russell
Lowell is anxious to return to the
duties of his profession.
In passing around contribution
boxes. clcrgymen should remind
their hearers that charity begins at
home, where unfortunate people are
starving. The heather of our coun-
try can wait. -...t
-"At the Peabody dinner ON the
I'd instant" says n Washington cor
respondent, "Gen. Grants wife was
royalty attired in rich velvet, superb
black pearls and a blaze of dIa-
monds." ..s
Table cloths are made longer
and just wide enough to cover the
table. This is so that guests at the
table will be required to use. nap
kins, which are much easier washed.
These new style of cloths are called
table scarfs. .....-. 49,
In reference to the marriage of
Lady Burdett-COutts, a London
paper thinks Il necessary TO state
that should there be issue (the bride
is 66) the eldest son will inherit the
title, but he and the other children
will bear the name of tho father.
According to Halls Journal of
Health, man can catch the diphthe-
ria by holding his head over a drain
for fifteen minutes. 1t does not fol-
low, however, that there is no diph-
liberia in cities where there are no
drains, for there are other ways of
catching the disease which serve
equally well. -
1t is estimated that at least ten
brakemen are killed every day in
the United States, or $3.50 during II
year. The number killed or injured
in year is not less than 10000. Life
insurance companies generally de-
cline to take risks ON. brakemen of
freight cars, and those on passenger
trains are only taken at an extra
rate. -, ....
The students of Eastman's Com
morcial College in POughkeepsie,
New York, have compelled the ex-
clusion of Frederick c. Dickerson,
colored young man of character
and intelligence. His fees had been
paid and he had commenced his
studies, when The while students
threatened violence if he continued
among them. 60.
When Sarah BernharIit.r returned
TO her room in the hotel in Cincin-
natl one night last week. She found
that she had lost her key. The
chambermaid seeing her dileui-
ma querried: "An' have yez lost
your kay2a ,"Quil Quip exclaimed
Sarah, in her own delicious tone;
"Quie 9ui. but NO mattaire" and
drawing her skirts about her she
passed in through theakey-hnle. f-'
Mrs. Yaleria G.. Stone. the New
England philanthropist, has given
away 81 100000. She keeps for her
own use only 100000 out of her
late husbands estate of $2,OOO,O 900.
Her husband was Daniel p. Stone, a
Boston merchant, who IN ade his
money in the dry goods jObbing
trade. Twenty mine educational in
stitutions and Several hospitals are
benefited by her liberal distribu-
tons. -.
1t is notorious. fact that the
Alabama award brought the United
States considerably more money
than it has yet been able to find
legal claimant tor. A matter
of nine millions or so of money still
remains i'll the treasury, or rather is
invested in United. States bonds. by
means of which the sum is daily
growing larger and constantly Civ
ing cause for English indignation. ,t
The Washington lobby has run
down greatly in q social degree, the
Cincinnati OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES during
Hayes regime. In Grants days, Il
embraced some of the choicest tall
ent in the country; it made money
and lived in high style. Its men,
bers gave the finest dinners to be
had in the capital, and feasted, feted
and button-holed our statesman.
Since the Democrats have had con-
troll of Congress, however, lobbying
has become profitable. The leaders
of the lobby have deserted their
former haunts or sunk in social posi-
ton, and the business is nearly
ruined.
DR. Fordyce Barker. in his adj
address before the Academy of Med
iGine, reports that improvement in.
municipal sanitation will reduce the
deaths in New York city 5000 a
year. He adds this cheerful expe-
rience with the doctors: MANY of
our more wealthy people do not
content themselves by. paying the
bills sent 10, them, but often add
most gorgeous honorarium Thus
1 am informed, on the best author
ity, that one received, ut, the be-
ginning OF. the year. a. check for
$4,000, and another of our number
q check for $1,000. There are many
ofus who are remembered at the
time of the Christmas holidays by
grateful patients, who send presents
ofsilver and bronze works of arr,
together withluxuries of an aesthetic
character which we could not af-
ford to indulge in, but which we
gratefully accept"