The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-08-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Leo Hartmann, the Nihilist, has
gone to Canada.
The strike among the laborers of
Ireland is becoming general.
The union printers of New York
are preparing to strike or Septem-
Der LIST.
Sing Sing prison reports a net
profit of S4,O29.63 Cor the month of
July.
There have Jeen twenty-five muir
ders in Chicago since the first of
January.
A bill was introduced in the
Georgia legislature to suppress Nor
m1nism.
The American association for the
| advancement of science will meet at
Cincinnati August 18th.
An engine house burned at Buff
falo Creek, New York, destroying
three locomotives.
A lady in Providence, Rhode Is
land, aged sixty-one, has just mar
ried man of twenty-seven.
Vigilance committees are being or
| ganiZed in Arkansas as a means to
put down lawlessness.
The emperor of Germany and the
emperor of Austria held long con-
ference before parting at Gasteen.
Lyon Playfair, deputy speaker of
the British house of commons, ex-
poets to sail tor the United States on
August Is.
| The assessors of Boston have APP
praised that city at $665, $4,000 The
amount to be raised for municipal
expenses is $8,173,2S2.
After a most disastrous war, and
suffering a most humiliating defeat
at the hands of the Chilians, Peru is
arranging for a peace with her
triumphant foe.
Father Ryan, a Roman Catholic
pastor at Cromwell, Connecticut,
who fell in loye with a girl and be-
came a drunkard, has contritely
turned all his property over to his
bishop and retired to a monastery.
William Hartley, a Chicago thief
now confined in the penitentiary in
Brooklyn, has for a week abstained
from food, and threatens to starve
himself to death, but the prison Of
ficials will administer nutriment by
force.
The monographs are after the doc
tors of the White House, and say
that the presidents chills have been
produced by the quinine which he
has taken. They cite Hahneman's
tests, which they say prove that quiz
nine will produce 'rigors'' in a
healthy subject, and as a gunshot
wound is not disease, the daily doses
of quinia administered to the presi-
dent have had the result proved by
Hahneman's tests.
1t is reported from Chicago that a
party of detectives and deputy sher-
ifs there, have organized to effect
the capture of the James brothers,
for the sake of the big. reward of
fered by the railroad companies
through Governor Crittenden. They
are expected to leave at once on
their mission.
1t is now shown that "Billy the
Kid" lately killed by Pat Garrett,
sheriff of Lincoln county, New
Mexico, was a much maligned man.
One DOnan, who knew him well,
writes to the st. Louis Globe Demo-
crdt full particulars of his career.
These show that "the Kid" had muir
dered only eleven persons instead OF
the twenty-one charged to him. 1t
begins to look as if Garrett had no
right to shoot Billy.
The personal patronage of ex-
Senator COnkling in the New York
custom house consists principally of
his widowed sister, Mrs. Margaret
| c. Steele, a lady of middle age, who
is detailed as inspectress of the
Cunard steamship wharf. She is
said to be faithful in the discharge of
her duties, and the new collector,
Judge Robertson, will doubtless
show his gallantry by retaining her.
Hartmann, the bloody-minded
Nihilist, is short, 1.-THE man with a
small head and small hands. His
hair, which is of light color, is cut
close and stands out in all direc-
tions from his head. He wears a
/ Jun OOdtu, w hlCn 10 VI tue SdlllC tlub.
His eyes are particularly keen and
bright, and are continually dancing
from one object to another. Being
of nervous temperament, he is all
the time changing his position, and
when engaged in conversation he
smokes one cigarette after another
rapidly, rolling them with his fingers.
The crown jewels OF France are to
be sold without reserve, the entire
proceeds to be devoted to the
museum fund. They ought to fetch
a big sum, for they include some of
the greatest historic gems. The
"Regent" diamond, probably the
handsomest diamond in the world,
though not the largest Git weighs
1871 carats, 430.55 grains) is the one
which NapOlean used to wear in the
hilt of his sword. TWAS stolen dur
ing the French revolution, but re-
covered again. 1t was brought
from India (where it was probably
stolen) by the grandfather of Will
liam Pitt, the Earl of Chatham, who
sold il to the infamous Regent dor
leans for 1925, 900, thus founding the
fortunes of the Pitt family. Among
the diamonds are some collected by
Cardinal Mazarin, great fancier of
| gems, and connoisseur in cutting
and setting them. He it was who
invented the brilliant" form OF cut
ting diamonds, with from Sc to "a
facets.
BY singular coincidence the
very last letter written by President
Garfield was addressed to his oppo-
nent IN the last presidential cam
paign-Maj.-Gen. Winfield S. Han
cock. 1t was dated Friday, and re-
lated to an appointment recently
conferred upon Col. Mitchell, one of
Gen. Hancock's aides-de-camp. 1t
was friendly and pleasant in tone
and could but have pleased the re-
cipient. The letter informed Gen.
Hancock that Col. Mitchell had been
appointed assistant adjutant-gener-
al of the army, and after apologizing
for depriving the generals staff
of an excellent officer concluded:
"While your staff, general, loses an
ornament the army gains an assist
ant Acknowledgement of whom it may
well be proud"
Jules Lefebre, artist of Paris,
is painting a ceiling for the bed
chamber of Mrs. Vanderbilt, New
York. The design represents the
dawn, but with graceful originality
the painter has chosen to represent,
not the arrival of Aurora, but the