The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-03-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Mexican National Construc
ton Company have 10000 men a
work on the section between tn
City ofMexico and Toluca.
In the Kalloch murder trial III
defense are now introducing testi
mony of medical experts, to shoy
transitory mania on the part of tn
prisoner. All very well if they onl,
confine him in a maniacs cell afte
he is cleared.
-Gladstone's health continues i,
an impaired state. The venerabl,
statesman has a great deal TO try hi
nerves, and IL will be a marvel if h,
survives the unusual imposition O
burdens growing out of disturbed
domestic and foreign affairs of thu
British Empire.
The Andersonville stockade
where so many Federal prisoner:
were conflned.duringt the warts to bt
plowed up. a correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune appeals to the peo-
pie OF the North to raise a subscrip
ton to prevent this relic of the wal
being destroyed.
Color blindness among river pi.
lots has attracted good deal of at
tention lately. A test recently made
ut New Orleans showed that four
| per cent. CT those examined were
partially color blind. No doubt
many of the railroad and steamboat
accidents might be traced to this
cause. -...
The Chili-Peruvian war is at an
end, but South America NAV vet
give us some military intelligence.
The relations between Brazil and
Buenos Ayres are strained" and
the former power has sent its
army TO the Argentine frontier. The
question at issue is a dispute as to
what is tho boundary between the
two countries.
-One of the oldest churches on
the American continent is the Tu-
macaco church near Tubae, Arizona
IL was built by the Franciscans in
1904, and has consequently reached
the age of 327 years. Fifty-six wears
ago Indians murdered seven priests
within its walls, and twenty-five
years ago several priests came from
Rome and dug from a sepulchre on
the right side of the altar $4,000 in
coin and jewels.
The plans for the buildings forthe
cotton exposition have been accept
cd and the location decided on. The
building will represent model cot
ton. facto1y, and will be placed in
the centrR of the racetrack ut Ogle-
thorpe park. After the exposition
the building Will be bought by
cotton factory company. Over $780,
600 has been subscribed in Atlanta,
and the 5000 allotted to her in the
subscription scheme will be forth
coming.
Sensible people in New York
are trying to introduce a new fas h.
ion in funerals. 1t is proposed to
hold funeral services in the evening,
when business men can attend with
out loss of time, and to take the re-
mains, accompanied only by the i'm
family of the deceased, to
the place of interment next morn
ing. In this way the expense of
long procession of hacks would be
avoided. Reform is very desirable
in the matter of funerals, but to be-
come popular it must be brought
about by the rich.
The ferocious Druses, of the
region know n as the Ha-
man, near Damascus, have revolted
against Turkish rule, and the Porte
has war of no small magnitude on
its hands in the Asiatlc portion of
the Ottoman Empire. The Turks
have made several attemps in the
last thirty years to crush these peo-
pie, but have been worsted every
time. The Druses are likely to give
their enemies as much fighting as
they want, and the Greeks may very
probably take advantage of this new
and step across their
frontier into Epirus and Thessaly.
Certain Boston capitalists who
are largely interested in the prose-
cHtion of railway enterprises in Col
orado and the southwest are said to |
be actively engaged in q scheme for |
making San Diego, the most south |
erly seaport of California, the ENTIRE
pot for vast system of trans-conti- |
mental railway traffick. 1t is pro-
posed, according to the New York |
Times, to connect the city of San |
Diego with that vast network of |
railways which has the Atchison.
~ Santa Fe road for its back
bone and the projected Mexican rail-
way scheme for one of its feeders.
Sir Herbert Maxwell made a
vehement appeal to the House of
Commons to erect some sort of de-
Tense against the influx of unclean
grease from America which was in
Vading British homes under the
name of butter, but which was
really oleomargarine-now cows
milk, dear to poets, but sleeps fat,
whose offense was rank. Sir Her.
oert's pathetic appeal was laughed
1t, Mr.. Chamberlain assuring, him
hat oleomargarine was beneficial to
he health of the British working
men and also to his pocket, and
therefore should be received with
welcome.