The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-07-07
EDITORIAL NoIEs.

The triangular contest in Vir
GINA will be a very lively one. Tn,
Mahoneites propose to open the cam
paign early in August, immediately
after the Democrats make theil
nominations. The straight-out Re
Dublicans will nominate a ticket oil
August "a.
The breach in Republican rank.
in Virginia widdens with time
The coalitionists are doing most O
their planning for the campaign a
Washington. Lewis, the Readjustel
candidate for lieutenant governor
still claims TO be chairman of The
state central committee in spite o.
the action of the committee at Rich
mond; and the result will be, from
present indications, a split in the
committee-the straight-outs. head
ed by Wickham, and the coalition
lists, under the leadership of Lewis
The Car Alexander Ill. is trem
bling like coward in his new refuge
of Peterhoff, where he has the sup.
port of the Russian navy, combined
with that OF troops and police, to
keep the Nihilists at distance
Even the fertile brain of Ignatieff,
now minister of the interior, can not
devise any method to relieve hi:
master of the ever-present menace
Ignatieff is one of the most strenuusO
advocates of CZarism in Russia, and
it would not be surprising to hear
that he is blown up at any time.
The Washington correspondent
of the Globe Democrat, writing of the
stOppage of the treasury investiga-
ton, says: "a little further down
beneath the overcoats and bay rum
and lunches of forty-candle power
would have been found still richer
ore. So far, the committee have been
surface-mining. A little deeper they
would have struck wOman-per-
haps two women. There has been
some surprise expressed that the
woman in the case had not been dis
covered. She has turned up in a
sealskin cloak worth $3.50, and dia-
monds and other trappings to
match"
"A man named John Soard is serv-
ing life sentence in the Kentucky
penitentiary under conviction of the
murder of l.. b. Whitney, who, it
has just been discovered, is living
and serving as a constable in Cleve-
land, Ohio. Soard was convicted
five months ago on circumstantial
evidence, dead body having been
found in Casey county, Kentucky,
and falsely sworn to as Whitney.
Whitney was employed for some
time in the government secret SER
vice, with headquarters at Chem
natl, and SOard had been his assist
ant, but he knew nothing of his
trial and conviction until the other
day, when he received a letter from
him.
Chittenden, the Brooklyn million
aire, had comical experience with
Il comet. He had dry goods store
at Hartford and was Millerite.
When the comet came he imagined
the end of the world was coming,
too, and so he opened his store and
gave his goods away to anybody
who would walk in and take them.
He smiled serenely as a lady walked
off with a piece of lace, and cried,
30, vanity y when another lady Sc
lected a roll of silk velvet. He
noticed that his free customers chose
the most expensive articles; but,
having no use for them in the next
world, he laughed and let them go.
The appointed day came but not the
end of the world, and Chittenden
found himself with stock reduced
to a few cheap calicoes, and the
whole town grinning at him. This
was more than he could stand, so he
gave away the calicoes also and fed
to New York, where he and his
foolishness were then unknown. 1t
was lucky move for him, however,
for in few years he was worth his
millions.