The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-06-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.


The Cincinnati board of educa-
ton has decided TO dismiss all female
teachers who are married, the claim
being that their liability-to become
mothers is serious obstruction to
their employment.
The Pueblos of New Mexico be-
lieve that at death they will be car
RED away in some mysterious man.
ner to a place beneath q vast under
ground lake, where melons and
peaches and beautiful maidens and
horses are in never ending supply
for the good.
The South Carolina superintend-
ent of immigration has arranged
with the Castle Garden authorities
to be supplied with about a dozen
families of immigrants each week.
Those that have been received have
been provided with homes without
trouble, and express themselves as
well pleased with their southern
homes.
Captain r. w. Brooks, who
passed quarter of a century in sue
cessful mining in California and
Colorado, tells the Atlanta. Ca,
newspapers that ''the mountains of
the Carolinas and Georgia contain
as much gold and silver as the Rocky
Mountains" He says that the South
has run to cotton without thought
of her mineral wealth.
William Hickman, sentenced in
Philadelphia to one years imprison-
ment in the county prison for lar
ceny, made a singular appeal to the
court. He asked to be sent to the
state penitentiary, where he would
not be subjected to enforced idle
ness, and where he might earn some
thing, that he might not. when dis
charged, be penniless. His request
was granted without delay.
The saw in saw mill at Augusta,
Georgia, was stopped the other day
i'll going through white oak log by
substance which broke the teeth as
if they had been of wood. An ex-
animation showed the substance to
be bomb shell that had been in the
log since the days of Sherman's
march to the sea, and had been COM
pletely hidden by the growing tree.
The load was still in the missile.
The Detroit Free Press tells this
on .Forepaugh's "beauty": "While
the circus with the most beautiful
woman in America was parading
through Chicago the other day, the
absurd cry was raised by practical
Joker: THE $4,000 beauty has got
looseP The crowd ran away in
every direction. Some women faint
I'D 81, l..
window. nearly killing a telegraph
operator"
"A new swimming device has
been patented by William I'll. Rich
ardson, of Mobile, Ala. 1t is a light
frame, carrying float and longitud-
inal shaft, the latter having at one
end small screw propeller. The
swimmer reclines on the float, and
grasping a hand crank in each hand
and placing his feet on two foot
cranks, proceeds rapidly and easily,
with his head far enough above the
water to be comfortable.
The states of the Union which
have more women than men are
Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia,
Louisiana, MARYLAND, Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire, New Jersey. New
York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Carolina, Ten
nessee and Virginia. The greatest
excess of females is in New York,
where it is 1000, and the least in
Louisiana, where it is 5000. The to-
tai excess of women in these fifteen
states is 100000.
Captain John NJ. Gill, of Pekin,
KY, owns one of Santa Annals
wooden legs. During the Mexican
war Captain Gill, then young man,
was a member of the Fourth Illinois
regiment, and fought in the battle
of Cerro Gordo. Santa Anna was
on the field at the opening of the en-
gagement, being in a carriage drawn
by six mules. When he realized that
the Yankees were victorious and
that he was in danger of capture,
the Mexican general pulled off his
wooden leg, left it in the carriage,
and mounting a mule, in light flying
order escaped. Captain Gill was the
first American to reach the carriage,
and thus obtained his curious
trophy.
Ostrich farming is gradually SUI
preceding sheep husbandry at the
Cape of Good Hope. A letter from
Port Elizabeth says: "Ostrich farm
ing is undoubtedly the most profit
able of all farming, and recently sew
eral joint-stOck companies have been
started to provide the capital peces-
sary for working these farms OH
large scale. Our export of feathers
from this port alone for the present
year will amount to over half a mil
lion. As yet the demand keeps pace
with the increased supply, so that
prices are firm, while for choice
feathers there is always the keenest
competition. 1t remains to be seen
what the result will be of the recent
enormous developments of this
branch of farming"