The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-01-13
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Chicago Is thinking Of building
q chamber Of commerce that Is to
cost half q million.
Judge Freeman, the legal adviser
of the postoffice department, de-
clares that printed commercial pa
pers filed out in writing are legally
subject to letter postage.
The New York State prisons are
so economically managed that crime
is becoming profitable to that State,
and public sentiment Is softening
toward the criminal element.
Mr.. A S. Logan, q lineal descend
ant of the celebrated Indian chief
of the Six Nations, of that name,
80 well known to Juvenile orators,
has been appointed by Secretary
Schurz to position in the interior
department.
Chang, q Chinese giant, now in
New York, is said to be nine feet
high and built in proportion. A
man six feet three inches high and
wearing q silk hat passed under the
giants outstretched arm lacking
about four inches of touching it.
Mile. Bernhardt evidently is
looked upon by the people of Chi
cago as worth seeing. The sale of
season tickets for the Ber,Ihardt en-
gagement closed on Wednesday
night and aggregated $1,000. This
is the heaviest sale of the kind ever
made in that city.
1T seems that Edison's carbon
lied card burner, which so startled
America last summer, was not at all
a new invention. Mr.. ]. w. Swan,
the well-known American-English
electrician, states that he employed
the same means of lighting by cleo
tricity, and abandoned it twenty
years ago.
Mr.. James Redpath is circulat-
ing in his lectures on Ireland the
following conundrum for landlord
schoolmasters, and others good in
figures: "If it costs the English gov
eminent $50,OO0 to gather $500
worth of Boycotts turnips, how
much would it cost to gather whole
Irish harvest?"
Tho expectation of cattle to Eng
land Is seriously interfered with by
the order of the Privy Council of
Great Britain, requiring all cattle to
be slaughtered within ten days after
their arrival at any port in England.
The reason for this order was be-
cause it was suspected that importa-
tions of cattle from this country
were largely infected with pleurO-
pneumonia.
-Conkling, it is said, has borrow
ed wisdom from Beecher and is pos
ing in Washington as great victim.
The correspondents say that he re-
fers to the reports about himself
and the Sprague family with elo-
quent, and sometimes fearful, indig-
nation. he pleads "Not guilty."
with big capital N, and apparent
ly thinks that he has q mission to
perform as the defender of injured
innocence.
General Sherman said in Bos-
ton the other day that this country
had annexed all of Mexico that he
wished to see 1t possess, the
true doctrines of the two lands
being to build up distinct ma
tionalities by mutual help. He
added that there Is in the valley of
the Red River of the North fertile
land enough for the production of
all the wheat now harvested in the
United States, and until that terri
tory is all occupied, three or four
generations hence, no more should
be added to the national domain
The Catholic church seems beset
with difficulties concerning the land
difficulties in Ireland. 1t is reported
from Rome that "the British Catho-
lies are divided into two classes .
active sympathizers with the league,
and those who feel how serious may
be the consequences to the church in
Great, Britain, should the Pope be
supposed to favor the agitators." In
other words, those who are afraid to
express their opinions and those
who are not; or, those who think
the Land League will win in the
struggle, and those who are still in
doubt.
What is called an "Imperial
reconciliation scene" between the
Cars wife, Princess Dolgorouki
duQ HIS QhuBntCI-ln-ldWsl nC WIG VI
the Crown Prince, occurred recently
at Livadia, and is described by the
BdSler Ndchrichten Immediately
after their first greeting, which was
very ardent, the Gear turned to the
Crown Princess eagerly and said,
Make a visit to my wife as early
as possible The lady replied
that she would not delay it
for a moment, and went straight to
the apartments of Princess Dolgo-
rouki. When she appeared in tho
doorway she saw the Cars wife
PROSTATE on her knees before a sa-
cred icon. The visitor remained
standing. The new Empress had not
noticed her.sAs sO01 Sss~ the latter
discovered her visitor, she remained
in her kneeling position, and turn
ing her face, streaming with tears,
upon the Princess, she threw up her
hands and exclaimed, Forgive me
l have done it for my chlldren's
sakel' The reconciliation between
the two ladies is said to have been