The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-21
Editorial VOTES.

600 oranges this year.
The taking of the census in Can
ada was begun ON the fourth.
| In some parts ofVirginia q meet
ing of citizens is called a folkmote.' y
The public debt statement for
March shows decrease, of $685.
819.
"A granite monument is to be
erected on the spot in Mexico where
Macmillan was shot.
1 I'M July the ironclad Lepanto
will be launched at Leghorn. Its
total cost will be $5,OO000O.
1t is said that Col. Thomas A.
Scott, ofPhiladelphia, is worth about
twenty millions. But his health is
hopelessly lost. 81.
I'm 1880 over 10000 acres were
planted in grapevines in California,
and it is said that during the pres
ent year 5000 acres will be added.
The total number ofhogs packed
in Cincinnati during the year end
ing March 1. was 12,243,354 an in
crease of IA, $50 over that of the
preceding year. '''
1.-The Tennessee legislature has
passed a bill to settle theldebt ofthe
extinct municipality of Memphis at
thirty-three and a third cents and
interest at four per cent.
| The State Department isinform-
ed that 4000iemigrants left Bremen,
on March 80, for the United States.
making over 10000 from that port
during the first quarter of this year.
"A London paper says that / +.
Nesbit, an eminent chemist, has sue
ceeded in altering every supposed
to-be secure check submitted to him,
but has himself produced a check
(patented) which scientific experts
pronounce unalterable.
The body of Colonel L. n. Ross,
formerly State Senator of Ohio,
and colonel of the Nineteenth Ohio
Volunteers during the war, was
burned in the crematory at Wash
ingtOn, Pa, March 31st. If is the
twelfth corpse cremated in that
place.
A proposed amendment to the
constitution of Pennsylvania Drohib-
ting the manufacture and sale of in
tox:cating liquors, has neen adopted
by the House by vote of 109 10 SO,
and it is thought it will be passed by
the Senate also. The proposition is
to be submitted to the people. 1t is
said that, if adopted, it would de-
prive the slate of $800,OOO.
A convention of State officers,
United States Congressman. and
other prominent men of the North
west, will be called to meet in Day-
export, Iowa, on May 25th, to appeal
Ito Congress for speedy extension
of the Illinois and Michigan canal to
the Missippi river, by way of Hcnne-
pin, for the porpose of of opening an
all-water route from the upper Mis-
sissippI to Chicago, the lakes and
the Erie Canal" ,.'
Senator Fuchs, member of the
High Court of Russian Cessation,
presides. over the court trying Nj
hilists, assisted by four senators and
TOuravieff, Assistant Prosecutor of
st. Petersburg. and Postozki, Assis-
tant Prosecutor of the district of
tribunal. Sixty-four witnesses and
eleven experts were examined.
Greek, Catholic, Lutheran and Mo
hammedan clergy are present to adj
minister oaths.
when man wants to enlist in
the army of China his courage is
subjected to very unusual test.
The recruiting officer places the can
dldate on chair and proceeds to
extract tooth, and the conduct of
the patient under this ordeal is said
to decide the question as to his fit
ness for the military service of the
empire. If he howls, and jumps up
and down, he is pronounced unfit
but II he smiles and exhibits gener-
ally feeling of satisfaction, he Sc
cures permanent place in the
ranks.
"A company consisting of Hamil-
ton DisstOn, VIM. G. Parsons, VIM.
l.. Elkins, John L. Hill, VIM. S. Stok-
ley, and others, has been chartered
by the legislature OF Florida to con-
struct a ship canal across that state.
the route will be from the Gulf, via
the Caloosahatchee river and lake
OkeechObee, to the Atlantic Ocean,
at or near. the mouth of the Lucie
river, and the capital is fixed at $780,
100000. This IS substantially the
company having the contract to
drain Lake Okeechobee. The adj
vanced surveying party left Jack
sonvllle for the Everglades ON the
sixth.
The famous Gutenberg Bible,
which was sold in New York, the
other day for $4,000, was published
in Mentz in 1908 by Joannes Gnt-
tenberg, being the first book ever
printed. There are number of
copies of this work in existence
The last one sold was purchased by
the Earl Of Ashburnham in London
for $4,000 so that the New York
purchaser got his Bible cheap. This
volume, although 430 years old, is
one of the finest specimens of print
ed work ever issued. and far superb
or to the typographical work of to-
day, justifying Sabin's epigram.
printing was born a giant and had
no babyhood.n r-s-is 5pu fl.3.
Cremation is making progress
in Italy. Mr.. Colnaghi, the British
Consul for North Italy, states that
since 1876 seventy-one incinerations
of bodies have taken place at Milan.
and fifteen al Lodi, making a total |
of eighty-siX. The first crematory
furnace set up in Milan was heated
by ordinary gas, made on the spot |
and passed by means OF tubes into
the urn. This system, however, had
to be abandoned, since it was found
to be neither rapid nor economical, |
five hours being required to complete |
the operation. Two rival systems
are now being tried-one the inven-
ton of Prof. GorIni of Lodi, and the |
other that of Messrs. Porna & Venni-
nj, of Milan. Both are heated by
wood, and The flames are brought in |
direct contact with the body. COM |
bustion being increased by the in |
PRODUCTION, of atmospheric air. Gre
nation does not appear to be cost
ly process, for the total cost of incin-
Grating a human body at Milan is
under 90 lire, or less than
SO. This charge covers not only the
fees to the Cremation Society and to |
the municipality, but the cost of q
niche for the cinerary urn in the CO.
erected for that purpose.
In view of the fact that doubts
have been expresseda as to the identity
of the Indian chief who was killed |
in an engagement with q body of
Mexican troops last fall, and who
was reported at the time to be the
Apache leader Victoria,
the Mexican Legation furnishes the
following details of the fdentifica-