The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-28
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Louis Jarvis,a sober, industrious
man, was called to his eeepy-9n--ita-
tertown, New York, at midnight, by
two drunken men, who offered jar
Wis drink out of a dinner-pail. He
took small quantity, staggered
back into his house, fell into a
stupor, and he died from the effects
of the potion. - -
The new anti-treating law in
Wisconsin, which cOmpels every
man to take his whiskey in solitary
style, has been decided in the courts
to be defective and imperative be-
cause the amendment was fixed to a
statute previously repealed, and the
law is not complete of itself without
the action of the statute repealed.
The Legislature seems to have bun
gled in the matter-perhaps inten-
tiOnally. -.rt
"A New York letter says the re-
cent Strasburger matchmaking case
has so alarmed parents in regard to
the possible abduction of their
children from school, that quite
large boys and girls are now escort
ed to and fro by servants, and many
teachers have been requested never
to dismiss any child before the close
of school hours except at the per-
sonal request of some member of
the family. .-..-..
Gen. Malone has two sons and
daughter, all old enough to take
their places in society at Washing
ton. His wife is a very accomplished
lady, and the exact contrast physi-
cally to her husband. She weighs
over two hundred pounds, and is
said to have possessed remarkable
personal beauty in her day. Next
to Alexander Stephens, Gen. Ma
hone is the smallest man that has
ever been in Congress. .
The state department is justnow
somewhat embarrassed by the Boyn-
ton family. Michael is in prison in
England for operations with the
Land League, and Paul, the swim
mer, is in Chill, in durance for par
ticipation in the naval operations of
the Peruvians. Mr.. Blaine will see
that both the men have fair play,
although il is said he thinka it is
rather pushing hun for II single fam
lily to make such Il demand for di-
plomacy.
Edison says that it is possible to
supply the electric light by cable,
and that in time, if necessary, he
could light up the Island of. Cuba
by motor in New York. He al
ready has his inventions in such
order that! he can use a one-half
horse power. He also expects to
get so much profit from his electric
power in the way of running ele-
vators, etc that he will be able to
light up the city Of New York in OPP
position 10 the gas companies. even
if they supply their gas Tor nothing.
The Luke Superior copper Mill
ing monopoly is confronted by the
immense copper developments in
the territory of Arizona, where
money is now literally invested in
the mining region. Some New York
parties recently paid 81, 100000 for .
mine about one hundred miles from
Tucson, and they are erecting a
fifty-tOn furnace. Copper pays
eight cents Il pound net profit in
Arizona, and the only drawback is
the high price of coke, which is
made from English coal and is
brought from San Francisco at 1927
ton. H. .I.. b..
w. L. Berry, ticket agent at Sc
dalia, for the Missouri-Pacific, ac-
cidentally shot his wife, to whom'he
has been married only few months.
Mrs. Berry got out of bed to stop a
window from rafting, when Berry
awoke and installing her for bur-
glar, seized his revolver, took steady
aim and fired. The ball took effect
in her shoulder-blade, glanced up
wards and lodge in her neck just
above the collar-bOne, inflicting a
severe wound. And now this thing
of shooting a wife with re-
volver. in the dark, must be cor
rected at once, or there may be
other such mistakes against the nat
ural and happy order of connubial
life.
"A strange deed of mOrtgag was
put upon record in the registers
office at Charlotte, N. c., last week.
According TO the terms of this
mortgage Charles DidenOver, an in
telligent but impecunious man. con-
veys himself and all right and title
to himself to another, to have and to
hold forever, to secure debt he
owes the mortgagor. The deed was
duly witnessed, signed and scaled.
Didenover is married man, and.
therefore, under the laws of North
Carolina, before a man can convey
any real estate his wife has to give
her signature thereto, acknowledge
ing before u notary public or magis-
trate, although it is doubtful if the
object in this case has any character
of property. Didenover's. wife
valves all of her rights, titles and
claims to him in favor of the mort
gagor, and signed the deed of con-
veyance and acknowledged the
same with all due form before a
magistrate.