The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-02-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.


.:-DeLesseps has received a tele.
gram from Panama announcing the
committeeman of operations on the
canal. 1-..-H
Miss Lizzie Sargent, daughter OF
Senator Sargent OF California, has
been admitted as member of the
medical profession in San Francisco.
"A Chicago physician says that
probably 10000 people in that city
are injuring their health and en-
dangering their lives by using hair
cosmetics and face powders.
The Scientific american has lig-
ured up the matter, and comes to
the conclusion that foreign immi-
grants brought to this country last
year the sum of $35.000,0O0.
"A ten-cent edition of the re-
vlsed New Testament will be put
on the market by a New York pub
lshlng house, as soon as the sheets
can be received from England,
which will probably be in MAY next.
Notwithstanding the efforts of
Gen. Malone to prevent fore
closure, the Atlantic: mississippi &
Ohio railroad was sold at auction at
Richmond. Clarence Fl. Clark OF
Philadelphia was the purchaser, at
$8.6O5, 900. - -tt
There are indications of large
emigration from Canada to the
United States this summer. The
Montreal Post declares that nothing
can stay the exodus until the do
minion cease to be crown COLONY,
and has the sole management of its
own affairs. .,i
In a case brought by stock
holder against the railroad commits
sion of Georgia. Judge Woods fully
sustained the latter in prescribing
freight and passenger tariffs, on
the ground that the roads are. sub
jected to legislative control unless
protected by their charters.
Bernhard wrote home to one
of the papers that she was shocked
almost to deathto find in one OF the
American theatres a head of Christ
put on the stage to represent Racine.
She Furthermore wrote that she did
some fine acting expressly for the
benefit of the stage manager
The navy has 176 pay directors,
masters and clerks on salaries rang
ing from $500 to $1,000 a wear.
most of them holding life positions,
to distribute the pay of 5000 officers
and seamen, who are provided with
everything needed in an efficient
navy except ships and guns.
lin California the males former
1y ontnumbered the females very
largely, but this disproportion has
been gradually decreasing, and;now
the disparity is comparatively small.
According to the last census, the
state, exclusive of Chinese, who are
nearly all men, Is 1886, of which
number 44S,271 are males and 346,-
415 females. ett4
james Thomas DeJarnette who
his sister Mollie in a house
of ill-fame,' at Danville, Va. and
was convicted in September last,
has been granted new trial by the
Supreme Court of Virginia. He
was sentenced to be hung, on the
goth of October last. A writ of
error was granted; execution stayed,
and now he will have chance be-
fore another jury. 90 .sa.
Mrs. Lucy A. -Elkins, wife of a
once famous Chicago artist, Henry
A.; Elkins, has commenced suit
against a Chicago saloon keeper
named William Cudney and the own
ers of the building he-occupied for
S25, 900, for debauching and making
her husband a confirmed drunkard.
Elkins, she says, was earning SIC, 900
R year at his profession, when Cud-
ney enticed him into his place, and
there he squandered not less than
$4,000 of his hard-earned income,
and has since been incapacitated for
work at his profession and unable to
support his family. D. -
The death in France of the Mar
luis de Tinguy recalls the famous
of which he was the au-
thor in 1850. Under the French Re-
public, and not the Empire, as is gen. |
orally supposed, the necessity of
signing their article was imposed |
upon all journalists. M. de Tinguy |
was in the habit of asserting. that |
journalists were greatly indebted to |
1irl for giving them a means of ris-
ng above the obscurity of anony-,
nous press writing. This thought,
however, was the last which was inf
he minds of the large majority |
which passed the measure of 1850. |
The Republic of that day feared
writer's just as the first
Republic had feared them, which
lad passed an almost precisely SINH
ar law. 1t was thought that the
necessity Of afhxing their signatures
would tone down the passions of |
writer's but the contrary has proved
he case. In 1870 the law was abro-
rated, but the habit of signing arti-
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