The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-05-19
LATE NEWS BY MAIL.

ABOUT thirty OF the editors took
a run down TO Galveston.
One case of sunstrOke this season
is reported i'll New York.
The Southern Hotel was reopen
cd at st. Louis few DAYS ago.
Madame DuPree won the walking
match at Houston-Of course.
Henry Ward Beecher has been ar
rested for violation of contract.
Sugar planters of Louisiana think
the late rains insure fair sugarcrops.
The United States grand juries
IN Montana are going for the Nor
mons.
A negro called another q coward,
in,Lee county, Ark, and was killed
therefor.
The Gar reviewed his troops a
few days ago, aud was received with
enthusiasm.
Mrs. Lincoln widow of the ex-
president, is seriously i'll, and may
not recover.
The National Police Association
will meet next "Wednesday at Oma-
ha. Nebraska.
The Mississippi Democratic State
Convention is called TO meet on the
first OF August.
In some of the Northern and
Eastern states smallpox is raging
as an epidemic.
The assistant postmaster at Little
Rock, Ark, is a defaulter to the
amount of $4,000.
Houston was again selected as the
next place of meeting of the Texas
Press Association. @
The death rate in New York is
unusually large, said to be on ac-
count of filth in the city.
The Brennan Maifest was quite a
fine affair. Hon. Harry Haynes
was the orator of the day.
j. T.. Burton, a young lawyer of
Atlanta, Georgia. has been sent to
the penitentiary for perjury.
1t is said there will be over three
hundred thOroUghbreds at the APP
preaching Louisville meeting. -
A New York dispatch says that
within the past few days 1851 en-
igrants have landed at Castle Gar
den.
The saloon keepers of Cincinnati
paid no attention to the order of the
mayor to close their places ON Sun
day. &
A fast steamer is employed to run
between Key West and Havana,
while the broken cable is being re-
paired. ~.
The Missouri legislature is being
petitiored to pass law to prevent
the sale of intoxicating liquors in
that state.
Il. L. Edgas, the Dallas pedes-
trian. who entered the Chicago
walking match, made sixty-eight
miles and broke down.
The suffering among the inhabi-
tants along the head waters of the
Missouri river, on account of the
floods, is said to be appalling.
The waters of the Mississippi con-
tinue to recede at st. Louis. No
further fears of floods are entertain
ed until the June rise comes.
A large number of ship carpenters
have arrived in Lake Charles,
from New Orleans. A
great deal of boat building is in
progress there.
Gov. Hubbard will run a branch
of his narrow-gauge road to Dallas,
if the citizens of that city will put
up $25, 900 as a bonus and give the |
through the city.
a number of Cincinnati cigar |
makers have imported Chinese en-
ployees on account of the strike of |
their workmen. The strikers, as is |
usually the case, are the people who |
suffer. -s- -
The association of planters of the |
Valley meets at Mem
phis Oh the oath inst, to consult on
the measures, machinery, and all !
matters which concern planting |
m the South. Such a conference |
,an hardly fail of good results. ~
General Loris Melikof, comman-
liant of st. Petersburg; MI. Abaza,
Minister of Finance; Baron Nicolai,
Minister of Public Instruction, and
VI. Giers, Minister of Foreign At
airs. all rendered their designations
o the Emperor Thursday, the 18th
Instant.
The French and Tunis treaty, or
recently effected, has
given deep offense to England. 1t
8 felt that France has taken adVan-
age of the circumstances sine was IN
of. and has transgressed
he commercial usages of interpa-
iOnal comfy. tlis. |
The advices from Russia show a
most deplOrable state OF affairs in the
Outhern provinces. Thousands are
brown out of employment by the
disturbance, the persecution of the
Jews, continue and the government
s so tar unable TO pacify the people
md remedy the evils. - |
Prof. Edward A. Barnard, of
Nashville, Tenn. has telegraphed
ir. II. III. Warner, of that city,
tanning the second prize offered
~ Mr.. Warner, of $3.50 in gold, for
he discovery of comets. The
omet discovered by Prof. Barnard
makes the second discovered within
wO weeks, Prof. Swift having Won
he other prize. ...... -it!
Jefferson Davis. in his speech at
Jew Orleans during the ceremo-
lies of Unwilling tile Confederate
said of StOnewall' Jack
oil: "lle 1iNed for his country,
ever doubling that its cause was
ighteous. He died. believing, as 1
% to-day, that it was founded on
ruth and Justice"
In Tie opinion of the Memphis
the Tennessee debt
uestiOn 10 not finally or satisfactO-
y-settled. The Ardldnche says that
any chance is afforded the people
. avoid the. proposed settlement
hey will avail themselves of it, and l.
nat reconciliation to the debt set
cement is absolutely necessary, and l.
! is not attainable." Il