The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-04-07
AlfU EDITORIAL NOTES.

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ti- The Traus-continciital railway,
is completed eight or ten miles
I south of Denton. q
Pc Jay Gould is a-,Frectur the
Mexican Southern railroad. of which
Gen. Grant is president. o-s' aIe
"a Cincinnati peanut vcnder has
been warned by privhte circular ia
iOwerhis prices or prepare Tor assas-
sination. Monopolies must be
| crushed, H#- ff H-I1r
MIR. Ten Brock, of England. re-
Gently offered MIR. Harper, of Lex
ingtOn, Kentucky, $4,000 for the
race horse Pen BrOeck The offer
was declined. 90 ..t.' u
John 5. Wise, son of the late ex-
Governor Wise,-of Virginia, has an-
nounced himself as Il candidate. for
nomination As Governor, at the re-
adiusters' convention, soon to be
held.
Old John Brown, whose soul is
marching on, is to have n statue in
the Capitol at Washington. AT
least the Kansas Legislature has
voted money for the erection OF
such, Il statue. s
| In the post mortem eXmnina-
ton of Mrs. Bonhatz, of HObokem,
il was <Ound THAT she had been eaten
alive by trichine and, therefore,
the standing of the American hog
abroad will be more than ever al
fected. .-
The supreme court of Illinois has
declared the constitutiOnalty of the
law imposing a penalty of one per
cent. for non-payment of taxes. The
same tribunal decides that local as
sessments of railroad. side-tracks,
turn outs andswitches are void.
Frank j. Bowman, the lawyer
who was debarred from practising
in the courts of st. Louis, at the in
stance of the st. Louis Bar Associa-
ton ON account of alleged profess
sional misconduct, after more than a
years litigation has been restored
by order of the Supreme Court of
Missouri.
San Francisco is a queer place
and boasts of queer religion.
When Kalloch was acquitted the
other day, for the murder of De
Young, he was not only triumph
antly dragged in his carriage
through the city, but thanksgiving
Services were held in his fathers
church, the Metropolitan Temple, in
honor OF the event.
1t il now learned that a limb can
be amputated by electricity. Not
long ago, an eminent physician in
Michigan fastened n platinum wire
TO couple of batteries, and brought
il to a white heat, after which the
wire was drawn around the leg of a
patient and cut through the flesh
with wonderful rapidity. The ends
of the small arteries were closed by
the soaring, and only the large ones
had TO be taken uO and tied. r
Col. Frederick Hecker, the we'll
known G German revolutiOnist, died at
his home, near Summerfield. st.
Clair county, Ills, on the oath inst.
He was born of n wealthy andproIn-
inent family of Mannheim, Ger
many, September 11th, 1911, and en-
gagged in the. unsuccessful revOlu-
ton in favor of q republican gov
eminent, in 1913. was forced to flee
his country and settled in Illinois in
1849. In the Franco-Prussian war
of 1871, he was Instrumental in
raising in this country $1,000,OO0
which was sent over for the relief OF
his suffering countrymen.
There is among officers of the
army on staff duty in Washington
and New York a report that the new
Secretary of War is about to issue
an order limiting the time such
officers shall serve in cities, so as to
give other officers equal privileges
in performing duties at the preferred
posts. 1t is the good fortune of some
to have been permanently on duty
here for twelve years, while officers
of the same department have been
exposed to the hardships of frontier
life. 1t is understood that AdjutaDt
General Drum is of the opinion that
such favoritism is subversive of mil
itary discipline and ought therefore
to end without delay.
While Senator Johnston was
speaking in the United States Sen
ate the other day Mrs. Johnston oc-
cupied. scat in the gallery and near
by her stood two Virginia Readjus-
ters. When the Senator bore down
heavily on Malone one of them said:
"Listen to the old liar. He says he
is a Democrat when he was an old
Wing and Know-NOthing." Mrs.
Johnston at once turned to him and
said: "1 on are mistaken, sir; he
was born Democrat, reared a
Democrat, and will die u DemOcr at.
l ought TO know, as / am his wife"
The Richmond Dispatch comment
ing on the incident remarks: This
reply was worthy of the daughter
of the elder Governor Floyd, the
sister of the younger Governor
Floyd, the kinswoman of William
g. Preston and the wife of John w.
Johnston" -.-..