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

piter and Saturn will be in close con-
Junction.
"A memorial to William Tyndale
the martyr and translator of the
New Testament, is to be erected ON
the Thames embankmcnt in London.
IL is TO take the form of Il statue,
which is to cost $4,000.
The emigration from British is
lands for last year is given at 227 ,542
while the immigrants from those is
lands that arrived in the United
States, numbered 1926, showing
that 67,306 went to other countries
Tho Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and Erie railways have each sub
scribed $125,000 to the New York
Worlds FAIR. on condition that pay
ments shall only be made in case
gross sum of$4, 100000 is subscribed,
Colorado stock raisers seem to
have been the greatest sufferers by
the storms OF the winter, although
losses in Idaho and Montana will be
heavy. Fewer Texas cattle will be
moved into the mountain region
hereafter.
The Nihilists charged with the
assassination of, and conspiracy to
assassinate,.th late Gar, have all
been sentenced to die on the gal
lows. Sophie Pietoffsky's sentence
needs the approval of the Car, she
being of noble birth.
The Hon. A. III. Stephensls popu-
lar in Washington. Young peO-
pie and old are fond of calling upon
him, and he is rarely alone. Every
day, except Sunday, Nj. Stephens
INDUCES in game of whist with his
friends from 8 to 9 o'clock.
"A cable dispatch states that
Prince CarOlath has obtained a de
cree of divorce against his wife, nee
Countess Hertzfeldt. 1t is said that
Count Herbert Blsmarck's marriage
with the divoIc ed lady will soon
take place. The Count now appears
to be reconUiicd with his father.
Most, editor of the Ff'eheit, a
German Socialistic paper published
in London, has been arrested, charg-
ed with having, in the columns of
his paper. melted the people of for
eign states to sedition and rebellion.
The police elected the compositors,
took the keys and locked up the
premises.
From the mountain districts of
Bohemia the emigration of the Ger
man portion of the population to
America has begun to assume large
proportions. The principal cause Of
the exodus is not so much physical
distress as the intolerable political
tyranny of the CZech's who form
the majority ofthe people.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, widow
of Brigham Young, declares that
during a recent visit to CovingtOn,
Ind, she found three Mormon mis-
sionaries there actively engaged in
preaching polygamy, aud that there
is an organized church of Mormons,
numbering fifteen or twenty men,
bers. which is growing steadily.
The central Texas wool growing
association met in Waco the other
day, and among other things the
opinion was expressed, that more
care in sacking, and the use of bet
ter sack material would pay. The
growers were perfectly satisfied as
to the superiority of Texas wool
over woods of the same grade grown
in other countries.
Miss Gladstone, the daughter OF
the Premier, has maze herself almost
q necessity IN every part of the col
legc life ut Newnham, Oxford. How
she fills her place in the highest sec
ton of il is known to all; but few
months ago the gas in a lectureroOm
went out, and at once rose the famil-
lar cry, where's Miss Gladstone!'
She was the one to set everything
right.
There are now in Britain 577
peers or peeresses and 500 baronets,
making altogether a little over 1400
persons who are possessed of hered-
itary dignitieS out of population OF
thirty-odd millions. All the baron
etcies have been created since the
reign of James I, who established the
order, and only about 800 of those
which are still unmerged in peerage
were created before the reign OF
George Ill.
"A bicycle exhibition has proved
very attractive III London. That eX-
citing most attention is new inyen.
ton known as the "Otto," or safety
bicycle. In this the two wheels are
parallel, instead of one in front OF
| the other, and the person on the BIZ
| cycalist is balanced securely by q
most ingenious arrangement be-
tween the two. The speed attained
by this instrument is said to be very
| considerable greater than that on
the tricycle..
Under the arrears of Pensions
Act fully $50.000,000 will have to be
distributed annually for some years
| to come. During the last fiscal year
$57 900 was disbursed and went into
all the states equalled about $1.5O
per capita. In Kentucky 1867 ,531
was paid out, or nearly 81 per
capita. The states of Virginia, We
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee
Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana,
South Carolina and Georgia receiv-
ed $3,260,906, or nearly 80 cents per
capita. So ..-.a
The President has decided to APP
point Capt. Henry, of Ohio, United
States Marshal for the district OF
Columbia, in the place of Fred Doug
lass, the latter to be appointed to
some other equally good place. Pen
sion Agent Brown, of Cincinnati, is
to be appointed Commissioner OF
Pensions, in place DILIGENTLY. Acting
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Nichol, who has been nominated
Commissioner has asked the Presi
dent 10 withdraw his nomination on
account of i'll health. "t % e"
Nitro Giycerine, the favorite ex-
plosive now used by Nihilist regi-
cides in the fabrication of theiI
death-dealing bombs, is a combina-
ton of nitric acid and the very in
nocent substance glycerine, which
can be found on the toilet tables OF
ladies and in the stomach of every
beer drinker. According to the
most recent reports of the French
| Academy of Science in reference to
improvements made with nitro
glycerine as to its explosive power,
that substance produces by .explo-
sion, according TO its purity, a vol
ume of gas from 452 to 467 times
greater than the cubic contents OF
the mass which is exploded, while
gum powder hardly produces one.
half of that amount Besides, the
explosion, of nitro-glycerine is more
Instantaneous in all ofits component
parts than that of gnn powder.
| , -Some years ago coal miner
named, Braun was afflicted so badly
with inflammatory rheumatism ii
his hands and arms that he was com