The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1881-12-29
Editorial Notes.

Parnell is reported as being physi-
eally weak, but as resolute as ever.
Four per cent. Spanish bonds to
the amount of Ell, 100000 will be
issued at So.
The anti-Jewish riots of Odessa
were resumed last week and were
very violent.
The Dominion government has
authorized the use of American cars
on Canadian railroads.
Italy has approved the conduct of
the Italian consul in protesting
against the French occupation of
Tunis.
Mr.. Kelly, a town counsellor OF
Tralee, Ireland, has been arrested
second time for holding land
league court in his house.
At Vienna two separate investiga-
tions are being held regarding the
theatre disaster. The exact number
of victims is not yet known.
The Russian ministry are increas-
ing the penalties against the press
tor violations of the laws restricting
the freedom of public criticism.
Grandson Harrison was arrested
in Augusta, Georgia, for stealing
bodies from the cemeteries and
shipping them to the medical col
leges in Atlanta.
Mr.. O'COnnOr. member of parlia-
ment, and Mr.. Healy, member of
parliament, who are now i'll this
country, will, it is said, be indicted
for conspiracy on their return to
England, the indictment being based
on their speeches at the recent
Chicago convention.
During the last year, seven Geor-
gia mines turned out iron ore worth
$143,000. The vast iron deposits
discovered in that state would seem
to indicate that Georgia might yet
take rank with Pennsylvania and
Michigan, as one of the great ore
producing sections of the country.
A fine display of native state miner
ais is presented at the Atlanta expo
sitiOn.
1t understood that nine directors
of the Mechanics national bank, of
Newark, have agreed to contribute
| 100000 TO pay depOsitors under
$500 in full, and other depOsitor;
20 per cent, within three months
provided the creditors agree to sur.
render their claims, and to relieve
the stockholders of their assessment
provided they assign their shares tC
a person designated by the directors
Electricity as a motor will no
revOlutionize the world of me
chanics. After few years of tria
it will find its appropriate fields anC
occupy them, but will not drive thu
locomotive from the track nor sup
plant the Corliss engine. Though
the power of electricity is boundless
there is limit TO its successful anC
economical use. and this limit, 81
far as motors are concerned, vii
soon be prescribed. What it vii
do, it will do well, but it can not d'
everything.
Frelinghuvsen, the secretary o
state. is a nephew of the late Thee
dere Frelinghuysen, who ran for III
vice presidency with Henry Clay
and afterward became president o
Rutgers college, New Brunswick
New Jersey. He inherits some o
his uncle's talents as an orator, AM
was an efficient district attorney
But in national politics he wa
found to lack backbone, and be
came as demOralized during tn
Grant regime as most of the othe
Republican senator's.
Kentucky contains one of tn
largest beds of iron orc in the wOrlC
large part of which is so Located
as to be easy of development. Their
are two extensive coal fields in til
state, combining Il united area o
over thirteen thousand square mile;
The western fields, which compris
over three-fourths of this area, con
tain an immense tonnage of btu
minous coal, together with large de
posts of camel coal, the latter o
which is unusually pure and rich
1t will not be long before Kentuck,
Joins the column of manufacture!
states, and Texas, having the sam
advantages will follow suit.
Dakota is knocking at the door
of congress, asking for full admis
sion as a state. Montana will not b,
far behind. The latter territory ha
a population of fully sixty Thousand
which Is growing rapidly. Tit
Northern Pacific occupies some o
its most promising valleys, while the
Union Pacific is reaching long arm
into its interior for the traffic that il
sure to come. Local railroad line:
are also being put down; new towns
are starting; the newspaper press o.
the territory is increasing numeric'
ally, and altogether the advance
though rapid, seems to be steady
A tourist to the Yellowstone val.
lew describes the geysers after
nightfall. Small jets of snow-white
vapor issue from the earth and as
sumo hewilderingly fantastic shapes
as they rise into the chill atmos-
phere and disappear. Suddenly,
with a sound like a rocket magni-
| fed ten times, q snow-white spectre
shoots up into the moonlight. Then
cold Faithful" sends forth a hiss
ing, spiteful sound, and a jet of
steam darts forth from vent-hole
in the side of the cone surrounding
the crater. The earth trembles, the
surface cracks, and then, with an
explosion like Il bomb, dense mass
of boiling water from eight to ten
feet in diameter leaps upward to-
ward the sky. AS it rises, the vapOr
swells out, and, slowly charging,
floats away into space. This col
umn OF hot water rises two hum
dred feet into space, stands appa-
rently motionless for ten minutes,
and then recedes to the steaming
abysses whence it came