The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-09-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

gersoll has made his last speech be-
fore a jury, as he intends to aban-
don that branch of the practice.
Edison has four thousand electric |
lights in his district in New York |
city, and the tests are pronounced sat- |
isfactOry. The gas companies do |
not feel very cock-a-whOop over the
Edison arrangement. About one
thousand buildings are connected
with Edison's street mains. The
wizard is rapidly Undertaking his
promises to the public.
Georgia claims to have in her
mountains, hills and saDd-bedded
rivers and creeks, more gold than
Will pay the national debt; but |
Georgia has in her cotton-producing
lands that which will annually and
ultimately yield more wealth than
her resident and incoming miuers
will be able to extract from her de-
posts OF shining treasures. Agricul-
ture, not gold mining, is the source
of a nations wealth.
A young Mississippi student,
named Joseph p. Nelson, for lark,
answered an advertisement of Pope's
theatre in st. Louis, few days ago,
for "supers" in the "Irish American"
and was so nervous from stage fright,
that the sudden report of a pistol
fired near him caused him to lose
his footing near the flies and fall
down cellar ten feet deep. None
of mis- limbs were injured, but the
physician thinks he has sustained
internal injuries.
A Washington special of Monday
last to the Cincinnati Gazette says:
There is good authority to state that
the white house will have a mistress
next winter. President Arthur is
undoubtedly engaged, and the mar
riage will take place early i'll the fall.
The name of the lady is for the pres
ent state secret The engagement
was made last spring, and the lady
has, this summer, at different water
ing places, been the recipient of the
choicest flowers from the white
house conservatories.
Capt. Bledsoe, who commanded a
battery that bombarded Lexington,
Missouri, under Gen. Price, lost both
hands by the premature discharge of
cannon. After his wounds were
healed he was an aid to Gen. Price
till the war ended, guiding his steed
by a. hook attached to his handles
arm. He is now bookkeeper, hold
ing his pen with his teeth and guild
ing it with the stump of an arm.
He was one of the conspicuous per-
sOnages at the late reunion of ex-
Contederates at Sedalia.
The Greeks are not inclined to &C
cept the Turkish concession as to the
Thessalian territory. For two or
three years they have been prepar-
ing for fight with the Turks, rec
Ognizing the fact that the Berlin con-
gress swindled then as to their
share of the Turkish spoils. They
have an army of S2,154 officers and
men, 6555 horses, ZOO mules and
torty-eight field and forty-eight
mountain guns. The sultan cannot
spare over $4,000 troops to fight this
force just now, and if the Greeks get
well into Epirus and Thessaly it will
be hard work to dislOdge them.
There arrived in this country, in
July, 65,010 emigrants, which is 49,
O76 less than we received in June
and 8943 more than came to us in
July of last year. AS compared with
June, therefore, immigration shows
considerable falling off; as COM
pared with the corresponding month
last year there is gain. Germany
continues to be our largest contribu-
tor, sending us 1921 in the month
of July; Canada gave us 1882. Eng
land and Wales follow third with
6899 immigrants. Sweden sent 1888,
and Ireland nearly as many, or 5638.
China gave 66H Celestials, its last
shipment before the Chinese
law went into effect.
Contributions for the English
Royal college of music are being
made with rapidity and generosity.
Among them are these that follow
by well known persons: Princess
Beatrice, e25; anonymous per the
Prince of Wales, X. g., $1,000; Brad
ford, per the mayor, Mr.. John Hill,
(first contribution, $1,000; Lloyd's,
per Mr.. Isaac SeligmaD, Gl05; Earl
of Ashburnham, fl0o; Earl of Aber-
deem, Esq los; Lord Ormathwaite Tin
two years., ESQ; Miss Alice de Roth.
schild, ESQ, and the Duke of Cleve-
land, ESQ. Contributions are &C
knowledged from a large number
of other persons, but the amounts
are not made public.
In the New York Times a corre-
spondent says that comparatively
few rich men are large holders of
bank stock, and the great majority
of them do not hold any at all. For
instance, the New York Bank of
Commerce has 1929 shareholders.
The capital is $5,000,O0O, and the
average to each shareholder is $2733.
No fewer than 531 hold ten shares
or under. More than one quarter of
the stock is held by 77S women, and
estates" hold 154 shares. The bank
of the New York National banking
association has capital of $2,000,000
of this $701, 800 Is owned by 247
women, and women "tru-t tees" and
charitable associations own a major
ity of the stock.
A writer in the Panama Star and
Herald sets forth number of facts
tending TO show that the future
region for the cultivation of the
cinchona tree, which furnishes the
genuine bark of commerce, is Gen.
trail America. This gentleman's
observations extend over seven
years of personal investigation. In
Guatemala and Costa RIGA he has
found soil free from lime and eleva
ted slopes where no frosts occur.
The best soil is that composed of
decompOsed volcanic rocks, and this
is found in most parts of the Pacific
slope and Central America; but of
the twentv-three varieties of the
tree only two or three can be profit
ably grown in that region.
Prof. James Fl. Smart, formerly
superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton in Indiana, recently returned
to indianapolis from trip through
the southern states OH business con-
nected with the Peabody Educa-
tional Association. He spent much
time in Georgia, where he says the
people are anxious to secure the
best methods of public education,
and the most influential citizens are
warm supporters OF The public
schools. The Georgia school sys-
tenn. he thinks, is one of the best in
the United States, the colored PEG.
pie having abundant advantages in |
separate schools, and the state pay
ing $4,000 year to each of the col
ored and white universities.
The Utah commissioners now haye |
before them tor revision the lists of |
u0farc in tho forrit0rv nf TItoh |