The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-07-27
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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immigration since the beginning o
this month.
a herd of buffalo fourteen miles il
length was seen recently near Glen.
dive, Montana.
James r. Keene, of New York. ha,
purchased the Windemera flats" il
New York. for $350,000.
The Baltimore Sun has European
correspondent who calls Arab BeN
the "Dennis kearney of the Nile"
The black small pox is raging
with great violence at Mazatlan
There has been already fifty deaths
Nevada has 80, ,OS7 horses and 15S, ,lS7
other cattle. not counting sheep pigs
fowls and "women and Indians not
taxed"
A statistician estimates that the
people OF the United States have to
pay S23 a minute for congress while
in session.
The Mobile Register hopes that its
esteemed contemporaries will give
it rest on the subject of compcti-
tive drills.
There are twelve editors in the
national house of representatives.
and one in the senate. How are the
mighty fallen.
Powers, the sculptor, is at Paines-
vile, Ohio, making a bust OF Pres
ident Garfield. The plaster cast
was make i'll Italy.
COngresshas appropriated $4,000
for the improvement of Hot Springs,
TO be paid from the rents collected
by the receiver there.
The Oriole spectacle to come of
i'll Baltimore in September will have
a great deal of warmed over mate
rial from all accounts.
The south continue to dig up her
buried wealth. The New Orleans
gas company has contracted for
$4,000 tons of Alabama coal.
The English government has ex-
pressed strong disapprOval of the
resolution adopted by the Canadian
parliament declaring for home rule
i'll Ireland.
Cardinal Borromea's coffin cost
$800,000. The gentleman who has
the contract for preserving the ver-
dure of the cardinals tomb has a
good thing.
George E. Eaton, Democratic can
didate for governor of Vermont, is a
practical printer, and is said by his
opponents to be q ''steady, solid,
sensible man."
During the first six months oflSS2
the Brooklyn tax collectors receipts
amounted to $4,965, ,294.13. The reg
lister of arrears receipts amounted
to 81, 1,302, ,33S.58.
Upwards of 5000 invitations to
the annual convention of the Ameri-
can Bankers association, to be held
in Saratoga on August 16 and II,
! have been issued.
A resident of Connecticut seeks
100000 damages from Westchester
county OH account of certain indict-
ments found against him there and
never brought to trial.
Thirty years ago the tonnage of
all the railroads in the United States
did not exceed 100000; last year
the amount transported was calcu-
lated at 350,000,000 tons.
The New York Commercial 1dcer-
tiSer has the headline, "Why Old
Maids Multiply" But old maids
don't multiply-at least, not if they
are the right sort of old maids.
Long Branch is in luck this year
has had railroad accident, num-
Der of burglaries and live whale ;
it has got the tariff commission, and
is soon to have Il visit from President
Arthur; doesn't need the serpent
this season.
Professor Chandler says 10000
people die here every year more
than need to die, and there are 2S0,-
600 eases of prevcntable sickness.
Fear a jury of doctors and under
takers would pronounce HIM an un-
mitigated crank.
a novel trotting race occurred at
Oxford, Pennsylvania, not lorg
since, where pair whose ages were
twenty-five and thirty years. respec-
lively, trotted full mile in three
minutes, probably the best time on
record for pair at that age.
An editor living in Florida wrote /:
at is years since we have experience
ed such a thing as winter After
tbs paper went to press he commit
ted suicide, and simply because the
cOmpositor had set up the last word
water" instead Of"winter."
The prohibition amendment which
Iowa put into her constitution a few
days agoWas famed, engineered, and
carried almost entirely by the inllu-
ence of women, and yet there are
lunatics who still contend that wo-
man can have no influence in poll
tics until she votes.
Kentucky's famous bluegrass is
said to be native of Indiana. The
first known of 1t in this state was
when General Harrison's army was
returning south in 1910, when they
brought large quantities of the seed
from little Indiana village on White
river, in what is now Hamilton
county. 1t still grows in that part
of Indiana.
In the course of the past six
months there have been sold in
Kentucky 208 head of thoroughbred:
for $125,665, 1856 short-horns fol-
$141, ,673, and 694 trotters for $780,
FOG. Including the sales made pri
vately these sums would be nearly
doubled. 1t is safe to say that live
stock to the amount of 100000 has
lett Kentucky for other states ano
foreign parts this year.
Indications are that the corn croI
of Arkansas will exceed that pro
duced any previous year by many
millions of bushels. Abundant rains
have recently fallen throughout the
state. The average is at least tel
per cent greater than last year, anc
the larger part of the crop, especially
III western Arkansas, is now SAFE
from injury from drouth if it should
come. The state will be full of foot
s,uffs next year.
A German paper published'at Du
buque says: "German Republican
will soon be as rare in Iowa as white
ravens. During the twenty-six year
of our connection with the press W.
never witnessed such a tornado o
indignation like tie one now pre-
vailing among the best ant
most intelligent Germans, who be
longed to the Republican party sine
. it was founded. With them ther,
is no longer an ff,' or but They
t on the contrary, declare openlyant
above board, that every tie whicl
heretofore connected them with tn
J Republican party has been severed
! and that they will ally themselve