The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-10
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Australia, with 100000 people,
has $4,000, OO0eheep. The colonies
there are the richest in the world.
An Australian authority gives il
as his opinion that the American
thoroughbred has more stamina
than the English.
The weather has favored harvest
ing in Michigan, and the wheat crop
is immense. The crop is estimated
at 100000 bushels.
Lord Roseberry sold his yearling
thoroughbreds recently. He had
nine head and they aggregated $15,-
1926, averaging $1714.
Very nearly half of the winnings
at the trotting meet at Chicago went
to Kentucky-bred horses; in other
words, these won $4,000.
The King of Belgium has entered
suit for $4,000 alleged to have been
deposited by a Belgian fugitive who
stole S., 100000 from the king.
John 6. Craft, cashier of the Ex-
change bank, of Frank, Pennsylva-
MA, has been specializing in oil and
is behind from $4,000 to 100000.
A writer in the New York Sports
man expresses the view that Gladia-
teur is probably the best horse
foaled out of England that ever ran
there"
Never before has there been such
an enormous wheat crop for ship
ment from Lexington, Kentucky.
The railways are short of cars aud
unable to supply the demand.
There is now in bond, in the Lex
ington, Kentucky, district, 100000
gallons of whisky, the largest
amount at any time since the organ
ization of the internal revenue dis
trict.
In Racine, Wisconsin, the other
day. thief stole quantity of orig
inal poetry of the alleged value of
$500. The wonder is how he could
ever get away with it and elude dis
covery.
Guy Smith, a twelve-year-old boy,
who shot and killed his father at
KirkwOod, Missouri, a few weeks
ago, has been found guilty of muir
der, and will probably be sentenced
to the gallOws.
The sultan has informed the
British secretary of legation that in
the matter of declaring Arab a
rebel he had better consult the OF
toman delegates at the conference
on the subject.
Alter all, the house of A. T.
Stewart, New York, will not close
up business. The selling out seems
to have been an advertising scheme,
which has turned out splendidly for
Messrs. Hilton 81 Co.
The neurology of Harvard and
Yale during the past year indicates
a tendency to longevity among edu-
Gated men. Of the -149 graduates
who died, sixty were over 20 years
of age and two were Sc.
The sundry civil appropriation
bill, as reported to the senate, in
creases the house bill by $1,78S, 900,
making total of $25, 764 900. Among
the additions is SIS, 900 TO bring the
bodies of belong and companions
to the United States.
Michigan Is not state 20 be sneez-
ed at as land of big fires, malaria
and mosquitoes. She last year, az
cording to statistics, turned out
100000 tons of iron ore, 100000
bushelf of salt, 4,0O0,OOO,OOO feet of
lumber, and more charcoal and more
copper than any state in the union.
The Rugby colony in Tennessee is
said to be coming out of the slough
of dependency into which 1t was
plunged short time back. Those
who held on in adversely are now
said to be enjoying the prospect of
good crops, feel encouraged, and ex.
press the belief that the experiment
will not prove failure after all.
John and Alex. Duncan, wealthy
distillers of Oldham county, Ken
lucky, have been sued by Ben Hol-
ton, colored man, in the United
States district court. The Duncans
suspected HOlton of having burned
down thier barn, hung him up, as
alleged, three times to make him
confess. Damages laid at $4,000.
The mortality in New York city
last week reached the appalling fig
ure of 1917, the largest number for a
single week in ten years. About
one-third of the number were chill
dren, who died from the excessive
heat. There were thirty-One cases
of sun-stroke Saturday, sixteen fatal.
A rain in the evening sent the mer-
curry down to eighty-four degrees.
The active corps of the English
army, or the corps that the secreta-
ry for war, Mr.. Childers, says he
can put in the field at once, numbers
10000 men. The reserve, if called
out, but which could not be put in
battle array under six months, would
add to this corps 10000 men. Pro.
badly an Indian contingent of 10000
men can be supplied, and if Arab
continues strong in his determine