The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-17

luC ilOSI dDuuuhuI CNCE WlbhCooS0
in that state.
All England, including the army
in Egypt, are swearing at the corre-
spondent who reported the "stam-
pede" OF the pickets of the Sixtieth |
rifles, and it is believed he will be
sent away and not be allowed to act
as correspondent for any paper at
the seat of war. 1t is an ugly thing
for correspondents at the front to
tell too much.
REFERENCE to a report taken
from the Express shows how yellow
fever stole in upon Brownsville like
a thief at night. There should long
ago have been an understanding be-
tween the state department of Texas
and the Mexican authorities at Mata-
moros. Had they been acting in
concert, as they should, the two
places being as it were one, the APP
proach of the fever from 'Tuxpan
could in all probability have been
effectively guarded against.
GOVERNOR PORTER, of Ohio, in
opening the campaign in that state,
defines the position of the Ohio
Republicans on the liquor prohibit
ton, and accepts the challenge of
the free.traders to make the fight on
the question of Sunday traffic. He
says that it shall have no more privi-
leges accorded to it than any other
business has, and as the present law
interdicts selling on Sunday bever-
ages of any description, that he will
abide by the law and enforce its
observance.
In THE probate court at La Crosse
Wisconsin, a decision has just been
rendered which is of interest to all
spectators in futures. A man who
had been specializing i'll grain
through a broker, who died, brought
suit to recover on a promissory
note for $4,000 given in connection
with their grain business. The court
held that the transaction was gam
bling, that there was no legal con-
sideration, and that the note was
invalid. This is the most direct de-
cision yet rendered upon the legality
of such operations.
SUMPTUARY legislation is in fnll
force in Alaska, where the plague is
killing hundreds of people. Brandy
is the only sure remedy known; yet
If man imports gill of brandy into
Alaska to save dying child, he is
liable to imprisonment. But then
what are these people living in such
a country as Alaska for, anyway 2 1t
is something like Jones Rivers said
of Georgetown, then very different
place from now. lie sand: al recog-
nize the goodness of God in sending
me to Georgetown that may pass
away from earthly scenes with no
dying regrets"
WE have not a doubt that John
w. Moses is, in the ordinary accept
ance of the word, a sinner ;.but with
all this there is as choice place re-
served for him in the hereafter as
for anybody. He is brakeman on
a Wisconsin railway, and while his
train was crossing bridge he saw
a child III the water below drowning.
In an instant ne ,eaped from the top
of a car, between the steel braces of
the bridge, and succeeded in saving
the lad. In diving between the
braces the brave man struck steel
rod. which turned his headlong
course and whlrled him over several
times before he reached the water.
HARRY LAMOREUX, an engineer
on the Manhattan Beach railway,
Long Island, saved a little child's
life few days ago, by climbing out
on the pilot of his engine while it
was running, and picking the babe
up off the track. The father and
mother stood on the top of an en-
bankment and looked down at the
sight. They had allowed the child
to roll down while it was playing.
Lamoreux stopped his engine, and,
sprlnging up the bank, deposited
the child in it's fathers arms, with
the remark: "Damnation, don't let
it occur againr And in spite of
what he said, there's place fixed
for him along with the Moses we
tell of in another paragraph.
SIX hundred and seventy-eight
thousand dollars were appropriated
by the senate and the house for print
ing for general distribution thou
sand copies of the complete set of
census reports, twenty thousand
copies of the report on population
an equal number on agriculture, ten
thousand on manufactures, fifteen
thousand on the national loan and
fifteen hundred on fish and fisheries.
and hundred thousand copies OF
compendium of the complete census
The bill provides for the manner in
which those reports are to be dis.
tributed, which is by no means light
work, as each copy of the complete
set will embrace fifteen-quarto vol
umns of thousand pages each.
What the bulk of the seperate indie
pendent sets may be is not specified
THERE are now five state tickets
in the field in Pennsylvania, with
the promise of one or two more
The labor and trade convention, to
meet on the 2Sth instant, is expect
ed by the bosses, who are contract
ing with few labor spectators, to
nominate a state ticket and to so
shape its candidates as to best serve
the cause of Beaver. The following
are the five tickets air eady in the
= field:
I Cameron Republican ticket
Governor, James A. Beaver; Lieu
tenant governor, William L. Da-