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


The Princess Louise is expected at
Newport next week.
The naval appropriation bill, as
passed by the house, calls for $15,-
351,936.
The question of civil service re-
form will be the Jumbo in the circus
of 1884.
Germany and Austria gave no
written assurances of their approval
of England's action.
Washington, D. c., is making an
effort to establish contagious dis
ease hospital for animals.
Ismail, the present khedive's pre-
decessor, is living in Rome on an in
come of $1,OOO,00O year.
The wife of Fred Douglass was
last week stricken with paralysis
and now lies in a critical condition.
Francis Scott Key is to have a 500
900 monument i'll San Francisco.
Money was lett for the purpose by
the late James Lick.
The British rifle team, to take part
in the international rifle match at
Creedmoor, will sail for New York
on the Goth of August.
The Mexican National Construc-
ton company is being sued for
50, 1904 for damages caused to the
brig James Miller, of Belfast, Maine.
The Grand Council of the United
Friends of Temperance of Louisiana
will meet in the town of Vermilllon-
vile on Wednesday, August 16,
1882.
A petition is being circulated in
Baltimore asking the president to
appoint r. T. Greener, minister to
Hayti, in place OfJohn NJ. LangstOD,
now on his way home.
A press club of lady correspond
ents has been organized in Washing
ton City. A bill to have galleries in
the senate and house set apart for
their special use has been drafted by
them.
4 palace car is being built in Sac
ramento, California, for Mrs. Le-
land StanfOrd's use. 1t is to be fin
ished entirely according TO her sug-
gestiOns and taste, and is to cost
$25, 900 to $4,000.
Expert railroad officials differ in
opinion as to the safety of running
the same cars on railroads of differ
ing gauge. Some of them deem it
dangerous, and one of them attrib-
utes TO that cause the late Parker's
creek disaster.
Judge Temple, of California, has
granted a perpetual injunction
against hydraulic mining of aurifer-
Gus gravel at Gold Run, which will
soon apply to all the mines of that
character in the state, causing re-
duction of at least $11, 100000 in the
years supply.
In truth, the interests of France
in Egypt are wholly those of usury
and conquest. Her bankers share
with those of England the dishonor
of having taken a mortgage on the
soil and toll of Egypt in exchange
for sums furnished for the indul-
gence of the eXtravagant habits aud
vices of the late khe-
dive.
The daughter of Bewick, the IA
nous engraver, is still alive at the
age of ninety-fOur; and by the ven-
cradle lady's desire, a Memorial
Edition" of her fathers works is to
be produced in a limited edition,
with impressions from the original
wood blocks. There will be five Oc-
tavo volumes, and only $50 copies
will be printed.
A great deal is said about the pres
idents late hours in Washington,
still he never suffers from the mala-
ria, of which we hear SO much, nor
is he ever reported to suffer from the
toothache. He must be a man of
much stronger constitution shan the
average congressman. Even Don
Cameron has fallen victim to the
latter painful maladv.
Nashville has arranged for a ma
tional competitive drill, to take place
in that city in May next, and will
offer $4,000 in prizes, viz: First
prize, $4,000; second, $1,000; third,
$500, and tor Zouave drill, and for
the best band, $3.50 each. 1t is de-
signed to have the encampment last
for a week A committee has been
organized to take charge of the mat
ter. of which Mr.. James e.. Warner
is president.
Circulating libraries of an entirely
new description are about to be
started at St. Petersburg. A society
has been founded for the purpose of
supplying the horse cars of that city
with daily newspapers and illustra-
ted weeklies. Passengers who avail
themselves of these literary stores
are to drop into box a copeck for
each paper they read. No watch is
to be kept over the box, the pay
ment being LETT to the honor of the
readers. The society trusts that 1t
will be only occasionally defrauded.
A silk company has been incorpor-
ated at Aberdeen, Mississippi. Its
general manager has visited China,
Japan, and other silk-growing
countries, and says :" From my long
experience of silk culture l believe
the southern states possess q better
climate for the successful. profitable
cultivation of silk than any country
in which the cultivation of silk is
carried ON to-day. The climate is
most like that of Japan, but is even
better. 1t is infinitely superior to
that of France, because of the won
derful evenness of the temperature.
There are no sudden cold snaps,
such as they have in France.
Silk culture can be carried
ON, am satisfied, as cheaply III this
country as in France. The land
here is cheaper, provisions are
cheaper, the working season is long
er, and negro labor in the south is
not dearer than labor in France.
When the industry shall have spread,
too, throughout the south, as we ex-
pect it to do, it will furnish employ
ment to thousands of women of all
classes, and to old people and chill
dren. 1t is moderate estimate that
four or five years after the planting
of mulberry plantation, with ordi-
nary care and labor, net profit of
$3.50 to $500 can be made per acre in
silk culture"
The Hermitage, President jack
sons old homestead, is owned by the
state of Tennessee, but the widow of
Jackson's adopted son and her two
children are living on the plantation
in extreme poverty. So hard pressed
have they been at times that they
contemplated the sale of many of the
Jackson relics about the place. Mrs.
Jackson was formerly mistress of
the white house, anu was a great
favorite of the general, who was
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