The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-08-03
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Will it never get hot enough to
scorch congress out of Washington ?
The so-called star route trials try
nothing but the patience of the pub
lie.
Free-trade clubs have been organ
lied in twenty-five counties of Iowa.
Sister Iowa tries to be good girl
sometimes.
The race horse Bunnymede has
hopelessly broken down. A year ago
the Dwyer Bros, of Saratoga, paid
$4,000 tor him.
Since the heroic conduct of the
American navy in Alexandria the
boom in washtubs has been enor-
nous and steady.
The only rules that meet exigency
in the present congress are Speaker
Keifer's rulings, aud their virtues
lie in their elasticity.
A man in New York pleads guilty
to having been hired by eight differ
ent wives to watch their husbands
during their absence at Saratoga.
One San Francisco doctor has
found 40 cases of leprosy coming
from the smoking of cigarettes which
had been rolled by leprous China
men.
Horrible accounts of women carry
ing the disembodied arms and legs
of massacred Europeans tied to
bludgeons are reported from Tan
tab, Egypt.
An attempt was recently made to
kill Senior Sagasta, prime minister
of Spain. A box was sent from
Grenada containing nitro-glycerine.
Several arrests made.
John Arnold wrote on an order of
the supreme court at Indianapolis
"The court may go to the devil" and
sent the document back to the judge.
For this he was sent to Jail for ten
days.
Emma Troup, a Nebraska young
lady, appeared on the streets IN male
attire, and was arrested and fined
$40 and costs. Next time she won't
put on her pants with the back part
in front.
A Pennsylvania crank is building
an ark in anticipation of another d.
luge. The Republicans of the Key
stone state will be wise if they inn
prove this opportunity to get in out
of the wet.
Nothing bothers a country editor
so much as to have a murder COM
mitted in town by tramp, and find
he has no cut of patent medicine
doctor available for use as picture
of the murderer.
In New York city during the half
year which ended with June, the
building bureau approved of 1866
to cost $26, 048, 705, and 1898 plans
tor alterations, estimated to cost
$2,747,53z. The total value of. the
improvements was $2S, 796,2S7.
The members of the Mississippi
river commission are wise men.
They perform their arduous labors
on steamboat excursion in the
pleasant month of May. The tariff
commissioners also combine labor
with refreshments, and have estab-
lished themselves at Long Branch.
The association OF the ex- Confede-
rate Missourians now living in Tex
as, Louisiana and Arkansas, and all
eX-Confederates who participated
in the battle of Oak Hill, will hold
meeting at Sherman on August 10
and IL, that being the twenty-tirst
anniversary of the memorable event.
The fugitives who escaped from
Alexandria included 10000 Europe
ans, 19, 900 Syrian Christians, and 1900
Jews. 1t will be readily seen that a
seaport containing so many foreign
merchants and commercial agents as
these numbers presuppose, was a
vast and prosperous city before its
destruction.
Judge Woods, of the United
States district court for the eastern
district of Texas, has pronounced
the ku-klux laws unconstitutional,
saying in effect that when a state
has not violated the constitution,
congress has no power to punish in
dividuals who, without having au-
thority from the state, have been
guilty of such violation.
The Greenback candidate for gov
ernor of Tennessee has committed
himself to Colonel Bob Ingersoll's
views of future state. ALI ortho-
dox Tennessee is torn up about it,
and there are plenty of true believ-
ers ready to demonstrate that they
not only have souls to save, but
that there is a place were such souls
will be supremely happy. The ques-
ton of the Immortality of the soul is
likely TO supplant the Greenback fl
nancial theory in Tennessee politics.