The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-03-22
EDITORIAL NOTES.

A Milan professor, who has been
investigating drunkenness, finds that
men aud women given to intoxica-
ton seldom commit suicide. This is
not strange. They are thinking too
intensely of how to get another drink.
Ex-Speaker Keifer is catching it all
around. The New York Times de-
clares that 'the more his gross abuse
of power is laid bare the more forcible
becomes the lesson to the Republican
party of the danger of placing such "a
man in so prominent position"
Professor Schliemann's house is one
of the sights of Athens. 1t is built
of white marble, and adorned with
numerous statues of the same mate
rial. He and his wife talk ancient
Greek together, and have called their
two children Andromache and Aga
memnOn.
In Sarah Bernhardt's new play of
Fedora" in Paris, the body of her
Russian lover, who has been killed by
Nihilists, is brought upon the stage,
and she rushes over to it and covers
it with kisses of the sort that in
Brooklyn are called paroxysmal. 1t
is said that many admirers have beg
ged to be permitted to perform the
simple part of the dead lover.
Mr.. Chester Carpenter, a member of
the New York produce exchange,
who was brought prominently before
the public during the TiltOn-Beecher
trial, when he acted as foreman of the
jury, died in Brooklyn last Wednes-
day. He was a great friend and adj
mirer of Mr.. Beecher's, and it is said
that it was owing to his strong advo-
cacy of the Plymouth pastors course
that the jury voted to disagree.
Lutostanski, formerly a monk in
Russia, has been expelled from Mos
cow for writing letter to a wealthy
Jewish merchant of that city de-
handing $4,000 roubles, and threat
ening in case of refusal to incite the
people against the Jews. Lutos-
tanski has been one of the most vio-
lent assailants of the Russian Jews,
and has written many newspaper
TRADES against them. He left the
monastery to which he belonged in
1876, and was subsequently sentenced
to Punishment for period of seven
years, but the sentence was afterward
RENTED.
Hon. Alexander Ii. Stephens, in a
letter to Mr.. Howard Carroll, of New
York, written shortly before he set
out on his last fatal journey to Sa-
vannah, stateC that the gentlemen
who aided him with funds to get an
education to go through college were
MeSsrs. Mills and Williams, connected
with the Sunday school that he at
tended, and Alexander Hamilton
Webster, a minister of the Presby-
terrain faith, whose memory Mr..
Stephens said he cherished, and after
whom he called himself Hamilton.
After his graduation Mr.. Stephens
took care ID return to his good friends
the money which they had advanced
to him.
The Commercial Gazette estimates
the quantity of old WHISTLES in bond
at 100000 gallons. This is not what
is called the whisky of commerce, but
is expected to be used as beverage.
1t places the number of drinks in a
gallon at sixty-four. The number of
drinks in bond, therefore, is 8, l20,O 900,
600, or 102 to every man, woman and
child in the United States. How
long this whisky will last depends
upon the number of persons who
drink it, a bit of information not
easily obtained. 1t is probable, how
ever, that not more than 100000 of
the population drink, and the calcul2-
ton is probably correct that there is
enough of this class of whisky now
on hand to meet the demand for five
years.
The city of Atlanta has profited
greatly by the cotton exposition held
there in 1881. The aggregate amount
of capital invested in that city since
that time is about 81, 100000, employ
ing fully 1000 operatives and paying
annual wages apprOXimating $780,
600. These additions have been va
ried: A grain elevator and cotton
compress have built; a spinning COM
pany has completed and nearly filled
| its capacious building with machinery
and is preparing to double its capac-
ity; the great fair building has been
purchased by company with a capt.
tai of $250,OOO, and is half filled with
machinery; companies have been
formed for building apparatus to pre-
pare cotton for the spinner; fertilizer
and other manufactures have been
established in and near the city; and
a concern has been organized for the
manufacture of oleomargarine.