The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-05-24
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EDITORIAL NOTES.
Four or five acres seeded with the
Amber cane will feed more stock
with anything else.
The total arrival of Chinese at Homo
lulu during the month of April was
$500, and thousands more are ex-
pected. AT this rate the less than So
600 natives will soon be in minority.
Great Britain has gobbled New
Guinea and annexed it to Queens
land. The quietness with which she
absorbed the third greatest island on
earth is in marked contrast with the
wonted noise she makes in acquiring
additional territory.
Folger, Chandler and Brewster
have a son, Frelinghuysen a son-in-
law, and Lincoln a father-in-law, all
nicely provided with government po-
sitions. They are all theoretically
opposed to nepotism and in favor of
civil service reform.
The Farnham type-setting machine
has been on public exhibition in the
Goodwin block on Haynes street,
Hartford, Connecticut, and attracted
immense crowds. 1t both sets and
distributes type, and, it is claimed,
can do the work of five compositors.
A syndicate Of Connecticut capital
lists have purchased the patent, and
will soon take measures to bring the
machine into practical use.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch says
that the country owes debt of graf
itude to Sidney Dillon, president OF
the Union Pacific railroad, for claim.
ing only two or three million dollars
as the balance due to his railroad com.
pany from the government. eff he
had wished it. he could undoubtedly
have shown that the balance due him
was a trif1e more than the whole
amount of the government assets
and then where would we have
been ?"
The New York Herald advocates
making the army continuous an6
effective military school by attracting
a superior class of recruits, with bet.
ter pay and some relief from drudg.
cry. The army appropriations are
cut down close. There are no oppor.
tunities for jobs in them. The
soldiers of the little regular army
ought to be picked men, and fit tt
| form nucleus for and officer an i'm
posing army whenever war may occur
and volunteers be required.
Iowa is to celebrate the semi-cen-
tennial of her first settlement on the
1st proXimo. There was a settlement
by the whites made under a French.
man named James Dubuque, at Du-
buque in 1888, in 1903 France cedeG
the trans Mississippi country to the
United States, and in 1888 white
settlers crossed the river and made
Burlington the seat of Iowa territory
The territory became state in 1916
with population of 1858, ranking
9th in the list, and now stands 10th
with population of nearly two
| millions.
twenty-five hundred Chicago
bricklayerS have been on a strike fol
a month past. The wages they have
lost would amount to $2,5O0,0O0. The
strikes may be necessary under pres
ent conditions, as war may be neceS
Sary, as destructive railroad compete
ton and refusal of cooperation be-
tween railroads may be necessary in
certain circumstances to certain ends,
but the largest view of the public in.
terest appears to establish the fact
that such necessity springs from de
fective understanding and control of
social interests.
An unheard of case of sacrifice and
suffering for the sake of another
comes from Kentucky. In 1880 q
man was murdered in Clay county
James SizemOre was arrested, tried
convicted, and sentenced to six years
in the penitentiary for the deed. His
brother, a man of large wealth and
family, died few days since, and on
his deathbed confessed that he was
the murderer, and that the convicted
man knew it all the time, and had
made the sacrifice to shield him. Gov
ernor Blackburn pardoned Sizemore
who had been in prison two years, and
who was spoken of as exemplary by
his keepers.
1t is estimated that the Irish policy
of England cost the British taxpayers
not less than $25, 100000 last year, and
that the expense will increase. Before
the government of Ireland cost less
than $11 100000 year. An army of
$4,000 men was maintained during
1881 and 1882; the constabulatory last
year numbered about 1900; the
Dublin police force alone cost 81 ,2OO,-
600 last year; the land act cost $780,
600 a year, and the arrearages act
about 100000. During the last six
months the admin stration of the
crimes act has cost over $4,000,
which goes largely to the lawyers
who hang around Dublin castle.
From 1870 to 1874 the Emperor
William, of Germany, created the
highest military rank. that of field
marshal general, which he conferred
upon twelve of the most prominent
princes and generals in his army. Of
these only six survive-the Crown
Prince, Prince Frederick Charles,
Count Moltke. Prince August, of
Wurtemberg, Baron Won Manteuffel
and Gen. Herwarth Won Bittenfeld;
while the following are dead: Gen.
Won Steinmetz, Count Room, Count
Wrangel (who, however, received the
title as long ago as 1879, Prince Fred
erick of the Netherlands, Prince
Charles, of Prussia, and the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin.
Noting Mrs. Stoves remarks upon
the south's industrial outlook, the
Baltimore Sun succinctly says that
every month the area of employment
in the south has been widened and
extended. Cotton factories have been
multiplied in North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, and
the iron industries in the latter state
have been marvellous in their growth.
Virginia and Tennessee, too, have kept
pace with the enterprises which have
been stimulated around them, while
in Texas and the southwest, the.
march has been steadily onward, and
the development of Florida has Gre
ated an industrial center for the gulf
states, the influence of which is being
widely felt.
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