The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-01-29
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

Enoch Platt, the Baltimore banker
who has given million dollars for
Peoples Circulating Library in that
city, was poor Massachusetts boy.
He went to Baltimore young and grew
up with the city. He has kept his
Yankee prejudices, however, in favor
of books and public-spiritedness. He
holds that when a man amasses a
fortune in a city he owes some of it to
the city that supplied all the condi
tions for his success. And he has
acted accordingly in laying the foun-
dation for the greatest tree cirtmla-
ting library on this continent.
A committee of North Carolinisns
propose to celebrate, OH July2, 1884,
the tercentenary of the first English
settlement on American soil, made on
Roanoke island by Sir Walter Raleigh.
This settlement was failure, the set
tiers being destroyed either by disease
or the Indians, and when Raleigh
again paid Roanoke a visit he found
nothing but deserted huts. With the
quantity of centemnials and bi-cen-
tennials coming around, 1t seems
strange that these North Carolinians
should have chosen a failure to COM
memOrate.
There is to be another Bradlaugh
imbroglio in the British parliament
On the 9TH of February the session
tor 1882 will open and the atheistical
elector for Northampton sa' it is his
intention TO present himself at the
table of the house of commons, to
take his seat according to law" He
is evidently quite III the dark as to
the intentions of the government to-
wards mm, but will risk the issue
whatever ii be.
Missouri is in fair way just now
to have her Vest pulled down. The
executive committee of the woman's
suffrage society has appointed Eliza
beth Cady Stanton to reply to Sena-
tor Vest, i'll his recent speech against
the movement in favor of woman's
suffrage. 1t is said that Mrs. Eliza
beth Stanton will give more solid ar
gument than was contained in the re-
cent effort of Mr.. Vest.
p rof. Felix Adler lectured in ST.
Louis last Wednesday night, on the
religion of the future, the keynote of
which he says is found in this propo-
sitiOn: "GoOdness,is is whether God is or
not" Professor Adler is wearied of
the old dOgmas, and contends that the
men and women who sub: cribe to the
religion OF to-day should be judged
by their lives. not their professions.
Ex-Gov. Scott, formerly of South
Carolina, but now of Napoleon, Ohio.
killed Warren L. Drury on Christmas
day in 1880. For some reason Scott
was acquitted. Mrs. Drury sued for
$4,000 damages. On "Wednesday,
Scott compromised the case By paving
the cost aud 5000 strange confess
sion of guilt after abquitta!.
Dennis kearney proposes to resume
work in California politics III the ap-
preaching campaign. He will try and
organize an anti-monopoly party. He
says that $4,000 Chinese who landed
at San Francisco last year have
brought the smallpox to the eastern
states. He would like to have the
democrats join him,
a good many Washington people
feel that their city is bigger than old
Baltimore, because when Oscar Wilde
sent his card to Speaker Keifer, while
the house was i'll session, the speaker
merely remarked that Mr.. Wilde
should send the card to him at the
hotel.
The latest thing is the promise of
notorious counterfeiter to make
known to the government how to
make bond and note paper that can
not be counterfeited, provided he be
relieved of thirty years sentence in
the Albany prison.
The Bonneville Qnd.) Enquirer
perches brand-new rooster at the
head of its editorial colnmns, and his
clarion is "HancOck-18S4."