The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-21
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


An increase of thirty-two per cent ia
the consumption of cotton by the mills
in Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va, COM
nared with last year, is another
healthy indication of manufacturing
development in that section, and an
other pointer toathe South as the conn
ing centre of the cotton manufacfur-
ing industry.
1870 ffAt IFS
IN -oath-bolrld secret organization
to promote the free and unlimited com
age of silver is one of the novelties
which Chicago presents to the gaze 1of
an admiring world. This society has I
adopted the high-soundlng tue OF
Patriots of America, and W. ~. mar
yey. the author of Coins Financial
school" is First National Patr1ot.T
After nearlylhalf a century of mar
ried life together John Cowllng ana
his wife of Jeffersonville. Ind, were
divorced seven years ago ana ar.
Cowling married again. -four months
ago his second wife died, and last
week he land his divorced wife were
remarked Growing is 16 years ola
and his wife is IA Ea
The New York Tribune remarks
that having secured the hepupiNa1
Convention. st. Louis is inclined to
think that it can dispense with SKY
scrapers without sacrificing ITS great
ness. It is proposed TO- prohibit any
building from being more than TWO ana
a half times the width OF the widest
street on which it stands, or IN any
case to exceed the height of 125 feet.
The st. Louis people value sunlight
and hope to avoid living at the pot
tom OF brick canyons.
Not long agowthe Rev. DIR. Pullman,
of Bridgeport. Conn, made pulpit at
tack upon Mile. Jane May, an actress.
She sued him for SANDER. Judge John
III. Douglass. of Bridgeport, was one
of her lawyers. On Saturday, Whlie
the iudgeswas engaged in the prepare !
ton cf his clients case, he died sud
denly of heart failure. There are peo-
pie in bridgeport who think the
Judges death was visitation OF Provl-
dence ; because he hads audertaj<eIl a
prosecution of a Ininissess'of the gospel
for the benefit Of an actress. r
Miss Elite Morley, Of Kansas City,
Mo-, has begun proceedings in the dls-
trict court for 5000 damages against
Walter Willis Of Atchisof, alleging
that during the apple carnival recently
Mr.. Willis Rugged her and startled her
in such manner that she has since
suffered from a severe nervous. attack.
Mr.. Willis was served with the papers,
He told an Atchison reporter that he
Rugged several girls during the Lea
venworth carnival. but that he did not
hug any of them hard enough 10 hurt.
The girls did not seem 10 object TO 4
and be thought everything passed Oh
satisfactorily He viii fight the case.
There is no more aristocracgsin 81 Col
lis p. Huntington than thereeix blood
in turnip, yet he mas built q bHace in
Fifth avenue, New York, at a cost OF
nearly $4,000. 600 lie used to sleep on
the hard pine boardsin the little gro
Gerry and groggery uhSacramento- But
good living and fiGessociety make a
great change in a man. A New York
Journalist said it did not require more
than one generation to make modern
gentleman. His recipe was: Feed him
well, wash him twice day, oil his
hinges. dress him in fine clothes, keep
his mouth shut and let folk know he IS
a millionaire. 1t is not possible for q
stranger to look at Coils Huntington
and believe that Ire eonce roughed IL.
He looks as smooth and polished as a
rolling stone. He built this palace to
amuse his wife.
''In 1895, of all the thousands of for
eign immigrants handed at Baltimore,
SAYS the Wilmington Messenger, but
eight found their way TO North Caaro-
lima. South Carolina got three. They
embraced some thirty-fiye occupations
For the wear ending Both june, 1888
the total that came to the United
States was 502.9i7 The Transports
ton amounted to over S5.0oo,ooo. They
required 100000 homes. Not many pau
pers came. The average. of money
brought by the Germans was $50 each
!; = for Scandinavians $22 each. Those
landing at Baltimore last year of yari
Gus nationafities averaged SIS. The es
timated amount added TO the sapita
of the country by immigrants IN 1885,
is Si5,ooo,0oo."