The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-08
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


Mr.. Clement Manly is accorded the
chief praise in the Winston Sentinel, by
correspondent for the victory over the
cigarette trust.
Lawyer Hornblower, of New York says
the tendency of the age is toward cen
tralized plutocracy, but he is optimist
enough to tell his Georgia brethren that
the tendency will be checked before any
damage is done to the republic.
J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York, the
head of tha Bond Syndicate, is attending
the General Conference of the Episcopal
church at Minneapolis in style. He went
in his private car with a party of dele
gates and at once took possession of the
Pillsbury mansion, which he will occupy
during the Convention.
The Fayetteville Observer says that
Mr.. Briggs, the inventor of the cigarette
machine used by the Winston and other
cigarette factories, was a Fayetteville
man and was formerly workman at the
Carolina Machine Shops. "This is the
first straight out fight the Trust has had,
and it has been beaten"
The Asheville Citizen says that
s'Judge Merrimon thought the last Leg
islature of North Carolina disgrace to
the State He had lived in the State
during the years 1859 and '79, and he
thought the last Legislature the most
ignorant that had ever assembled in
Raleigh, and apparently the most cor
rupt.o
1t is costing Wisconsin counties 500
each to reform drunkards by commitment
to institutions of the Kelley cure sort.
Under recent law, judges are author
lied to dispose of drunkards in this way,
and it is asserted that most of the 1877
men SO far committed have been cured
and converted into good citizens. But
less than one-half of the counties have
availed themselves of the law.
Too many people are engaged in stir
ring up and dissatisfyiDg the masses.
When the country is actually in better
condition than it has been since the civil
war and perhaps in all its history, it is
no time to be playing upon the mere
prejudices of the people to render them
discontinued These calamity howlers
not only destroy civil, but religious in
stitutlons as Well.-Chrstian Advocate
1t is now said that President Harrison
was opposed to the Mckinley programme
of radical tariff advances and the Reed
programme of big expenditures, and pro-
tested against theig course to both men
during the session of the Fifty first Con
gress. "Gen. Harrison, :" says the story,
''has repeatedly told his confidential
friends that Mckinley and Reed dug
their political graves at that session and
bis also"
DR.. Mary Walker is credited with an
intention to found colony of maidens,
young and old, on farm near O3Wego,
n. Y. The members are to bind them
selves to wear bloomers for life, it is
said. A somewhat similar experiment
and its ultimate failure is described by
Tennyson in THE Princess bat the
fact that no member viii be obliged to
bind herself to the celibate life for more
than three years may save DR.. Walkers
Adamless Eden.
The appraisement of the estate of the
late Jay Gould foots up to the comforta
bic total Of nearly $50, 900, 900. The real
estate is valued at two million and the
rest is in various kinds of personal prop
erty, principally railway securities. De-
Quoting the payments already made, the
residue in the hands of the executors is
over S73, 100000 This may not be the
largest individual fortune recorded in
this country, but it is certainly the
largest fortune ever accumulated in so
short time and by purely speculative
means.
The Raleigh NEWS AND OBSERVER is of
the opinion that If the resolutions passed
by the silver conference at Raleigh last
week meant anything at all it was notice
served on the Republican party that
fusion was at an end, for the Republican
party is the party that demonetlzed sill
yer. A Republican who has studied the
situation remarked to the Express the
other DAY that fusion was at least 25 per
cent. stronger among Popolists and Re
publicans in the State than it was last
year. The Populist leaders want office
worse than they want TO see free silver
law enacted and they are determined to
make their party work and vote with the
Republicans to carry the election. -
Sanford Express.