The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Mississippi Democrats adopted the
Missouri platform in full.
Justice Strong, Of the Z. S. Supreme
Court, is not expected to recover from
the effects of fall
Only 4.87 per cent of the population of
North Carolina live in cities. Only two
States haye less, Mississippi 2.64, and
South Dakota 10.
1.-THE place for young man, an old
man, rich man or poor man willing
to work and anxious to improve his for
tune" says Secretary Hoke Smith, sis
in the South"
Up to yesterday the New York Times
had kept count of 685 companies and
firms which had raised wages, tho num-
Der of employees thus benefited having
been $4,000.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal be-
lieves that the decline in oratory is
largely owing to the fact that our speak
ers, with few exceptions, no longer pre-
pare and memorize their speeches.
On his farm at Lebanon, Mo-, Con
gresham Bland has 5000 Ben Davis
apple trees in good growth. Their fruit
sells for 40 cents a bushel, and the trees
each bear about five bushels in good
seasons.
'Doan' be too skaht OBJ gettin' left, :"
said Uncle Eben. ode chicken dat
sleeps a leetle ways back in 11e coop may
be de las ter git lis breakfus' in de
mawnin', but he ain so easy grabbed off
de roos' at night, - Washington Star.
Two Democratic candidates elected
Zachary Taylor. Two Democratic can
didates elected Abraham Lincoln. Gold
standard extremists are fixing themselves
beautifully to elect any man the Repub
licans name. Hickory Press and Caro-
linian.
The New York Mercury says that a
solid New England vote in the Demo
cratic Presidential Convention for Will
liam E. Russell will not surprise any
body who has kept an ear opened to the
whisperings of the Democratic leaders in
Massachusetts,.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has sus-
tanned by a vote of to 2 the decision of
the Circuit Court to the effect that the
municipal corporations of Ohio cannot
issue gold bonds unless specifically au-
thorized so to do by the Legislature. In
other States different decisions have been
rendered on this same question.
The Rev. DIR. Talmage is deserving of
large measure of sympathy. The fire
which destroyed his Brooklyn Taber-
nacle in May, 1894, was also the indirect
cause of his wifes death, the nervous
prostration which ended fatally Mon
day being traceable to the excitement
occasioned by the burning of her hus
bands church.
Two of the Hodgkin prizes have been
awarded-the conditions relating to the
OCher nor having Deeu IulIJ com pil6U
with-aud both of them go abroad As
was TO be expected, the $4,000 prize is
given 10 Lord Rayleigh and Professor
Ramsay for their notable discovery o.
the element argon in the atmo phore
and the third prize (of 81 900 IS gained
by Dr. Henry de Varigny, of Paris, TO
an essay on THE Air and Life"
Queen Victoria recently gave tn
Victoria cross to a black corporal in on
of the West India regiments to reward
his gallant conduct. She has ais
knighted a negro named Burke, who
few years ago was Attorney General o
the island of Jamaica. Another negr
knighted by the Queen is Conrad Reeves
the Lord Chief Justice of Trinidad in tn
West Indies. Sir Samuel Lewis, of Sierr
Leone, is another negro who has bee
granted title by Victoria. He is law
yer of fine ability, and sometime ago dc
clined an offer of $500 year to NOV
to London.