The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-29
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
''In every church there are three
classes of people hirkers, jerkers and
workers. IN. B. Broughton.
In speech at Flemings5urg, KY,
Blackburn declared for Judas Iscariot's
money and the metal Christ used"
The News and Courier says there are
well authenticated cases of persons cured
of rheumatism by bathing in the waters
of an artesian well in Charleston.
Asa Bushnell, the Republican candid
ate for governor of Ohio, raised the
Wages of his factory workmen 10 per
cent the other day. In week or two he
intends to take the stump and demon
strate the disastrous effects of the new
tariff on capital and labor. Springfield
Republican.
The Goldsboro Argus says that the
new tobacco warehouse is to be built on
the lot where formerly stood the cork
oak tree planted there by Col. Tom.
Rufin while Congressman. The tree
had been given him by Mr.. Sanders, our
minister to Spain at that time.
The Cincinnati Tribune says that
Stonewall Jackson's sister, Mrs. Laura
Jackson Arnold, lives at Columbus, 0.
She married and resided in Pennsylvania
during the war and sympathized with
the Union side. She is proud of her
brother, but believes that he was Con-
federate because he lived in the South.
The Charlotte News says that the
widow of Stonewall Jackson will revise
and enlarge the life of her husband, and
it will be published by the Courier Jour
nal Publishing Company, of Louisville,
Ky. Mrs Jackson was no gamer pecun-
iarily by her first book, which was pub
lished by the Harpers, whose mode Of
selling the book did not make it accessi
BILE to the general public, and her friends
hope that she will reap well deserved
harvest through the second edition of
her valuable and interesting work.
The Wilmington Messenger in its liter
airy notes says: lit is impossible to pub
fish magazine of high merit or that
can live in the South. 1t has writer's
enough, but not the money sufficient to
compete with the 10 cents or % cents or
35 cents Northern monthlies. IF there
was capital to begin with of quarter
of a million dollars, first rate publisher
aud editor of distinguished literary parts,
native or imported, and it could be made
equal to any Northern monthly, as it
might be, then it could succeed if prop
erly handled. The writers are in the
South. There are fifty, at least, of lit
erary skill and training who have pro-
duced superior or fairly good work who
could be drawn to its support if the pay
equaled that of the Northern monthlies
for similar production. There is diff
Guilty in the fact that the South is grow
ing less distlnctively Southern, and mag
azine readers are accustomed to their
Northern favorites
The Yankee love of making a good
bargain is amusingly illustrated by an
anecdote related in the Lewiston Journal:
Many years ago, in Central Maine, man
started out to sell oil cloth table covers
throughout the country at so cents a
cover After travelling all day without
selling one happy thought struck him.
He would charge dollar, and would
take half the pay in cast-of shoes, the
result was people imagined they were
getting some return for their old
shoes, and there was a general
ransacking of attics, and tables
covers went like hot cakes. But the
old shoes 2 Well, wherever he found
a convenient hole beside the road, out of
sight, he pulled up his cart and dumped
the lot.
The Louisville Courier Journal says:
1.-The new woman was very much in evil
dence Thursday. One of them was in
our City Court to prosecute a man
for knocking her down when she
had only hit him a few times
with a shovel. Another, living in
Nicholas county, vanquished with a
buggy whip a sc0undrel that had as
saulted her In Elliott county wronged
wife whipped another woman for alien
ating her husbands affections, and then
caused her arrest. Finally, a young
woman in Lewis county, whose husband
has sold her for $40 in cash, a Jug of
whiskey and suit of clothes, not only
ran away from her purchaser, but took
with her his nephew and all bis portable
property within her reach. There is no
doubt that the members of the gentler
sex are learning how to take care of
themselves"