The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-25

ally gives the Democratic ticket the bene-
fit of the approval.
The report that Miss Stevenson had
broken her engagement with Mr.. Hardin
is denied in telegram from Danyille,
KY. 1t is expected that the marriage
will take place before he completes his
education for the ministry.
Nothing is free in Cuba, except liquor
and tobacco There is no tax on whiskey
and gin, and none on cigars and cigar
cites, but all the necessities of life are
heavily taxed. Probably Cuba is the
only place under any civilized govern
ment where this state of things exists.
Sioux city has beea the hottest city
during the hot wave. The thermometer
reached 104 there. At Omaha it was
1912; Wichita, Palestine, Norfolk, Lynch
burg, Platte, 100; Fort Smith, 80; Okla
homa, San Antonio, Shreveport and Raj
eigh, 90; Charlotte, SO; Wilmington, 90.
John A. Cockerill writes to the New
York Herald that cholera's grasp is on
Pekin to such an extent that, despite all
beating of gongs to brighten away the
microbes, the death rate in that city of
filth is 1900 a day. Even Japan has
lost 20, 445 people by the scourge out of
1876 attacked.
In February, 1878, Senator ingalls,
said in the United States Senate that
mo people i'll a great emergency ever
found faithful ally in gold 1t is the
most cowardly and treacherous of all
metals. 1t makes no treaty it does not
break. 1t has no friend it does not
sooner or later betray Armies and
navies are not maintained by gold.
Not fiattering to individual ambitions
but impressive in its truth is this extract
from the philosophy of Charles Francis
Adams: A man who gets to my time
Of life can look back and realize that
there is great human current which
flows on and Oh, and that the little men
and little measures which make so much
noise to day are only the froth on the
surface of the stream"
The Asheville Citizen says that the
fact that so considerable character as
Speaker Crisp sat, unrecognized on
trunk in the Chattanooga depot for an
hour waiting to be received, reminds
one of ex-President Hayes experience at
Garfeld.s funeral, as related by ex Sena
tor Evarts. "No one," said Evarts
afterwards in Washington, recognized
Hayes but policeman, and he told him
to keep off the grass"
Mrs. Flyabout-Yo don't look as if
your trip East had done you any good.
Mrs. Gofrequent-It didn't do me any
good. | knew it wouldn't but the doc
tor said / needed change and rest.
That's why went. | was carsick all the
way from here to New York, and seasick
all the way from New York to Boston.
Then how about your change and rest2'
why, the railroads got the change and
the ocean got the rest y Chicago Trib-
une In that case the doctor got LETT.
Gadkin county correspondent of the
Statesyille Landmark tells how widow
resented the thought that she would like
TO marry again lone of our wealthy
and influential citizens-a widower-re-
Gently called on an elderly lady with
view to matrimony. When she found
what he was after she deliberately walk
ed TO the kitchen and put on a kettle of
water, and when it was thoroughly boil
ing she proceeded to scare him away by
pouring the boiling water on him before
he knew what was up"
The Spanish minister to this country
says: They talk about Congress recog-
nizing the rebels as heligerynts There
will not be anything to recognize when
Congress meets in December" Com
menting on this, the Asheville Citizen
talks sense when it says: at is of very
great Importance to Spain that she make
good this prediction of Senior de LONE.
If the Spanish troops do not very rapidly
recover their lost ground in the late fall
when the cold weather shall have set in,
our Congress will be very likely, if not
for the best of reasons, to take some step
that may result in the loss of Cuba to
Spain; and, once lost, the island will
have gone forever, so far as Spain is con-
cerned."