The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-12

army That will be no good when we
get into war with Spain. Better have
q bigger navy.
1t may as we'll be understood that
when we recognize the belligerency OF
the Cubans we should draw the sword.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama.
Andrew Carnegie has given four hun
dred thousand dollars to establish free
library, gymnasium, mvsic hall, reading
rooms and . swimming pool. 1t will be
endowed and will not cost the people of
Homestead anything.
Judge Thurman, who is suffering
from the effects of fall at his home In
Columbus, Ohio, was better yesterday.
Among the many kilograms of inquiry
received was one from President Clev5-
land.
Affairs in Cuba are said to be ap-
preaching a crisis. The insurgents are
making great progress and are well sup
piled with arms. but the approach of dry
weather will allow opportunity for mill
tary operations, and some decisive bat
ties are expected.
According to the New York Tribune,
the great charm of the Queen of NADIA
gascar is said to be her unconventional
ICY. She chews tobacco, drinks cham
payne, uses palm oil on her hair, wears
5000 Worth cost umes, and at the same
time goes barefooted."
Charles Broadway Rouse, OF New
York, an ardent Southerner, has sent
$s5, 900 to the New York Association of
the Alumni of the University of Virginia,
with which to help replace tie $4,000
volumes embracing the university Ii
brary recently destroyed by FIRE.
There are just two ways and only two
by which this state can be carried tor
the free coinage of silver in 1896, and
the quicker our people see it and appre-
ciate it the better fer them. One 8
through silver organization indepen
dent Of present party affiliations, and
the other is by uniting with the Popu
lists as the Republicans did in 1894. ANY
other metod will prove futile. Whining
ton Dispatch.
Nessrs. Peter, Hugh and Murdock
lcRae, of MaxtOn, represented North
Carolina at the Atlanta Exposition's
reunion of the clan McRae last week.
Col Murdoch McRae spoke of the many
years that have passed since the first
little MeRae was born, and though the
family. had scattered to the four winds
of u earth, they had always been prom
inent IN their various walks of life, and
had never reflected any discredit upon
the name they bore.
Xxx Senator George Wallace Jones, of
Iowa, who is soon to issue his memoirs.
represented Michigan, Wisconsin and
Iowa in the U. 3. House and Senate.
He tells q story of how when Iowa was
admitted as a territory he used every
effort to get John q. Calhoun not to
fight it without avail. Finally he in
deduced his daughter to come to the
Senate before the Iowa bill was brought
up. Arrived there, she was on given
signal to the Senate gallery from him,
to invite her father into the Cong 8.
ional library and keep him there until
the bill had passed the Senate. She did
so the letter, and thus it was that Iowa
becaEe ter itory and afterward a
State. This may be true. but it sounds
''fishy."
A few days ago the learned editor of
the Wilmington Messenger stated that
he had never heard Southern woman
say she desired TO vote. Mrs. Helen
Norris Lewis, of Asheville, President OF
the North Carolina Equal Rights Asso
citation, writes that Raleigh is the birth
place of Mrs. Lille Devereux Blake, of
an illustfious family, who has been a
leader in woman suffrage twenty five
years. Among the members of the
Equal Rights Association, Mrs. Lewis
gives the following: Mrs 7. W. Patton,
Mrs. Merrimon, Mrs. Ashton, Mrs Sum
mey, Mrs. Ralph Bnrnell, Mrs. I. q.
Ewart, Mrs. stikeleather, Mrs. James T.
Sawyer, Mrs. T. Coffin, Mrs + X Da-
Wis, Mrs. E. W. Hawley, Mrs. j. P.