The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-16
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


To-day the government will begin pay
ing the new American line of trans
Atlantic steamers subsidy of 81 per
mile for carrying the mails from New
York to Southampton. 1t is calculated
that the cost to the government will be
in excess of $500, 900 year.
1t hasn't been many years since the
city of Atlanta was the town of Mar
thasville. The lady for whom the town
was named Marthasville paid visit to
the exposition the other day. She hasn't
changed in appearance as much as the
town that once bore her name.
With Thanksgiving day less than two
months distant, the sad reports come
from the principal cranberry growing
districts in the country that the crop will
be one of the smallest ever harvested.
1t may not equal even the small yield of
1886, when only SAL, 900 bushels were
produced.
James Aanand, late editor of the
Newcastle Leader, rose from the black
smiths forge to the editorial chair. He
learned Latin and higher mathematics
while shoeing horses, and his experience
in London journalism formed the basis
of Barrie's romance, "When Mans
Single"
Of course the Chanler divorce is not to
be allowed to pass without having some
romance tackled onto it. Here is what
the Chicago Times Herald says 1.-The
divorce announcement recalls an incl
dent in Paris in 1890 when Mr.. and Mrs.
Chanler were living there. A Partisan
art student, Jules Renaud, was in love
with Mrs. Chanler, having met her in an
art studio. She repulsed him, and he
again and again made protestations of
love, finally following her to Algiers,
where. upon receiving his final congo, he
shot himself, leaving sensational letter
asking for sympathy. Renaud had won
derful talent"
There is case on record of father and
SOB being United States Senators at the
same time-ths Bayards; and one case of
four brothers holding high offices, and
three of them at the same time-the
Washburns; but it will be unprecedented
In the history of any country for father
and son to be rear admirals of the navy
contemporaneously. Such will be the
case, however, when Commodore Self
ridge shall have been raised to the rank
of rear admiral, an event soon to take
place. His honored father, now over
ninety years OF age, has been rear
admiral on the retired list for many
years. Both have the same name
Thomas o. Selfridge.
There is little likelihood that the Epis
copal church is going to change its name,
or modify its constitution so as to have
an archbishop, or do anything else radi-
cal. 1t is an extremely conservative
society, and, while it has a few radical
members, who would like to see these
things done, they weigh but little against
the inertia of the mass. This scheme of
changing the name has been brought up
before every general convention Of the
church for the last twenty years or so,
but makes little progress. Some time
ago there was a strong movement for the
emendation of the prayer book. After
a good deal of preliminary agitation, the
general convention took hold of it. 1t
took fifteen years to get the matter
settled, and after it was over an ordinary
person needed a microscope to detect
the changes.
Minister Terrell, of Turkey and Texas,
has finally been aroused from bis lethar-
gy sufficiently to advise the State De-
partment at Washington that the Porte
has promised protection to American
missionaries and citizens, and to ask for
warship to be sent that way. The
promises of the Porte are not significant.
That sublime fraud has always been pro-
life in promises that were never intend
ed to be fulfilled. The significant and
encouraging part of the news is that the
harblehead is t. sail for Turkish waters.
1t is significant OF some measure Of pro-
lection to Americans in Turkey and en-
couraging as an indication that Terrell
is awakening to realization of the truth
that Turkish promises are only valuable
when enforced by the presence of armed
gunboats. We may expect to hear yet
that Terrell is going to investigate the
killing of Frank LEM and the other
numerous atrocities of the Turks Ia Ar
menia.