The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-19
TUESDAY, November 10, 1895.
NOTES AND COMmEN rs.


The Atlanta Constitution advocates
sending the Turkish ruler to st. Hele-
ma. The powers will never protect the
Armenian Christians until they take
some radical step. Pleading with
Turkey is like pleading with wolf.
The vote in Kentucky this year was
1900 greater than in 1892. The Re-
publicans gained $4,000 votes, the DEM
ocrats lost 1000, the Populsts lost T.
00o, and the Prohibitionists lost 1900.
There will be many explanations of
this, but we merely give the facts.
remarkable spectacle for the close
of the 10Th century was presented
at Omaha one day last week, when a
crowd of invalid employees of the
Union Pacific railroad, numbering
with their families 140, started on
passes for Denver to be touched by
Schlatter, the healer, for their dis
eases.
The Richmond Dispatch comments
that there is a wonderful amount of
marrying going on just now," and
market to active?Is it Singh that
times are better, or it is because many
couples have waited and waited in vain
for times to improve, and in despair
thereof have brought their counting
days to close?'
The annual report of the Charlotte
Mint giving the amount of North
Carolina gold coined by that institu-
ton during the current year is again
being quoted as the total amount of
gold produced in the State. 1t is
strange that people cannot under
stand that not one-quarter of the
gold mined in North Carolina is mint
ed in Charlotte Rocky Mount Argo-
naut.
Bishop William c. Doane's recent
address ina Albany on the liquor ques-
ton has excited considerable remark
by It's novel proposition to take all
license restrictions off the traffic and
leave it to be governed by the laws of
supply and demand, his idea being
that in this way only can the saloon
element be gotten out of politics.
Miss Anna Gould's noble husband,
the Count Castellane, is said to be
one of the men most completely taken
in by the Kaffir stocks. He has been
buying and selling very heavily, and
if the cable reports are true, he has
done neither with good judgment nor
success. The report is that he has lost
more than 100000 in speculation
since his marriage. 1t is variously
estimated that he received from S.
100000 to s15,0o0,0 900 with his bride,
and that he spent 81 100000 of it for
bric-a-brac before the honeymoon was
half over.
The fead among the Vanderbilts
has attained SO bitter stage that the
Cornelius Vanderbilts will have their
daughters wedding strictly private,
and unostentatious, simply to be
different from the Willie X. Wander
bits. Therefore, young Miss Ger
trude will be married only in the
presence of her immediate family.
w. X. will be invited--his Whenever.
The only reason Mrs. Vanderbilt en-
couraged the tremendous splurge
over the ducaI nuptials was that she
felt anxious to show the rival Wander
bilts that her family are the people of
the house. The coming marriage bells
will not, therefore. make any great
noise. Cupid alone will ring them,
and very quietly at that.
Early in the war, before he had
proved his pre-eminence as general,
General Lee was severely criticised
on more than one occasion by General
Whiting. Whiting had stood at the
head of his class at West Point, and
was considered a bright and capable
man. One day President Davis, wish
ing an officer for some important com
mand, called upon General Lee fo1
advice What do you think of Viii.
ting7" asked Davis. Lee answered
without hesitation, commencing WIN
ting as one of the ablest men in the
army, well qualified in every way fol
even the most responsible place. One
of the officers present was greatly sur
prised, and at the first opportunity
drew Lee aside. Don't you know
what unkind things Whiting has beer
saying about you" he inquired
II understood" he said, "that the pres
ident desired to know my opinion o.
Whiting, not Writings opinion o.
me-"