The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
T. j. Jerome, Esq, of Stanley, has
written a novel "Ku- Klux Khan, No. 40. !"
1t is love story interviewer with some
thing of the history of the KuKlux.
Mortgage the farm, if necessary to
send the boy to college" says the Religi-
GUS Herald. Mortgage the farm for
nothing on earth" says the Biblical Re
corder.
Pickett and Lee Camps of Confederate
Veterans, in Virginia, have pissed reso-
lutions declaring Barnes School History
"a tissue of falsehoods, and "a libel on
the South"
In an account of the Confederate re
union at Fishers Hall, Va, the Washing
ton Post say: "The brave and gallant
Mai Woodbury. of North Carolina, but
now of this city, was on the grounds and
received warm welcome by his old
comrades.
The estate of person dying without
next of kin and not leaving will be-
comes the property of the Grown. In
this way her Majesty's exchequer came
into possession, in 1876, Of $4,000
left by Miss Blake; in 1886, of 600, 900
left by Mr.. Bird, and in 1887, Of e200,
600, left by q. Mr.. Heathcote.
The commissioners of Burlington
passed an ordinance that bicycles can
not be used on sidewalks. The News
saws this action was taken in the
face of the protest of 300 citizens, and
adds: 'The least we can say is, it is the
most high-handed usurpation of au-
thority ever visited on country town"
a new industry has sprung up. in Costa
RIGA, where farm hands have abandoned
the country, and gone to mining for gold
and other treasures in the cemeteries of
the old towns, the graves in which are
reported to contain gold ornaments of
great value. In one the hunters are said
to have found jewelry worth $1,000,
900.
Russia follows South Carolina and
Waynesville, and begins an attempt to
obtain complete government control and
monopoly of the manufacturing as well
as of the sale of intoxicating liquor. Two
years, says the Review of Reviews, are
to be taken for the completion of the
plan. The Review also notes that France
shows signs of following in the same
path.
The Supreme Court of California has
rendered decision in the will case of
William Walkerley, who died in Oakland
several years ago. The decision virtu-
ally makes the widow the sole heir to a
million of dollars. Mrs. Walkerley is
now the wife of William f. Burbank,
formerly of Winston, N. c., and founder
of the Los Angeles Record.
Private McKeon, who died the other
day in the Soldiers Home at Washington,
was quite here in peace as we'll as in
war. He had been pensioner for twenty
years at $40 month. He had saved his
pay and his pension as well, and died
possessed of $4,000 invested in gold Sc
curities The old man had been an in
valid for so long that be appreciated the
sufferings of others. Accordingly he be-
queathed S., 900 to the Home for Incura-
bles in Washington.
A negro in Elberton, Georgia, has
brought suit against the Seaboard Air
Line for $4,000 for being kicked with a
fashionable shoe He alleges that he was
put off a vestibule train by conductor
who wore very sharp-toed shoe, that
the conductor kicked him, and that the
sharp point of his shoes inflicted serious
and permanent injuries on his person,
from which he has suffered and will suf-
fer very much bodily pain, besides the
indignity heaped upon him by being
kicked with such shoe.
Writing of women half a century ago,
Judge Story said: 81 was early struck
with the activity and power of the female
mind. went to school with girls until
/ was fifteen years old and they were
quite our equals if not our superiors in
our studies and requirements and had
much greater quickness of perception
and delicacy of feeling. I then imbibed
the opinion which have often since had
Confirmed that their talents are fully
equal to those of men. The difference in
after years in intellectual power comes
from the fact that education stops with
them about the time it effectively begins
with men. Their pursuits in life do not
enable them afterwards to cultivate
science or literature with much diligence