The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-07

SATURDAY, September z, 1895.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Wine and Spirit Review warns
liquor sellers against woman suffrage,
and asserts that nine out of ten women
would vote to close up all the saloons.
The Republican st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat objects TO the members of its party
forming "the tail to the Populist kite"
in the State of Alabama. Isn't it just as
bad in North Carolina
According to Hon. ". 7. Harriss, U.
S. Commissioner OF Education, las soon
as nation becomes a reading people it
is governed by public opinion rather
than by law-by the newspapers instead
of the police.
Mr.. II. W Pillsbury, the new cham
pion chess player, is not only a youthful
man, bat he began life in modest way.
He was employed first by the firm of
Filene IL Co., as an advertising agent, in
Boston. His early exemplar, if not in
structor, in chess, was Frank K. Young,
a former New England champion.
The party selections for election in
spectors in New York, must now pass
civil service examinations. There are
2,7e2 of them to be examined and the
work is now in progress. The men are
required to answer simple questions
about the election law which they are
required to execute on election day.
Now, why should Mr. Gladstone sell
his estate carriage for charitable pur
poses" Considering this old-fashioned
and somewhat numbering vehicle was
the gift of his father, it would be more
final, if not more generous, for the G.. o.
NJ. to plank down the cash and keep the
carriage instead of bidding for notoriety
in curiosity museum. The great are
often guilty Of small ways.
A business man said On the street here
a few days ago: "What we need is to
shut the mouths of these deyilish poll
ticians who are continually going around
stirring up strife and contention" That
is a fact. The greatest service some of
these selfish politicians could do their
country would be to die and let the wheels
of commercial and material progress roll
on.-Monroe Enquirer.
A special dispatch from Centralia, IL
linois, says: 1.-THE two school buildings
set apart by the school board for the
use of negro pupils were empty today,
as they were yesterday, when the school
commenced. The buildings are in every
way as well equipped as those of the
white schools and provided with compe-
tent teachers, but the negroes will not
use them. The blacks demand admis-
sion to all schools, and threaten suits for
damages for interfering with their rights
of citizenship The whites threaten re-
talsation by refusing employment to
black men,"
President Julius d. Dreher, of Roam
oke College, Virginia, recently delivered
an address before the Social Science AS
ISOLATION at Saratoga on Education in
the South; its Difficulties and Encourage
ments." He referred to the thirteen
Southern States, not including Missouri.
These States have tax valuation of
1871, 900, 900, while New York alone has
more than this, and New England and
the Middle States together have a valua-
ton three times as great as the whole
South Thus the public tax which would
support schools at the South for ten
months would only give three and one
third months at the North.
When the gold bugs come to talk
about international money claiming
that gold is money of that sort--they
fall back on the most inexcusable false
hood, and engage in an attempt to de-
ceive the people. Gold is not inter-
national money in any sense of the word
and is not accounted such in the daily
transactions that take place between this
country and Great Britain. A dollar
of American gold is 80 cents less than a
dollar in Great Britain. Ten thousand
dollars is SOLO less than $4,000, and
in this fact lies the profit of shipping
gold when the rate of exchange is
81 90t, instead of 81 86-which is ac-
counted as par. Bat even at par, there
would be profit in shipping gold to
Great Britain but for the freight rates
and insurance. When the rate of ex-
change goes TO 81 80 that means that
there is premium in England on Ameri-
can gold. Atlanta Constitution.