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


No fusion on the electoral ticket is
the opinion of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of
the Republicans in this section of the
Winston Republican.
Another murder i'll Madison county!
One of two things should be done III
Madison: Whiskey should be abol-
ished, or the inhabitants disarmed.--
Asheville Citizen.
Is Gen. Benjamin Harrison going to
marry his late wife's niece, Mrs. Dim
mock, who lives in New York city?
The Tribune sent a reporter around
to ask her. but she ''courteously beg
ged to be excused, and was much dis
tressed that such report had been
circulated"
David A Wells has been added to the
New York Herald's list of prominent
men who want Mr.. Cleveland to serve
another term. Mr.. Cleveland has
never communicated to me his ideas
on the third term question, says he.
Il feel confident, however,that ne
would accept denomination If he felt
assured that there was a general, earn
est desire for his candidacy"
Out in Indiana an old lady of sew
enty-four offered $4,000 for young
husband An enterprising fellow OF
twenty-six came forward, but the wo-
mans family sued out a writ of Iunacy
to prevent her from marrying. The
jury pronounced her sane, and she
eloped with her purchase and married
him,
The Mckinley act raised the duties
to stop a surplus. OF 300 articles
yielding eight-tenths of the revenue
collected the Mckinley tariff increased
the duty on 235, left it unchanged on
50, and decreased it on 10. The law ac-
complished its ayowed purpose. 1t
cut down the revenues SSS 100000 in
three years. and, in connection with
the billion dollar appropriations, con-
verted a surplus into a deficiency
New York World.
Gen. John b. Gordon, Commander of
the United Confederate Veterans. has
issued a general order announcing
that under the resolution passed at
the late reunion, held at Houston,
Texas, leaving the date of the next
annual meeting and reunion which is
to be held in the city of Richmond,
Va, 10 the General commanding and
the Department Commanders, they
have unanimously agreed upon Tues
day, June 10th, and Wednesday and
Thursday, July | and 2, 1896, which
dates have been submitted to our hosts
at Richmond, Va, and acquiesced in"
when will the Hon. .Ieter Cincin-
natus Pritchard, the longest and
sweetest voice in North Carolina, I'M
swathe him of the yoluminous rolls of
silence in which he now sits muf1led,
forget the ceremonious modesty of the
beginner in the Senate. and throw out
high and strong, words which reyer-
berate in the Businesses of his native
hills and feck away the reverent bees
that are hived in the shadowy deeps
of Gov the Hon. Elias Carr's world.
girdling moustaehios? 1t is time for
the Hon. Jeter G.. Pritchard to speak.
and To speak loud.-New York Sun.
The Salisbury Waterman is the only
Populist paper which defended the
church when attacked by the Presi-
dent of the State Alliance. IL said:
''The Waterman will never be found
among those who seek to defame and
abuse the church of Christ What
would North Carolina be to-day with
out her churches and Christian min
listers? In the language of the late
Artemus Ward. we say: Show us a
land where there are no meeting
houses. and we will show you "a place
where the women are slip-shod, where
old rags are stuffed into the broken
windows, and where maps of the dey-
lis wild lana are painted on mems
shirt bosoms with tobacco Juice
Let ms praise the churches for the
boundless good they have done TO hui
manity instead of abusing them foI
the few good deeds they have left I'M
done"
For two or three days the President
of the United States and the Governor
of North Carolina have been off shoot
Ing ducks, and matters of state hay,
gone on so smoothly that some peopl,
wonder what our chief executives dc