The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-17
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

1t is authoritatively stated that the
recent reports of Monsignor Satolll's pur-
pose to 60 to Rome to attend the Pope's
jubilee in January next, were untrue.
It is said that Consul-General Will
liams, at Havana, has become persona
non grata to Spain. He is probably too
fond of what the Cubans are fighting for
liberty and home rule.
The State Department has received
from Ambassador Patenotre, of France,
the invitation of the French republic to
to take part in the French exposition
of 1900 which is to usher In the
twentieth century. The invitation is in
French and is quite long, giving full IN
formation of the scope and organization
of the project.
The Free Will Baptist church at Jack
son, Mich, has inaugurated a new de-
velopment of our modern Christianity.
They have got tired of paying preacher
for doing what they can do just as well,
or better, themselves, so dozen of the
foremost men in the congregation have
agreed to take the pulpit week about
in rotation and dispense with the par
son.
The Savannah, (Ga News reports thai
the crop of oranges from Florida region
where all the trees were reported killed
by last winters freeze, will be D fairly
good one, although much less than the
normal, and that within very 70 y years
Florida's orange crop will be fully as
large as ever. Only from 3 to 5 per cent
of the trees in bearing have been de-
stroyed; the remainder are slowly recoy-
ering from the effects off the cold snap.
This is good news for all of us.
Massachusetts, is taking the lead of all
the States in the matter Of building good
roads. At the last session of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature the sum of $400, 900
was appropriated for roads, and it is said
that at the next session an appropriation
of 81 ,000,O0 will be made. The good
roads movement, by the way, is by no
means confined to Massachusetts,, or to
New England. The whole country is in
terested in it, and the interest will be
stimulated by the good roads congress to
be held in Atlanta shortly
The New York Sun is entitled to the
patent on the names of the political fac
lions in Gotham. The Sun first called
the Good Government people Goo Coos
and the German American Reform Union
the Garoos. Goo Goo is an Authorization
of good government, and expresses the
inarticulate utterances of children in
politics as well as in nature. CARGO is
derived from the initials of the union.
Garu looks bad, while CARGO is finished
and rounded out. The names, like the
curiosities they designate, are about a
year old.
The Mormons intend to hold on tc
Utah A majority Of the candidates
nominated by both parties to hold The
first offices in the new State Of Utah are
Mormons. Both the Republican anG
Democratic candidates for Governor are
members of the Church of Latter-Day
Saints, while the Den o ratio candidate
has been a missionary of that church tt
the Sandwich Islands, and for years has
been high in its councils. Both of the
Senators from the new State will proba
blv be Mormons Just what Washing
ton society viii do or say about this only
the winter time can tell.
According to the World, the telephone
numbers of the Vanderbilts, Astors auC
Others do not appear in the general tele
phone directory of New York city. The
World says: There are a good many
millionaires and society families wht
have telephones in their residences, bu
they are for private use. Only th'
friends of the head of the house and {
few other persons know the number
The mistress of the mansion leaves thu
number with her friends, and in ex
change receives their numbers. She alst
leaves her number with the head of thu
hospital where she happens to be on th'
managing committee. This exclusive sys
tenn is adopted in order that outsiders
cannot annoy Mr.. Millionaire by ringing
him up on the telephone. The men wht
have telephones put into their houses d.
so with the proviso that their names anC
telephone numbers shall not appear il
the directory"