The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-01


"a Democrat" writes to the Balti-
more Sun from Fayetteville, N. c., that
the people are interested Tin the gallant
fight the Sun is leading against bossism
and ring rule"
Padereswski, the long haired pianist,
says he is glad to return to this country.
With an income of $4,000 night for
100 nights there is every reason why he
should be glad.
The Baltimore Sun gives $500 to the
newspaper fund to rebuild the rotunda
of the University of Virginia which Mr..
J. FL. Lindsey, editor of the Charlotte
vile Progress has opened in his paper.
The Philadelphia Times says there are
four men in the Republican party who
will practically determine the candidate
for the Presidency. They are Senator
Quay, of Pennsylvania; ex- Senator Platt,
of New York: Secretary of the National
Committee Manley, Of Maine, and Col,
Clarkson, of Iowa.
Mrs. Watts-W That do You think Mrs.
Topperson's daughter, whom she sent
out to Arizona for her health, has mar
ried one of those western ruffians who
wears the horrible soubriquet of Liver
wurst Bill. Mr. Watts-Ah, another
American girl infatuated with the CLAM
our Of title. - Washington Star.
The Republicans have formed an ALI
ance with Mormonism in Utah. This is
in keeping with the methods of that
party. IL does not hesitate to form al
liances with Populists or the A. P. A.,
or Mormons. or any other party or or
ganization when it fancles there is
party advantage to be gained. 1t is a
party Of expediency, not OF principle. -
Knoxville Tribune.
The world has never seen better sol
diers than those who followed Lee; and
their leader will, undoubtedly, rank as.
without any exception, the very greatest
of all great captains that the English.
speaking people have brought forth; and
this, although the last and chief OF his
antagonists may himself claim to stand
as the full equal of Marlborough and
Wellington. Theodore Roosevelt.
In the new biography of John Stuart
Blackie the Scotch professor records in
his correspondence his impressions of
Tennyson, whom he visited at Freshwa-
ter in 1864. "Head Jovian, eye dark,
pale face, black, flowing locks, like
Spanish ship captain or captain Of Ital
ian brigands- something not at all com
mon and not the least English such is
the impression the poet made on the pro
fessor.
Antitoxin treatment has just failed in
two remarkable cases--one of cancer, the
other of lockiaw. William N Hart, the
San Francisco newspaper man who died
of cancer at the Pasteur Institute, had
been Hnder incubation since July, DR..
Paul Gibier himself manufacturing the
aqtitoxin. The victim of lockiaW was a
Brooklyn lad. Joseph Revere, whose con
dition was the result of a severe blow q
the head Antitoxin was procured from
DR.. Gibier as speedily as possible after
the tetanus set in, and the relief from
pain and spasm which followed the first
injection caused hope, but the boy died
in something less than forty eight hours.
it proved that the heart was affected
a special dispatch to the New York
Evening Post from Raleigh, N. g., quotes
"a well known man" as saying that
''nine cent cotton is doing more to kill
out the silver craze in the South than all
the arguments of the speakers and wri-
tiers on the subject combined. CHARLES
ton News and Courier.
No doubt about it. An object lesson
of the kind spoken of by our Charleston
contemporary cannot be answered.
Richmond Dispatch.
This line of argument is not fatal to
free silver: it does not touch the merits
of the case. When men are prosperous
they are inclined to overlook the injus-
tiee of tariff that exists for the benefit
OF few and at the expense of the many
So, aso, they may cease, for time agi-
tating against a bad financial system.
But the injustice of the one and the
badness of the other remain. -Asheyille
Citizen.