The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-27

For the good of the State" says the
Biblical Recorder. lit would become
Judge Robinson to resign.
The Fifth Street Methodist church,
Wilmington, n C., set all churches a
good example last Sunday by taking
up collection of S11.50 for the widows
of those who lost their lives in the
Cumnock coal mine last week.
The closing of the year has made
one mans conscience make restitu-
ton. The Lenoir Topic says that the
treasurer of the Chester and Lenoir
Narrow Guage R. r. has received from
an unknown passenger one dollar IN
conscience money.
Thirteen marriage licenses were is
sued in Buneombe county on the day
before Christmas. The Citizen says
that darkey dropped into the office,
and was asked if he wished to invest
in "a pair of licenses" His reply was,
mo indeed, sab. / want to get rid of
dem Use already got
Helen Gould entertained this year
at Christmas twenty little orphan
girls from New York at her magnifi-
cent country place, Lyndhurst. This
is the sort of Christmas spirit that
bings up the pictures drawn by Dick
ems of the beautiful season of laurel
and homely kindness
r. 4. Check, of Hillsboro, member of
the Republican State executive COM
mittee, says the fight in the State con-
vention will be between James r..
Boyd and Oliver III. Dockery. for the
gubernatorial nomination. that Rus
sell stands no sort of chance for it.
He says North Carolina Republicans
are Overwhelmingly for Mckinley for
President.
TO be talking now who "wili be Gov
ernor" of North Carolina after first
January, 1897. is little too presi-
GUS II may be Russell or some Pop
ulist. or it may be a good Democrat
Col. Julian s. Carr, or Lieutenant
Governor Doughton. But nobody
knows no1s Col. Dockery aspires and
has many friends. Wilmington
Messenger.
n ~. ~ aad "
railroad. near Goidsboro, drew Inc
spikes from rail recently and tagged
down an approaching train with a
seiw OF obtaining q reward for pre-
venting wreck. The company pro-
cured blood hounds and tracked up
the man 1t would seem that there
is no surer means of solving the prob
lem of train wrecking, mechanism,
and other cowardly meanness than by
again resorting to the bloodhound
system.-Clinton Democrat.
Russia has offered TO lend the tni-
ted States one half its gold without
charging any interest. IF the Presi-
dent accepts the offer" says the New
York correspondent of the Washing
ton Post. This action will create more
excitement in Europe than his Nene-
zielan message. 1t will be regarded
as the first step toward an alliance be
tween Russia and the United States,
and will be accepted as equivalent to
the desire of Russia TO have this cohn-
try engage in a war with England. III
she could stand as the financial spoh'
sor for the United States in war WITH
Great l5rItAin. she might itSoiiipiiSi
some of her own eEds in securing an
outlet through the Dardanelles to the
Mediterranean. and a southern sea
port would he worth a great deal more
to her than even the 100000, 000whici
she is willing TO loan. 1t is hard to see
how her offer having been first soilel
ted. is now TO he discarded, and ye'
if il is accepted. il wiIl be open to only
one construction, and that construc
ton will starile the world. The
RothschiIds offer as much gold as may
be wanted for three per cent interest
The conventional Christmas story
abounds in snow and sleds and sleigh
bells. Latterly We have had so man,
r,ild Christmases that there is nee'
p new race of writers and illusTa
tors 80 make stories that are suited Z
the balmy Christmas days.
Deaf with Russia Let the Roths
childs GO Washington Post.