The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
There has been a decline of forty mil
lion dollars in the assessed value of
property in Georgia this year as com
pared with 1898.
The grand jury of the District of
Columbia has put Miss Elizabeth Flagler
under 800 900 bond for shooting the
negro boy who was stealing her pears.
Rev. DR.. 10 Pollard, professor of
English in Richmond College, has been
arrested upon a charge of cruelty to
dog preferred by the ociety for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals.
A Kansas man has discovered that
brandy can be made from wet elm saw
dust, and discouraged Prohibitionist
asks what chance the good cause will
have when man can go forth with
rip saw and get drunk on fence rail.
stepniak gives up Nicholas II. for a
weakling. There was time, he said,
sswhen Russian liberals cherished hope,
but the new Gar has quenched it. He
is content to continue to play the IN
grateful part of official screen TO bureau
cratic tyranny"
Three or four years ago our Register
of Deeds was kept busy registering
mortgages, now it is not so. This is
strong evidence that the county is get
ting in a better cond ton. The people
are paying debts instead of making new
ones.-Stanly Enterprise.
Henry Clews has received an inter-
esting note from Marquis Ito, the prime
minister of Japan, in which he AYERS
that Japan has no other ambition than
to attain 10 the highest state Of civiliza-
ton. She will never do violence, how
ever slight, to the cause OF justice and
truth
We feel indebted to the Raleigh NEWS
AND OBSERVER for publishing the full
text of Prof. Edwin A. Alderman's adj
dress at the Educational Congress IN
Atlanta on the subject Of higher educa-
ton in the South. 1t was masterpiece
of conception and expression, and we
are confident we have never read an ad-
dress in our life to surpass it --Reids-
vile Review.
In the South Carolina Constitutional
Convention, on Wednesday Mr.. Shep-
pard related the following:
On tombstone near highway IN the
lower part of the State in the following:
.sya living rpan os We ua sS by
AS you are now, so once was /;
AS / am now, so you will be,
Prepare for death and follow me.
A wag wrote under it:
"To follow you am not content,
Unless ] knew the road you went,
For they do fork, and no one can tell,
Whether you have gone to heaven or
hell"
Writing to the Aberdeen Telegram
Mr.. Robert N. Page truly says
"a county with a climate so mild and
natural range so excellent, should raise
enough beef and mutton for the State
In fact here is a line awaiting the under
taking CT men that viii mean as much
tn the protector, and to the county, as
any vet undertaken. And this industry
would lead factories for the manufac-
ture of wool into cloth, and hides into
leather, and horns into handles. Where
better can 1t be done than in Moore
country"
The Monroe Journal says: THE eau
casian, published at Raleigh has over
its title page the statement that that
paper has larger circulation than any
two weekly papers published in the
State The Progressive Farmer, also
published in Raleigh, has over its title
page these words, the largest circulation
of any paper in the South Atlantic
States 1t follows that one or the other
of these great conseryators Of truth car
ries a lie on it's masthead about simple
matter of circulation, yet there are PEG
lie who believe implicitly what either Of
them says"
SOME of our contemporaries copy The
digest of the Supreme Court decisions
from the NEWS AND OBSERVER withou
credit Ordinarily we do not object t.
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