The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-14

is true, then j uuge ROBINSON is pretty
much of jackass; if it is untrue, then
the fellow that started the report is
pretty much of a brute.-Concord
Standard.
The Michigan State Grange says of
our financial difficulties that 1.-The trou-
BILE is not so much that the govern
ment is in the banking business as
that the banks are in the government
business"
1t is altogether probable that John
Wanamaker will be Cameron's success
sor in the Senate. The people of
Washinton will give him warm vel
come. Except Mr.. Whitney. he is the
most lavish of all the public men who
have fed the Washington multitude.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor employ
ed scholar from the British Museum
to trace his genealogy and get him a
legitimate crest. After two years of
study in European archives he traced
the descent, beyond all doubt, to an
ancient family of Spanish grandees,
where the desired crest was obtained.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts
saws that dressmaker ought to know
the difference between the right and
wrong sides of piece of cloth, and
that If the garment is not made with
the right side out, when no instruc-
tions to the contrary are. given, the
owner has a right to recover damages.
The Raleigh News and Observer was
~ ~. tor. r.ff &c
Carolina cotton mill edition that it is
now preparing a State tobacco edition,
and we venture to predict that the lat
ter will be as creditable and valuable
a production as the former was, which
is saving much.-Richmond Dispatch.
Mr. Theo +. Kluttz denies that Ham,
of Georgia, is the author of the elegant
word s.snollygoster," and says it
formed part of the unique vocabulary
of the late Gen. James Madison Leach.
He was wont to speak of certain
classes of the population, as divided
into Snollysters, Swashbuckiers, Jo-
Bunkers and Horse Eaters.
4 correspondent of the Elkin Times
writes: | learn that Yadkinville is
much excited over lady physician
from Chicago. She has been in 1ad-
kinyille some four or five weeks, and
il is reported that she IS curing all
manner of diseases except raising the
dead. She says she can cure cancer,
consumption and nearly al the dis
eases that the human family is adj
dicted to. | do not know how it is
myself
Upon being asked what he was go
ing TO do, L. S. Senator Ben. Tillman,
of South Carolina, said: Not god
blessed thing for the present. have
my views and opinions, but ! am not
going TO be airing them rs a new Sena-
tor: no. sir. | am not the man 10
drag my pillow about in the new ground
before | know where the stumps are,
and before | know my surroundings
Glad to see YOU at all times, and don
mind talking, but not for print on
public matters yet.
In nothing do the thrifty English
more show their thriftiness than III
the bestowal of wedding presents. The
Queens gift to bride is always cash
mere shawl which costs her nothing, as
she receives stacks of them every yeai
in the shape of presents from trlbuta
nv Indian chiefs. The wedding gifts
of her loyal subjects, even the highest
and richest of them, are usually tri
fling and Inexpensive. An American
bride would laugh at them if she die
not send them back in disgust From
the Minneapolis Tribune
II like your Southern senators,
said distinguished Westerner once t.
Jack Cohen. they are as poor as
church mice and as honest as the noon
dav sun" 1T was a high compliment
and "a deserved one. The Southern
Senator whose name hes been tainted
with dishonesty, even in these times
cannot now he recalled, This is al
honor to the South's representative
and TO the people who sent them here
and there is much reason to be PROUD
Of their record in this regard.