The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Chas. Shabel, of Rochester, has lowered
the worlds bicycle record for 300 miles
from ii :58: 80 to II 1868 10.
The latest gift by Rockefeller to the
Chicago University makes his total con-
tribution to that University $4,000 900.
This is the largest gift ever made to
University or college.
There are IA Presbyterian ministers
in the State, with 339 churches, n can
didates for the ministry, which is large,
30,s92 members, 1904 members added
during the year, churches organized,
Is evangelists and 8 foreign missionaries.
Phil Sorg, who has made fifteen mil
lions manufacturing tobacco, told the
people of Cincinnati in big meeting on
Saturday night, that he always added the
internal revenue tax with interest on his
tobacco so that the fellow who 'schaws
the weed" pays Uncle Sans tribute.
Twelve States and Utah will vote
today. Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland,
Massachusetts,, Mississippi, New Jersey,
Ohio, and Utah will elect Governors.
The result in all these States will be
watched with interest. In Kansas, Ne
braska, New York.F Pennsylvania and
Virginia important local elections will
lie held.
In Ben Tillman's new constitution DO
man can vote unless he can read the con-
stitution or give an Interpretation of
clause when read to him. There is one
exception. ANY owner of $500 worth of
property can vote whether he can read
or not. Rhcde Island requires owner
ship of $i34 worth of property before
any man can vote. Ben Tillman says:
81 shall use every effort in my power to
drive illiteracy from the land
The New York correspondent of the
Pittsburg Dispatch says: "The visit of
the Vice President to New York is
known to possess great political signif
canoe. There is no denying that Mr..
Stevenson, is in the matter of the Presi
dency, the frog who would awooing go.
at the same time Mr.. Stevenson never
loses sight of the dignity of his Office in
the acceptiveness of his candidacy. He
had several interviews with the Tam
many men during his New York sojourn,
and even Mr.. Whitney exchanged views
with him. That he will cut figure in
the balloting next year goes without say
ing, but Mr.. Stevenson is much averse
to having much of his support come
from Tammany, in the belief that that
will hurt him. 1t is not impossible that
the administration will come out for
Stevenson in the event of his metamor-
phosis from weoing frog to dark
horse. The impression that Mr.. Cleve-
land now antagonizes Mr.. Stevenson is
erroneous. To day they are becoming
rather warm friends 1t used TO be said
of a Vice President that no one ever
heard of him after his election. But Mr..
Stevenson has given that adage the lie.
Few men in political life, indeed, have
quite the extent of unobstrusive personal
influence enjoyed by him. 1t is by no
means impossible that he will get second
place on the ticket, il not the first. y
Sundays Constitution prints in full
the address of Mrs. Z X Cotton before
the Woman's Congress at the Atlanta
Exposition, and prefaces the table
speech" with these words: ga new idea
was advanced before the Federation of
Woman's Clubs yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Sallie Southall Cotton of North
Carolina, one of the brainiest women in
the Congress. put forth the idea and
,championed it in strong speech. She
spoke for the recognition of women by
the government in some such substantial
way as men are recognized in the schools
at West Point and Annapolis. Of course
she did not want TO make soldiers and
sailors out of the women. but she wanted
to make them relatively as useful to their
sex and their country in some capacity
suited for their talents, and she wanted
the government to provide for them TO
be trained The idea is one that has not
been advocated to any extent, and, put
forward in the strong manner In which
Mrs. Cotton presented it, it created wide
interest. Mrs Cotton is native of Vir-
ginia. She moved to North Carolina
very early. She married Robert Il Cot
ton, of Falkland, N. O. She is the moth
or of six children, and was the lady man
ager of the Worlds Fair for North Caro-
lima. She lives on farm, Is devoted to
domestic duties and is not an advocate
of woman suffrage"