The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


]. s. Carr is dead. That is the first
line in a column account of the death of
a wealthy and prominent citizen OF
Springfield, Mass.
Ex Congressman Hemphill, of South
Carolina, in a speech at Baltimore few
nights ago said be had never seen q
MARYLAND woman who was not las sweet
as mountain of sugar"
Chief Justice Fuller, of the United
States Supreme Court, said the other day
in the course of an interview: "If, We
want to live to green old age We should
stay in harness. The dry rot of aimless-
ness eats ont existence"
The belief that cotton will go con-
siderably higher is very general. When
January futures passed nine cents on
the New Orleans Exchange few days
ago bets of $4,000 were freely offered
that January cotton would sell in that
market for over ten cents.
Editor Thomas F. Lane, of the Sum
NIT On. j. Record, who last week mar
ried Senator Blaekburn's daughter, had
to postpone his wedding trip in order to
appear as a defendant in libel suit,
brought against him by DR.. William IL.
Lawrence, town treasurer of Summit
He Was Too Fresh. Magistrate = You
say this man assaulted you. How did it
happens
Colored ssCitizen-I brushed agin'
him, an he sayed was s'too fresh" an
then he sailed me, sah.-New York
Weekly.
Gen. o. O. Howard observes in re-
cent article on modern war: ''In spite OF
the increase of terrors, | fear that the
war spirit will not be materially dimin-
ished simply by the great destruction of
human life as result of the improve
ment in arms because those who brig
on the war do not have TO do the fight
ing"
The Salisbury Herald says a new rule
has gone into effect on the Southern rail
road, Hereafter when an employee Of
the company is suspended for any failure,
the name of the party, with the cause of
his suspension and the number Of days
for which he is downed, is bulletined in
all the offices. The probable object of
this is to serve as a warning to other
employees and make them more careful.
Almeric Hugh Paget has arrived IN
this country to marry ex-secretary Whit
ney's daughter, Pauline. He is fairly
good looking youth of thirty four sum
mers, and cadet Of family of distinc
ton, being grandson of the first Marques
of Anglesey, one of the Waterloo heroes,
the peerage dating from the battle, but
the family was noted three centuries ago.
His elder brother, Lieut.. Col. Arthur
Paget, a well-known soldier, made an
American marriage, his wife being a
daughter of the late Mrs Paran Stevens.
The railroads have run out of their
employ all men who prefer getting
drunk to holding steady situations, or
who think they must drink liquor. Now
the superintendent of the Boston and
Maine railroad has commenced war
against tobacco consumers, and has is
sued circular to his men which says:
''Yeur attention is called to the fact that
you are not allowed to use tobacco in
any form whatever while on duty, nor
on trains or in the stations when off
duty with uniform or badge on. This
rule is imperative and must be regarded
at all times"
A hitherto unpublished incident in the
life of Gen. Robert E. Lee is told by a
lady now living at Warm Springs who
knew Gen. Lee we'll The incident oc
cured shortly after the war, when sec
tional feeling was running very high
At this resort were quarteIed while Gen
eral Lee was there Northern genera
and his daughters. who, by reason Of
their Northern affinites, managed K
have very dull time of it. The lady
narrator, noticing this, mentioned it IL
the next conversation she had with Gen
eral Lee. Looking up in surprise thu
latter said Il am glad you told me o.
it. / shall sae to it at once that they
find it more pleasant" With the courte
Gus dgaity which was essentially his ht
kept his promise The Northern gen
eral and his daughters were charmed by
the intention he bestowed upon them
AS General Lee had set the fashion, the
young ladies were soon among the most
popular at the hotel, and before the sea
son closed the two old soldiers were
warm friends.