The advocate., 1895-09-25
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The th1rty-IOurpn anniversary ol lA'
battle Of Lexington, Mo, was cele
bra4ed at that place last Friday, ant
was attended largely by veterans Of
both armies. 1t begins to look as Il
the war is over in Missouri.
Congressman Newlands, of Nevada
one Of the leaders in the national silver
party, is quoted by the New Yorl
papers as saying that if business con
tinues to improve the silver issue viii
be dead before next year. 1t would
be very sad if the silver party should
be wanting campaign issue.
They are having great time II
Rome. Last week they dedicated 8
new edifice to the Methodist church
unveiled a statue of the italian patriot
Garibaldi, and talked seriously Of buy
ing the city and presenting 1t to the
Pope. His grace will probably moi
want It with the Methodist church
thrown in.
Chas. Mowbray, the mouthy English
man who seems to be 'agin the govern
ment," was interrupted by tne Chicago
police while addressing a meeting in
that city Sunday. Police Captain
Schuettler reports that he paid no at
tention to Mowbray's abuse of the po-
lice, but when the speaker got to berat-
ing American institutions in general he
told him to quit.
The weather is very fantastic this
season. Last week Kansas, Nebraska
South Dakota and all the states between
these and the Allegheny mountains ex-
perienced the hottest September wea-
ther they have had for many years
On Saturday heavy snow fell in wy
oming, Utah and northern Colorado
The cool wave struck Kansas Sunday
producing rain, followed by slight frost
Sunday night.
The Populists Of Utah held a conven-
ton tThe 7th. A full ticket was named
headed by Henry w. Lawrence for Gov
ernor. James Hogan, director of the
A. r. u, who has just finished serving
his term at Woodstock Jail, was NOM
mated for congress. The convention
was large and harmonious and the
Populists of that state are confident
that the ticket named will poll a sur
prisingly large vote, If 1t is not elected.
The criminal court of Birmingham,
Ala, got the better of Judge Lynch'S
disciples last Sunday. The jury in the
case Of Van Parvin charged with the
murder of James Dorman, which had
been out since last night, reported last
evening. Judge Green was sent for
and court convened just as the church
bells were ringing for services The
jury found Parvin guilty of murder,
and he was sentenced to six and half
years in the penitentiary
The Oklahoma bank at Perry, Ok,
failed without any assets, leaving a lot
of depositors to suffer and pray for the
return of Cashier Farran, who had
gone to the mountains with the banks
capital in his pocket. Most Of those
depositors are men who would have a
fit at mention of government banking
system to- protect the public from
swindles. They are opposed to pater-
nalism, and believe in individual Nber-
ty, just as Cashier Farran does
One day last week the Kansas CRty
Times was gathered in by the court
and placed in receivers hands in or
der to protect it's editors On the same
day the paper contained vigorous ar.
ticle on the cheerful sign of returning
prosperity. Evidently the eastern
bankers who have been furnishing the
Times with machine-made prosperity
editorials, and paying the editor for
publishing them, have neglected to at
tend to the paper and labor bills, which
amount to about 100000.