The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-04

FRIDAY, October 4 1895.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
A Chicago religious journal advocates
a head tax of 800 on every American
going to Europe to spend precious Amer
lean gold.
81 think | will have a special bicycle
sermon next Sunday" "Why, only
few Sundays ago you preached a sermon
denouncing the wheel" "Yet, but since
then nearly everyone in the parish has
bought one Life.
A New Orleans bull leader offers to
bet $500 to 81, 500 that Texas itself will
not make / 800, 900 bales of cotton, $500
even that Louisiana will lose 80 1-3 per
cent and 81, 900 to $4,000 that the total
crop is under 6,850,G0
Mrs Aiken, of Memphis, stands in
d;cted, so the papers say, for having
treated a sick woman according to
Christian science methods, which woman
died under the treatment of Mrs Aiken.
This case presents no new question in
Virginia.
The Religious Herald begs the ques-
ton when il char ges its exhortation to
f'mt rt gage the farm to send your boy to
college, so as to read. Better smaller
area of poor land and large area of Gull
tivated mind" If the Herald wishes to
slip out this way, very well. Biblical
Recorder.
Some time ago Birmingham, Ala,
firm, bidding against the world, secured
contract for iron piping for sewers in
the city of Toxic, Japan, and it has just
been announced that firm in Bessemer,
Ala, has secured the contract for piping
for the city of Honolulu, which will re
quire something over 20, 900 tons
In separate registration of women in
Lexin gton, KY, to vote for members of
the board of education, 1858 women
registered. OF these ], 04S were colored
and $40 were white. The white women
did not begin registering until after they
heard how numerous the colored women
we're putting down their names.
The State, free silver paper of Biz
mingham, Ala, has about completed ar
rangem ents to buy the Age Herald, the
sound money morning daily in that city.
TLe combined papers will be called the
State Hesald, and will advocate free
coinage OF siives st 10 to and will bs
the only morning daily IN Birmingham.
DR.. Parkhurst is of the opinion that
unless a new committee of seventy be
formed to fight Tammany it will win in
the approaching election. The Doctor
wishes the r publicans, Anti-snappers,
kugwumps, etc., etc, TO combine to
prevent Tammany from making it's first
step towards returning to power. He
says that in 20 other way can rammapy
be defeated,
The much pointed-to alien Irish land
lord, William Scully, has declared his
intention of becoming an American citi-
zen, and will transfer his domicile from
London to New York. He owns about
100, 900 acres of land in Illinois, whole
county in Kansas and some land in
Nebraska. 1t is said that the hostility
of the western Legislatures TO alien
ownership Of land caused him to take
this step.
The new constitution of Utah forbids
counties, cities, towns and villages Dor
rowing money in excess of the amount
of the taxes in the current year, ex-
cepting by the authority Of vote of
majority Of the citizens who have paid
property tax for one year preceding
Aside from this restriction the suffrage
in Utah is open to all citizens of either
sex, who can meet certain simple re-
quirements as to residence, not even a
poll-taX being required
The great iron and steel plant at Mid
dlesboro, Tenn, is to be put in operation
at once, and one furnace with a capacity
of 200 tons day has already been put
in blast These works were built with
English capital at cost of 81, 800, 600,
and were to have a capacity Of 800 tons
of iron and 700 tons of steel day.
Around them was built a town, and the
whole formed one Of the most complete
boom town specuIations ever exploited
in this country When the Barings
failed the crash came, and it is only now
that sufficient recovery las been made
to permit of the starting Of single
furnace