The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-12-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Carl Schurz doesn't seem to have an
exalted opinion of the sculpture soci-
ety of that city, which has rejected the
statue of Heine. He remarks that If
the Venus de Milo had been found by
the society they would have pronoun-
ced it no art.
The Daily News Uiberal) in an edi-
torial on Bayard says: we do not
desire to say anything very emphatic
in Mr.. Bayard's praise, for that might
make Mr.. Mccall and Mr. Barrett go
for him anew. But we believe him to
be the sort of man who viii not scare
worth a cent
The children in the Salisbury graded
schools raised $500 in small amounts
for the Vance statue. IT the grown
people of Salisbury and the other
towns in the State would pay as much
in proportion to their ability, the
statue would be in place by the fourth
of July.
The Post. CONSERVATIVE in an edI-
torial on the action of the House OF
Representatives at Washington on Uni
tied States Ambassador Bayard. says:
1.-The moral is that ambassadors, IL call
ed upon to make a speech should dis
cuss authorship and Shakespeare. and
especially when political election is
in sight"
The Baltimore Southern States says:
''Mr. Joseph a. Brown, OF Chadbourn,
". c., is having great success with his
Sunny South Colony, started recently
on eco acres of land near Chadbourn.
The colony continues to grow. The
new settlers vii engage, for the most
part, in truck farming. for which the
region is admirably adapted.
..The President Of the Illinois Bank
ers' Association it is announced.
has offered q series of prizes for the
best answer, written by bank clerk,
TO the question: How MAY bank
clerk become BANKER" We are not
bank clerk, and are hors concours,
we suppose, but how about marrying
a bankers daughter. or the widow of
the principal stock holder2 News and
Courier.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer says
that four big Republican leaders OF
great influence have entered into an
iron-ciad agreement to do three things:
''First-To do everything TO prevent
the nomination of eX-President Har-
rison. Second-Fo nominate Matthew
Stanley Quay, the Republican leader
of Pennsylvania. if that is possible.
Third If Quay cannot lie nominated
10 secure the nomination Of Thomas
b. Reed"
The Rev. John Jasper is as firmly
convinced as ever that the sun moves
round the earth and that the earth
doesn't move at all. He preached his
famous "sun-do-moye" sermon to an
audience of two hundred white folk
in Mount Zion Church, Richmond, Va.
last Sunday, and was more than ever
scornful toward the scientists and EN-
phatic in his arguments for the litera
acceptance of Biblical texts bearing OF
the point when YOU rises and wher
YOU sots down, don't you move? Del
how could the sun rise and 90 dowr
'thout m3vin'?' he argues.
Two of the most interesting widow:
in New York are Mrs. Ulysses 5. Grant
wife of the great Northern leader
and Mrs. Jefferson Davis, wife of tht
President of the Confederate States
saws the New Orleans Picayune. Mrs
Grant owns magnificent home OF
the fashionable West Side. near Rlv
erside Park The halls, parlors anG
libraries are filled with reminders o
the distinguished General. There ar
battle pictures hung with tatteret
old flags. busts in bronze and marbl
and wonderful gifts from all sorts ant
conditions of people. Mrs. Davis live
with her daughter, Miss Winnie Davis
in one Of the fashionable hotels il
5th avenue. Here she receives wit
old fashioned Southern hospitalit
the flower of Northern and Souther
chivalry.-It seems strange that thes
two women, whom the war left j
such widely different spheres, one tn
wife of the conqueror, the other TN
wife of the conquered, should com
after long years from the West an
South to live in New York. StrangeS
of all is the fact that they are war;
personal friends and spend much {
their time together.