The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-23
THE WEATHER.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The Lasker Patron says that Judge
Boykin looks like Senator Vance.
The youngest daughter of the late Dan
lei Manning has married count from
the Hague, Holland.
The Scotland Neck Democrat says
s'the NEWS AND OBSERVER is now the
best newspaper Raleigh has ever had. :"
The liabilities of those who failed the
first six months Of 1898 amounted to
$40, $50, 222. In the same period Of
1895 they amounted to $40, 705, sci.
According to the Chicago Times Herald,
Independent Republican, the Republicans
raised campaign fund of $4,000, 900 in
1888, and spent $4,000, 000 of it in In
diana.
The endowment of Cornell University
is So, 900, 000;,t University of California
is 1000, 600; Wesleyan University, 3d.
100000 evanston, HI; Harvard's about
100000.
The North Carolina Teacher says that
George W. Martin, of Cabarrus county,
near Coddle creek church, is the oldest
school teacher in the United States. He
began teaching in 1874.
t'There are too many crankyisms in
the Populist party. You've got too
much tail to your kite, or TOO much kite
to the tail. We can't join the Populists
because they have too many cranks at
their head Senator Ben TIllman.
The late Justice Strong gave three de-
Gliding votes on the bench that were ex-
ceptional. As State Judge his vote de-
cided the constitutionality of the con-
scription act in Pennsylvania, and on
the Federal bench, it elected Hayes and
settled the validity of legal tender
money.
Senator David B. Hill thinks the Demo
cratic outlook excellent" and points in
proof of that to the number of men who
would like to be candidates. THAT is a
pretty sure sign that the party has con-
fidence in itself. I think that all we
need to do is to sit back and let the Re-
public party make mistakes"
Not long ago Mr.. Charles Johnson, of
New York, fell three stories and cracked
his skull. The jury awarded him dam
ages, but the defendant made an assign
ment and he got nothing. Now he has been
sued for the promised fee by the medi-
cal expert he employed, and i'll default
of payment has been sentenced to Jail
three months for contempt.
A good and easy way to discover the
presence of ozone in a place is to wear
silver trinkets. If they grow black, as
if near hot sulphur springs, you have ii
in large proportion. Silver jewelry
always keeps white in the low-lying
towns of Norway, but gets black in the
hillside pine woods. If one walks in a
meadow after thunder storm one will
find the silver money in ones purse dis
colored.
editor Daniels, of the Raleigh NEWS
AND OBSERVER, is anxious to go to Mex
leo to learn about the effects of the free
Vi Ohb iS 10 hSltuCI W III
ing to walk nor to 60 by mule power
The man is altogether too particular
Wants to go in Pullman car, perhaps
and be waited upon by a bareheaded mig
ger in white apron who carries the al
of owning the line "-Charlotte Obser
yer.
Rev. Lacy L Little, of Richmond
county, who goes as Presbyterian mis-
sionary to China, writes to the Nortl
Carolina Presbyterian an interesting &C
count of reception rendered to the out
going missionaries by the ladies of tn
Calvary Presbyterian Church of San
Francisco on the evening before they EN-
barked for China. DR.. Geo. O. Worth
of Wilmington, who was accompanies
by his bride, and Rev. Lacy L. Little
and others made short talks. The othe
North Carolina outgoing missionarie!
present was Miss Mary B. Terrence, o
Mecklenburg county, who goes to Japan