The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-10-11
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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In autumn days sadness steals
Into ones heart. The world reveals
So many sad reminders.
1t is estimated that one fourth of the
tobacco crop of Caldwell was killed by
the recent frost.
The North Carolina Baptist is waging
war against the use of fermented wine
in the communion service.
Sunday is like a stile between the
fields of toll where We can kneel and
pray. or sit and mediate. -Longfellow.
The Cleveland Star says the Carolina
Central's branch line of railroad from
Ellenboro to Henrietta will be completed
the latter part of this week.
There never did, and never will, exist
anything permanently noble and excel
lent in the character which is stranger
to the exercise Of resolute self denial
Walter Scott.
One of Mahone's fads was cookery,
AID as much as he could, and as often
as opportunity offered, he made his own
breakfast and dressed and prepared his
own dinners.
He that would make real progress in
knowledge must dedicate his age as well
as his youth, the later growth as well as
the first fruits at the altar Of truth
Bishop Berkeley.
In speech at Snow Hill, Maryland,
Senator German, in telling the story OF
the tariff fight, said that he had gone to
Mr.. Cleveland before March, 1893, and
urged the calling of an extra session to
take up the tariff question, but his ad
vice was disregarded.
We notice that Rev L. G.. BroughtoD,
who few years ago practieed medicine
in his native North Carolina, is rapidly
advancing in favor among the Baptists.
He has just been called to the pastorate
of Lee Street church, in Baltimore, and
will probably accept. The salary is
about So, 900 per annum. With few
years the Baptists of this State have sent
out several gifted young peachers who
are filing important places in the North.
Wilmington Messenger.
Col. F. A. ODDS writes to his syndicate
OF papers: There is a curious bit of his
tory in regard to the late war which is
perhaps not known to over dozen peo-
pie in the State. Some time in 1850
number of gentlemen met in Halifax
county and took the initial steps of
movement to request the French Empe-
ror to take North Carolina under his
wing as dependency or colony. 1t is
queer thing to think of, but the gentle
men who took part in the meeting were
in earnest"
1t may not be generally known that
Queen Victoria has Jewess for niece
Her husbands nephew, Prince Leopold,
of SAKE Coburg, married the daughter of
Joseph Geirger, Jewish musician In
Vienna, where the daughter also was
we'll known both as singer and pianist
a brother Of the Empress OF Austria,
Prince Louis, of Bavaria, is married TO
a 1CNSSos hSuilStto hCL0Ei, tuC AouSh
ter of a jeweler carrying on business in
Munich. The marriage of the reigning
Prince of Monaco to Alice Heine Is much
more recent and better known, but, per
haps, it may not be equally well known
that another member of the Heins fam
lily has married into princely house,
Marie Emoden Heine having married
Prince Michel, of Ct or Filomsrino, a
small principahty in Italy.
Silver reached its highest price for the
year in London on Tuesday, when it was
quoted at 80 1916 pence per ounce, while
its New York price was 6S "a for gov.
eminent bars Last May, after the an
nouncement OF peace between China
and Japan, silver rose TO 80 8 pence in
London, and since that time has re-
manned practically stationary at about
301-2 pence, but during all this time
the accommodations of silver in that mar
ket have teen steadily increasing. July
and August are usually the months
in which London ships the most silver,
but this year British buyers imported
nearly 5000, 900 more than was ex-
ported from that country, and bought
nearly $4,000, 900 more in the United
States than in the same months Of 1894,
while our September exports averaged
nearly million a week-so that cur sil-
yer exports have recently been the lar
gest since the var.