The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-28


elect Foraker may possibly be a dark
horse candidate in the Republican
Presidential race.
At a spelling-bee in Wadesboro the
words that the crack spoilers missed
were: Porphyry, hieroglyphic, scourge,
gnarled, foreigner, corps.
The gold reserve is now down to
within about ss,o00,0o0 of where it
was at this time year ago, when 1T
touched the lowest point. Since that
time something over S75,000,00o in gold
has been paid into and taken out of
the treasury.
Bowdoin College, Maine, is singular
ly honored. Speaker Reed, of the
House; Senator Frye, chairman pro
tenn. of the Senate, and Chief Justice
Fuller are all graduates of Bowdoin.
Thus Bowdoin holds the gavel over
three bodies at the national capital.
Hon. III. ID. Money, who has been
elected TO the Senate from MISSISSIPPI,
will not take his seat until 1899. The
reason he was elected SO long ahead of
the time of the beginning OF the term
is that under the new constitution OF
the State of Mississippi the Legislature
will meet only once every four years.
The next session of the Legislature
will be held in 1899.
The Democratic Club of the city of
New York will hold it's first monthly
dinner at the club house, No. Gil Fifth
avenue, Tuesday evening. Ex-Gover-
nor Flower, the newly elected preSi-
dent, will preside After the opening
address by the president, Josiah Pat
terson, of Tennessee, will speak upon
the Monroe doctrine. Other addresses
will follow.
When President Kruger, of the
Transvaal, paid his visit to England
he refused to go to a theatre. deeming
it immoral He was accustomed, from
force of habit, to rise at O'Clock in
the morning, and it put his entertain
ers to vast inconvenience to have his
breakfast served to him ut thatunseem-
ly hour. Mrs. Kruger appeared to be
a typical Dutch housewife, disdainlDg
display of dress and amusement of
any kind.
When people talk about there being
a better State than North Carolina,
every potato slightly winks its eye.
every cabbage shakes it's head, every
beet gets red in the face, every onion
feels stronger, every oat field is
shocked, rye strokes its beard, corn
sticks up its ears, and every foot of
land kicks. The horses even denounce
the statement with neigh and the
printers grab their shooting-sticks,
says the Durham Sun.
Opinion in New York banking cir
cles is that the bids for the new gov
eminent bonds viii not average much
above 10s. These bonds are to run 20
years and to bear interest at 4 per
cent; they are exempt from taxation
and are available as a basis for ma
tionai bank circulation. But the price
named is not SO high as that which
good municipal 4 per cent bonds hav-
ing an equal tine to run are command
iag-bonds that are taxable and un-
available for bank circulation.
Another Utopian experiment To bet
ter social and economic conditions has
come to grief. This time it is the Co
operative Town Company of Tennes-
see, and although the SHOWS of only
four winters have settled on it's head
it has practically been forced to give
up the ghost. How much longer will
sane men and women continue TO be
lured into such chimerical enterprises?
In nearly every case on record they
have ended in ignominious failure.
A curious form of life insurance is
springing up in French manufacturing
towns under the name of La Fourmi
1.-THE aunt. The popularity is that the
longer a man lives the less he becomes
estitled TO. The payment of 81
month assures the payment of $1,000
t. she heirs of a man dying before the
ag. of thirty -eight, the payment dimin-
ishing proportionately TO $50 at fifty
sse. The idea seems TO be that if
nan dies young his children are likely
to be in want, but that when he is fifty
fIAy will he able To earn their living