The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-22
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.
General Weyler gives t. his officers
in the field commission for weli-nlgh
unlimited savagery, and then adds that
he does not intend TO take the field III
person.
1t seems that the Morton boom bag
gled over the price Of the Florida dele
CATION and lost its opportunity. Ii
should be quite plain by this time that
the fight is to be no bargain-counter
affair. The longest pole will get the
persimmon.
The Jacksonville On. CO. Times tells
Of d case in dispute there, over the
ownership of three dollar hog; the
expense incurred to date amounts TO
about 500, and as an appeal was taken
from the verdict rendered, the case
goes TO the Supreme court, and we
nresume that by the time the case Is
settled the hog will have died Of old
age or be worth seven dollars q pound.
The Fred Douglass Legislature will
harly be forgotten as long as any Of
its odious laws are left on the statute
books. They actually levied tax OF
per cent on all seeds sown. This
amounts to about 20 cents more per
bushel. The sellers nominally pay the
tax but it in reality comes out OF the
farmers pocket, for he pays the tax
when he buys the seed Wilmington
Review.
The negroes who are supporting Nc
Kinley, Reed, Morton, or Allison for
President make a great mistake, says
the Atlanta Journal. If they knew IT,
Thgrston, of Nebraska, is their man.
He has introduced a bill to pension
every negro who has been a slave, at
the rate of from 81 to SIS month and
to pay $500 to every negro who has
reached the age of 10. Thurston is the
only surviving representative Of the
.forty acres and mule style Of
craftsmanship.
Speaking of the effort to organize q
silver party in North Carolina, the
Charlotte News says: lit is our opin-
ion that the organization of new sill
yer party in North Carolina would have
hut one effect. 1t would weaken the
silver cause by dividing the silver
forces Ut is the very thing the enemies
of silver would like to see done. 1t
would give the Republicans even bet
ter chance of carrying the State than
they now have. That would be its
chief effect"
In reply to an invitation from the
clerk of the House Of the Virginia
Legislature to offer prayer IN the House
next week. Rev G. j. Oechlschlaeger
replied as follows: II do not believe in
opening 4 promiscuous political body
with prayer The present promiscu-
ous charter OF the body makes it an
abuse of prayer and the political char
acter OF the body makes it an ull-
natural union of church and State. ].
as Christian and any member Of the
body az a Christian, can privately pray
for the sessions, bet the State, which
that body represents, has nothing to
do with prayer"
There is much talk III the State iii
political circles about who is to be
nominated for State officers to be voted
for next November. We have had
remarkably clean and economical State
government during the past three
years, and we trust that good men
may he nominated by all parties 80
that ii may be continued. Our present
State officers, from the Governor
down, have discharged their duty
faithfully. Governor Carr was called
from the farm to the Governors chair,
but he has met the expectations of
those VITO voted for him and has given
us a clean administration and used his
best endeuvors To promote the interest
Of the peopie.-Patron and Cleaner.
According to Il dispatch from WASH
ington 10 the New York Sun, because
Of the answer made by Representative
Talbert, of South Carolina, To the reso-
lation Of censure offered by Represen-
tative Barrett, in the House, few
days since, South Carolina is likely TO
lose three and possibly five of her Com
gressmen who are already seated, but
whose seats are contested. The story
runs that before the controversy be-
tween the gentlemen named, IL was un-
slersfood that three Of the sitting nlem-
hers aud probably the whole five would
rs confirmed, but since the contro-
sersy the Committee on Elections has
suddenly changed its views on the sub
jecf, and it is not unlikely that the
whole five will be unseated.