The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-16
PRESIDENT is OFTEN DED
Senators Bate and Pugh Proud
of Being Tar-Heels.
THEsERTlE SOLDIERS MEMORIAL
The Address at the dwelling Was De-
Iivered by Senator Bate to
An Audience of 5000
People.

forebears went from the Roanoke sec
ton has gone to Windsor to meet the
Confederate veterans in reunion there
and to make the principal speech of
the day. lie anticipates great pleasure
in visiting again the hospitable land of
his fathers and the BERTHE people win
make him regret that his people ever
left the banks of the Cashie for the
Blue Grass plateau of middle Tennes-
see. DR.. Capehart, Mr.. +, J. Hardin
and other distinguished North Caro-
line soldiers served under him and can
testify to his bravery as q soldier, as
all Tenneessans can TO his fidelity as
public servant He is an ardent silver
man, was an intimate fiend of Governor
Vance and he and his wife are a popu-
lar old couple at the Ebbit. where they
have made their home many years.
Local association makes me think of
another Senator, Mr.. Psgh, of Ala
bama. The old gentleman literally
hugs himself and shakes when he talks
of Bryan and the success of silver at
Chicago and the cyclone as he calls it
that is going to beat down all opposi-
ton and bury those who dare to divert
it, He is of BERTHE stock and very
proud of it. I've been in public life
now since the fifties, said the Senator
and its time for me to make way for
a younger genera ton. | shall count
the last years of my service in righting
the wrongs of the best people in the
world-sthe men who work indoors or
out doors-bv the last testament of
Democracy authorized at Chicago and
of which Bryan is the executor. In
old-fashioned stlye he has gone to
Saratoga, which place he has visited
annually time out of mind.
How to keep cool has been the absorb
ing problem. At one of the principal
Roman Catholic churches here on Sun
day evening last the priest took as
his text the weather of that day. and
ascending his pulpit said: 'My friends,
the heat of to-day will suggest to you
that of another world, if you persist
in evil doing and do not amend your
ways" This was his Alpha and
Omega. Not a bad one; we count it.
Queen Victoria is said to be much
pleased that the Pope should have
presented the Princess Maud with
bracelet which was accompanied by
the kindest of letters and many think
this another proof that the Vatican
desires to be on friendly terms with
the Anglicans. Mgr. CapeI. who ten
years ago was the Pope's legate in this
country, and who for some reason is
out of favor with his church, is now
living ON ranch in California in strict
retirement from the world. He was a
beautiful speaker, and drew large
crowds In 1885 in New Orleans, he
preached number of times at the
church Of the Jesuits, both Jews and
Gentiles crowding to hear him. We
all remember his lecture ON Divorce
and his famous sentence that ''it is as
well to drive four in hand as tandem"
The British are not quite sure what
to make of Ii Hung Changes character
and the Marquis of Salisbury, who
has a habit, when seated, of Jogging
his left knee up and down, is quoted
as being much embarrassed upon OBJ
serving Ii laughing at him and doing
the very same thing. Ii laughs immod-
erately, or in other words. has a per-
petual case of the grins. We are soon
to have this Eastern dignitary with his
yellow coat and peacock feather on
this side of the water. IT is said to
be perfectly true that when Ii espied
two legislators in the House Of Com
mons sitting in their places and wear
ing the now fashionable yellow waist
coat, he observed to Mr.. Curzon,
through an Interpreter:
These surely are two of the great
men Of your Assembly" They hap
pened 10 be nonentities, whose names
were unknown to Mr. Curzon.
1t seems that nearly all the children
of Charles Dickens inherited talent
for literature. His daughter, Mary
Dieleens, who has SO recently died,
in England helped to prepare the
Letters Of Charles Dickens" for the
press, and from time to time sontribu-
ted articles to the magazines. Her
death has been closely followed by
that Of Charles Dickens, Jr., He was
editor of "All the Year Round,' and
gained considerable reputation from
his Dictionaries of London and the
Thames.
Madam Perugini, another daughter
of the novelist, is quite a successful
artist and Mr.. III. F. Dickens is a prom
inent Queens counsel. Mr. Alfred
Tennyson Dickens and Mr.. Edward
Bulwer Lytton Dickens are residents
of Australia, one having settled at
Melbourne and one at Sydney.
The Washington Post of Sunday last
printed a picture of group of pretty
girls. two of whom were Raleigh girls.
one Miss Lilly Hoke, the daughter of
Gen r. +. Hol<e, and Miss Maud Merri-
mon, daughter of the late Judge A. S.
Merrimon. These young ladies were
the guests last winter of Mrs. Hoke
Smith, they made many friends here
by their charming manners and win
ming ways. Miss Merrimon has a
most delightful soprano voice which
was highly appreciated and enjoyed
by Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland is
a warm admirer of youth and beauty,
she has many young girl friends, and
they return her affection with the
most ardent admiration.
The opinion is general here that the
President will accept Secretary Hobe
Smiths resignation as the best way
of declaring his intention of having
nothing to do with any Democrat who
will support Bryan. The President
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