The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-08

The ReidsyilIe Weekly notes the fatal
burning of the two-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. W. Bethel, in Rockingham
county.
Ex-Goyernor Jarvis, who was hurt
last Friday by a fall from the bus,
caused by the horses taking fright, and
is still confined to his bed, though some
better says Kings Weekly.
The Washington correspondent of
the News and Observer is furnishing
some bright, breezy letters. He Yields
a facile pen and serves a very palatable
literary menu TO the readers of that
paper. Morganton Herald.
A majority of the Legislature elected
last year in North Carolina are said to
be Baptists. Let all the Baptist
churches of the State pray for them.
Christian Index. Our contemporary
is very much mistaken; but prayers
are not the less out Of order Biblical
Recorder. The Recorder Is wise to
deny responsibility for the acts Of that
gang.
In the great Philadelphia fire some
valuable paintings were lost. Among
the most valuable were two by III. Sell
GUS valued at $4,000 each; a painting
by Roberts-Fieury representing the
siege of Paris in the reign of Henry
III, valued at $4,000, companion Of
which is now in the Louvre; a life-size
painting of Peter Paul Reubens by
Verboeckhoyen, which was valued at
$4,000.
The Mississippi Legislature has pass
ed a bill, which has become law,
imposing a fine of not less than $40 or
more than $50 and imprisonment for
not less than 30 days upon conviction
of carrying concealed weapons of any
kind, and has forbidden the judge be-
fore whom the case is tried exercising
any discretion in pronouncing SEN
tenee, excepting as 70 the amount Of
the fine.
The last Legislature passed an act,
the provisions Of which may not be
generally known, and as it lis a matter
of public interest, we call attention to
it now. 1t was law requiring three
inch board on top of all barbed wire
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to stock. The law went into effect Jam
uary LIST. Twill be a job to put them on
in many places, but the law requires it
to be done, and while this has not been
attended to already, we suggest that
further negligence or delay may in-
yolve extra trouble and expense. lien
derson Gold Leaf
In
servers allusion to Tom PuInelI's de-
claration that Justice Avery is the only
snon-partisan" Judge on the bench,
the Morganton Herlad says: 'sMr.
purnell is right as to Judge Avery be-
ing snon-partisan on the bench While
he is a thorough Democrat, heis marvel
ously free from partisan bias in his
judicial opinions. Judge Avery is not
only one of the most intellectual of
men. but Is one Of the great lawyers
of North Carolina. and a debater Of
rare force. IN an respects he is a
citizen of whom the whole State Is
justly proud"
High life in London is just at present
absorbed in Birdie sutherland's breach
of promise suit against Hon. Dudley
Mal0ribanks, The young Spfig OF the
nobility does not deny that he made
a verbal. as well as a written, promise
to marry the Gaiety girl. but he sets
up the plea that the engagement was
declared Off by mutual consent. When
the engagement first leaked out the
young mans father, who IL Lord
Tweedmouth, obtained an assurance
from the young couple that they would
put off the marriage for two years,
and had himself declared that if, at
the end of that time, the lovers were
still of the same mind, and Miss
Sutherland had proved her adaptable
ty 70 the social position that lay be-
fore her, be would raise no objection
10 the match. After this Dudley left
for America with his mother, and while
ia Canada staying with his aunt, Lady
aberdeen, he wrote to his fiancee ask
irg her TO consider the engagement
at an end A letter from Lord Tweed
mouth to the same effect reached her
about the same time. 1t was there
upon that Miss Sutherland decided to
Institute her suit.-Boston Herald.