The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-12
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Ikey-Fader, vot means "a plutocratT
Fader--One of dem fellers dots so rich
he needn't to fail any more.-Puck.
Those persons who failed of election to
Congress should simply wait for 1898.
This thing of contesting seats has been
overdone and is not as popular as it used
to Washington Post.
.sAIrs. Digby has husband that really
thinks something OF her"
ssWhat has he doneY
"Why, instead of betting to win hat
for himself on the election, he bet new
bonnet for his wife"
The New York Journal suggests that
if Mckinley recognizes the boiling Dem
ocrats, he ought to send Breckenridge to
Paris and make Bourke Cochran Attor-
ney General The Parisians and the
trusts would like this recognition.
The Sultan of Turkey not only has
rigid Censorship of the press, but he has
ordered that no newspaper be published
until the afternoon, so that the censors
will not have to forego their morning
nap in order to supervise them.
Flora Macdonald's statue seems unable
to find resting place. First the clan OBJ
iected to her bare feet, and now the In
yerness town council will not find site
for it. Loehiel proposes that they wait
till the statue suits them before accept
ing it.
M III,
think as much as some others do Of the
new election law, nor as poorly as some
others have of the old one. Under the
Democratic election law he was never
beaten for an office for which he ran,
but the first time the boys got whirl
at him under the Republican law they
flung him. How is this, anyhow? Char
lotte Observer.
The carrying of North Carolina for
Bryan, where there was fusion with the
Populists, and the loss of the State to
Russell, where like fusion had been
rejected, demonstrates how easily the
supremacy of the Democracy of our be-
loved State might have been recovered
If the little knot of marplots in the Dem
ocratic and the Populist parties had been
repressed.- Fayetteville Observer.
A special from San Francisco says:
"Chas. ID. Lane, part owner of the Utica
gold mine, announces that he will give
William J. Bryan financial support in his
advocacy of bi-metallism. The Califor-
MAN will see to it that Mr.. Bryan's trav-
cling expenses are paid, and that the liy-
ing expenses Of himself and family are
paid during the next four years. Mr..
Lane is a very wealthy mine owner, and
is amply able to take care of Mr.. Bryan
and his family. He has abiding faith in
the Democratic candidate for President,
and, realizing that Mr.. Bryan's income is
limited, thinks it is not fair for him to
bear the expenses of a campaign in the
interest of silver"
Miss Lizzie Hendrix has just won in
the Circuit Court at Jacksonville a Gu
rious suit for damages which she brought
against the Southern Railway. 1t seems
that while Miss Hendrix was riding on
that road between Admission and Rome,
Ga, an impulsiye conductor collected
from her, besides the ticket she proffer-
ed him, a kiss, which she did not proffer
at all. The company declared that the
young woman had been guilty of con-
tributory negligence, in that she insisted
on being quite unnecessarily pretty, and
further pleaded that the corporation had
not profited in the slightest degree by
it's employees crime, as he had not turned
in the kiss with his other collection, but
the jury would listen to none of these
arguments, and awarded Miss Hendrix
consolation to the amount Of $245.
Capt. Henry A. Phelan, now an In
S spector of customs at Boston, was COM
mander of the Monticello during the
late war, and while taking part in the
blockade of Wilmington, had a most ex-
citing midnight encounter with the Tai
lahassee, of which j. Taylor Wood, of
Halifax was the captain. The blockade
runner broke through the line of guard
ships after a display of reckless audacity
that was rarely equaled. The two cap
tains met by chance on Boston wharf
last week for the first time since the
night more than thirty years ago, when
each made desperate efforts to sink the
others ship, and the cordiality with
which they shook hands and discussed
these far-off days proved again that the
bitterness left by that great struggle has
new almost died away,