The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-26

0TES AND COMMENTS.

Governor. MattheT@, of Indiana. who
would Alike to have the presidential
nomination, has an glnbroken record
for freesailver.
Cards axe out for tEea celebration 81
the tenth anniversary eli the marriage
of Rev Thomas Dixon, Il'., and wife, at
their country home at Hambrlght
Hall. Cape Charles, Va, Tuesday,
March 3rd.
IT is ouropnion thattheqrganizati
OF new silver party in NoEth Carolina
would have bit one effect 1t would
weaken the silver cause by dividing
the silver forces. It is the very thing
the enemies of silver would Lake to see
done. it would give the Republicans
even 9 better chance of carrying the
State than they haa.e.- Charlotte News.
In McCIure's Magazine for March is
brought to light a speech OF 1887 by
Abraham Lincoln, which the biogra-
pliers until now, seemingly, have
known nothing of, though it contains
passages still of the highest interest.
For example. of politicians, Lincoln
-
aside from the interests of the people,
and who, to say the most of them, are,
taken as a mass, at least one long step
removed from honest men. / say this
with greater freedom because. being
a politician myself, none can regard
it as personal"
The House Committee on the Judi
h.s, AL s4e ba ffra4 ri
rection by agreeing to abolish the fee
system of the United States district
attorneys and marshals and substi-
tute salaries. Under this bill the sala-
ries of these officers will range from
$1,000 to $1,000, according to the in
come of the various districts as report
ed in last years statistics. Under it
the present compensation OF the Of
ficers would not be increased We
hope to see this reform extended until
it reaches every class Of Offices, Federal,
State, county and municipal, with the
exception of the few positions where
the fee system works satisfactorily
Atlanta Constitution.
Take Pennsylvania and North Caro-
lima as an example. No platform that
could he deyisd would land Pennsyl-
yania in the Democratic column. On
a gold standard. or any other platform,
il is i hopelessly Republican State. On
the other hand, the Democrats of
North Carolina favor free coinage, and
on such platform they may carry
this State. On a gold standard plat
form they cannot. is it wise for the
National convention to follow the die
tates of Republican States when there
is nothing to be made by such q course
and all to be lost? Rather let the
Democratic States shape the policy OF
the party and then there viii be some
hope of success.-C Charlotte News.
Talk OF heroes Beck Effendi, Mus
tafa Effendi, Habsan Effendi, Issa IF
fendi, Said Effendi, and Durek Etfendi,
five Turkish officials, learned that ali
angry mob had made an attack on the
American mission at Oerfa. Death or
q worse fate might have oyertaken the
missionary there. Miss Corinna Shat
tuck. bad ii not been for the honor
Of the Turkish officials. These men
faced the mob and declared that they
would defend the American lady with
their lives The mob paid little at
1ention to them and attempted TO con-
tinue the attack, when the officials
fired upon them, scattering them like
sheep. Minister Terrell declares that
the names Of these men should be
known to the world, for they are
heroes.
The peculiar case Of a young wo-
man trying to prove that she has negro
blood in her veins will come up this
week in court in Muncie, Ind. The
woman is the daughter of prosper
GUS white farmer in that place, and
there has never been any suggestion
that she was other than Of pure white
blood, and there is said not to be the
slightest ground for her claim now.
But she fell in love with a full-blooded
negro, and was married to him by n
colored minister last week. 1t is I'M
lawful i'm Indiana for white people and
colored people TO intermarry, and the
couple were arrested and held for nm
Iatful marriage. The girl declares she
H. If colored blood. and will try to
pro.s her allegation in order to keep
her husband, and 10 keep him and her
self out of the Jail. She is a decided
blonde, and Of attractive face and man
ners.