The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-11

is the part of the territory tina Eng
land wants. Verify, money is the root
Of all evil
There are, according to the latest
reports, 1881, $40 members of church
es in the United States. OF these, g.
255. 033 belong to the Roman and Greek
churches; 4,665, 6S7 to the different
Methodist bodies, 2,S94,334 are Bap-
lists. I,27S, 1872 belong to some Presby-
terrain church, and 1,199,514 are Luth-
Grams.
Four States besides Utah became
members of the Union in the month of
January. Georgia was the fourth
State to ratify the constitution, which
it did January 2, 1888, and the fifth was
Connecticut, which came in week
later. Michigan, the twenty-sixth
State, was admitted January &c, 1897;
Kansas, the thirty-fourth, January
%, 1861, and now we have Utah, the
forty-ffth State, proclaimed member
of the Union January 4. December
can boast of more than any other
month, having nine States to its credit.
There is considerable opposition in
Brooklyn to the Greater New York"
scheme, which has already been voted
on and accepted in general terms by
Brooklyn as well as by other suburbs
of the metropolitan city. Steps are
now being taken to obtain special leg
islation to carry the consolidation into
effect; itisnotplanned to make char
ter TO cover all the municipalities, but
to enact several bills which shall ac-
coInplish the purpose with considera-
BILE preservation of local self-govern-
ment. making the union when COM
pleted one for certain large and gen.
eral interests.
The New York Medical Record refers
to the fact that Dr. Snow, to whom
Great Britain owes first it's immunity
from epidemic cholera for the last
twenty-five years, and, of course, for
all future time, is almost forgotten in
that country. In commenting on this
fact Sir Richard Quain recently said:
"Dr Snow made us masters of the
deadly plague of cholera. He there
by saved millions of lives. The sole
reward which England has conferred
upon him is midnight obscurity. If
he had been a soldier" he continued,
instead of a doctor, if he had slain
his thousands instead of saving his
millions, every town would have hail
ed him as hero, and the nation would
have honored his memory with monu-
ments more enduring than brass" DIR.
Shows work consisted in discovering
that cholera is a water-born disease.
The Louisville Courier-Journal urges
the sound money members of the
Kentucky Legislature to prevent the
election of any Senator at all rather
than permit Blackburn, or the Repub-
lican silver candidate, Hunter, TO get
the prize. The caucusing and ballot
ing win begin very soon, and the sew
eral candidates are counting noses
and measuring their strength. No one
seems to have sure majority of the
votes, and neither party controls the
Legislature. The Republicans have &
majority in the House, and are accused
of planning to unseat Democrats
enough to give them a majority or
Joint ballot; while the Democrats, who
control the Senate, are ready TO retail
late by turning out Republican Sena
tors. There are possibilities of tTou
Bile. and n continued deadlock is among
them, but the probability is that the
sound money men viii unite on can
didate, possibly McCreary, who claims
TO have already pledged thirty-thre'
votes out of about sixty necessary u
elect.