The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-15


At brunswick recently in the Supe-
rior Court, colored witness stated
that he was unable to testify as To n
certain occurrence because he bad a
domestic trouble about" that time.
What was that domestic trouble?"
asked the examining attorney.
well, to tell the truth, boss" said.
the witness, II was in the penitentiary
for stealth cow. Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The withdrawal of the New York
Life Insurance company from the Nor
gan bond syndicate, following that of
the Chemical Bank of New York, seems
to foreshadow the early dissolution Of
the syndicate. 1t was practically re-
solved at meeting of prominent mem
bers at New York Saturday to let it go
to pieces ard present individual bids
for the bonds. Mr.. Morgan announces
that the combination will hold to-
gether until it is assured that the loan
win he successfully placed.
The results Of HiIis's midwinter con
vention were most disastrous TO him,
as everybody knows. but the lesson
they impaired seems TO have been lost
upon another politician, who, like Hill,
once did imagine that the people OF
New York State knew no law except
his will. An edict went out from the
headquarters Of T.. e. Piatt yesterday
That the Republican NationtI Conyen-
ton must be held earlier than that
body was ever known to meet before,
and that March ], or near that date,
was the. time set.--New York Tribune.
The Boston Herald thus summarizes
some peculiar views recently expressed
by the bachelor Senator from New
York:
Senator Hill wants to have the wo-
men packed away and sent out of
Washington and the men left alone to
attend to the business that they are
sent there for by the country. The
trouble, in his opinion, is that there
are too many dinners md too much
social dissipation in official circles at
the capital. No man, he says, can go to
these fashionable dinners night after
night and sit up until near morning,
attending to social functions, and be
in any condition to gfapple with the
knottv problems of finance and affairs
that are at this time forced upon the
consideration of our public men.
Lyman Trumbull, of Chicago, who,
previous to 1855, was successfully Rep
resentative in Congress and Justice of
the State Supreme Court, and who for
three terms, beginning that year and
ending 1873, represented Illinois in the
United States Senate, may be the
standaTd~bearer of the Populist party
in the approaching presidential cam
paign. While no Official oyertures to
that effect have yet been made, it is
understood that his availability will
be canvassed at the meeting OF the
National Committee of the party,
which is to he held at ST. Louis Friday
to decide on the time and place for
holding the National convention.
The only other name which is likely
TO to he talked of is that Of United
States Senator Marion Butler, of North
Carolina. United States Senator w.
V. Allen, of Nebraska, however, is re-
garded in the light of a dark horse.
and may be brought prominently to
the front should destinations or other
circumstances tend to place Judge
Trumbull or Senator Butler out of the
pale OF nomination. A National com-
mitteeman from far Western State,
who vas ia Chicago yesterday, said
fsat it was eminently desirable that
q its meeting the Populist National
Committee should discuss the outlook
for presidential timber springfield
Republican.
Butler wauld not he eligible-he is
under thirty-five.