The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-23
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

One of the German military courts
at Berlin has sentenced Count Won
Kotze to imprisonment for two years
in a German fortress for his recent
duel with Baron Won Schrader, in
which affair of honor the latter was
killed.
A correspondent of the Morganton
Herald says: For one, a Democrat
from way back, / am ready to vote for
any decent honest man of any party,
as a rebuke to the spirit manifested
in that so-called Republican conyen-
ton As Mr.. Holt has well said, what
is tariff or silver to us if we have not
home protection?
At Fort Hill, S. c., monument has
recently been erected in honor of the
faithful plantation negroes who lived
in that section and who guarded the
property of their masters during the
war. The monument was unveiled
yesterday, and Mr.. Polk Miller, of Vir-
einia, the celebrated dialectician, de-
livered the address.
The Hickory Mercury, Populist, will
say, editorially, regarding Russells
nomination: we think the Republi-
cans could have zone better; but SO far
as the Populist are concerned, anybody
nominated by gold-bug convention.
does not suit them; and III our opin-
ion will not be endorsed, directly or
indirectly by them
The Washington Post claims to have
secured an authoritative statement by
Mckinley of his views on the money
question. 1T was dictated to a type
writer as follows:-
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hmjrf trfoWdr may to shrd cmfwy 1856
VIDE ON ghttn benSh afrSb Hanna.
1t is we'll enough that little noise
should be made until the National con-
Sention meets. If, then, sincere and
uncompromising friend of silver is
nominated for President upon a plat
form that can be construed in but
one way, the masses of the white men
of North Carolina will vote the same
ticket this year.-Clinton Democrat.
A man who has been searching for
ding submits nine of them, both for
and against the practice. In Proverbs
x:19, he finds, But he that refraineth
his lips is wise; while in James 1:8.
he reads, "a double minded man is
unstable in all his ways" AS in many
other eases, the authority of the Bible
seems conhicting.-Sp springfield Repub-
lean.
Mr.. Edison never makes a speech
Once, years ago, he tried it, unsucess
fully, before a girls seminary where
he had agreed to lecture on electricity
He had engaged friend named Adams
to operate the apparatus while he
talked, but when the Wizard arose
before his audience he felt so dazeG
that he simply said: Ladies, Mr.
Adams will now address you on cleo
tricity, and i will demonstrate what h
has to say with the apparatus"
DR.. Gilman, of Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity, has been invited TO becom'
superintendent of the city schools o
New York. "Under such supervision,
saws the New York Evening Post, ''w'
should have at last public schoo
system worthy our position as the frs
city of America, and for this we SHOULD
have to thank the small body of re
formers who have worked so untiring
~ for several years to overthrow tn
Gammany system which has curset
ear schools for fully a quarter of
century. 1t was a happy inspiration
to hit upon, as the head for the reform
system, man whose qualifications ar
4baf i'm the IIraSanna nf them