The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-17

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
What Maceo needed was a change Of
physicians Washington Post.
The United States for the last fiscal
year exported $20000,00O OF goods 10
Mexico and imported from thence Soo,-
100000.
Joseph III. Choate, the eloquent New
York lawyer, has announced hlmseI as
a candidate to succeed Hill IN the SENATE
from New York. Tom Platt isn't SO elo-
auent, but he viii get the place
The Presidential vote from all the
States, official except as to titan ana
South Dakota, stood: Mckinley, alO9,-
$50; Bryan, 6.5oS,6S1; Palmer, loa'o9 20
lowering, 1T III. Matchett, 5o94-.
MeKinley's plurality, 600,I99
Emotion. -She-The young lady next
door has eloped with her music teacher.
He-It isn't possible!
She-yyhy isn't it possible! 10 you
know the parties?
He-No: / meant merely that it's too
good to be true.-Puck.
Till last year hardly any oranges were
shipped from Mexico TO the Jhllea
States. Last year 40 car loads were
sent us. This year the shipment mas
risen to $50 car loads, most or them
from one station, La Barca, near Lake
Chapala.
The Alternative John, ! wish you
would buy d horseless carriage as
Christmas present for the family.
IF | do that, Maria, you will have to
go without that costly fur jacket you
wanted to wear with your new silk dress.
You,u have to choose between horse
loss carriage and d hairless corsage, as
If were. Chicago Tribune.
The yield Of corn in Illinois this year
is the second largest in the history OF
the State From 6,9UO,OUo acres, ZOO
$4,000 bushels were gathered, an aver
age weld Of ~ bushels to the acre. Inc
largest yield in the State was IN ioS
when 500, 100000 bushels We're ralse go
on 100000 acres, an average o. %
bushels per acre.
The Emperor of Austria, who Is
Great smoker, restricts himself to So
called Virginia" cigars, manufactured
Of the rankest tobacco at Trieste, with
a straw running through the middle OF
them. in order to make them draw.
They are so green and damp that they
have to be held in q flame for several
minutes before they can be persuaded TO
ignite.
aWorse and worse is the condition OF
the poor at Mckinley's home'-that IS
the statement which the Cincinnati En-
o,lirer puts into the headlines over
special from Canton. 1t is fully borne
out by the text Of the dispatch when
is copied from the report OF Mrs. JOSIAH
Hartzen. president of the Canton Board
of Charities. L his report declares, I'D
effect, that there is much suffering In the
little city by reason Of want of employ
ment.
The common school question is grow
inc in public interest, we are glad TO
see, and we hope by the time the Legis-
lature meets, public sentiment Will be SO
erystalized as to force the lawmakers
to give attention to the children OF the
State. whether they wish to or not. And
let us hope for the best. Humanity mot
to mention the Constitution requires
that the public schools shall last at
least four months in the year.-Charity
and Children.
Emigration to America created so great
a dearth of labor in the agricultural dis
tricts Of Germany that Chinese coolies
are now being imported in perfect hordes
for field work in the provinces Of Sile-
STA, East Prussia, Posen and Pomerania.
Inagmuch as the coolies are content TO
labor for twenty cents day, all told, the
German landowners are enthusiastic
about the innovation, and those peasants
who have hitherto turned a deaf ear TO
the arguments in favor Of emigration are
now being driven to the wall, and may
shortly be expected to arrive in this coun-
try in shoals.
+. w. Gender, a Populist of Union
county, writes to the Caucasian on the
senatorial question, saying: or course
we 10pS W0aIu prefer AaJ, GuInTle
or w. II. Henry as we think they would
best match Senator Butler. We do not
under any circumstances want "Goldie
Pritehard'' returned. We think If the
Populist Representatives vote for him it
will be goodbye party. But we do not
anticipate that for we think Pop is too
true to his country to do anything Of the
kind. Gentlemen, give us Maj, Guthrie
or Mr.. Henry If you please.