The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-12
wooDARD IS POPULAR.
North CaroIinians are Pleased at His
Medication.
News and Observer Bureau,
Metropolitan Hotel,
Washington, d. c., April II.

Metropolitan Hotel,
Washington, d. c., April 1.
Congressman Buck, of Louisiana, is
one of the most popular and polished
mel9bers i'm the House. Besides this
he has, perhaps, the leading law prac-
tice in New Orleans, which city he
makes his home. He is so much es-
teemed there that recently his fellow
citizens have risen en- masse and de-
manded that he give up his seat IN
Congress to take the Office Of mayor Of
New Orlenas. OF course, the election
stands between him and the Office. Mr..
Buck left last night in obedience to the
wishes of his people, and did so at
considerable personal sacrifice. HIS
law practice had been lucrative and in
extent almost burdensome for years.
So that, as he said few night ago,
he was really enjoying a rest here ~
washington which he needed much.
And now he is to be, perhaps, called
back to pressing work again. Many
of his colleagues, the evening before he
set out for New Orleans, gave him
charming little dinner at the Metropol-
itan, and many toasts of regret as well
as of good wishes were rendered to
him IN the most cordial way. In the
midst of them all, Mr.. Buck paused
and smiling very amiably re-
marked, with a curl of cunning humor
about his lips, "Well, gentlemen, this
is fame! Even while you all so kindly
give me farewell, paragraph appears
in a great New York daily saying that
Mr.. Buck, of Texas, has been bounced
from his seat in contested election
case, and has set out for New Orleans
10 run for mayor
What the News and Observer has to
say in praise OF Congressman Woodland
is heartily endorsed here on all sides
From personal knowledge, | could
enumerate days full of interesting
work, coming from all section of North
Carolina, which Mr.. Woodland has pre-
sented, always with that modesty and
Willingness that blend so naturally in
the thoughtful and cultured makeup
OF the man. Re lis q place here, not
filed by any representative from Forth
Carolina.
A Young woman, a daughter of one
Of the new Cabinet in Hawaii, arrived
here a few days since, having left the
island for the first time in her life. She
was accosted the journey by an
| acquaintance, who, hearing her de-
scription of the revolution during the
days Of Admiral Stevens, exclaimed:
''How well you speak our language,
considering the fact that you never left
Hawaii. !"
Senator Brice, talking to friend the
other day, stumbled upon the subject
of death, and made the assertion which
may or may not or should or should
not be surprising that he had absolute
ly not the slightest fear Of death. The
conversation drifted to other topics, in
the midst Of one Of which the Senator
said that he could not understand how
smoking made one nervous: that for
thirty years he had smoked as many
Is forty cigars a day without having
suffered any inconvenience therefrom.
r.
A few evenings ago, there walked
| down the dining-room Of one of Wash
ington's first-class hotels, pOrtly
| man. OF dark gingerbread color, who
| ut first sight, would have been taken
/ for a coIored man But d second glance
| showed him to be an Indian. He was
| n pure Cherokee, dressed as other peo-
| ME, and was educated at Roanoke Col
! Iege, Virginia. Among his classmates
| vas Col. William A. Turk, who called
on him few days ago to talk over old
/ times. There were several gentlemen
/ ut table who noticed the entrance Of
| the Indian, and one of them a Congress
man, was asked why it was that this
| man, though having the appearance of
! a cOlored man, was yet seated among
/ the whites from whom he received all
| the social courtesies. The Congress
man thought for a moment, and said
! the philosophy Of the difference in
| treatment lay in the fact the Indian
| represented a race who would die be-
fore it would be in slavery, who would
| always fight for liberty. Other men
| may have other reasons.
! Senator Hale was to-day asked what,
in his opinion, would the President do
with the Cuban resolution. The Sena-
tor replied that be thought the Presi-
/ dent would treat it in the same way
I he did the Armenian resolution, that it
/ do nothing; that he took no stock in
/ the sensational rumors that are now
! going about the capitol 1t may be
proper to note that there are very many
who disagree with Mr.. Hale in this
! view
The following frst-class postmasters
! were appointed to-day: r. r. Gill;
Letha, y. c.; Samuel Vinson, Boseboro,
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