The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-03-05

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IHUbS 9AY, a,rch 5. 1896.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
How are you keeping Lent this
year, Miss Caustique?"
by staying at home and entertain
ing disagreeable people. Come often"
Detroit Free Press.
what is the amount Of the poll tax
John?" asked Mrs. Cawker.
One dollar replied Mr.. Cawker.
when we women get the ballot we
shall mark it down to 90 cents. ''-Har-
per's Bazaar.
Little Please, | want the doctor
to come and see mother.
Doctors Sergant-Doctor's out.
Where do you come from?
Little Boy-What! don't you know
me? Why, we deal with you; we had a
baby from here last week.-London
Tit-Bits.
Justice Hawkins, of London, has been
at it again. You are charged with
trying to commit suicide" he said
sternly to the prisoner at the bar.
Il was driven to it, your lordship,"
stammered the unfortunate; II was
driven to it by woman
HUM unused the lordship. Then,
suddenly, Did she refuse you, or did
she marry you ?''-London Globe.
Bishop julius. Of New Zealand, is
much troubled by the number of spuri-
Gus coins found ia the church offorto-
ries of the diocese. In a recent sermon
he said: Il never saw 50 much bad coin
in my life. 10 offer to the church-the
cause Of God-money that the baker or
the butcher would not accept shocks
me. The man that would do that
wants the grace Of God badly--or three
months"
Recently the Newton Enterprise
printed an item to the effect that
leading fusionists of Catawba had met
and parceled out the offices, and it
was copied in this paper. The Hick
DRY Mercury said the report was not
true and we printed that. Now the En-
terprise prints card from =. NJ. Hide
brand, chairman of the Republican eX-
ecutive committee Of Catawba county,
in which the statement is made that
such a meeting was held, and that it
was correctly reported by the Enter
prise
President Homer T. Fuller, Of Drufy
College, Springfield, Ohio, has received
letter from a Massachusetts man,
who offers large sum of money for
the verifcation Of war episode. The
story is that III the early days Of the
war detachment of Confederate
troops i'm Missouri took about four hum
bred Union prisoners. Twelve Of these
were lined up and shot without pro-
vocation by the Confederate officers
Upon hearing OF this act, the
commander Of the Federal regiment
TO be shot ia retaliation. As the line
drafted twelve Confederate prisoners
10 be sot in retaliation. As the line
was being formed, a young man named
William Lear stepped forward and
asked 10 take the place Of one Of the
condemned men, who was his friend
The request was granted, and Lear was
shot in place Of his friend.
decision Of the United States Supreme
Court, secure a reai1irmation OF their
legal title to the whole Of the great
estate left by him. But the decision
does not and cannot establish or con
firm the moral title. The Pacific rail-
road cases have been Investigated, Of
ficially and otherwise, time without
number; and If one fact connected
with the building and looting Of those
roads has been established to the sat
isfaction Of everybody, it is that the
great fortunes accumulated by Stan
ford and q number Of others i'm the
building and management of the Cen
trail Pacific were in large part dishon-
estlv acquired, to the defrauding Of
the United States government and the
other security holders, and to the
lasting cost OF the patrons of the road
Springfield Republican.
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