The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-06

1t is now proposed to build a sum-
mer home for the President OF the
United States on the outskirts of Wash
ington.
Col. Ingersoll's daughter appears to
be a chip of the paternal block. She
appeared in a New York court room
the other day to make complaint
against man for abusing horse, and
she refused to be sworn on the Bible.
Lientanant-G Doughton, who
passed through Winston Tuesday even
ing on route to Chapel Hill, says the
Democrats i'm his section of the State
are Democrats-no gold or silver issues
are bothering or dividing them-that
they are going into this fight to save
the State from Russellism, and they
don't propose to let anything deter
them. This is the ''stuff.' Let's all
emulate that example. Winston Sen.
tIIna1;
Here are the dates of all the Ma
tional conventions. of the political par
ties this year: May 81, Prohibitionists,
at Pittsburg; June 16, Republicans, at
st. Louis; July 4, Socialists, at New
York city; July z, Democrats, at Chi
cago, and July %, Populists at ST.
Louis. The Prohibitionists have al
ready assembled and split in two. The
question remains as TO how many more
splits are to come from the four con-
ventions yet to be held.
A Wichita (Kap.) widow has been ar
rested on q warrant sworn out by
tailor who charges that she threw
kiss to him while he was with his VIE,
and that she did so with malicious
intent" But the widow says that the
Hiss was meant for the ta1or's wife,
which the wife doesn't believe. we
opine that the widow has the best side
of the case 1t will be mighty difficult
for the tailor to prove that the kiss was
meant for him if the widow says it
was intended for his wife, and sticks to
it.
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When jefferson was President he
went regularly to market, and he kept
in his journal year after year the date
on which the early vegetables and
fruits appeared, and the precise cost
of tomatoes, strawberries, peas and
cabbage. The stately columns and
swelling dome of the University, and
right here the symmetrical beauty OF
the old Monticello mansion bespeak
the exalted mind that reproduced IN
them the classic models. But do not
forget he made the estimates of brick
and mortar and timber and nails, and
trained the hands that brought the
seemly piles from the crude ma rial
Senator Daniel.
An Arizona man is thus quoted III
the Washington Star: There are
springs in Arizona where almost any
object can be petrified Frogs, snakes
lizards and other reptiles have ven
tllred into some of these springs ane
been turned to stone. Leaves, tWl9'
and branches of trees have undergone
the same process. But the most re
marNable instance is that of cattle
man. He was in the habit of standing
i'm one of these springs and bathing
He did this for some time, when H.
began to feel peculiar pains in his fee
and ankles, and he stopped, but tn
pains continued, followed by numb
ness that never left.them. He lost al
control of the muscles of that part o
MS body. and it was but a few week
until he realized that his feet had be
come petrfied, and for the last year h
has been unable to walk. The rest 0
his body was somewhat affected, bu
not so much 50, as the water had no
submerged him.