The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-02

Entered at the Post-ofiee at Raleigh,
". c., as second-c1ass matter.
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THURSDAY, April 2, 1896.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
He"I wish it were true that all the
world loves a lover"
he-"Why?''
He Because you're all the world to
me-
Il feel rather sad when think of
refusing him.
Never mind, my dear / felt the
same way when / first refused your
father. Life.
Tt appears that young Coxey, the son
of the general, is fighting with the rev
olutionists down in Cuba, and it is
suggested that the general might find
employment down there for his army
of hobos.
Non-union labor is at work on the
lACJ0D1ICdu EOi1fC5AliOI ~ Cbs
Louis, and the building trades council
of Chicago has served notice that no
candidate nominated in such building
can have their support
Al friend comes from Albemarle county,
Virginia, to tell us that Amelie Riyes
married her Russian Prince Troubet-
ski for the purpose of securing mate
rial for new novel The prince is
Cossack, a nihilist and an exhile-WTn.
e. Curtis.
The authorities at New York last
week sent back 400 Italians because
they did not each have $50 in his pocl5
ct. 1T seems now settled that no i'm
migrant can land unless he has $50. 1t
were wise to al land purpose to be-
come an American citizen and be-
Lever in American institutions"
Now that the whiskey trust is dead
the Supreme court of Illinois finds it
repugnant to the State antitrust law.
But while it lived and fiourished in the
State through six long years there was
not a breath of opposition from the
courts. 1T can at least be said that
a dead trust has no terrors for the
Illinois courts. IF more than this can
be said, there is the Chicago gas trust
for the court to march out against.
Springfield Republican.
The Lawrence Mfg Co, Of Lowell,
one of the biggest plants in Massachu-
sets, has stopped making cloth
entirely. The directors will re
fund half Of the capital stock.
shut down half of the mill, and
make nothing but hosiery They
say that the Southern manufac-
turers have an advantage over those of
the North of from 11s to ? cents
pound. Treasurer Baker says they
wiilneyer return to the manufacture OF.
coarse cotton.
Bro. j. II. Mills, is writing very in
teresfing story entitled Captain
Benajah.' The foundation is laid on
parts Of the Bible, and from this he
builds splendid structure IT Is the
story Of q meeting of the Grand
Lodge at Jerusalem, for the burial of
King Hiram, and the story ends with
q bit of romance, in which there Is
happy marriage. The story will soon
BE Dn9hEltds II ~ - Aloi diiI
will then be put in book form. We
trust we violate no confidence in say-
ing this much of Captain Benajah. -
Orphans Friend.
Judge Hughes, as he was officially
known during the last twelve years of
his life, seTom Brown" Hughes, as he
Is affectionately known to the boys of
several generations, was typical Eng
lishman of the best class. He is enti-
tied on many accounts, to place in
the list of British worthless" An in
dustrious and distinguished lawyer,
and all his life busy man, he yet
found time to devote to every cause
that appealed to him as good. Even
within the last year he agitated in
print new project that he thought
would inure to the benefit Of his coun-
trymen. As he relates, he gave up
q vacation to writing '"Tom Brown,
and he did ii because he considered
that the book might do some good.
That he was producing a classic proba-
bly, did not enter his mind, and was, at
any rate, only incidental to his main
design which was to do god in his gem
GRAFTON. His motive in writing "Tom
Browns School Days was in part to
acknowledge his own debt to Or. Ar
mold, Of Rugby, and without doubt il
was very important.