The news & observer., 1897-03-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Naturally the old question arises, How
is the Senate to limit debate on the pro-
position to limit debate Washington
Post.
The annual address before the Uniyer-
sity Medical College of Richmond, Va,
on April 20, is TO be delivered by Judge
Walter Clark, of North Carolina. The
orator last year was Gov. EitZhugh Lee.
A Republican was asked what GER
tain office-seeker was looking for in the
way of a job. oh, anything" he re
Piled. ..He can digest anything from
solft boiled egg to a shoe sole.-Morgan-
ton Herald.
WHO is that young woman sitting
there by the heater? | mean the one
it'll the willowy figure, ashy complexion
and chestnut hair"
'.That? Oh, that is Miss Wood. Gin
cinnati Enquirer.
IL you have any Confederate States
postage stamps don't throw them away.
At a recnt New York sale Confederate
&c. Cancelled postage stamp was sold for
1916. Another brought $102, and other
stamps, all cancelled, anywhere from So
to S72.50 each.-Atlanta Journal.
A school teacher of South Bend, Ind,
who did not believe in corporal punish
mea1t, but who was forced to correct some
very noisy and unmanageable pupils, ad
ministered castor oil in large doses to
nine of the principal offenders. .-Indianap-
oils News.
Graee-"Dora is making the most des-
perate effort to get her waist down /
ever saw"
Carmelita-"Is sheY
Grace-.'Yes. Only think! she has or
dered new pair of corsets made of boa
constructor skin New York Press.
II wonder why the tax levy is made
in mills instead Of cents, remarked
Beechwood.
"That is in accordance with the etern-
al fitness of things" replied Homewood.
''WellY
Because it grinds the taxpayers. -
Pittsburg- Chronicle Telegraph
California last year educated 2,400
young men free of tuition charges in her
University and her legislature has just
added a special tax which is expected to
increase the former appropriations by
the annual addition of $224,000. Evi-
IDENTIFY sshigher education" is not unpopu-
lar ON the "Western Slope"
So it is Judge Sutton. If he will make
as true. as faithful, as determined, as
fair, as just, as able a judge as his vener-
able and most worthy predecessor, Judge
o. p. Meares, of this city, he will prove
a terror to evil doers and blessing to the
State and this particular community. Judge
Meares executed the law. He oppressed
none, but yindicated and upheld the crimi-
nal law. Retiring at his Goth year, he
deserves to be held in public esteem be-
cause OF his fidelity. zeal, fairnes and
manhood in holding the scales Of justice.
Wilmington Messenger.
The Legislature appropriated fifty thou
sand dollars to the penitentiary in the
face of the fact that that institution is
now self-supporting and the statement by
Mr.. A.. Leazar, the exsuperintendent,
that the penitentiary would not cost the
State a dollar for the next ten years
Monroe Enquirer.
The Asheville Register, a Republican
organ, refers editorially to Hon. III. A.
Gudger and J. M. Moody, two rock-rib-
ribed Republican leaders in the Legisla-
ture. as "two paid attorneys Of the liquor
dealers" who represented private inter-
ests and private interests only, and that
in the capacity of lawyers" These paid
attorneys are some of the real nice gem
tlemen who had considerable influence
over certain members of the boilers gang
a few weeks ago.-Hickory Mercury
(Populist)
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