The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-09
FRIDAY,

FRIDAY. April 8, 1897.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The special on the sixth page from
Norganton is copied from the Charlotte
Observer. The credit was omitted by
mistake.
Phoebe Couzens advises the woman
rights advocates to stop it and get mar
ried. 1t is a trifle late for some OF the
girls to take advantage of the sugges-
tion.-Washington Post.
Keysville, Va, has been practically de-
stroyed by fire. On Saturday nearly
half the town was burned, and on Mon
day nearly all that was left was destroy
ed by flames. The loss was very heavy.
The old people say that wnen you
hear the whippoorwill's first song you
may know that winter is gone. As the
wihippoorwill was heard last Tuesday
night we may expect no mare wintry
weather this spring.--Chatham Record.
Col. A. E. Buck. the new Minister to
Japan has rendered to Mr.. Joel Chan
der Harris the position of First Sec
rotary of the Legation, and we under
stand Mr.. Harris has made up his mind
to accept the same. Uncle Remus"
would make big impression in Japan.
A ST Louis woman has achieved dis
tinction by appropriating $4,000 insur-
ance money she got on her huS bands life,
to paying his debts. The insurance was
for her benefit and could not have been
touched by the creditors of her decea Sed
husband, whose memory she thus hon
ored.
The Worth of Their Money.-Mr.
Smythe-"I don't see any sense in hiring
professional singer, and then having
him monopolize the entire afternoon,
as the Hitowers did to-day
Mrs. Smy the-.Well, Mrs. Hitower
explained it to me that they didn't get
him for mere song.''-Brooklyn Life.
If our State government has grown
worse during the past decade under the
quickened study of the tissue of the
day." it has been because of the fact
that with the trend of public thought
towards reform there has marched a
little army of hungry oftice-seekers,
whose own personal interests have COM
pletely shut out thought or care of every
other interest, public or private.-Scot-
land Neck Democrat.
The Mayoralty vote in Chicago COM
plete is as follows: Carter III. Harrison
(DemocraD, 144,S2S; J. NJ. Harlan Qn-
DEPENDENT, 67,O72; n. C. Sears Gre
publican), 1886; w. Hesing Business
Administrator, 1916; John Glen
back (Socialist-Labor), 1,226; III. L. Par
melee Prohibitionist), $50; ]. l.. Pearce,
Jr., independently, CSC; +. Howard Col
ler independently, SO. Total, 2S7.434.
Harrisons plurality, 77,756. Harrison's
majority over all, 1920.
T. ID. Waller, ex-chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners of Gram
vile county, replies in the Public Ledger
to false report that the Democratic
board left the county in debt several
thousand dollars. Mr. Waller was a
member Of the board from 1886 to 1896.
He shows that the Democratic board last
October left $2,353.75 in the treasury;
that it had paid off $4,000 to $4,000 Of
old bonds, issued during the corrupt days
of reconstruction; had built Jail and
repaired the court house, and built many
bridges; and except when the Demo-
Gratis first took charge, all claims were
promptly paid at par. That is the Demo-
cratic record in most counties, and in
1898 the people will vote them back into
power.
The Greensboro Record is justly indig-
nant on account of what it understands
to be an effort on the part of Republican
politicians to get rid of Judge Dick, OF
the United States District court, in or
der that some of them may get his place
1t says: From what is said the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington is un
friendly to Judge Dick and may be able
to force him off the bench. One
thing is certain, the Republicans have
no mercy on each other. They viii
calumniate, abuse, scandalize and do any
thing disreputable ON ''the other fellow
if there is chance to get his place. Ru
NOR has it that a certain willy so-callet
Republican member of the bar is at thu
bottom of the raid being made on Judg
Dick Private letters have been writ
ten to members of Congress makinl
statements about the judges weakness
en- account of age, which are not tru
by any means You can't expect an,
better of gang that is bsssed by negrse
and trusts. 4t, 49,.