The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-04
SCRATCHINGS.

Pot Pourri. Ola Podrida and several
other such remarks having got into Such
general use / see lit to forget th'm nn'
head this remarkable letter with the
plain Anglo-Saxon word "Scratchings.
| Its sound is right, if the tone Is not
pitched high. When everybody else De
gins to use it for photographic writings !
will hunt some other word.
The humour of this campaign as usual
| is in the dust-(money.) ] had to put the
word money in as above because loSt
Il week trying to get man to see the
pun.
AS an orator and statesman Gladstone
| was not in it compared with Spencer
| Blackburn-sce John r. Smiths report
The Dockerys begin to pull down
house at the bottom and to build at the
| top.
The negroes of the Fourth ward appear
to have lost Pat Stewart.
My pulchritude has been sharply dead
ened by sleeping two in bed on dicJ
of cornfield peas, slowed biscuits and
dried fruit with the peel left on it. I'm
sugared coffee is the variation.
Alger supplies the army-the govern
ment might make him and his partners
u present of Cuba, Porto Rico and few
other things and save money thereby.
Chicago park reaches out over the
world. Letter the hog man has got his
| daughter 0ady Curzon) in as governor
generaess of India
Harry SINNERS speech in the Pop
State convention Of 1892 would be inter
esting reading just mt this juncture. Ills
right arm would then he flung off before
he would help turn this State over to the
Radical party Tempus why fly?
Judge Clark buckcd against the Gig
arctic Trust and got Killgocd; now LET
the Judge buck V. $. the Kelley Trust.
/ still think it was the Cubans and
not the Spaniards who blew down the
Maine.
With Plenary Executive committee the
Republican party should go out of the
business Of holding conventions. 1t IS
useless and expensive to hold conyen-
ton where the expenses Of delegates have
to be paid by the machine
Drunkenness appears to be bar TO
oIucal recognition but righteousness
is no degradation.
That was a pretty smart gerrymander
that jumped a county or so in order To
get IDuutbillt anu Clduly lntO lHC Siih'
Referee arrangement.
The Liquor Dealers Association under
the control of O'Donnel late of Ireland
and Solyman Bear late of Chermany has
become Il great moralizing influence
When the world shall be rcmodeled on
Il different system from Bellamyisln
the souvenir spoon craze may be reviv-
ed and possibly there may be such Il
rrnn,, IN ,o,,,ou, bro rcn Of thn bnpnv mann
Not having succeeded in putting off the
rainy season in the West Indies our war
department is Withdrawing its troops
until the rain shall have passed by
Good thoughts don't linger-jOt them
down as they come.
Il is n cheap age-but the understood
person gets the most benefit. Hence our
youth are growing up small.
The chief question that will shortly be
before the public should have been fore
seen during this Spanish war, but those
who did no fighting and hurting may be
relied upon to agitatc and keep the mat
ter alive forever / refer to the distin
guished Sons and Daughters Of this war.
A grand opportunity was afforded to peO-
pie to start the upbuilding of an ancestry
on the plan of the Cincinnati. Sons and
so forth of the Revolution ana other such
things for their posterity to brag upon
and swear by during the next 100 years.
Already we are threatened with an order
of Saint Iago, and / would suggest an or
der Of the Sons of Fillipinos and we
must not fail to have an honorable order
of Ladrones, because il would be Il dis
tfnctiveIy American institution. (Alger
might head this order0
The Flying Blade would be an appro
pirate name for Il Populist paper that has
a clientele which can read plain stuff.
The Senate committee on Civil Service
and Retrcnchment seems TO be perfect
ing the service by knocking down the
Entertainments.
1t will hardly do to institute comp ~
sons as to the virtue of candidates be-
cause it might land some of the so-calieI
| respectable persons in Jail.
John Cebcrn Logan Harris would
make capital solicitor. He would not
mind prosecuting offenders wholesale.
Over-doseS of liquor are very liable
to give even honest persons malaria or
bili0usnesS.
The true hypocrite is always happy.
The lingering illness of the Populist
party is dependent for hope upon being
able to forestall the other parties in nom
mating a President in 1900. l.Ithe" Nc
Kinley or Bryan will do-whichever at
that time seems to be surest to win.
Principles went when the party got into
the Treasury Sub-Treasury.
G. Ed. Flow is flowing on as ever,
and it is feared must be. Pity he did