The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-04-27
Caught From
The Current

| He SuTTeul
This week there have been almost
enough legislators in Raleigh TO make
it look like Il session of the Legislature.
| dropped in the hotel Hobbies and there
sat Speaker Common, looking like he was
getting ready to call the House to order.
As / went out the door l met Mr.. Frank
ID. Hackett, assistant principal clerk IN
the House. near by stood Mr.. Geo. Ken
nedy, assistant doorkeeper, and just vi
the street / spied Reading Clerk Wilson
while Eugene Bagwell, a popular page,
was passing by on his way to school.
There were enough officers for the pur-
poses of organization. Among the mem
bcrs of the House that | CHANGED TO
meet were Messrs. Bunch and Kennett
of Guilford; Gattis, of Orange; Davis
of Franklin Foushee. of Durham; Rob
inson, of Cumberland; Boushall, of
Wake: Patterson, of Caldwell; Craig, Of
Buncombe: Mclean, of Harnett; Powell,
of Wake: Brown, of Johnston, and per-
haps others.
There were not so many members or
officers of the Senate present, but
enough to make it look like the Legisla-
ture was about. Mr.. c. G. Daniels, of
Wilson, principal clerk. and Mr.. Camp
bell, of Moore, assistant principal clerk.
and Mr.. Goodwin, another clerk, several
pages were the only officers | saw.
Among the Senators here were DR.. X.
ii. Speight, of Edgecombe, and w. l..
Williams, of Cumberland; Il. l.. Travis,
of Halifax; +. a. Whitaker, of Wake.
IF you wish to be strictly up-to-date,"
said the girl in the bookstore, change
the position of your seal when you close
an envelope. Somebody has set the abb
surd fashion of placing it about two
inches at the left of the flap, and every
woman who aims to be progressive will
follow it."
WELL we might as well be out of the
world as out of fashion, and we will
confess on the quiet, that this new fash
ion, is rather pleasing and artistic. /
thought that the first letter / received i'll
this manner was Il mistake, that the
softened wax had dropped into its posi-
ton by accident, but / began TO discover
that the accidents" were frequent and
Immediately set out for information.
Fashion tried to force the seal into the
background sometime ago, but dainty
women would not submit. They had
coat-of-arms or some original seal with
which they had become identified, and
give it up they would not. They were
sensible in their resistance, for letter
sealed with Il prettily colored wax and
an effective design is well worth looking
at
Once it was said in this State that
ed. Now the power of the Legislature
seems to be exhausted and the Judiciary
is in the saddle.
THE Superior court judges in their
office-suit decisions, seem to be follow
ing Judge Clark's dissenting opinion
pretty faithfully" was the remark made
by Supreme court judge the other
day.
The minister from Germany spent
Tuesday and Wednesday here inspecting
the experiment station and farm, with Il
view to making a report on this subject
to his government Before coming here
he spent several days ut Southern Pines,
where there is an experiment farm. He
has visited the experiment farms and
stations in sveral other States.
Capt. Andy Cowles seems to be the
Abon Ben Adem of the First North
Carolina regiment. Lis name very cor
rectly leads all the rest at the tail end
of those ringing resolutions" sent to
the Governor.
Secretary Whitsett, of the Teachers
Assembly writes:
''Why not have the Raleigh to visit
Morehead City during the session Of
the North Carolina Teachers Assem-
bly,. june 13th-1Sth? The great bat
tleship would be a magnificent object
lesson to the hundreds of North Caro-
linians who will be there at that
time"
I've been in many States" said the
Georgian, s'but North Carolina beats
'em all. The Governor comes in office
and deies the courts and all. The
Legislature meets and threatens to inn
peach the Governor. The Supreme
Court comes along, last in the process
sion, and sets aside all that the Legs-
lature has done. And thus the game
goes with furious round"
State Treasurer Worth has never
been known to complain on account
of notice served on him. in ease Of a
contest, to pay no money to either
side. He rather complained yesterday
that no such notice had been served
touching the Agricultural Board. 1t
is rather thing in which he delights
these little notices not to pay
money.
There have been mobs of offi~e-seek-
eds here with their friends the past
two days. If they could have voted
they would have been unanimous for
tarring and feathering the old board
that shut out the new board in that
little game of freeze-out they're try
ing to play.
The announcement is made thai The
Norfolk College for Young Ladies VIII
close at the end of the present scholas-
tic year in June. This will be read