The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-02-19
Under the Dome.


There is nothing st ell wrong. how
| ever, in the suggestion made BY The
| Monroe Journal that the Honorable
Glenn Williams Of tho big distiIlery
| town Of Williams, is another gentle
man whom the Democratic party had
better settle UP with for past services
and then cut OF the euga cement" The
Democratic party in this State. by the
way, presents a pretty spectacle with
| the Ward law on one shoulder and q
whiskey still OH the othre.--Charlotte
Chronicle.
"Why do so many Of our young
men of talent leave the State?" asked
Mr.. Cover, Of Johnston county, in
his excellent speech for the compro-
mise measure on the salary of the
| judges He thought it was because
the rewards and incomes held out in
other states were greater and he was
warmly congratulated upon his
speech.
Representative Laughinghouse who
has been in bed suffering from bruises
resulting from q fall on the ice, had
so far recovered as to be in his seat
Yesterday, making telling short
speech in favor of the capital jury
bill
By mistake yesterday the name Of
Representative Joyner OF Northamp.
ton. was omitted from the list Of those
who voted for the increase in the sal
aries OF the Superior and SUI
rreme court judges.
Mitchell, is in the city looking after
some stock law matters. When he
was in the House Mr.. Burleson secur-
"a fi, CO IF hill for rnYorrIl l.
sorry education in Mitchell county
asked Mr.. Bur!cson how the law had
worked Well" he said, very well.
Many children have gone to school
who would not otherwise have OBJ
tained and education. The people are
Well pleased with IL and il will never
be repealed. 1t is q good law aud
works SO we'll that no county that has
the law will ever repeal il. Such q
law will do more than anything else
10 create the people.
1.-The South and Western Railway
that comes into our county from John
ston City to Spruce Pine, thirty-tiye
miles long, in All around, has done
much TO develop our county. They
have bought the right of way to Mar
ION. The Southern is also surveying
a route in our county
Representative Ryburn, Of Cleve-
land county, has called a! primary of
the Democratic voters of that county
to name q county board of education
and he will recommend the men who
are selected by the primary.
The House Committee on Agricul-
ture yesterday reported favorably
two bills curing defects in the pure
food laws of two years ago. The
bill to require cotton ginner5 to make
reports goes over for action till next
week.
In the House, when the anti-jug
law was up, Sampson county was eX-
ampted from it's provisions. A gentle
man in Clinton writes 1--WE haxc had
prohibition in Sampson for some
years. and yet I see it has been ex-
ernpted from the operation of the
anti-jug law. What would hinder the
whiskey dealers from Wilmington
from sending drummers uD here and
taking orders and thereby rendering
negatory In Il measure The Old law
Representative Finney. OF Ale
ghany, who stopped by at his home u
few DAYS after going 10 Ashe as escort
Of the body of the late Representative
PhippS has returned TO his seat.
asked him if The weather was cold in
Allegheny. cold" he said, Il viii
tell you what had TO do to get back
to my seat. ! had TO ride over twenty
miles on horseback over the ice. the
horse slipping al many places. falling
down twice. and throwing me to the
ground. once the horse tell on nay
leg. but l managed TO escape with
out being hurt. Another time he
stumbled and l fell slipping twenty
feet on the ice With no injury except