4"_ erats have kept up the interest, |},_this amount. "~Subscription 25 cents per. month:Entered as second-class mail matter. .EEJohn E. Woodard: has again~declined the appointment ;as So-licitor of this district, tenderedby Gov. Carr, and W. P. Shaw, ofHenderson, was appointed. W.C. Douglass, of Carthage, was ap-pointed in the seventh district.eee eeThe Wews and Observer saysthe Fusion clans are alreadygathering in Raleigh makingTready for the Legislature ~whichconvenes-next Wednesday. Theoffice seekers are there in greatnumbers and opening their head-quarters.SERENE EERev. Irl Hicks, of St. Louis,the man who hits the weatherforecasts on the head more--accurately than any other of schoolof prophets, says that the roughest and wo1sT part of the. preseutwinter is to come in FebruaryTand March: lf it is to be anyworse than the past week we are-not anxious to see it.SnThe Newbern Journal, in pub-lishing the statement of the Com-missioners of Craven county,notes the fact that when theDemocrats took charge of thecounty finances, there was a debtof $165,000 which had been sad:died upon the county by Republican Commissioners. The-Demo-:reduced the debt to $50,945.53.and will shortly pay $25,000 onTthecon Editor Whichard one of|,28 pape t0 the North Car-* = ekly = res: =3 ~ a 4 = Fe ee ee ie =e r a Sate. ~~. = Sa . -Duli oea BF Fh: 2Posi ee see maeon siepete season, Dele pe hus. badand will gladly send ina.message if he thinks. 1t-:the cause of eurrency reform.As there are a considerable nam-|ber of Democratic members of}the House who have not yet re-turned to Washington, it is prob-able that the decision as to theT!pro Democratic caucus onthe Carlisle currency reform billwill go over to next week, generaldebate. on the bill continuingmeanwhile in the House.teaders in the. House 1s to try tomeet all reasonable objections tothe Carlisle bill by amendmentsand then to put the bill .throughthe House by a majority so largethat the Senate will be compelledby public opinion to act upon themeasure. _They wish to get thefullest possible attendance at thecaucus and to have every objec-tion to the bill frankly stated.There is no desire to muzzle any-body, or to ask anyone to yotefor the bill who cannot be con-vinced that it is at. least a steptowards relief.Notwithstanding all the wild.talk about Democratic oppositionto the Carlisle bill, Ag corres.pondent anhesitatingl predictsthat when the bill vel Ee ae upon itsfinal passage in the House therewill not be 25° Democratic votesrecorded against it. But the billmay be considerably changed byamendments before it is votedup-on. Whatever is done with it, itshould in the end be passed (eventhe subject under consideration5a sale mén, and the.The idea of the Democratic.eS faraed over one eD-;bage*1 ha PeL2G. 4e issue to a woman's benevo-Hent association. "The paper wasmade up entirely by women, onlythe mechanical part -being doneentire . proceedsPa the edition were givenito, char-oEvery ~dey nt was un-oe Usa direction and ~control ofawoman. A woman .p ed inthe. business.office, a woman act"ed: as -editor-in-ehief,...all . thewriters and-even: the ooffice ~boys�were women or gris.� Womanwas boss in the composing room,in the press: room, - the: mailingroom"every where. The _ brightand energetic women who under-took this task acromplished itmost successfally: The pspercame out on time, was full ofnews and interesting editorialcomment. A great deal of curi-osity had been aroused to seehow the amateur women journalists would succeed, and conse"quently the sales of the. Paperwere unusually heavy. heMemphis, Tean., ~Commercial willtry this experiment od St: Vaien"tineTs Day with the object ofstarting a fund for erecting awoman's temple in that city sim"ilar to the building of ~the Wo-manTs ~ Christian © TemperanceUnion in Chicago. _Memphis hasa host of bri t women and there .iwill be no lack of volunteers fromtheir ranks to assist ~in gettingout the womanTs edition of theCommercial. 3Cotton and Peanuts, vue�Below are Norfolk prices of cotton~and peanuts for yesterday, as furnished~by Cobb Bros. & Co., Commission Mer-if it did not deserve to be onT its}chants of Norfolk :pre~Demvcratic Congress in aocratic administratidn.officials now onjy|Bd a~Treasuryawait theofthe income oe one j heme reWe welcome the Dar.y(Green-" ok of whys fda6) REFLECTOR to cur table. We rot = ing toe Aiies :jleady Ppcan Desoonie~the tex.merits), as » vote of confidence |appropriation to start)OOTTONR.Good Middling 5916 "Middling 6b 7Low Muldling ~ 7. 4182}Gord Ordinary AtTone"steady. - nine=an