Ldwin A. Alderman as president of
the University of North Carolina, will
occur on Wednesday, Jan. 27th. The
Goi.nLKAf is in receipt of an invitation
which reads as I allows: The trustees
and faculty of the University of North
Carolina request your presence at the
inauguration of the President, Edwin
Anderson Alderman, January the
27th, 1897, in Cerrard Hill, Chapel
Hill."
Tiik semi annual meeting of the
National Association of Morocco Man
ufacturers, recently held in Philadel
phia, developed a fact which shows
one of the encouraging signs of the
times. According to reports made it
was shown that 90 per cent, of the
leather used for the uppers of women's
shoes is made from goat skins. Not
many years ago nearly all this a as
imported from IVap.ce. Now Ameri
can manufacturers provide all the
morocco needed here and further than
that export Urge (pnntities to lvi
rope.
O.MK of the singular things conn-.c
ed with the fight for liberty wh:i:h
being made by the gallant Cubans s
that notwithstanding the United St it:
government ius thus fir refused to rec
ognize the Cubans as belltgrrem s : '
although Secretary Oiney has d- miYii
that they have no post office svsieni,
still letters bearing the new Cuba1,
postage stamp, and united at Los
Vilas, Cauiaguey, and other places in
Cuba, are frequently received in this
country, thus showing that at least a
part of Uncle Sam's postal service rec
ognizes Cuba Libre, and until further
orders will cairy the letters, even
though from an Oiney standpoint,
they are unstamped says the Wilming
ton, Delaware, Star.
IMU'STKIAL ACKXT APPOINTED.
Mr. E. St. John, Vice-President
and General Manager of the Seaboard
Air Line, has issued a circular bearing
date of Jan. nth, stating that Capt.
