The subject selected by the Medical Society at the last meeting in
Goldsborough, was SPONDYLITIS. They were fortunate in selecting Dr. M.
Whitehead as the essayist. It seems to us it would be more agreeable to
the essayist, to allow him to select his own theme, and provided he
announced it in advance of the meeting, it would answer the same
purpose.
The annual oration will be delivered by Dr. W. W. Lane, of Wilmington,
upon a subject not announced.
The Society expects from these gentlemen rare entertainment and
instruction.
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In our quotation from the _Nation’s_ Berlin letter on “The Discovery of
the Soul,” the printers made the mistake of not ending the paragraph
with quotation marks, and our northern neighbors who copied it from the
Journal entire without acknowledgement, have incorporated Sambo’s
philosophy in a way that we considered original with ourselves. It would
be news to the _Nation’s_ correspondent that he is versed in the
mysteries of the philosophy involved in the “folk lore” of our Southern
negroes.