Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-02

u OHitS U III oit0 SOtItiltCtilS Tia
are ~Sagacious for Present Contem-
piation and Future Guidance.
The Peach crop has been heard
from. 1t is going to be great. Ills
well.
All that man needs to make a
success of life is courage and good
health.
It's no excuse for the big Size of
the pension list that many on it are
doing more fighting against the
South to day than they did thirty
years ago.
In Atlanta the clergy are up in
arms against a proposal Of a local
literary association to invite Colonel
Ingersol to lecture in that city. The
clergy are right.
When President Harrison leaves
the White House, in March, he will
have received during his term of
office, for salary and allowances, the
sum of $376,S0O.
Senator Turpie speaks eight Ian
guages, and there are times when he
needs them all to express his cpins
ions upon the statesm anship to
which he has to listen.
In all the yarisgated iridescence
of Ingalls, political visions he could
never have dreamt of a Democratic
Senator from Kansas. But matters
are in a fearful State there.
U. s. Black, of Baltimore, has
patented an improved Australian
ballot-box, which is said to be so
perfect in its working that ordinary
frauds will find it useless fooling
with it.
1t is alleged that a United States
Senator has declared his ability to
make a two weeks speech on silver
at a moments notice. a moments
speech at two weeks notice would
possibly be better.
A bill appropriating $4,000 for
cell doors with locks and night bars
IN Sing Sing Prison has been intro
duced in the NY. Legislatu re. What
is the idea? To keep the Brooklyn
Aldermen out?
At this late day it is proposed that
President Hayes portrait shall be
placed upon a future issue Of gov
eminent Treasury notes-honors
which were accorded to Grant and
Garfield long ago.
Though it is estimated that the
Columbian Exposition will cost fifty
millions, it may not be a bad IN
vestment after all. Col. Alex. D.:
Anderson, Of Washington, the author
of the Worlds Fair idea, figures it
out that at least $500, 600. 600 will
be spent here by foreign visitors and
that 500, OOO, 900 that usually go
abroad will be kept here.
Fpffalo Bill isn't very well pleased
with the manner in which Secretary
Noble has sat down upon his scheme
to engage fifty Indians for the Chi
cago Exposition and feels that he
has been treated scurvily. Possibly
SO, but Mr.. Noble thought that the
rival committees of the show could
raise all the war-whoops needed to
make the affair a bowling success
without Colonel Cody's assistance.
Just how England got hold of
Egypt, and by what delicate pros
crosses of diplomacy She finally fixed
her hold upon it, would be hard to
detail, but by that marvellous fac
ulty which her people have of pick
ing up provinces and Kingdoms and
making them tributary to her, she
has secured it, and nobody that
knows anything supposes that she
will ever let go.
However extensively the Panama
Canal promoters may nave corrupt
ed Deputies and journalists, there is
no Indication that they got near to
the officers Of justice, till they came
before them as culprits. The exam
lining magistrate, who exercises the
functions that with US belong to the
grand jury, has been prosecuting his
inquest quietly and has now found