Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-05-11
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The tissue paper trust has failed,
probably becaus it was too thin.
The gra1d old Liberty Bell, So
an attraction at the Pennsylvania
Build ng, is everything it is cracked
up to be Chicago Tribune.
The law would be more honored
By honest men and feared by Grim
finals if there were fewer appeals
from its decisions.-Swansea Sens
tinel.
IfKansas lynching fees expect
to obtain editorial notices in Re-
publican papers they will have to
move their State South.-Memphis
~Aypeal-Avalanche.
The only trouble with Governor
Pennoyer, of Oregon, is that in his
make-up his lack of brain is ave-
ragged up by bis supply Of gall
ISteep Brook Baz %,
You may appoint Arbor Days,
but you cannot make people plant
trees. This seems to be the plain
, moral Of Saturdays non>otserv-
gnce.- Boston journal.
Going to the Worlds Fair is like
bu lding a house. You may figure
all you please on the probable exs
b. pense, but it is bound to run way
above the e timate.-Detroit Free
Press
1t the foreigners now In this
$ country want 10 see our standiag
e army they viii i, well to look in
the horse cars and elevated cars
: morning and evening New York
Tribune.
0 A display of the terribly dess
g tluct We engines Of mode IN warfare
like we have recently had in these
e waters is a frst-class plea fol
peace at almost any price New
4 Ycrk Herald.
Charlotte Observer: News
Preached the city yesterday morning
OF lie death at Stevens Mill, hi
3 home in Union county, of MIR
q David Green Long, brother o
I Messra. James G, and John P
Long, Of tliis city. Deceased wa
SO years { fage. He had not beer
il good health lately, but was no
conhned to bed. His death wa
sudden, aud Almost without pre-
g monition.
,e 4 press dispatch from Knoxville
:" Tenn, states that Senator Prcctor
tof Vermont, and two local capital
lists, will break ground in that GIT,
eoon for the largest marble mill il
the word. Knoxville is snrsounde'
by marble deposits, the develop
ment Of which has already been
81 source of great profit to Z .st Ten
~ nessee, but the probabilities ar
= that the industry will be vastl,
81 more profitable IN the future, In
! decd, SO abundant is marble in tn
81 section named that the sidewalk
land curling of one Of the town
between Knoxville and Chatta
OF nooga are constructed of that me-
a %terial, while further South, in Geo
Us gia, the mile-stones along the We
ne tern and Atlantic Railroad, be
ke tween Chattanooga and Atlants
Vd are made Of white marble. duarrie
ne along the line of the road.
A correspondent of the Nah
[r. vile (fenn.) Banner expresses th
Id opinion that the low standard {
,ie Legislative ability in that State
ed due to the flu some fattery {
iii would>be public men by the pres
oe Possibly the Discrimination of me
d. of ability to relinquish lucrativ
he employment for public position hi
re. more to do with the matter tina
ne. the reason advanced by the CO.
respondent: How far this fulson
iattery has prevailed we do NJ
. know, but certain papers in Men
: lphia have recently been decided
, loutspoken in calling attention t
the shortcomings of fudge DuBot
. and the Speaker of the Low
two 0o House of the Legislature, both
tiss9 whom have been compelled to ste
f fteh down.
'fS9T It is to the credit OF Govern
'A"' Flower, of New York, in dealil
ted ted. with the appeal of Carlisle W. Hs
and ris, the convicted wife murderer, f
~clemency, that he resisted all d
tempts that were madethrough Il
ITS. medium of high political infuenc
and rendered his decision upon 4
merits OF the case. He caused &
the evidence adduced upon t
trial TO be carefully examined,
see itieer~ was any flaw which b
ESCAPED he nogice of the d ,fere
cour:s which had passed upon t
case, and his deliberately form
! at opinion was that no reason exist
of why he should interfere with t
st verdict of the jury, Govern
the Flower has, on several occasion
shown himself to be an excelle
e Executive, but in no instance b