davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
Another Communication.

Dear Argus:-I have seen a
communication in your daily of
yesterday from a committee of
the trustees of the colored Nor
NAL School stating that Maj. H.
l.. Grant had not been sc prompt
as he might have been in paying
the teachers and principal of
said school. Can it be that he is
the same Major Grant who so
vigorously abused the late Board
of Aldermen for what he con-
ceived to be outrageous expendi-
lures of the peoples money, and
who took special delight in tell
ing his hearers, (his constitu-
ents) night after night at the
court house, just before the re-
cent city election, that when he
was q member of the Board Of
Aldermen that it invariably Sc.
lected gentlemen from the Dem
ocratic party to audit its acs
counts! It seems that the
Democratic Board of Trustees Sc
lected their treasurer from an
opposite party. Surprising, I
presume that he would be more
careful in handling the peoples
money (the colored people's) as
he has always ~professed to have
a great interest in the uptuild-
ing of the colcred race. But,
alas, the colored brother is beg
ging for his hard-earned dollar.
Perhaps the Major would have
the principals and teachers of
this school practice rigid econ
omy. judging from his utterances
with regard to municipal affairs.
But has he that right.
SUBSCRIBER.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
A Question of salary.

is Mr.. S~callenger in?"
Cant you see whether he is or not?"
Are you Mr.. S~callenger?"
"No, sir"
Then l see he is not in. ! beg your
pardon for troubling you. Can you tell
me where he is?'
''How do you suppose I know?'
Docs he occupy a desk in this
of1ce?"
He does"
"He comes in occasionally during the
day, l presume?"
"He does, sir"
Has he been here this m~orning?"
II has"
May l ask If you have any idea
as to when he will be likely to drop in
again9"
you may, but it won't do any good .
"Can you direct me, sir, to anybody
who can point out some person who
can show me where to inquire for the
man hat can give me some inforna-
ton as to the whereabouts of Mr..
SGallenger??"
''Im not paid to sit here and answer
fool questions"
Il see. You would act like a gentle
man if you were paid for it. Thanks.
Good afternoon!"-Chicago Tribune.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
Horrible Double Tragedy.

Philmont, N. Y, June PA
horrible case of suicide and MUIR
der occurred here at 1915 o'clock
this afternoon in which Harry
Krooz and George jacob are the
victims.
Krooz is the agent of the Har-
lem road here, having filed the
position for the past % years.
Jacob is his father-in-law and
acts as the assistant agent,
Krooz was about 43 years of age,
and jacob 50. Krooz killed ia
cobb by shooting him twice in the
back of the head and then killed
himself by firing a bullet into his
own head. The motive for the
crime is a mystery, as both were
on the friendliest terms. The
shooting occurred only a few
moments before a passenger
train was due. The only person
the station besides the dead men
was a woman, waiting for the
train. When she heard the shots
she gave the alarm. Before any
body else reached the station,
the passenger train had arrived
and the conductor and trainmen
found the dead men, having died
instantly.
Krooz shot jacob in the back
of the head as the latter was
seated at the desk writing. Krooz
had been discharged and the re-
lief agent was on the train that
arrived shortly after the tragedy
occurred, to relieve him. There
is said to be no shortage in his
accounts, but that he had become
careless in doing his business.
Krooz leaves a wife and four
children, one being a married
daughter. The other children
are aged 10, - and 8 respec-
lively.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
Serious Charge Against Our Pub
lie Schools.

Winnipeg, Man, June 21.-
Mr.. Martin in the Legislature
rose to a question of privilege
and stated that he had received
a telegram from a president of
the American Protective associa-
ton, demanding that he give his
authority for his statement re
garding immortality of public
schools in the United States or
else apologize for his statements,
He proceeded to read from the
published reports the extracts
which he had said were unfit to
be quoted. A large proportion
of the inmates of houses of pros
titutlon mentioned in Boston
were stated to have ascribed
their downfall to the public
schools. Indecent publications
were stated to be widely circul-
ated among the pupils, and this,
it was alleged, was not confined
to Boston,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
A Ernie Little Joke.

An extraordinary prank was played
by a young woman, a native of Tod
morden, who was married in a chapel
IN the center of the town. Immedi-
ntely after the ceremony the parties
adjourned to the vestry to sign the reg
.ster. The bride suddenly and mystic
riously disappeared, and, a search
about the premises revealing nothing,
h distracted bridegroom went into
the street and continued his inquiries
among such friends and acquaintancea
as he came across. These were, natu.
rally, amused, but it was no laughing
matter for the poor fellow who ap-
peared to have been SO ~curiously de-
serted. However, the fair one turned
up all safe and sound about three hours
later, and, on being questioned, ex.
planned hat she had been to Sangers'
eircus.-Todmorden (Eng.) Advertiser.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
WORSHIPED BY CANNiBALS.

The Luck of a White Man WHO Was Left
on an Island of the South Seas.
By the death of Joseph Roberts. q
Californian pioneer, Santa Cruz lost a
genuine Robinson Crusoe, for Mr.. Rob-
erts had passed through in early man
hood all the thrilling adventures and
exciting life which endear Defoe's hero
to the reading boy and girl. Sixty
seven years ago, on st. Valentines
day, Joseph Roberts was born in
Falkirk. His family for years had
been seafaring people, so that as he
grew up he tool to the sea naturally,
and while only fourteen years OF age,
while his playmates were still cabin
boys, he was made second mate of a
sailing vessel. Before he was fifteen
he made his first long voyage from
home, and followed the sea until he
reached manhood. He visited many
foreign countries and the islands which
dot the ocean, but never landed in the
United States until he sailed through
the Golden Gate in 1851.
There was one Of the many stories
Of adventure which Mr.. Roberts told
which never grew stale to young or
old. It was the story Of the months he
spent on a Cdnn1Ddl 1S1dnO IN Inc Ia
cifc. Mr.. Roberts was on a cruise
among the South Sea islands on an
English merchantmen, and when the
land was sighted he went ashore.
knowing that although the island was
inhabited by cannibals. they were
p~eaceable. But in his absence ehe cap
tain ordered the anchor up aud all
sails set, and for eight months he was
left alone among a lot of South Sea
islanders.
The natives worshiped him as a
deity, and the king shared his own
palm hut with him. The natives on
that island believe in feeding their god,
so Mr.. Roberts lived on the fat of the
island. The daintiest fish. the rarest
game, and the earliest and sweetest
fruits were laid as offerings at his door.
Five dusky girls waited on him, served
him with food. and wove garlands OF
flowers with which they crowned him.
Whenever he went to the seashore he
was followed by an admiring horde OF
natives. He was the first man on the
island, the divinity of the natives, the
king Of their king. Mr.. Roberts useo
to say that be liked the alteration Of
the South Sea islanders, but as the
lnonths passed he grew homesick anC
1onged for the sight of white faces
Civilization seemed a very desirable
thing, but he accepted the situation.
At the end of eight months stay or
the island. upon awakening one morn.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
1t Didn't Worn,

1t isn't always safe for a small boy
to take his fathers jokesand games too
seriously. This was shown very plainly
at one time by h experience OF an
Englishman and his son upon a rail-
way journey which they took together.
While the little fellow was gazing out
of the open window his father slipped
the hat off the boys head in such a
way as to make his son believe that it
had fallen out Of the window. The
boy was very much upset by his sup=
posed loss, when his father consoled
him by saying that he would whistle
it back" A little later he whistIed,
and the hat r~eapoeared. Not long after
the little lad seized upon his fathers
hat, and, f1inginG it out of the window,
shouted: Nov, papa. whistle your
hat back againl" = Harper's Round
Table.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
An IndependAnt Rarher.

Here is an entertaining story about a
Frenehman who was too proud to do
things which were against his princi-
pies. The story is vouehed for as an
actual fact by the man to whom the in-
eident happened. While travelling in
Europe he stopped over night at Caen,
and noting hat his hair was unduly
long he went to have it cut by the To-
cal barber. He told the barber to take
off very little, but before the scissors
had been at work many seconds he no
tieed a ~favorite lock fall onto the cal
leo jacket in which he had been ar
rayed. Whereupon he reproved the
barber for not following his instruc-
lions, Upon which the man observed, in
mingled tones of reproach and dismay:
Monsieur must permit me to do my
work in the way which seems pest to
me; and what is more, 1 will take off
some more" Not at ALL" said the
traveller; Il tell you 1 want very little
taken Off, and must insist upon your
doing as l direct you" The barber,
however. was not to be put down in
this way, and said: Monsieur, it is
/! possible that this is how things may he
done in England, but here in France
we are not slaves. 1 shall cut off as
much as 1 please."-Harper's Round
Table.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27

Ing, he saw a ship lying at anchor in
the bay. Pretending to the natives
that he wished to board the vessel to
trade with the sailors, they took him
out to her in a canoe, and he climbed
up the side of an American ship. The
captain and crew were more thar as
tonished to see a white man, and Rob-
erts begged to be accepted as a sailor,
q passenger, or anything, SO he could
once more reach civilization. On this
ship he entered the United States for
the first time, for the sailing vessel
vas bound for San Francisco. When
the natives learned that their white
god was going to leave them they put
gut to sea in all their boats, following
che sailing vessel for miles, screaming,
crying, and beseeching him to jump
overheard and return to them.-San
Francisco Examiner.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
Raleigh News s. Observer.


Washington, D. c., June Ell
Mr.. T. j. Allison, of Statesville,
United States Marshall, of the
Western District, arrived in the
city last night with eight United
States prisoners and left to-day
for Albany. He was accompan-
led by b. M Goolsby, J.. r.
Armfeld and Edgar Aldson
Among the prisoners was James
r. Holland. the defaulting cash>
Ter of the Charlotte National
Bank, who was sentenced to
seven years imprisonment. He
was treated with more respect
han other prisoners, and had
the appearance more of a com
panion than a prisoner. He was
not handcuffed, and there was
nothing to show that he was a
prisoner.
The party was met at the de-
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
Engagements With Cubans.

Havana, June PA dispatch
from Santiago de Cuba says that
a party of forty insurgents made
an attack upon the forts Of the
estate at Santa Anna this morn
ing, driving out the occupants
and killing three of the defend
ers of the estate.
Col. Michelna's column made
an attack upon the rebels near
Caney del Sito to-day, killing
twenty-five Of the insurgents,
including Polaneio, who was
commanding the cavalry attach
ed to Rabi'S band.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
ElRESIDE

Lemon Shortcake.-Make a rich
cake, split and butter, then take rind,
juice and pulp of three lemons grated,
n cup sugar, n cup cream, mix
thoroughly and spread.-Mrs. w. C.
Newell, in Orange Judd Farmer.
Batter Cakes-Sift one quart OF
flour with two teaspoonfu of baking
powder, add two beaten eggs, a tea
spoonful of salt, a pint and a half OF
sweet milk, and a tablespoonful OF
melted butter or lard. Bake on a hot
.griddle.-Home.
-Tripe a la'Newberg.-Cut the tripe
into pieces the size of a small oy ster.
Make a sauce of two tablespoonful OF
flour, one of butter, two teacupfuls
tripe; let it boil up once. Season with
a pinch of ground mace salt, pepper,
and a little stewed parsley. Boil five
minutes. Add half a ~wineglass OF
sherry. Serve on toast.-Good House.
keeping.
To Boil Bacon Ham.-After clean
ing the ham we'll, place in a large
boiler and fill with cold water. Let it
boil slowly 1--WE or six hours, then take
it out and put it into a dish to drain.
While it is still hot, or when it is cool.
remove the skin and place it in the
oven to brown. Mix one ~teacupful OF
vinegar, one tablespoonful Of black
pepper, a little ground mustard, two or
three tablespoonfuls of sugar, and
haste the ham with it while it is roast
ing.-Farmers' Voice.
Something Good.-Beat one cup OF
butter and one cup of sugar until
light. Beat three eggs without sep
arating until very light, then stir them
into the butter and sugar, add half a
tablespoon full of ground cinnamon, two
tablespoonfuls of milk and sufficient
flour to make a dough-about two
cups. knead lightly, roll into a thin
sheet, cut int narrow strips, twist or
braid them together, drop them at
once into smoking fat and cook to
golden brown. Dust down with pow.
dered sugar and serve.-N. y. Ledger.
Pearl Barley Cream Soup.-Simmer
a pint of pearl barley slowly in stock,
with an onion, carrot and seasoning,
for two hours. Remove the carrot, and
stew the rest till reduced to a pulp,
and rub it through a hair sieve, adding
as much more stock, or water, as will
dilute it to the thickness of good cream.
Bring to the boil, and lift it off directly
it actually boils, and stir into it the
yolk of an egg beaten in a little milk.
Scatter chopped parsley over, and
serve. This soup may be varied with
the addition of tomat oes cut in slices
and cooked lightly before being added
to it.-Leeds Mercury.
-Crecy, or Carrot Soup.-Take five
or six large red carrots, wash and
scrape them well, shave off thin slices
and outer part, leaving the yellow CEN
ter. Then peel and slice n large onion
and a small piece of turnip. Put them
in a stew pan with a heaprng teaspoon
full of butter, a few sprigs of parsley
ard two bay leaves. Fry the whole a
light yellow color, then add the carrot
with a pint of water, and let them
stew until perfectly tender. Rub the
carrot through a squash strainer. Add
a quart of stock and heat again. Add
a ~teaspoonful of sugar and salt, aud
pepper to taste, and when hot serve
Immediately with croutons.-Farmers
r eyiew
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
Drawing Another Mans Paw,

CHICAGO, June 20-M. 7. Ward
an ex~police officer, was arrested
this morning on changes of con-
spiracy to defraue the city in the
Patrick Liddy case. Liddy was
detected yesterday afternoon at
tempting to draw another mans
pay and was falsely identified, it
is said, by Ward as a man on Con
tractor Weir's pay roll.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27

pot by Superintendent Byrnes
and escorted to the police sta
ton.
Mr.. Sam'l Lane, formerly of
Goldsboro, and who has been
working for the Evening Star
for the past six months, was
yesterday appointed to a posi-
ton in the Land Office at a sal
airy of six dollars a day.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
A Fortune That DidNot Materialize

Asheville, N. c., June 21-A
sensational story was recently
sent out from San Francisco by
the Chicago Associated Press,
stating that Col. A. r. Cochran,
of San Diego, Cal, was to come
into possession of an immense
fortune through a North Caro-
lima land grant, The facts are
simply these:
Col. Cochran instituted suit
in the United States court at
Asheville in 1893 for lands in
Watauga and Mitchell counties,
based on some supposed land
grant. At the November 1894
term of court Gen. It. r. David
son, counsel for Cochran, stated
that his client had been unable
to file the bonds required to
prosecute the case and it was ac-
cordingly dismissed.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27

Adam Smith, the author Of the
Wealth of Nations" regarded his
book with the genuine love of an au-
thor. He was often seen reading II
with apparent satisfaction.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27
MULE STRAYED OR STOLEN

A small black mare mule, has. a
mall patch OF white name, has strayed
or stolen from my farm in Pikeville
township. Wayne county. A liberal
reward will be paid for its return
JOSEPH SASSER.
Pikeville, N. &,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27

Not a day passes i've the earth but
men and women of no note do great
deeds, speak great words and suffer
noble sorrows-Charles Reade.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-06-27

Subscribe to the ARGUS, daily
"a, weekly ST. per year.
Catoctin clarion., 1895-10-03

and that whether he gets reelected or
not, he proposes to "get even" during
the next session of Congress.
Advertising always pays. The
Herreshotf 8, who were so widely adver,
tised as the designers and build ers OF
the yacht Defender, have been awarded
contracts for building two out OF the
three torpedo boats authorized by the
last Congress and the firm may eventu-
ally get the contract for the third boat.
In authorizing the construction of these
boats Congress stipulated that, If salts
factory bids were received from these
sections, one should be built on the
Atlantic coast, one on the Pacific, and
one on the Mississippi River. No bid
was received from the Mississippi River
and only one from the Pacific coast that
was within the amount allowed for each
boat-$l5O,OOO and that has not yet
been accepted, but it will be if the bid
der satisfies the Navy Department that
he has the facilities to build the boat.
Catoctin clarion., 1895-10-03
THE CA7oc7lN CLARION.
CHAS. E. CASSELL.
Editor and Publisher.
Thursday, Oct. 8, 1895.
Newspaper Law Decisions

1. Any person who takes paper regularly from
the Observation-Disclosures directed to his name or an
others or whether he has subscribed or not-is re-
sponsible for the payment.
If any person orders his paper discontinued ne
or she must t,ay all the arrearages or the publisher
NAV continue to send il until payment is made ana
collect the whole amount, whether the paper is taken
from the Office or not
No paper will be discontinued until paid up.
Catoctin clarion., 1895-10-03
FRAZER AXL.EI:: /:
';, s.; |;i !; :;!;::;: !; :; :;;;; $;;' GREAS'. 3.
ouiu IuGiy y"h5t0s tlyr.j
Pixies on Patents.
How to get $I00 and Perhaps
Make a Fortune.

We secure patents and to induce people to
keep track of their bright ideas we offer
prize of one hundred dollars to be paid on
the first of every month to the person who
submits to us the most mertorious invention
during the preceding month. We will also
advertise the inyention free of charge in the
National Recorder, "a weekly newspaper pub.
lished in Washington, D. c., which has an
extensive circulation throughout the United
States and is devoted to the interests of in
ventors
Not so HARD AS 1T SEEMS.
The idea of being able to invent something
trikcs most people as being very difficult;
this delusion the Company wishes to dispel
1t is the simple things and small inventions
that make the greatest amount ofmoney and
the complex ones are seldom profitable. AL
most everybody, at some time or another,
conccyes an idea, which, if patented, would
probably be worth to HIM a fortune Unfor-
tunately such ideas are usually dismissed
without thought. The simple invention like
the car window which could be easily slid up
and down without breaking the passengers
back, the sauce pan, the collar button, the
nut lock, the bottle stopper, the snow shovel
are things that almost everyone sees some
way Of improving upon, and it is these Kind
of inventions that bring the greatest returns
to the author.
The prize we offer at the end ofeach month
will be paid, whether the application has
been acted upon by the Patent Office or note
Every competitor must apply f0ra patent on
his invention through us, and whether he Sc
cures the prize or not, the inventor will hav
valuable patent.
THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY,
John Wedderburn, Gen'l Manager,
61s F 81. N. W, Washington, D. 9.
s.. The responsibility of this company
may be judged from the fact that its stock is
held by about seventeen hundred ofthe lead
ing newspapers of the United States.
Catoctin clarion., 1895-10-03
Washington Letter
H. II. SNYDER,

From OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON. D. c., September 3oth, 1895
The financial situation, like the poor,
isalways with us these days in one shape
or another. Just now the friends OF the
administration are jubilantly discussing
the SeptemberTreasury statement, which
shows an excess of receipts oyer expen-
ditures of about $200O,o00. But the
opponents of the administration say
there is nothing in it to jubilate over.
They 20 to the official figures and point
out that in June, the last month OF the
last quarter, the excess over expendl-
lures was 81 100000 and say that it is
merely because the expenditures were
smaller in September than in the two
preceding months of the quarter, and
not because the revenues have increased
that there is balance in favor Of the
government for the month.
1t is admitted by government officials
privately if not publicly, that the COM
ing Congress will have to provide the
government with additional revenue,
but they differ widely as to how it shall
be raised. The republicans, Of course,
propose that it shall be raised through
the tariff, but they are not entering into
particulars of how. Many contend that
raising tariff rates, unless it be upon
articles Of necessity not produced in this
country, will not increase the revenue,
and it is quite certain that the republi
cans will try to raise them upon large
number of articles, but not probable
that they will include necessities; next
year will be presidential year, you know.
One of the things that will consplcuously
figure in Congressional discussions of
the. governments finances is the rather
unpleasant fact that the proceeds of the
three bond issues, while in the first place
used to obtain gold for the reserve fund
were eventually used to meet current
expenses of the government, the reven'
ues not being sufficient. The silver
men tried hard to bring that to the
front at the last session of Congress, but
it was not an accomplished fact then as
it is now. They only thought the mon.
ey was to be so used. Now everybody
knows that it has actually been so
used
Senator Blackburn is in Washington
to attend the marriage of his daughter.
He will not discuss politics for pubica-
tion further than to declare his conf
dence of being reelected to the Senate.
His friends say among themselves that
he has "got it in" for the administration,