Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1896-02-27
Vol. XVII.
LOCAL BRIEFS

once. We GO forward.
Mr.. Ben Southerland, who has
been on business trip to Mag
nolia for several days, has re-
turned to the city.
Mr.. Albert Rosenthal is at
home from New York on a va
cation visit, and his many friends
here are glad to see him.
HAVING all that Congressional
fuss over Secretary Morton
makes it indeed look as if our
craftsmanship was beeoming
seedy.
England's meeting arbitration
half way is much better posi-
ton than the advanced ground it
wanted to take at first about the
Schomburgk line.
ONE Washington's Birthday
lesson youth will learn with sor-
row is that there's no method of
preventing it's occasionally COM
ing on day when they wouldn't
have school anyway.
OWING to the inability of
country teachers to get to the
city Saturday, on account of bad
roads and the severely cold
weather. it was concluded to
postpone the address of DIR.
Winston before the Wayne coun-
ty Teachers Association to a
more propitious season.
Mr.. Id. Giddens, Jr., has gone
to Norfolk, Va, where he has
accepted a position as engraver
in a large jewelry establishment.
Lewis is one of the finest and his
numerous friends here part with
him with sincere regret
An estate that was worth $20,
900 when it got into the law
courts twenty-five years ago was
settled last week in LosAngeles,
Cal. The estate was left by En-
carnacion Buelma in 1869 There
was nobody to claim the forty
two cents that remained when
the public administrator offered
it in the Superior Court last
week. and the Judge made an
order directing that it be paid
into the county treasury.
WE have it upon the authority
of one who knows, that as fine
hops can be raised in Wayne
county as anywhere else in the
world. Here IS good odopportunity
for some progressive farmers
to experiment along a line
of diversified crops that is GER
tain of profitable returns. Hop
culture is yet in its infancy in
America, and the supply in the
worldsis by no means equal to
the demand.
IT is with sincere regret that
we chronicle the death of little
Malcolm Shafer, the interesting
7-year- son of Mr.. Jos. II.
Shafer, of Newark, N. J., who
has many friends in this city,
where he with his little son and
two daughters were recent visit
ors at the home of DIR. M. E.
Robinson. Shortly after their
return home the little boy was
taken with diptheria and died.
The estimable gentleman many
friends here sympathize with him
deeply in his inexpressibly sad
be pavement.
DR.. Nansen,. the Norwegian
explorer, is reported to have
reached the North Pole in his
ship Fran" If this be true it
dissipates the theory of Captain
Mares that the Pole was sur>
rounded by a sea of ice, the
''paleocrystic sea" of his chris
tening. 1t also puts an end to
the fascinating dream of Sym
mes, that the Pole was really
hole into which the waters of the
earth swept as into gigantic
maelstrom. What host of brave
explorers have failed ere this
Norwegian succeeded-Franklin,
Kane, Mcclure, McClintock, De
Long, Hayes, Hall. Greeley,
Peary and as many more! Let
us hope that Nansen's story is
true, if only that it may put a
stop to further ventures in that
direction. The Pole has no ln~
trinsic value. Even England has
not yet claimed it as British ter
ritory.
A joint resolution was intro
duced into the United States Sen
ate on Wednesday last to revive
the grade of Lieutenant-General
of the United States army. We
do not know who the officer is
who is to be honored under this
resolution. The first Lieuten-
ant General was General Wash
ington. AS the honor is higher
than any other in the army. it
may be asked why it is not made
a permanent one. The answer
is that, as the custom now is, the
ofice of Lieutenant General dies
with the officer who holds it;
whereas, under a different rule,
it might fall upon some person
not en- titled to such an honor.
General Scott, General Grant,
and others held the office. The
man upon whom it is conferred
ought always to be the first Sold
ier Of the nation, and always
have such q character and re-
/ r,11fa fifar &C that nobody Shnllld