Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-11-16

%N. d.
Z Rev. DIR. William Hart Dexter,
president of the New York Naval
Academy at Nyack, has disappeared
and his family fear that he has been
foully dealt with.
A Christian Science Kindergarten
has been established in Stamford,
Conn. This ought to forestall any
scheme to organize q soothing syrup
and paregoric trust.
Robert P. Porter, who was asked
by Secretary Root to take up the
work of special commissioner on
colonial affairs for the War Depart
ment, has declined on account of
other business arrangements.
The Gar of Russia and the En-
p9for of Germany when they met
ia Berlin embraced and kissed each
other repeatedly. They ought now
to be able to say what of truth there
is in the old Spanish proverb "a
kiss without a moustache is like an
egg without salt"
The immense flow of fresh water
Hull tuSI lO11Od ever SAdoSS hdS OCS11
SO rapid that it pushed the tide wa
ter out into the ocean, and killed
the oysters at Neptune. This is a
hard blow to tnat place, as several
men had contracts to furnish oyster
to points South.
It is stated that Paris and Der
lin will within six months have tele-
phonic connection. the preliminary
agreement having been already APP
proved by the German Postmaster
General. This will, of course, cur
tail Count Esterhazy's usefulness
and lower the fees paid to hand
writing experts.
Charles Dewey, of Montpelier,
Vermont, brother of the Admiral,
has positively declined to be a can
didate on the Republican ticket or
any other for Governor of Vermont
next year. Everybody was willing to
support him heartily, but his ambi-
ton does not III towards politics.
Hauling down the flag even when
it is used for advertising purposes
does not go in Illinois any more. be-
cause a Chicago court has pronounc-
ed the law covering the subject I'M
constitutional for the reason that it
gives the informer part of any fine
resulting from a conviction.
Jacob Bright, brother Of the IA
nous John Bright is dead. It is
said that he would probably have
been a better known public man
had it not been that his abilities
were overshadowed by the fame of
his distinguished brotl er. The Lon
don cables also report the death of
Lord Bolingbrook,
After all he has had to say on the
subject 1t appears that Richard
Croker, of New York, did not know
just how to vote last Tuesday, and
had to ask for an explanation of the
method of marking his ballot. SINH
larly Ex-President Cleveland tried
to vote in the wrong precinct in
Princeton, and had to be directed to
the proper place.
Richard Croker, the Tammany
chieftain in New York, is dangling
the political scalp of Assemblyman
Mazet from his belt. Mazet was the
chairman of the Assembly investi-
eating committee which spent a good
part of the past summer exposing
Tammany methods, and Croker de-
termined to defeat him at all ha-
yards.
George A. Daniels, general pass
enger agent of the New York Cen
trail Railroad, is reported to be at
the head of a movement to abolish
the practice of tipping the porters
on sleeping cars. If this is success
full and the wages of the porters are
not correspondingly increased there
ought to be a great slump in the
diamond market.
Not content with it's attack on
the horse, the automobile, or some
sort of a modification of it, is going
after the canalboat mule. One of the
automobile companies has invented
an affair to travel on the towpath
and pull the boat after it. It. will
have a seat on it for the driver, who
wilItake the place of the towboy.
The machine Will first be tried on
the Erie canal.
Leopold Leonard Graf Thun-Ho-
henstien, an Austrian count, and
formerly an officer in the army of
Emperor Francis Joseph, has been
made a lieutenant in the Forty
sixth Regiment of the United States
Volunteers, and is on his way to the
Philippines. He was a lieutenant
III our army in Cuba, but his SCI
vice there was brief, and after the
war he returned to private life.
The New York World says the
administration has been rushing the
pension claims of the Spanish war
veterans to the neglect of the claims
of the civil war veterans, the idea
being to get the younger claimants
to vote right. The World says So
900 claims of soldiers and heirs of
the civil war have thus been side
tracked, and intimates that the
scheme was invented by Mr.. Mark
Hanna.
Marion Crawford's new story
which he is still at work upon, and
which is not yet named-though it
vas to have been called In Old
Madrid"-is to be dramatized by
Lorrimer Stoddard for Miss Viola
Allen. The story covers only seven
or eight hours in time, and the scene
is in Madrid, the period being that
of Phillip II. Mr.. Crawford, who is
now in New York. will return to his
home in Italy in January.
As a contribution to the discus.
sion as to whether five cents is
cheap enough for a ride on a street