Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-12-21
GENERAL NEWS.

Ladysmith and that what whlskey
there is left brings So q bottle. No
explanation is forthcoming as to why |
this news has not been censored.
The Kansas City Times has been
sold to syndicate composed OF lo-I
cally prominent Democrats. The
new concern is an incorporated COM
pany. with paid-up capitalof $4,000, !
The former principal owner of the
paper was W. O.. Cox, a Kansas
City banker.
The fact that Gen. Gatacre's name
does not lend itself kindly to poetry
is not now so important as it was to
the bards who sing the praises OF
the victors. The Washington Post
remembers, by the way, that it was
General Gatacre who, when leaving
London, had his baggage marked
6Pretorla,. via Cape Town."
A New York man. whose identity
has not yet been made known. is
causing a monument to be placed
over the grave of Bill Anthony in
Evergreen Cemetery, Philadelphia.
The monument will be four feet
high and three feet wide. It will be
of granite, with rough rock face
work. There will be carved on it
two sprays of oak leaves and an an
Choir. On raised panel will be this
inscription: "Sir, [ will report that
the ship has been blown up and is
sinking" It will be finished in Feb
ruary
When the American National
PorIz ~ Troo n woo ~ xc4 owl - IT,
robbed a year ago Of $4,000 no one
was able to explain how it happened,
and no one has since explained. The
doors of the vault We're found open
but not marked or SCARED and the
time lock clock was still going. The
suit brought by the Board of Direc-
tors against n l.. Michael. vice
president, and Gus Kalb. cashier, in
which negligence is charged to the
defendants, has just been decided in.
favor of the plaintiffs.
It must be plain to the British
military authorities that if they are
to conquer the Beers they will have
to throw into South Africaa vastly
increased army. The situation re
calls in many respects the expert
ence of the United States in the
wax Of 1861. For a year and more we
met with nothing but disaster, till
it began to be realized that we we're
fighting an enemy whose advantages
of position and communication to
speak of nothing else, were such as
to demand a preponderating force in
armies attacking Observation-Disclosures
Times.
A live bear is to be presented to
Admiral Dewey by the people of
Beltrami county, Mich. It has al
ready been captured and will be
forwarded in time to make it a
Christmas present. Since the animal
is big and untamed and since the
Admiral will not have time to get
the permission Of all the subscribers
to his Washington home to keep it
III his back yard, he will probably
have to send the beast to a zoologi-
cal garden. Let it be hoped that if
he does the Beltrami county people
will not begin writing letters about
him.
The English people are waking up to
thd fact that they have got a tough
fight on their hands IN the Trans
vaal. The Beers have not gained
any great advantage, but they have
annoyed the British forces no little
and have come out more or less vic
torious in nearly every battle that
has been fought. In strategy, the
British seem to be no match for
them. But while the British have
met with reverses and heavy losses,
comparatively speaking. they have
pressed on and will continue to do
SO. The Beers are brave and good
fighters, but they must yield. The
British forces are going on to Pre-
toria, they are going to conquer the
Beers and they are going to make a
complete job of it.
Following close on the action of
the public school authorities of Kan:
sas City comes the news that the
Board of Education of Louisville
have prohibited the wearing of short
skirts by teachers while on duty.
What was objected to in Kansas
City was "golf skirt" in Louisville it
is called simply short skirt" In
Cincinnati, where the rainy day
skirt is worn by very many of the
woman teachers, Superintendent
Boone says he will not attempt to
regulate the wearing apparel of his
assistants in any way. If there is
this much in a name, and, the wave
against abbreviated habiliments is, as
appears, coming eastward, women
In this part of the country would do
well to invent one that would suit
the educational authorities.
Senator Frye has introduced a
bill creating a new executive de-
partment, to be known as the De
partment of Commerce and indus.
tries. This has been inspired partly
by the fact that we are indulging in
commercial aspirations as a nation
and partly to furnish a head to a col
lection of orphaned bureaus which