Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-28
GENERAL NEWS.

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Up in Monroe county, N. Y, a
new post office has been named after
General Otis.
Colonel Bryan is in luck. Mrs.
Lease announces that it is her pur-
pose to oppose him.
We have a new name for trouble
now. Russia, it is said, proposes tc
''rectify" her Indian border.
The arrival in this country OF
Prince Ranjitsinhji, the famous East
Indian cricketer. will give us another
awkward spell, to say nothing OF
pronunciation.
The Duke of Manchester, whose
mother was Miss Consuelo Yznaga.
of New York, has scandalized Lon
don society by appearing at Mrs
Hughes -Hallett's fancy dress ball in
a bathing suit.
Topeka is getting ready for 8
rousing reception to General Fun.
ston and his Twentieth Regiment Of
Kansas fighters and swimmers Mr.
Aleer will be in Topeka to address
the returning heroes.
Patrick Smith was a laborer in
Paterson, N. j., until two years ago
when he inherited d fortune of $45,
600. Day before yesterday he pai6
out the last dollar of this as a fine
for being DRINK and disorderly.
It is said the topic, Shall Wome1
Smoke? is being discussed in Lon
don. If she attempts it here we sug
gest she practice on the kind o.
cigars she buys as presents for hel
brother and husband at Christmas
Colonel Francisco Alcantara, who
is at the head of an artillery regi
ment of the government of Vene
zuela, graduated from the West
Point Military Academy two years
ago. He is a son Of a former Presi
dent of Venezuela.
AS a mark of appreciation of the
kindly manner in which the Spanish
population of Tampa, Florida, was
treated during the recent war, the
Queen Regent of Spain has pre-
scented 600 books to the library OF
the Spanish Casino in that town.
Senator Deboe, of Kentucky, hav
ing shaved off his dropping NOUS
tache at the instance of friends who
wanted him to be modern, now looks
so much like President Mckinley
that it is difficult to tell them apari
at a short distance.
Henry Schuck, who was senior as
sistant foreman of the New Yorl
Fire Department, and who has beer
in the service since 1865, has beer
retired on account of physical dis
ability on half pay 5000 a year, fol
life. He is II years old.
While everything is being made
ready on this side for the honorine
of the victor in the battle of Manils
Bay in Spain the loser is being triec
by court-martial and the prosecution
asks that he be dismissed from tn,
service and imprisoned for life.
Out of 2.186, 500, 900 letters tina
passed through the British Pos
Office last year there were as man,
as $500, 600 which the officials man
aged not to deliver. In those opened
at the dead letter Office property o
the value of So, 600, 900 was found.
A big department store in New
York has offered Dreyfus a million
francs for his story of his famou
case, to be published in book form
This is $780, 900 and may seem
very big price unless the advertiser,
value of the offer is included in tn,
estimate.
Evelyn B. Baldwin, of the Unite,
States Weather Bureau, who was
member of the Wellman expedition
says the electric energy which pre-
duces the aurora borealis can be
and one day will be utilized, just a
coal is now, to generate heat, stear
and other forces,
Governor Ebe w. Tunnel ha
issued an order granting permission
to Companies A, G, Il and I, FRS
Regiment, National Guard of Flor
ida, to pass through Delaware, full.
armed and equipped, on their wa,
from Florida to the Dewey celebra
ton in New York.
The landladies and girl student
at Ann Arbor are making a crusad
another one-agalnst the Tobacco,
smoke nuisance committed by tn
college boys. The boys have not We
instituted a campaign against pep
permint drops and chewing gum
but they are still smoking.
Princeton University has received
a gift of 800, 600, which it is sus
.pected came from ex-Presiden
Cleveland. It is to be used in estah
fishing a chair of political science
1t is authoritatively announced thai
MIR. Cleveland has consented to de
liver q course of lectures ct Prince
ton on public themes.