Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-07

awkwark squad at West Point, along
with other candidates for admission
to the Academy in September, he
received his appointment as q second
lieutenant in the army He stepped
out of the ranks and showed his
commission to the cadet drillmaster,
who Immediately saluted. him a SUI
perior officer. Swami had enlisted as
a private before getting the West
Point appointment, and at Camp
Meade had already risen to be a
sergeant major.
Says the Philadelphia Times: "Gen-
eral Wheeler has been heard from,
and his opinion of matters as they
stand in the Philippines is just such
as might be expected from the
veteran fighter. With the same
promptness that marked the acquies-
cence of authority to his demand
that he be sent to the firing line, his
request for a command has also been
granted. Consequently there IS every
chance that unless held in by the
apparently Fabian tactics of Otis, so
far as he can contribute reasons for
such exemption the battle news from
Manila will not hereafter need any
use of the blue pencil"
Don't use small shot in advertis-
ing; 13-inch guns give best results.
Murat Halstead is getting too old
to go about the country saucing
people He came near getting his
head punched in Chicago.
Wayne MacVeagh. according to
the New York Press, received over
S10,0 900 as a retainer in the Carter
case, and his fee will be five times
that much.
Carel Henry Kruger, who won the
Syme surgical scholarship at the
Edinburgh University, from which
institution he recently graduated,
is a nephew of the President of the
Transvaal Republic.
When Grover Cleveland says any
thing his slanderers jump on him,
and when he is silent they abuse
him, The beauty of it sthat Grover
Cleveland doesn't care a snap about
the yelping of the whole pack
The Weather Bureau officials are
having some trouble in locating a
second West India hurricane, and
the Atlantic coast people generally
are hoping that it Will escape the
calculators and disappear altogether,
which we think likely.
Albert Perry and Miss Emma
Meyer, of Perry, Okla, desiring to
be married, were unable to cross a
creek swollen by the rains, on the
other side of which the minister
lived, SO they went to the edge of
the bank while the minister stood on
the opposite bank and shouted the
service at them.
The accidental fatal shooting of a
boy who was a super" in a produc-
ton of Northern Lights" at Eliza
beth, N. j., during the scene in
which the United States soldiers
fire upon the Indians, furnishes an
item of news with more of a point
and moral than is often found in the
average ''theatrical notes" Of the
day. The muskets were loadedwlth
blank cartridges, of course, of
course, but the wads from some of
them tore a hole in the boys breast.
There is not a single recognized
publicist who ever justified
war of conquest, even when Waged
against the most unfayored people.
What a reversal of policy, therefore,
has hnnn now thot fhn o~,oaa ~ 4bo
republic are being used to subdue
and conquer a people who 7 not
savages, but have had a national
feeling and a literature for more
than 800 years, who are Christians
like ourselves, and who up to the
time of the recent collision never did
us any harm!
State Chairman Holton is reported
to have remarked that the statement
of Thomas Settle that he was for
the amendment to the Constitution
did not surprise him, as Mr.. Settle
had been talking that way since the
Legislature adjourned. Chairman
Holton could have added, had he SO
chosen, that he knew Of many others
Of the more brainy and respectable
and self respecting men of the Re
publican party in North Carolina
who will at the proper time take the
same stand on this negro ISSUE"
The lease of the Atlantic & Dan
vile by the Southern Railway Com
pany has been noted in the news !
of this paper. The deal is a
very important one for the Southern,
and there is perhaps more behind it
than the general public is aware of.
The Southern, by this deal, saves a
distance of eighteen miles between
and Greensboro, which is a
considerable item in the business of
a big freight line. 1t seems that the
Southern had been planning for this
deal for years past, and now that it
has secured the Atlantic 4 Danville.
It is announced that many improve
nents will be make. The one in
Charlotte will be chiefly intersI
ested is the proposed double-track~
of the line between Norfolk and
The double tracking of
he road between Charlotte and
Danville has long been talked of,
md its accomplishment now APP
pears TO be more of a probability
han ever.-Charlotte Observer.
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