Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-08-31
SNAP SHOTS.
Items of Interest From State
and Nation, Culled Fer the
Buay Reader.

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Busy Reader.
Figaro says that Nine Labor was
greatly upset at receiving the letter
threatening to assassinate herself,
husband and children.
At Appleton, Wis, the boiler in
the sash, door and blind factory of
E. II. Wieckert & Company, expoded
Wednesday, killing three men and
seriously injuring eight others.
Ben Tillman will have to make the
fight of his life to hold his seat in
the. senate. Col, Youmans, a first
class hustler and a very popular
man, is after it.
The story that Captain Parker,
skipper of the German Emperor's
yacht, the Meteor, is to assist in
sailing the Shamrock is now denied.
The Kaiser is reported to nave for
hidden it.
Roy 81. WIllisms. of Richmond,
Va, on the complaint of Anthony
Comstock, of New York, has been
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scene pictures through the mails.
1t is stated that the DismalSwamp
Canal, extending from Portsmouth
to South Mills, n. c., is row open
to navigation. The of the
canal made the first trip over it
Monday and Tuesday of last week.
Perhaps General Otis order ex-
Guiding the Chinese from the Philip
pines may be regarded as a warning
to the newspaper correspondents,
since what little ~uncensored news
has leaked out has come by way OF
Hong Kong.
Mayor Van Wyck, of New York,
admits that he would like to be a
Judge of the Supreme Court of his
State, but denies that he has any
notion of resigning his present Office
in order to be a candidate in the
next election.
A Washington dispatch says: The
assault of the white-cappers at Peck,
Fla, on the postmaster there prob
ably will result in the disoontinuance
of the post Office. Postmaster W.
G. Crum and National Committee
man Long have both advised it.
Robert r.. Stuyvesant, Of New
York, has Just sold a plot of ground
which has been owned by the Stuy-
vesant family for 216 years. It was
purchased directly from the Indians
by Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of
New Amsterdam.
Preparations are being made by
the various state societies of the
Sons of the Revolution to observe in
an appropriate manner the one hun
dredth anniversary of the funeral of
George Washington. The anniver-
sary comes on December IA.
Mr.. w. M. Gray, Of MalIard Greek,
says there is a strip of coantry from
above Davidson to Cabarrus county
which has had no rain since the big
hail-storm this spring. He says
this rainless belt. and there will not
be over half a crop.
Secretary Gage was very reluct-
ant to order the recent issue of gold
certificates, because he did not be
lieve that there was any demand for
them. He must now be convinced
that he was mistaken, as within the
past two weeks $21. 000, 900 CT certi-
fcates have been paid out in ex-
change for gold coin.
The fourth class postmasters-of
whomthere are about7O, 900 through
out the cOuntry-are supposed to
be forming a lobby to secure from
the coming Congress a bill giving
them better pay. They want the
compensation to be 800
a year, instead of an amount based
the number of stamps sold.
The Hamburg Ische correspon-
dence discussing the assertion that
should publish certain
documents proving the innocence of
Dreyfus, says: "The answer to this
is that documents of this nature can
not be produced, for the simple rea-
son that Germany never had any,
thing to do with Captain Dreyfus."
The t~reasurers of all of the cotton
mills at Fall River Tuesday re-
ceived letters signed by Nelson g..
Green, of New York, making q for
NAL offer fer the purchase of the
properties either for cash or part
cash and part stock, in a new cor
poration to include all of the mills.
No price list accompanied the offer.
The Princess de Sagan, who is re-
to be on her death bed, has
been a queen of Paris society for
forty years, Although enormously
wealthy and prodigal in spending, :
she has great objection to paying
her debts, and her tradespeople have
much difficulty in extracting any
money from her. {
The Star of Hope is a paper pub l.
ished and edited by the convicts in
Sing Sing Prison. Among the adj
7ertisements in a recent issue was $
he following: Lost, a good char I
The owner will give all of his |
possessions for it's return 4
md no questions asked. Address, $
Jontrition, Clinton Prison. !
A Durham dispatch says: Mr.. J. {
Manning, leading counsel for the
Bank of Richmond, Va, in
he noted Oxford bond case, which I
vas decided adversely to the bank {
has been notified by the
,ank to appeal from the decision of
he Circuit Court of Appeals at .
to the United States SUI :
IRENE Court. :
A Winston special says: A roman l.
marriage was celebrated at the o