Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-08-24
SNAP SHOTS
Items of Interest From State
and Nation, CuIled For the
Busy Reader.

Graham county, a ID year old boy
ramed Eller killed a bear that
weighed over 800 pounds. That was
one time that 13 was not an unlucky
number.
The pay of Pennsylvania legislators
is the same as of New York Iegisla-
tors, $1,000 a year and mileage. The
terms, however, are twice as long
four years for Senators and two for
Representatives.
The Charlotte Observer says:
THE election of ex-Judge Jas. c..
MacRae, a dean of the University
Law School, was in every way a
proper one. He is one of the best
lawyers in the State and one of the
finest gentlemen"
A writer in the New York Times
says that the poem. MY Old Wo-
man and T." printed in many of the
newspapers and credited to the New
York Weekly, appeared originally in
Ha1per's Magazine in January,1S69,
with an illustration, and credited to
John Brougham.
Governor Leslie M. SHAW of Iowa,
who has been nominated for O sec
ond term as Chief Executive of
that State, objects to dancing, and
refused at his last Inauguration to
sanction the customary ball. He is a
prominent figure in the councils of
the Methodist Church.
Admiral Dewey was quoted when
in Austria as saying our next war
would be with Germany. He did
not say that. He said that if the
next war was with Germany, it
would be started by the Germans,
and not by the Americans. And he
does not believe there will be any
such a war.
Says the Raleigh Post: Calamity
bowling demagogues cannot stop
developments in this old State of
ours now. The people have discov
cred them, their methods. their
schemes and aspirations, and their
day is over Like feas, they are
none the less a nuisance and an ir-
%ritation, however"
The serious Hines of Senator Hay
ward, of Nebraska, reported now as
having been stricken with apoplexy,
becomes a matter of general concern
when 1t is remembered that, if a va
cancy occurs, the power of appoint
ment is with a Populist Governor,
is likely as not to send Wind Allen
back to Washington.
One of the most noticeable dis
closures in the annual report of
Commissioner Evans is, that there
was a decrease in the number of
pensioners during the last fiscal
year. There were 40, 991 names add
ed to the rolls, but 43,186 were drop
ped, 34,345 of these because of
death. That made met loss of g.
1876.
Elihu Root is the eighth Secre-
tary of War credited to New York.
His predecessors from that State
were John Armstrong (Madison);
Peter G Porter John Quincy Adj
ams);. Benjamin F.Butler (Jackson);
John G. Spencer (Tyler); William
Marcy (Polk); John M. Schofeld
.(Johnson), and Daniel S. Lamont
(Cleveland).
Along with quite a number of
other widows living there on slend-
er incomes, Lil1uokalani, former
Queen of Hawaii, is keeping house
in Washington. She recently-sa said
to a caller: Il am a thorough Ameri-
can. I love the history of the coun-
try. It is the heir apparent of all
that former nations have had to
fight and perish for"
Several circuses are said to be
heading North Carolinaward this
fall.
The instruction feveris spread
ing apparently IN the Philippines,
other spots having broken out on
The body of the island.
That the aim of the att mpted
assassin of Labori was not better
nay have been due to SO much
bad blood in his eye.
An automobile system will
soon bein operation in CLEVELAND.
It ls 10 be run on schedule time
n competition with the street
lines.
Thomas L. james, President
the Lincoln National Bank
md formerly a Postmaster Gen.
.ral. is seriously i'll at bis sum-
ner home at EDglewood, N. Y.
Should 10000 troops be sent
o smash AgplnaIdo, one of these
lays that worthy may ask hi, tory
low many England SAINT over to
uppress America in 1916.
Great secrecy is being main
aimed by every one no has
.pything to do with the Sham
ocks racing spars, which arriv.
d on Monday on board the
Furnesss.
Within eighteen onths tits
expected the new for:i6cations4
n reat Gull Island will be CON-
'leted. The last of the five dis
,ppearing guns to be mounted
will be placed ia position
A reunion of exsslave holders
nd slaves will be held at Chat-
anooga during the latter part
I September. Excursions will
9 u from other cities, and
ONE OF the most prominent cit
zsns North and South will make