Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-10-19

General Lawton, who has been
| described in q newspaper biography
as able ''to drink any man under the
table" tells a correspondent in Ma
Mia that he never drank a drop of
liquor.
Baron Won Windheim, chief of the
Berlin police, is coming to this coun-
try soon for study of our police
methods. If the baron wants to
know how to police a parade he can
doubtless learn much, but if he
wants to learn how to detect crime
he might as well stay at home.
Miss Anastasia Miller, of Versail-
les. Ky, a student at Wellesley, left
the class the other day because she
found herself seated beside a fellow
student who is colored. Her friends
have been summoned, and it is sup
posedthat she will have to surrender
or leave. She is said to expect to
have to do the latter.
The funeral at Pine Ridge, S. D.,
of Conquering Bear. the Indian
chief who, after winning a hundred
battles against unfriendly tribes
died from getting off a trolley car
the wrong way, was attended by six
of his wives, with faces painted
black for mourning, and 1913 of his
children and grandchildren.
Count Boni de Castellane, who
wrote an impudent letter to the
Prince of Monaco when that gentle
man offered Dreyfus his hospitality,
has received word that Monaco is in
France and has ~telegraphed that he
viii make all possible haste to get to
the capital. A duel is expected if the
two men meet.
The old Ajax and Passaic, both
types of the first ironclad, and built
in 1862, have been sold by the gov
ernment for $685. and $19,7S5
respectively, which is said to be less
than the value of the old iron. Both
were purchased by Philadelphia
concerns. The Hector, formerly the
Pedro, captured from the Spanish
in 1898, brought $50, $50, though ap-
praised at only $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. William K. Wander
bilt, Jr., contemplate an Egyptian
outing, for which they have engaged
a dahabeah, the most luxurious one
obtainable on the Nile. It is a sort
of fatboat, with d house at one end
and an immense rail at the other. In
this picturesque boat, surrounded
by half a dozen friends, they will
float under a lilace-hued sky to the
music of stringed instruments
touched by native performers.
When Jay Gould was in Georgia
with a distinguished party of visi-
tors, eight years ago, a suggestion
to tender him official courtesy by
the State was officially repudiated
OF the ground that he was little
more than a railroad wrecker, but
now the people want to show Miss
Helen Gould the high esteem in
which she is held, and she is to be
invited to visit the city of Atlanta
at the same time with Admiral
Dewey.
The Rev. Sam Small, the reviva-
list, will be a partner in a newspaper
to be established in Cuba. The en-
terprise has bright prospects of suc-I
cess. since another partner is Fran
els Atwater, financial agent in Cuba
for the Red Cross Society, and the
paper will be an administration
organ, while the job department is
to publish the first city directory
Havana has ever had.
Alexander Agassiz, of Harvard
University, has never received any
salary for his services to the MI
scum of Comparative Zoology. Bel
tween 1871 and 1897he has expended
of his private means with
out making any communication con-
corning it to President Eliot. He is
nowin the Southern Pacific Ocean
making deep sea explorations forthe
University collections.
The widow of the late Gov. Atkin-
son. of Georgia, has astonished her
friends and made something of al
sensation in the State by going into
the field as general agent for Fire
and Life Insurance Companies. Mrs.
Atkinson says that she has a double
purpose in view, first to provide the
means for supporting and educating
her children, aad secondly to open
a new field of labor to women. Suc-
cess to her.
Perry S. Heath, now First Assis-
tant Postmaster General and for a
long time one of the literary lights
of the national Republican campaign
committee, says: president Mel
Kinley's instructions were that
Aguinaldo should be given a com
mission in our army, and that he |
and those associated with him should I
be treated as our citizens If it were
fear of a court-martial that prevented
Aguinaldo from accepting this offer
it must have been that he never
heard of the luck of General Eagan.