Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-10-26
GENERAL NEWS.

Instead of trying to fire the popu-
lar heart in Iowa and elsewhere for
expansion, why doesn't the Presi
dent try firing Otis?
The engagement is announced OF
the daughter of Admiral Cervera to
a Mr.. MCKINLEY, g nephew Of Eelt
man Bender. the composer.
Some OF the new pocket books are
of the gayest tinted leather, which,
with certain gowns, would positively
shrek in inharmonious contrast.
Massey Champion, a very old resi-
dent of Camden, n. J., has dug two
graves in the cemetery of that town,
one for his wife and one for himself.
To some it may seem that the
melancholy days have come, but you
can't convince a woman of that fact
if she has just been presented with
a sealskin coat.
At the annual convention of the
Baptist preachers of Connecticut, a
resolution forbidding ministers to
remarry any divorced persons failed
of adoption by only four votes,
A man who is too lazy to walk
over the links after a small ball will
chase a high ball for miles if he hap
pens to be in a temperance town and
cannot get it in any other fashion.
Snow-storms of unprecedented
severity for this time of the year
have been raging for a week in the
mountains around Leadville, Col
Large numbers of sheep have per-
ished.
J. L.. DAVIS, the negro song writer,
Coach Ahead" and other popular
ballards, is dead. He was born in
Cincinnati in 1863 and was a grad
uate of Gaines College, in that city.
The first head of the Vanderbilt
family died at the age of SO. the
second at the age of IS, and the
third at the age of 81. The care of
millions seems to be less conducive
to longevity than does the making
of them.
j Perhaps tits because thetaxes, in
the State of Ohio, of Tom l.. John
son, the great trolley car millionaire,
amount to nearly half a million that
he is so much in favor of the taxing
of nothing but land according to the
Single Tax theory.
The Prohibitionists of South
Dakota appear to be the first to get
into the political field for this cam
They may be a little bit split
up on the questions of finance, trusts
and expansion, but they r going to
reafirm their allegiance to their reg
ular platform.
DIR. p. O. Koto, who is a candi
date on the Republican Legislative
ticket of Iowa. did not receive the
nomination until seven thousand
three hundred and twenty-six ballots |
had been taken. There must have
been a stubborn juryman or two
among the delegates to that conven-
ton.
The victory of the Columbia in del
tense of the Americas Cup having |
been now achieved there is Il clear
field for Mr.. Lever, Of Lever Broth
ers, Limited, the millionaire soap
manufactures of London, who had
announced his intention of
for it in case the Shamrock
That speech of the German EN-
peror at the launching at Hamburg
Of the warship Kaiser Karl der
Crosse, in which he said that the
German navy was only so small be
cause of opposition to his desire to
enlarge it, sounds as though the war
Iord would like to take a more active
part than he is taking in current his
bory-makipg.
The proprietor of a hotel at At
.antic City recently bought adjoining
property from a widow for $I5O.O00.
He made the cash payment of $780,
300 in gold, hauling it to the widow's
house in a wagon. She refused to
receive it, however, but insisted on
\ check, which was given to her.
Bernard Cassidy, who has been a
aborer in Central Park, New York.
IN employe of the city, for forty-two
years, was discharged last spring
md last Thursday was found stary-
ng in the Park. He says he is rs
7eare old. and has always been able
work until recently, when he be-
,ame a sufferer from ~pleurisy.
The Spiritualists, as indicated by
he proceedings of the convention
# the National Spiritualists' Asso-
now being held in Chicago,
beginning to knock expansion.
They are in the business to find out, {
their claims are true, just what
and Lincoln would
eally have to say on the present
question.
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Aug LIST, 1876. &
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