Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-08-31
GENERAL NEWS.

Mr.. Harold Goodwin, grandson of
William Cullen Bryant. is the owner
of Cedarmere, the poets old home
on Long Island.
War in the Transvaal now seems
inevitable. England has dalIied with
Kruger just about as long as she
intends to.
II China refused to sell mules to
General Otis, and now he excludes
Chinese from the Phillippines-This
rs a horse on them.
1t Is claimed that all Iceland is
without a single jail. Even that
form of crime is unknown there
which simply asks: us it hot enough
for you?"
The very latest photographs of
the Boer President, Kruger, show
him in a thoughtful attitude smok-
ing a pipe. It remains to be seen
whether it's the pipe of peace.
Great pressure has been brought
to bear on the administration to
organize a colored regiment for
services in the Philippines. The
matter is still under consideration.
Admiral Dewey passed the day
Sunday on his flagship, the United
States cruiser Olympia, at Nice.
More than a thousand residents of
Nice visited the warship, expressing
the greatest admiration and pleas
ure.
Mr.. Edgar K. Smoot, a son of Mr..
W. Fl. Smoot, of Durham, NC, has
made q contract with the Mexican
government for the construction of
harbor works at Manzanillo, on the
Pacific coast,to cost over five million
dollars.
A special to the New York Times
from London says, that the city is
crowded with Americans who are
anxious to return home but are un
able to do SO because the rush is SO
great that the steamships are not
able to furnish the necessary accom-
modations.
Lord Byron, the poet, in many
ways insisted on living up to the
djgnities of his position. The pres
ent Lord is a man of far more sim
pie manners. He is extremely dem
ocratic in his tastes, and there is a
tradition that he smokes his after
dinner cigar in his shirt sleeves.
Cecil Rhodes, the speculator and
promoter of South African schemes,
has another quality besides his I'M
scrupulousness that will fail to COM
mend him to many people. He is
asserted to be so confirmed in his
misogyny that he employs none but
men ave around his house as house.
servants.
Probably the best evidence of the
wonderful business revival which
the country now enjoys is to be
found IN the fact that the railroads
cannot obtain freight cars enough
for their traffic. Such q shortage of
freight cars was never known,
though the railroads have far more
cars than they rel had before.
Says the Newbern Journal: 'As a
result of a bite on the lip by a snake
or some poisonous insect, a few
days ago. Mrs. Joe Williams, of Jasper,
died from blood poisoning at her
home. She was brought to this city
and put under care of q Physician
but was taken home again and died
shortly after"
AS a memorial of the Queens dia-
mond jubilee the city of Dundee
founded a hospital for incurables
costing $4,000 and also erected a
statue of the Queen costing 63, 900.
The Duke of Connaught inaugurated
these on Saturday and received a
magnificent welcome. There was q
great loyal demonstration in the
city.
Says the Philadelphia Times; CIT is
reported that the administration con-
templates the formation of two more
regiments of volunteers in addition
to those already planned for, to be
composed entirely of negroes select
ed n the Southern States. This
will, of course, make just that many
less to serve as postmasters or at
lynchings."
Minister Storer has cabled the
State Department that Spain has
released four Cuban political prison
ers confined in the penal settlement
at Burgos. Spain has shown a dis
position to comply with the desires
of America in regard to other Cuban
political prisoners, and the depart
ment is hopeful of securing their
release soon.
Professor Willis G. johnson, of
the Maryland Agricultural College,
thinks hydrocianic acid gas will soon
be used as a means of putting muir
derers to death. The gas is very
deadly and kills quickly, and yet
people whohhave been under its in
.huence and have been r~esuscitated
say they felt no pain. It's action is
to stupefy and produce unconscious
ness, which is soon followed by
death.
The new crop of Cuban tobacco is
now coming into market. Naturally.
the supply will fall below the nor
NAL average, which is about $1,000
tons a year, yet there will be no
dearth of Havana cigars, O of
home manufactures of Cuban leaf.
With the restoration of good order
THERE'S every prospect that the is
land, in every part of which tobacco
grows well, will soon equal its former
production.
The New United States battleship
Alabama will start on her first. trial
to-day. The vessel will leave ramps
shipyard and proceed down. the
Delaware. river, ancboring for. the