Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-10-12
GENERAL NEWS.

OElNEKAL NEW y.
When Dewey and Jeffries met,
two national heroes came into COLI
sion.
Twenty-Five high-church clergy
men have organized to oppose Bis
hop Potter.
The Southern Railway is building
three large warehouses at it's Char
lesion terminal.
When all's told Captain Carter is
a good deal in over those public
money transactions.
Macon, Ga. will have its third an
nual carnival beginning October 18th
and continuing four days.
English slowness in the Transvaal
business is fairly typitied by its
lions tail; it's hanging behind some
what.
Mrs. Langtry says that her new
play "'The Degenerates," is making
for her and her new husband $4,000
a week.
It is said that there is seldom a
day now in which South Carolina
does not project some new cotton
mill enterprise.
Proposing to make permanent the
Dewey arch in marble is all right. 1t
is something future generations of
New Workers may look up to.
Considering the number of places
he captured and then evacuated
Otis could give points to the French
king who marched his men up the
hill and then down again.
Rear-Admiral William T. Sampson
and family will leave their home, in
Glen Ridge, n. j., the latter part OF
this week, for Boston, Mass, where
they will hereafter reside.
They are going to use wireless
telegraphy to set several lines OF
latitude straight in the Aleutian Is
lands. While in the neighborhood
what's the matter with trying it on
that Alaskan boundary?
There seems to be n opinion of
General Otis among his own troops
in the United States and in Europe.
1t is that he is q complete failure. 1t
is only with the Mckinley admins
tration that Otis ranks as a great
man.
Descendants of the Dutch who
settled In what is now New York
held a meeting there the other night
and adopted resolutions of sympathy
with the descendants of Dutch set
tiers in South Africa, calling on
President Mckinley to protect them
against the a~ggressions Of the Eng
lish.
A Republican politician of Ohio
tells the New York Journal that only
the few Ohio soldiers whose ex-
penses were paid by Governor
Bushnell and Mr.. Mclean attended
the Dewey celebration, because Sen
ator Hanna was afraid it would help
to make the Admiral's popularity
overshadow that of the President to
the injury of the Ohio campaign.
Lieutenant Joseph L. Donovan, OF
the MISUNDERSTANDING, who serv-
ed as lieutenant colonel of the Sixty.
ninth Regiment in the Spanish war,
is back from the Philippines on
crutches, as the result of a wound in
the left leg. He insists there shall
be no amputation until there is no
chance for anything else, and the
doctors hope they will be able to
save the leg.
James Dickson Carr, a young
negro lawyer of New York, has been
appointed Deputy Assistant District
Attorney by Colonel Asa Bird
Gardner. He is the first negro ever
to receive such an appointment in
the State. Carr was a Republican
until two years ago, when District
Attorney Alcott refused to appoint
him to a similar place because OF
his color, and then he became q
member of Tammany Hall,
Professor Barrett Wendell, of the
English department of Harvard
University, says the institution is
slowly drifting into coeducation
and he wants it stopped because he
thinks at least one great schoo.
should be maintained exclusively fol
men, a place where men would not
be onsthe defensive. He thinks there
are plenty of other places where wo
men are not debarred from tht
higher education.
While Governor Roosevelt wa,
making a speech at his home il
Oyster Bay the other day, someon,
in the crowd interrupted him b,
shouting Three cheers for the mex
President The Governor raised
his hand for silence and said. mo
no! None of that. Dewey is not her,
now This has naturally raised th
question as to whether the colone
is developing an unusual condition
of modesty, or whether he has nom
y mated Dewey for President, D