Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-11-02
GENERAL NEWS.

W
remain in the Democratic party
is attracting quite a shower of
political fruit.
AS soon as the friends of An
drade can stop running and get
together they will proceed to
lay the foundation of another
revolution.
Miss Grace George has select
ed to play Esther in the drama
tization Of "Ben Hur,o which IS
to be presented in New York
next month. The company has
been rehearsing for some time.
Hon. Brigham Fl. Roberts is
in a dreadful fix. He can't drown
his wives, as the Sultan does,
without hanging for it, and if he
tries to get into Congress with
out widowing himself in some
way he will be thrown out.
Somebody has thought of in
Boss Croker, of New
York, about women in politics,
with the result that he says:
when an American, a true
has made up his mind,
no woman can influence him. If
she can, he has no mind"
Sir Henry Irving says Mr..
ZanEWill is wrong in thinking
that the stage is degenerating. It
is the people that degenerate,
thinks the actor, but since the
people make the stage, some by
on it and others by sup
porting it, this is a fine distinc-
ton.
The dinner to be given to Admiral
Dewey in Washington this evening
at the Metropolitan Club will be a
duplication so far as possible of the
one given to him at the same club
just before he sailed away as a com
modore to take command of the
Asiatic squadron. Twenty-three of
the original twenty-five guests will
be present.
A small boy apprehsnded the
other day ran away from from
Boston on a freight train because
he was t'disgusted" with Atkin-
son and tired of seeing George
Fred Williams picture. Such a
ombination of precocity and
intellectual patriotism shows
there is still virtue in Bunker
The trouble on the Mexican bor-
der between Texas cowboys and
Mexican police does not seem to
anything like an interna-
controversy as yet, but it is
probable that some troops from both
governments will be sent to the
scene and this will serve as a gentle
reminder that it will not do for us
10 send all our soldiers to Manila
md Cuba.
It is queer enough that while so
title reliable or ineligible news can
be got through from South Africa to
5he outside world a concern to take
moving pictures of battles is now on
is way there. These pictures are to
be sent back for exhibition in Eu-
rope and America, and it would be
IN notwithstanding episode if the
first reliable information came from
source.
E.. G. Smith, son of Governor
of Montana, is missing,
and the Governor thinks he may
be at work on some big Eastern
newspaper and would like to get
Information concerning him. The
young man recently left his
school at Lexington, w., and
sent word to his father that he
was going into journalism.
Rumors of disharmony among
of the administration
on the subject of trusts
md their treatment in the Re-
publican platform were fairly
due about this time, and have ar
That the question, how
aver, is going to cause anything
ike a rupture between President
Mckinley and Senator Hanna is
most unlikely, and the starter of
any such story is either an inter-
ssted party or an ignoramus.
When Miss Minnie Clark, of Bos-
was arrested for stealing five
pairs of gloves and a fancy vase from
q big store there she said she had
done it on a wager made with a wo-
man friend. Miss Clark bet she
could take~the stuff without zdetec-
tion and the friend bet she could
not. She spent the night in jail and
the next day was fined $40, which
was paid by the winner of the
wager.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt has
Just attained his majority. He gra-
from Yale. He was quiet
and studious at college. He is said
to have formed an attachment while
an undergraduate for Miss Elsie
French, and the belief is entertained
that they will soon be married. Miss
French is the daughter of the late
Francis Ormonde French, who was
president of the Manhattan Trust
Company. She has a fortune in her
own right of more than S 5000, 600.
John W. Mackay is a multi-million-
aire who gets board, lodging and
three:o or four suits of clothes a year
out of his large wealth. They say his
wanna are few and his life SO simple