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

GENERAL NEWS.
This Boer cutting of wires simpl,
means however victories may prewo1
; the telegraph batteries won't bema
! turely win them.
u Considering the natural form il
!, which corn comes, why shouldn't
the big crop be regarded as an ear
mark OF prosperity?
| No level-headed girl will insist
merely from the fighting going OF
around there. that Kimberley dia
monds are the only ones suited fol
engagements.
| Detectives are alike the country
over. Although that recent hold-ul
near Chicago took place on the rail
road that circumstance even did not
enable the fycops to track the
thieves.
| It is to be noticed that the Queen
of England, in her address to Par
lament, avoided always the use OF
the word ''war." She referred to the
present situation in Africa as ''difii-
culties,'' ''events" and "a state OF
affairs"
The failure of the press of the
country to devote much attention to
the speeches being made by the
President and the members of his
| Cabinet on their Western tour may
be due to the number and frequency
of these addresses. Up to yesterday
Mr.. Mckinley had made forty
seven.
The French Society for the Sup
preston of Vice is going to try to
prevent indecent exhibitions among
the attractions at the Paris Exposi-
| ton, which have of late years been
allowed so much license on such oc-
casions on the plea that they illus
trate the customs and amusements
of other countries.
AS an offset to England's S purchase
of mules in this country for the
Transvaal campaign, Colonel Sump-
ter, military attache of the United
States Embassy in London, has been
arranging for the purchase there of
two batteries of Maxim guns for use
in the Philippines. They will be
shipped next month.
Many Spaniards who are unable to
find work in Spain are being as
sisted by the government to emigrate
to Cuba. During the past two
months the number of these arrivals
is said to have been 1900. The
Spanish Government is giving assis-
tance in these cases to no women,
and only to men of more than 68
years of age.
Three young women have been
arrested in New York, one charged
with being the proprietress and the
other two employees of a ladies pool
room" on Lexington avenue. A large
number of women, presumably pa
irons, were in the rooms at the time
of the police raid, but were not ar
rested. Some of these women were
fashionably dressed and wore costly
Jewels.
How complete are the prepara-
tions of the British Government for
the war IN the Transvaal may be
gathered from the fact that the troop
of Irish Lancers which has been with
Buffalo Bills Wild West Show for
some time has been recalled and is
already on it's way to Liverpool.
These troopers are members of the
reserve and a body of the finest
riders in the world.
The State Charities Aid Assccia-
ton of New York has received
report from special committee say
ing that the number of children
placed in institutions at public ex-
pense as destitute has risen far be-
yond the normal ratio, and the evil:
is thought to be- growing rapidly,
due to the increasing tendency of,
people who do not need public char
ity to avail themselves Of it.
The Baptist Association 81. Con-
necticut, in Convention at Water
bury. has adopted resolutions con-
cerning divorce similar to those of
the recent meeting of the New York
diocese of the Episcopal Church. It
was determined as the sense of the
meeting that ministers should sus-
tain no relation to the remarriage ejof
persons divorced, except such as
are seripturally qualified"
The annual report of the Yale CO.
operative store shows prosperity.
The Coop is managed entirely by
undergraduates and for undergradu-
ates, and is strictly college depart
ment store. The cash sales for the
first six days of the present term
were about SO, 900 and net profits for
the year 2,7OO The total member
ship of the Coop" is 750.. The cash.
business for the year was $45,123.
Colonel cody has decided not to
take the Wild West Show to Paris
This is not because of Tafaire, nor
yet according to the colonel, because
of the retirement from the enterprise
of his partner. Nate Salisbury, but
because there is plenty of territory
in this country still uncovered. The
colonel says the past season has
been his most successful year since
that of the Worlds Fair at Chicago,
when he made, $4,000.
The determination of the collec-
tors of the Republican campaign
fund for Ohio not to overlook any
body is instanced in the receipt by
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, of letter
from Chairman Dick, of the Repub-
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