Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-28

Some of the census e~numerators
will have the job of penetrating the
Alaskan wilds to get the necessary
information about American gold
seekers there, while still others will
have to go to Hawaii.
Much surprise is occasioned by
the announcement that Professor
Arthur r.. Marsh has resigned his
chair of comparative literature in
Harvard University and will go into
business. 1t was partly through the
Efforts of Professor Marsh that the
chair was established.
Mrs. Dawson was sued in a Lon :
don court for a balance she owed on
her wedding ring. The ring cost 50
and she agreed to pay % cents a
month on it for eight months. At
the end of two months she pawned
it and stopped payment. Hence the
lawsuit.
In the latest typhoon at Manila
Bay $50 inches of rain fell in twenty
four hours. In Providence, r. l., &C
cording to the Boston Transcript,
$50 inches of rain fell last Wednes-
day between 2 80 a. M. and IL a. M,
which is better or worse than Ma
nila's record, according to the
point of view.
James FL. Reagan, of Texas. the
last of Jefferson Davis Confederate
Cabinet, is nov in his eighty-first
year, but a recent visitor to him says
in spite of the signs of age In his
face, his brown eyes shine ~lustrously,
his voice is steady and his step is
firm. He says he has taken great
care of himself, goes to bed early
and gets up at sunrise, and works
hard and sleeps well.
Attorney General Davis, of the
State of New York, has decided that
as the United States is still in 8
state of war, and a number of New
York States citizens are engaged in
military duty in the Philippines, the
election law passed when the United
States was at war with SPAN must
be enforced. A roster will have to
be made of all citizens of the State
engaged in military service abroad
and ballots will have to be SEN
there as in 1898.
The Count of Fontalba, the new
Portuguese Ambassador to the Aus
trian court, has made his whole
journey from Lisbon to Vienna n
handsome carriage. drawn by foul
g~orgeously caparisoned mules anC
attended by two funkeys in brilliant
llveries. He left Lisbon in April anG
drove through Spain, Northern Italy
through the st. Bernard Pass tx
Switzerland, and thence by way O.
Munich through Syria to Vienna.
The British are about to com
mence their Pacific cable, extending
from Vancouver via certain islands
to Australia and New Zealand. /
will be 5000 miles long, and com
plete the electric circuit of the globe
The cost is placed at $7,5OO,O00, and
is to be borne by Canada, Australis
and the British Government, but
chiefly by. Australia. The object il
to unite the scattered fragments O.
the empire more closely, and also tt
reduce cable rates.
Union county, Georgia.. enjoys the
distinction of being the dryest
county in that state. It has not hac
a barroom in it for thirty years, ano
in that time has not had a local op
ton election, prohibition was never
an issue in politics, andeit has not al
habitual drunkard within It's con
fines. A prominent citizen is quoted
as expressing the belief that sif 8
man was bitten by q r~attlesnake, he
could not get a drop of liquor il
Union county to save his life" Unior
county lies among the mountains Of
the Blue Ridge, about 100 miles or
an air line from Atlanta and about
twenty-five miles from the TENNESSEE
line. In this county rs per cent. oil
the people own their homes. Only
enc family in the county seat does
not own it's home. There is not &
dollar of bonds on the county and
with the tax rate three times larger
this year than usual, the total state
and county tax amounts to only $1.1t
on the 800.